A new paper is finally published and everyone is pleased — especially questionable faky-scientific agents that scrape your email address from your paper and flood your inbox. Some even persuade researchers to spend their own money on what amounts to a low-impact publicity stunt. Even though most of us recognize these messages for what they are, plenty still slip past spam filters. So what can you do about it? Below is a practical approach that blocks some 90 percent of junk-like science mail.
How to block predatory-ish journal spam
Copy-and-Paste Block List
ac.medcasereoa.com aceerconf.org articlessearch.net austinpublishinggroup.com auctorespublishingonline.com bilpubgroup.com bilpubgroup.org bilpubgroup.top bitlifesciences.com casereportsauctores.com cognitionconference.co.uk confer-meet.com conferenceseries.com connect.paperspotlight.com crimsonpublishers.com directvepub.com ekoteks.com.tr elevataoublish.com finalcarereview.com fotuneres.com fsnrtc.com iiste.org inductiva.ai iris-research.net irispublisher.com irispublishers.org iwegconf.org jacobspublishers.com jcimcr.co jcmimagescasereports.com ijmedresearch.us jisdcs.com juniperpublishers.com jyimcr.co ma.iwegconf.org mail.aceerconf.org medcasereoa.com omicsonline.org omicsgroup.net onlinemypaper.org osrcj.org piscomed-pub.com piscomed-pub.org researchoamed.com researchupdates.org science-quest.com sciencepg.com scieneer.net scientificspam.net sciresj.org scitechnol.com scldir.org speakersmeetings.com submitres.org synergiasummits.net thesciencequest.info universalwiser.com usp-pub.net waset.org wiserpub.org wwys.net zgxhy.com zgxshy.net
Where does this list come from? It is actually the pattern of the most annoying and insisting senders that “contacted” me. They sometimes provide an “unsubscribe” option, which I find audacious considering I never signed up for their communications.
Microsoft Outlook (Web, New Outlook, Classic Desktop)
- Sign in to Outlook on the web, open Settings → Mail → Junk email.
- In Blocked Senders or Blocked Domains, type each domain exactly as shown above, click Add, then Save.
- The same list works in Outlook for Windows under Settings → Mail → Junk email.
- For older Outlook go to Home → Junk → Junk E-mail Options → Blocked Senders → Add, then paste each domain (no “@”).
- Outlook allows up to 10,000 addresses or domains, so blocking by domain preserves room for future additions.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird relies on Message Filters; one well-designed filter can handle every domain.
- Open Tools → Message Filters, click New, or right-click a spam message and choose Create Filter From.
- Set the rule to From | contains and enter, for example,
omicsgroup.net; repeat with + to add each extra domain, joining them with Match any (logical OR). - Choose an action such as Move Message to Junk or Delete Message, then click OK.
- This single filter eliminates all future mail from those domains without touching legitimate correspondence.
Google Gmail (Web)
The Block Sender command is address-specific, so use a filter to capture whole domains.
- Click the ▼ icon in the search bar (show search options).
- In the From field enter, for example,
@omicsgroup.netor simplyomicsgroup.net; gmail treats either form as “anyone at that domain.” - Select Create filter, tick Delete it (or another desired action), and confirm.
- To cover all above domains at once, export the filter (Settings → Filters and Blocked Addresses → Export), edit the XML so the
<from>element reads, for example,@omicsgroup.net OR @conferenceseries.com OR …, then import it back.
Maintenance Tips
- Review your Junk or Spam folder weekly to rescue any legitimate mail and whitelist its domain to prevent future misclassification.
- If a new predatory outfit appears, add its domain to the same Outlook list, Thunderbird filter, or Gmail filter line – no need to create separate rules.
