That is extraordinary. This really deserves to make the front page. It's a phishing attack aimed not at money but at getting publications in a prestigious journal.<p>I nearly fell for a vaguely similar attack: an email apparently from a relative's account. It was phrased suspiciously, and then I noticed that the reply-to didn't go to the same account. If I had bitten, I doubt I'd have been taken in by the reply (I imagine they'd have asked for money), but only because of stylistic issues, not technical ones.<p>So it doesn't surprise me that a better targeted attack could succeed, even against somebody fairly sophisticated.