Inside the Shocking Rise of “Celebrity Author” Scammers Deceiving the Literary World
Do NOT engage spammers or people who cold call you. When you see them posting comments under writing/author groups on Facebook, go to their profile, click on the …’s on the right-hand side of the screen, and report them as scams. I did that today and, shockingly, Facebook removed the guy’s entire profile in a nanosecond! That guy was offering to “recover” money for scam victims.
I just wonder why Facebook doesn’t remove the fake publishers when we provide them with irrefutable proof that the organization is an overseas scam operation?! We KNOW they have the technology to weed out those “companies” from the get-go. Think about it. Facebook knows where the “company” is actually located yet, when the “company” has Facebook list a U.S. address for the public that doesn’t match, Facebook does NOTHING.
