The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

I receive an email like this every day, pretty much. They are always pretty easy to spot, but sometimes there's a few seconds where my hopes are raised, like the message I got from "[email protected]" yesterday – that singular book being mine, I suppose.

Yes, these have happened before, but if you increase the scams by 10x or 100x, then it's a different, much crueller, beast.

Having the left half of the UI being blocked by an image that does not add anything to the article is quite the design choice.

it seems obvious. request money=scam

    > "Not every author is a narcissist, but they all want to be recognized… That's exactly what these scammers are targeting. They have identified a very, very lucrative niche."...
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    > Writers are waiting "for somebody to read their writing," Hoy added. She argued that is why many writers believe the praise scammers heap on them. AI makes many of the compliments sound nuanced and personalized. Elderly authors are particularly vulnerable. As Hoy explained, a significant number of people who have a book in them leave off the writing until they have retired. Something else also kicks into the picture at this life stage: a sizable retirement fund...
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    > ...the voices seemed human...
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    > It is happening all over the world...