Spam-like activity to keep an eye on

[jvwong]

Some examples of 'initiated' documents I've observed that look spammy:

• 1 Document link
  • Description: Client hits the /document/new endpoint repeatedly (freq?) and article search provider (e.g. PubMed) returns HTTPStatusError: Too Many Requests (429).
    • Could get us banned. Happens periodically.
  • Provided
    • email: support@biofactoid.org
    • name: This varies, Qing Jiang, Tomoya S Kitajima etc...
• 2 Document link
  • Description: Same title entered but the casing looks suspicious and the email addy varies
  • Provided
    • title: Structure and evolution of Aalanine/Sserine Ddecarboxylases and the engineering of theanine production
    • email: wh0911@mail.ustc.edu.cn, wh0911@ustc.edu.cn
    • name: Hao Wang

[jvwong]

• Thursday Sep 25, 2024
  • 14 instances in a row of a new document creation as in 1 above

[jvwong]

This is probably spam Cyclic carbamates based on R-+-limonene oxide for ring-opening polymerization. Lucia Rubino, Vincenzo Patamia, Antonio Rescifina, Maurizio Galimberti, Vincenzina Barbera. Article summary created by AT. Sci Rep 14 2024

• Clues:
  • Article input was single word LIMONENE (why did this even match? - see Consider flexibility in rules for matching an article by title  #1297 )
  • Email was suspect
    • local: bunch of numbers; domain directed to biotech.kiit.ac.in but not Politecnico di Milano where authors are from)
  • Name
    • Initials didn't match any authors
  • Paper was synthetic chem

[jvwong]

October 31 2024 - about 65 repeated requests to create blank documents using the email support@biofactoid.org.

[jvwong]

• Formate assay in body fluids: application in methanol poisoning. Biochem Med. 1975 Jun;13(2):117-26. doi: 10.1016/0006-2944(75)90147-7

• Biofactoid

• Clues

  • Old paper (1975)
  • Name doesn't resemble author list
  • email addy qq.com
  • no mention of entities in paper

[jvwong]

Red flags:

• Authors do not match name
• Old paper (1975)
• Topic is out of scope

[jvwong]

Title and name are nonsense

• hif

• [fa](https://biofactoid.org/document/06d4be85-1df9-4f03-9847-0787bbcfd10d(

[jvwong]

Medicine (Baltimore) 104 2025

• Complete title input by user was PNKP
• Name doesn't match any authors
• CDK (or cyclin-dependent kinase) does not appear anywhere in the full text

[jvwong]

Borderline case:

• Input: ACVR2A Ffacilitates Ttrophoblast Ccell Iinvasion through TCF7/c-JUN Ppathway in Ppre-eclampsia Pprogression
• Issues
  • Title has repeated first letter capitalized (seems to be observed more than a few times)
• But
  • Entities appear plausible (mentioned in title)
  • Email address maps OK