We wish to become your friends if we may

"Kikuchiyo, a fake birth certificate and stolen armour does not make you a samurai."

I recently received an e-mail from the renowned "Journal of Economics World" whose tagline is "From knowledge to wisdom!"

Dear Matthew Collin ,

This is Economics World (ISSN 2328-7144), a professional journal published across the United States by David Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA.

We have learnt your paper “ Persistence in the effect of birth order on child development: evidence from the Philippines ” in the 2014 CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa, March 23-25, 2014, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, UK.

We are very interested in your research and also would like to publish your other unpublished papers in Economics World (ISSN 2328-7144). If you have the idea of making our journal a vehicle for your research interests, please feel free to send electronic version of your papers or books to us through email attachment in MS word format.

Currently, we are trying to invite some scholars who are willing to join our editorial board or be our reviewers. If you are interested in our journal, please send your CV to us. Hope to keep in touch by email and can publish some papers or books from you and your friends. As an American academic publishing group, we wish to become your friends if we may.

Economics World is, as best I can tell, a `paper mill' - a place where the truly desperate send their work (paying roughly $60 a page!) to show that it can be published.

Not today EW, not today.