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Aug 28, 2020 · Just received another "publishing" offer of "partnership" to help boost sales of my book from a company not listed from what I can see on your site. They promised 80% royalties on my already self-published book.
Aug 13, 2020 · I've gotten complaints about The Book Chambers (which is on my scam list–see the sidebar). The names of the contacts don't really mean anything–they aren't real people, but rather internet personas inhabited by telemarketers.
Mar 7, 2024 · Things like a fake website name or strange people emailing you are a dead giveaway, but some scams are harder to recognize than others.
- By Anne R. Allen
- The Attack of The Clones
- Cloning Isn’T Hacking
- Now Scammers Are Cloning Our Author Pages
- What Can A Cloned Author do?
- Do We Keep Our Facebook Author Pages?
- Warning to Writers of Another Scam Not Exclusive to Facebook
- You’Re Not Paranoid. They Really Are After you.
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Yes, I’ve already written a warning to writers about publishing scamsthis month. But I heard about a new, diabolical one only a few days ago. This can affect both traditionally published and indie authors. And everybody needs to help spread the word. That’s because the author won’t know it’s happening. Readers need to alert them before it’s too lat...
I think most Facebook users have run into the scammers who “clone” our Facebook pages. They cut and paste our page into a new account, pretending to be us. Then they send friend requests to everybody on our list. A user breezing by will think, “I thought I was friends with her! I’d better fix that.” So they accept the “friendship” of the person who...
Even if it hasn’t happened to you yet, I’m sure you’ve seen announcements on friends’ pages that say “I’ve been hacked!!! Don’t accept a friend request from somebody pretending to be me.” Definitely don’t accept the friend request. Yes, somebody is pretending to be the victim. But the truth is they haven’t literally been “hacked”. They’ve been clon...
The latest scam involves the same kind of page cloning I described above. But it’s not your Friend page they clone, but your Author page. Then, in your name, they start their exciting, fun con. They offer to give away your books FREE to all your readers! Fans come running. Yay! Favorite Author is giving away free books! All readers need to do is gi...
According to Maureen Crisp’s sources, you need to report the cloned page to Facebook and Google within 48 hours. I’m not sure if that is a rule with the companies or just a guideline for containment of the damage. Apparently Google will remove a “phishing” site from the search engine within 12 hours. Facebook has no such guarantee, but my experienc...
So should we keep an Author Page if it’s so dangerous? I’ve found my Author page increasingly less useful in the last year. Facebook keeps throwing more obstacles in our paths. I guess it’s meant to bully us into paying for “boosting” our posts. We now have to change “profiles” even to look at our own Author pages, and if we post any information th...
I’ve heard now from several different people that writers should be REALLY wary of editors who advertise fees way below the going rate. It seems some of these “editors” are outright thieves who simply steal the manuscript and immediately publish it on Amazon under their own names. Yeah. Simple, heartbreaking theft. Work that took maybe years of you...
If it feels as if writers are targeted by scammers more than the general public, I think you’re right. Writers can have big dreams. And there’s so much misinformation out there about the publishing industry, new writers are easy, juicy prey. Never underestimate the scammers They’re armed with plausible lies and lots of tech skills. If you’re not vi...
THE GATSBY GAME What happens when a writer starts believing he’s living in a Fitzgerald novel? Based on a real-life corpse found on the set of a Burt Reynolds movie. (For more on this, and the tabloid accusations that Burt Reynolds murdered David Whiting, see my book blog. When Fitzgerald-quoting con man Alistair Milborne is found dead a movie star...
Aug 20, 2024 · Several authors have received fraudulent DMCA notices from fake law firms claiming that the author’s website contains an image that is owned by the firm’s client, that the use of the image is copyright infringement, and that unless the author links to a certain website, the author will be sued.
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May 27, 2024 · Yes, Online Book Club is legit and pays you for writing book reviews and even gives you books for free. However, earning consistent money with this site is very difficult. And some book reviewers never get paid if Online Book Club doesn't like their reviews.
