Some of them are more believable than others ... but they're all crap! The email I received two days ago was from J.M. Coetzee. That was impressive! A scammer impersonating a Nobel Prize laureate, wow! They're getting up there in the literary firmament ...
These are such a waste of time, and now with AI they're tempting and believable to newbies, but this too will come to an end when there's no one left to believe any of it. Thanks, AI.
AI Is increasingly and exponentially dangerous. There are many legitimate documentaries on YouTube that paint a totally gloomy portrait of where we’re headed.
Nice one! They're persistent, though. I've had some keep emailing me. I knew because I marked their emails as SPAM and I check that folder daily just to make sure nothing is in there by mistake.
The email addresses always give it away. That's one thing AI bots haven't sorted out yet, but they have definitely improved in the spelling mistakes and grammar category to the point of being believable.
Once again the scam seems impossible. If you answer there's a back and forth that leads... where? A scam asks for money. This one asks for... a discussion? : )
Very possible and profitable, otherwise they wouldn't keep sending these out. Scams aimed at writers don't ask for money right off. The first email is bait. Money only gradually enters the equation.
But I would think with each additional interaction the chance for getting $ diminishes. Again, to me these scams make no sense. Who's sending $ without at the very least checking the website?
He can't be interested in your book because he's already taken my whole backlist...at least as soon as the $3K check I sent him clears to help with "rights issues." Literary legacy, here I come!
For a while I was getting emails and even a couple of phone calls from some supposed publisher interested in my book "The Deal." Thing was, I have a story with that title that has been published a couple of times but no book by that title. The one you share here about Graywolf is a bit more sophisticated but also lame because like you say they don't do genre. Sorry, Ethan.
I think the point would be trying to get money from me in some way--or personal information. There's a whole raft of scams from supposed publicists who go for that more directly.
Some of them are more believable than others ... but they're all crap! The email I received two days ago was from J.M. Coetzee. That was impressive! A scammer impersonating a Nobel Prize laureate, wow! They're getting up there in the literary firmament ...
The saving grace is that these scammers are not as smart as they think they are. Picking famous writers is moronic.
I know someone who got the Coetzee one. Sigh.
So bizarre to choose him, but also thankfully dumb.
And I thought I was special, lol!
You still are. :-)
I’ve gotten one from a Nobel prize winner who is actually dead!
Wow! You are really in demand!
But of course!
Ça va sans dire, hein?
You win!
Yep. Graywolf has this scam alert right at the top of its home page.
I wonder why scammers have picked them. Do they think most writers don't know the smaller presses?
This kind of thing really ticks me off.
Scammers are lowlifes and filled with contempt for the people they scam. It doesn’t matter what they do is digital or in person, it still stinks.
These are such a waste of time, and now with AI they're tempting and believable to newbies, but this too will come to an end when there's no one left to believe any of it. Thanks, AI.
AI Is increasingly and exponentially dangerous. There are many legitimate documentaries on YouTube that paint a totally gloomy portrait of where we’re headed.
Yup, I'm getting a ton of these scams. And when I say, "Let's do a Zoom call," they disappear like Casper the Ghost. (LOL)
Nice one! They're persistent, though. I've had some keep emailing me. I knew because I marked their emails as SPAM and I check that folder daily just to make sure nothing is in there by mistake.
The email addresses always give it away. That's one thing AI bots haven't sorted out yet, but they have definitely improved in the spelling mistakes and grammar category to the point of being believable.
Yes! Better technically but not in tone. I have never gotten a legit request from an editor that was so informal.
Once again the scam seems impossible. If you answer there's a back and forth that leads... where? A scam asks for money. This one asks for... a discussion? : )
Very possible and profitable, otherwise they wouldn't keep sending these out. Scams aimed at writers don't ask for money right off. The first email is bait. Money only gradually enters the equation.
But I would think with each additional interaction the chance for getting $ diminishes. Again, to me these scams make no sense. Who's sending $ without at the very least checking the website?
These are likely going out in the hundreds of thousands, thanks to AI. *Somebody* will end up being fooled.
He can't be interested in your book because he's already taken my whole backlist...at least as soon as the $3K check I sent him clears to help with "rights issues." Literary legacy, here I come!
He doesn't even know if I have a book.
But who reads a comic crime novel as an editor and thinks "I wonder if the author has a literary novel for us"?
For a while I was getting emails and even a couple of phone calls from some supposed publisher interested in my book "The Deal." Thing was, I have a story with that title that has been published a couple of times but no book by that title. The one you share here about Graywolf is a bit more sophisticated but also lame because like you say they don't do genre. Sorry, Ethan.
I think AI is going to help the scams get even more sophisticated which means more victims.
Wow. And what would be the purpose of scamming you in this way? Would they try to steal your work and publish under their own names?
I think the point would be trying to get money from me in some way--or personal information. There's a whole raft of scams from supposed publicists who go for that more directly.