Considering the fact that I'm a graduate student with a couple of publications, here is the email I've recently received from [this website][1] (I found it in my spam folder):

> Dear Dr. Robotocist, ------------> (I'm not a doctor!!!) 

> Firstly, please excuse this unsolicited email.
> I’m sure that like me you receive too many as it is and so I’ll keep
> it brief. 

> I was recently appointed as Commissioning Editor for
> Cambridge Scholars Publishing with a brief to expand the subject areas
> in which we publish books. As such I am in the process of developing a
> collection based in the field of Robotics. As I believe you already
> have some experience of academic and scientific writing, I wondered
> whether you would consider us as your publisher should you decide to
> put ‘pen to paper’ and write a book at some point in the future? 

> We
> are also developing Editorial Advisory Groups to help ensure that we
> only publish high quality texts. If this is something that you would
> like to become involved in, please do let me know. As I promised, I
> have kept this message short, but would be delighted to talk or
> correspond more if you feel you would like to explore possibilities.

> Kind regards,   

> Helen Edwards

> Commissioning Assistant

To me, *this is a miserable fake thing*, and I just wanted to know whether or not anybody has encountered this organization before.

  [1]: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/