SciSpace Upload: Scam?

[aehchua at gmail.com]

I didn't know where else to effectively ask this.

 

I am NOT asking whether the USE of SciSpace is ethical.  That opens up a
huge can of worms that I honestly don't care about.  I don't use it and
don't need it.  You do you.

 

For those who don't know, SciSpace is a GenAI.  It is basically a GenAI for
writing literature reviews.

 

I got this email from SciSpace:


Juliette has submitted a request for the full text of your paper.


"Bottom-up enterprise information systems: rethinking the roles of central
IT departments", published in 2016 in the Journal/Conference "Communications
of The ACM".

 


Note from the sender:

I came across your study and found it highly relevant to our research. Could
you kindly share a PDF of the paper? Thank you!

 



Upload PDF 

 

I was wondering whether this was a scam and if so, how does the scam work.
Here's why I suspect it is a scam:

1.	Who's Juliette?  There doesn't seem to be any way for me to figure
out who this mysterious requester is.  In ResearchGate, they give you the
full identity of the requester.
2.	The paper itself is published in CACM which is open access.  One can
just download it directly from the ACM DL without an account.  Why would any
serious requester request the paper from me?
3.	The structure of the email reminds me of 419s (Nigerian Letter
Scam).

 

I was thinking maybe if I upload the paper, this gives SciSpace permission
to use the PDF for machine learning since the author is invited to do the
upload.  But I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure what is going on.

 

If you are Juliette, and you are a human being, you don't need to make a
request- CACM allows free downloads.  Otherwise, I am asking if anyone has
encountered this and knows what is going on.

 

Cecil Chua

 

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