LISTED: El Mednifico Journal

The Pakistan based El Mednifico Journal spammed us from 192.227.166.62 and promptly got listed, along with mediscene.co and mednifico.com. Dr Beall lists this on his backlog of items to be evaluated, but nothing further yet.

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From: Editorial EMJ <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: EMJ Call for papers: Open Access with no processing charges

Domain registrations: #1 in the Colombian ccTLD (nicely in line with the fake Spanish name, eh?) and anonymized, of course

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Domain Registration Date:                    Fri Nov 29 08:57:30 GMT 2013
Domain Expiration Date:                      Fri Nov 28 23:59:59 GMT 2014
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Fri Nov 29 08:57:31 GMT 2013

#2 (the payload)

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Domain Name: MEDNIFICO.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1726750443_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com
Registrar URL: www.enom.com
Updated Date: 2014-05-11 21:57:15Z
Creation Date: 2012-06-12 03:05:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-06-12 03:05:13Z
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
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Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252744500
Reseller: NAMECHEAP.COM
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