Unbelievable Blunders: Inside May 2026’s Most Cringe-Worthy Query Letters and Book Proposals!

Editor’s note: We are being bombarded by query letters from overseas scammers daily now! Of course, we never respond. But, what’s in it for them? Read this:

“I own a publication, and I was scammed out of $180 by a writer.”


For Story or article publication.

Um, what? Is there a story? Is there an article? Where are they???


I just wanted to follow up on my previous email about the link suggestion I shared.

This is a common scam. A “company” sends us a link to one of our articles. In the article, we have a link to a helpful resource for our readers. The scammer wants us to replace that link with one leading to their scam service. They swear it’s far better than the helpful resource we already provided for our readers. They very stupidly assume that I fell off the turnip truck yesterday. I don’t bother to click on those links to their scam sites, because many of them can lead to malware infecting a computer. 

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