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Predatory conferences or predatory meetings are meetings set up to appear as legitimate [[scientific conference]]s but which are exploitative as they do not provide proper editorial control over presentations, and advertising can include claims of involvement of prominent academics who are, in fact, uninvolved. They are an expansion of the [[predatory publishing]] business model, which involves the creation of academic publications built around an exploitative business model that generally involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.<ref>[{{cite book|first1= Gráinne|last1= Kirwan |first2= Andrew|last2= Power|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date = 2013 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U35HVJyADlEC&pg=PT172 |title = Cybercrime: The Psychology of Online Offenders]|isbn = 9781107276420}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 9890770 | volume=317 | issue=7172 | title=Fraud. Fraud at conferences needs to be addressed | journal=BMJ | pages=1591 | last1 = Rymer | first1 = J | doi = 10.1136/bmj.317.7172.1590 | year=1998 | pmc=1114400 }}</ref> [[BIT Life Sciences]] and [[SCIgen#In conferences|SCIgen § In conferences]] are some of the conferences labeled as predatory.