Exposed: The Shocking Tactics Foreign Email Scammers Use to Steal Your Hard-Earned Cash
- They use Gmail as an email address. No legitimate company offering publishing/marketing services uses Gmail. A reputable publisher or marketing service would use its own domain for its email. For example: [email protected]. Scammers will have a free website: That means they don’t even own their own domain. Free websites typically are unsecured and often carry hidden dangers of malware, viruses, and may be used for phishing for an author’s personal information, redirects, and tracking.
Don’t underestimate the creativity, persistence, deception, motives, and greed of today’s scammers. AI has changed much in the author’s world, and unfortunately, I believe it has given spammers/scammers a tool that can be used to fool writers. Perhaps it is time for writers to protect themselves by lessening and reducing usage of social media and the internet, increasing suspicion of emails and websites, and deleting and unsubscribing from anything online that is unnecessary.
