WASET Crimes: Thousand Names of Legitimate conferences have been hijacked by WASET. The word CRIME is poor to describe the WASET scam Activities.
WASET an absolutely criminal organization works as follows: They copy-paste names of legitimate conferences and create fake, spurious, counterfeit conferences with the same titles, same acronyms and same committess. They cheat the academicians when they search for a particular conference via google. Hundreds of scholars went to a fake, false conference of WASET instead of attending the genuine one (You see same titles, same committees, same acronyms, for instance in 2013 two ICANN were held, the genuine and the fake).
WASET owner, a teacher in Mathematics in secondary school is called Cemal Ardil. How can a person without Ph.D. run 3500 conferences per year.
WASET enterprize operates with this academic criminal Mr. Cemal Ardil and his daughter
( http://copluksite-fakesite.blogspot.com/2007/10/cemal-ardil-bekir-karlik-fake-academic.html and
http://plagiarism-in-turkey-with-cemal-ardil.blogspot.com )
Some Examples
EXAMPLE 1: Same names and same acronyms
Original, Genuine Conference: www.icann2013.org
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
https://www.waset.org/conference/2013/08/amsterdam/ICANN
See also a discussion: https://plus.google.com/111668260744154762636/posts/QvKNSetQw4M
EXAMPLE 2: Same names and same acronyms
Some Complaints that you can find on the web
(Cemal Ardil is on a par with another academic thug, the notorious Jeffrey Beall: Really, how can Mr. Jeffrey Beall, a simple librarian, a person without M.Sc. and without Ph.D. to evaluate more than 500 Publishers and put Publishers with journals indexed in Web of Knowledge, ISI, DBLP, IET in in his notorious black list?)
Comments: One may not believe if such a coincidence could ever happen. I read your blog today which you posted in 2012, and it saved me 450 Euro. I think I am also fooled by WASET. I received acceptance of my abstract for the ICGSH 2013 conference held in Kualalumpur, August 22-23, 2013.http://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/kualalumpur/icgsh/. While I was corresponding with the organizers, I didn't have a clue that they were fake. They seemed professional in corresponding on emails and assisted me whenever I raised query. I was also provided with the invitation letter to the conference which served as the basis of retrieving Malaysian Visa. Before making bookings to the hotel they mentioned as a conference venue, I confirmed if this conference is happening as scheduled and the answer I received was yes. Will you believe that it was the internationally accredited hotel in Kualalumpur, Pacific Regency Hotel Suites. I booked the hotel, I got my visa, I had tickets in my hand, the only thing I was left with was the conference registration fees, which took me long to process as the procedure was difficult to carry out through Western Union. Finally, today when I decided to make the payment, God knows what made me log into the website of the conference to retrieve the details of the payment for my own reference to take it to bank. And when I typed WASET CONFERENCE 2013, the Google search engine opened up the suggested link on WASET CONFERENCE FAKE, and I don't know what made me click that option. What I found was your post. My search about the WASET being fake began from there and guess what I found these links highlighting how organized this whole scam is.
WASET an absolutely criminal organization works as follows: They copy-paste names of legitimate conferences and create fake, spurious, counterfeit conferences with the same titles, same acronyms and same committess. They cheat the academicians when they search for a particular conference via google. Hundreds of scholars went to a fake, false conference of WASET instead of attending the genuine one (You see same titles, same committees, same acronyms, for instance in 2013 two ICANN were held, the genuine and the fake).
WASET owner, a teacher in Mathematics in secondary school is called Cemal Ardil. How can a person without Ph.D. run 3500 conferences per year.
WASET enterprize operates with this academic criminal Mr. Cemal Ardil and his daughter
( http://copluksite-fakesite.blogspot.com/2007/10/cemal-ardil-bekir-karlik-fake-academic.html and
http://plagiarism-in-turkey-with-cemal-ardil.blogspot.com )
Some Examples
EXAMPLE 1: Same names and same acronyms
Original, Genuine Conference: www.icann2013.org
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
https://www.waset.org/conference/2013/08/amsterdam/ICANN
See also a discussion: https://plus.google.com/111668260744154762636/posts/QvKNSetQw4M
EXAMPLE 2: Same names and same acronyms
Original, Genuine Conference: http://www.icrera.org/
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
https://www.waset.org/conference/2014/06/paris/ICRERA
See also a discussion: https://plus.google.com/111668260744154762636/posts/QvKNSetQw4M
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
https://www.waset.org/conference/2014/06/paris/ICRERA
See also a discussion: https://plus.google.com/111668260744154762636/posts/QvKNSetQw4M
EXAMPLE 3: Same names and same acronyms
Original, Genuine Conference: http://www.sree.org.uk/MEMT2011.htm
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
http://www.waset.org/conference/2014/07/prague/ICMEMT
Counterfeit, scam, fake, spurious conference with the same name and same committee by WASET
WASET copied-pasted the names of the international scientific committee without any permission
http://www.waset.org/conference/2014/07/prague/ICMEMT
It is not difficult to find hundreds of hijacked conferences by WASET. What a shame.
Some Complaints that you can find on the web
Is WASET a fraud whose victims keep silent?
After a paper I submitted to the August 2010 WASET (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology) conference in Singapore was accepted for presentation and publication, I began to suspect that WASET is a fraud. To my surprise, before mid-June 2010, repeated google searches for waset resulted in no negative comments against WASET, save for one web site I could not take seriously. I will explain later why I suspected WASET a fraud.
I decided not to pay the $450 Euros registration fee until I received an email from ale...@waset.org, stating
the Tentative SINGAPORE 2010 Conference Program is available at http://www.waset.org/programs/Singapore10.pdf
I was not impressed with the conference program. But it changed my mind about not registering because it appeared to show some real people presenting papers. I am a University of San Diego professor. I submitted a paper to WASET August 2010 Singapore conference because I will be in Asia at that time. I had invested a significant amount of time with WASET after I made a decision to submit paper to it, and made my paper conform to its required layout, format and style. If I had made a mistake, let me bite the bullet.
As a prerequisite to register online, I needed to wire 450 Euros to an account in Dubai, United Arab Emirate. This felt more like paying a ransom than paying for a conference. Why couldn't WASET accept a credit card, like anyone else? Worse, my bank charged me $35 for the international wiring.
Interesting, yet most unpleasant things began to happen after I wired the 450 Euros. Here is a summary
registration for the conference at http://www.waset.org/author.php failed using whatever browser and whatever file format the registration page instructs.
To date, I sent more than fifteen requests to WASET for help. They ignored most of them. When they did respond, they wanted me to try http://www.waset.org/author.php again and again.
One response was promising.
Dear Author,
Thanks for registration! We have received your documents.
Best regards,
B. Brojack, Secretariat
Editor-in-Science
http://www.waset.org/
In this message, Brojack, Secretariat assured me that I had finally registered. But her/his next message asked me to try http://www.waset.org/author.php again, even though I complained repeatedly that this registration page always failed with the same error message.
Finally, I wrote B. Brojack, Secretariat of WASET, for either straightening out my registration impasse, or else refunding my 450 Euros. No response!
To summarize, I wired 450 Euros to an account in Dubai, UAE to pay for the registration fee for a WASET conference in Singapore. I was instructed to register for the conference online at http://www.waset.org/author.php, which always failed. I wrote WASET to request for help. They ignored me. I asked for refund, they also ignored.
(Cemal Ardil is on a par with another academic thug, the notorious Jeffrey Beall: Really, how can Mr. Jeffrey Beall, a simple librarian, a person without M.Sc. and without Ph.D. to evaluate more than 500 Publishers and put Publishers with journals indexed in Web of Knowledge, ISI, DBLP, IET in in his notorious black list?)
Comments: One may not believe if such a coincidence could ever happen. I read your blog today which you posted in 2012, and it saved me 450 Euro. I think I am also fooled by WASET. I received acceptance of my abstract for the ICGSH 2013 conference held in Kualalumpur, August 22-23, 2013.http://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/kualalumpur/icgsh/. While I was corresponding with the organizers, I didn't have a clue that they were fake. They seemed professional in corresponding on emails and assisted me whenever I raised query. I was also provided with the invitation letter to the conference which served as the basis of retrieving Malaysian Visa. Before making bookings to the hotel they mentioned as a conference venue, I confirmed if this conference is happening as scheduled and the answer I received was yes. Will you believe that it was the internationally accredited hotel in Kualalumpur, Pacific Regency Hotel Suites. I booked the hotel, I got my visa, I had tickets in my hand, the only thing I was left with was the conference registration fees, which took me long to process as the procedure was difficult to carry out through Western Union. Finally, today when I decided to make the payment, God knows what made me log into the website of the conference to retrieve the details of the payment for my own reference to take it to bank. And when I typed WASET CONFERENCE 2013, the Google search engine opened up the suggested link on WASET CONFERENCE FAKE, and I don't know what made me click that option. What I found was your post. My search about the WASET being fake began from there and guess what I found these links highlighting how organized this whole scam is.