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 https://github.com/PathwayCommons/factoid/issues/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.