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1. forums.moneysavingexpert.com › book-club-scamBook Club Scam — MoneySavingExpert Forum

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   Aug 27, 2006 · Book Club Scam. ariba10 Posts: 5,432 Forumite. 27 August 2006 at 9:00PM. I returned off holidays at the begining of July to find a card among my mail saying that a delivery company had left a parcel for me in my front garden ninteen days earlier. ( My front garden is six foot by eighteen foot and fully paved with a two foot high wall seperating ...

2. writerbeware.blog › 2020/08/13 › a-new-bewareA New “Beware”: Scammers Impersonating Reputable Literary Agents

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   Aug 13, 2020 · Scammers–the same Philippines-based Author Solutions copycats that I’ve featured numerous times in this blog (also see the long, long list in the sidebar)–are impersonating reputable literary agents and agencies in order to bamboozle writers into buying worthless “services.”. Here are the misused names I’ve documented so far; the ...

3. www.which.co.uk › news › articleThe 4 most convincing scams we’ve seen in 2023, so far - Which?

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   Jul 4, 2023 · 2. Beware pig butchering. Victims are wooed romantically before being offered fake investments. This horrible hybrid of romance and investment scams called ‘pig butchering’ by scammers. That's because fraudsters ‘fatten up’ the victim with loving words before executing the investment part of the scam.

4. justpublishingadvice.com › publishing-companies-toBook Publishers To Avoid And New Author Scams

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   Aug 27, 2018 · Self-publishing is a free service available to all new authors. You can use Amazon KDP, Apple, Nook, Smashwords, and Draft2Digital, to name a few of the many reputable self-publishing services. With these companies, you can publish a book with only a minimal investment in preparing your book.

5. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › prh-fraudCombatting Fraud - Penguin Random House

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   Job Recruitment Fraud Alert. Bad actors pretending to represent Penguin Random House are also posting fake job openings on recruitment websites in order to solicit personal information and/or money from prospective employees. These bad actors may use a fake PRH email address (sometimes with our name misspelled) and may even use PRH’s logo on ...

6. www.bbb.org › article › scamsBBB Scam Alert: This social media book exchange is really a ...

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   Jan 28, 2022 · Wrong. This kind of gift exchange is actually an illegal pyramid scam. The book exchange may work initially, but eventually, new people will stop participating or responding to the messages. Then ...

7. blog.reedsy.com › scams-and-publishing-companiesBook Publishers to Avoid: How to Dodge Shady Author Scams

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   Aug 21, 2019 · 2. 'Literary agents' promising book deals. Another kind of scam you might be dealing with is an agent scam. If a literary agent unsolicitedly contacts you to offer you a book deal with a publisher or asks you to pay a reading fee, your spidey sense should be tingling pretty hard.