Inside the Shadowy Scheme: How Nigerian Scammers Masquerade as WritersWeekly to Defraud Translators and Writers
In the past two days, I received two emails from “writers” who were asking if the impersonator was really us. The second email was from a real writer. He provided me with the Nigerian Scammer’s new Facebook page (which has already been taken down).
The first message, in the initial email, pretended to be a writer asking if the company was us. I told him no. In his reply email, I KNEW it was the scammer himself and I KNOW he was going to try to either blackmail us (charge us money while promising to take down his Facebook page), or he was going to try to “sell” us services to have the infringer’s Facebook page taken down. How do I know this? Because he responded to my email like this:
