How to torment a scammer
Part One
There is a predatory vanity scam targeting authors, in which the scammer writes an email lavishing an author’s work with effusive, specific praise, then invites the author to take part in a book club event, then charges the author to promote the event. The “book clubs” all have European-sounding names, and lack a website or any online footprint, and the emails are glaringly AI-generated. The proliferation of these scammers makes me sad because it means authors struggling to find a readership are falling for them. And PAYING them. It is a vulturous, pathetic, dystopian nightmare that weaponizes AI against the declining publishing industry by making an author feel seen and celebrated, only to siphon hundreds and thousands of dollars from them. Normally, that’s what publicists are for.
To torment one scammer right back, I decided to go completely insane. Here is the record of that saga, for your amusement and mine.
Subscribe for Part 2.
😂😂😂 thank you for this, I eagerly await part two
Brilliant!! If only they could be flushed out in the open and then arrested. Moeln and his cohort are total scum.