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8. They have fake author testimonials that don’t have the author’s full name and their book title (nor a link to purchase it), fake author photos (stock images the company took from the Internet), and syntax errors in the authors’ testimonials.
Some foreigners don’t understand American names. Scammers sometimes have their authors’ names listed as all double first names. For example, Paul George, Joe Peter, and Lisa Vicky. One website actually had an author named John Doe. I kid you not!
You can do a reverse google image search to see if the author photos are real. You’ll often find that the company has pulled stock images from other websites. Some of them even use stock images for their so-called employees. There is a smiling, husky guy with a beard going by different names on several of the scam websites. He’s easy to spot. We found three websites with three of the same employee photos on them, all with different names. And, some of the names were the wrong gender. For example, a woman was given a man’s name and vice-versa.
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