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Conferences that may be fraudulent tend to have several of the following characteristics.
Associated with a suspected predatory journal
Conference details are vague except for payment methods
Little to no peer-review process
Poor quality websites (images are skewed or blurry, broken links, editors' images and bios do not include links for reaching out, etc.)
Unusually broad in scope
Committee or editorial board composed of unsuspecting academics or fake names
Multiple "conferences" held at the same location, in the same city, on the same day
Odd sponsors, unrelated to the conference topic
Predatory journals tend to have several of the following characteristics.