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“Can these companies really get my book into indie bookstores?”
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Dear Angela,

I published two books in 2025, and one of them was a fantasy story book that received a great deal of attention because it could be easily adapted to movie/film/TV if someone could write a good script or someone could promote it well.

So, I have received so many scam messages from people calling me, texting me, and e-mailing me that I was totally overwhelmed. I never expected this!

Some of the scams were very obvious. But now companies contact me about selling my book to bookstores (overseas and in the U.S.) by republishing (new ISBN, and one of these companies wants to change the price also), and I am confused as to whether these are scam companies or real distributors.

Of course, the two listed here asked for money to redo the book. Enclosed is what they have sent to me. Are these scams or perhaps real chances of selling indie books in bookstores? Any chance you can take a moment to look at this? Would really appreciate it.

I would love to sell to independent bookstores!

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I looked at your attachments. They are scammers. There is no need to have your book republished. Any bookstore can buy copies of your books right now.

Here’s how the scam works:

1. They charge you to republish your book.

2. They don’t actually publish the book. They just make you think they did.

3. They they say you need to pay thousands of dollars to print copies for bookstores, promising that you’ll get paid back by the bookstores later. That’s not how the industry works. Bookstores order and pay for books. Authors don’t pay for those copies. So many authors have lost thousands of dollars to this type of scam.

4. They never print the books and, of course, no bookstores get copies. They take your money and run.

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“What’s this ‘virtual office’ that scammers use that you keep warning us about?”
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Hi Angela,

Thank you for exposing the scum underbelly of the publishing world. I’ve seen you refer to virtual offices a lot, but I’m not sure what that means? You’ve written, “the scammers aren’t actually located there.” Can you explain, and teach me how to figure out if a company’s address is a “virtual address” or not?

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First, I’d like to say that I’m against too much government regulation, but I believe that virtual offices should be highly regulated. And, I believe people running virtual offices to allow foreign scammers to pretend they are located there should be prosecuted. They KNOW where their customers are really located, and it’s easy to research scammers online. Also, you can bet those “virtual offices” who are working with scammers are receiving complaints about the criminals they are doing business with!

A “virtual office” is a service that allows individuals and businesses to use that address for mail (or to simply pretend they are located there). Some of them actually have meeting areas, but the scammers are using virtual offices exclusively to trick people into thinking they are in the author’s country.

That is nothing short of FRAUD.

A registered agent is a person that a company authorizes to receive mail, legal paperwork, and other items. Some slimy lawyers actually set up virtual offices, and allow overseas scammers to use those addresses. Cha-ching! When researching an address that is a virtual one, you will often find either “virtual offices,” a registered agent, or a law office at that address.

It’s easy to determine if an address is a virtual office. Simply copy and paste the full address (including city, state, and zip code) into Google and add the these words after it: virtual office

When the results pop up, page down (past the ads on Google), and in most cases, you’ll see that address under an ad for virtual offices. Pay attention to the street address (i.e. 123 Main Street – by the way, that’s a fake address some scammers use), and don’t worry about the room or suite number. The virtual offices assign “suite” numbers to scammers when there are no suites. It’s another trick to make people think they have an actual office there.

Sometimes, you can spot a virtual office simply because the address just doesn’t make any sense at all.

Check out these real examples:

539 W. Commerce Rd. #223658

How many buildings have you ever been in that have 223,658 offices in them? Incidentally, that virtual office only charges $9.98/month. It’s cheap to get to pretend you’re located somewhere you are NOT!

Here’s another variation that clearly isn’t a real address:

444 W. South St #457-7662

Can you tell what’s wrong with this one? The actual address is Suite 457. The extra numbers were assigned by the virtual office to one of their slimy “customers.”

415 Laurel Ave Ste A # 517

Why does an address with a suite ALSO need a number after it? There are NOT 517 offices in that “suite!” Whenever you see a suite AND a number, that’s another red flag. Think of the 517 like a mailbox number for a scammer.

123 Publishing Street, New York, NY 10001

That is a completely fake address. It doesn’t exist at all!

If they have USA after the address, they’re likely a foreign scammer. Real American companies don’t include USA, United States, or United States of America in the addresses on their websites.

Look at this one:
Sugar Land Tx United States

They left off the number, street, and zip code. AND they included “United States.” Many Foreign scammers don’t understand U.S. addresses!

This was the funniest one I saw today!

Augusta, GA 30901, Estados Unidos

Estados Unidos means United States in Spanish. The website was actually registered in Lithuania. They are NOT located in Atlanta, nor anywhere near the U.S.!

Another big red flag is if there is no address on their website at all. But, beware that some addresses don’t have the weird quirks I mentioned above, so it’s IMPERATIVE that, when doing your research, you search for the address with the words virtual office after it. Don’t forget to then page down past the Google ads!

And, another big red flag is when they call themselves the Top #1 Book Publisher (or any variation thereof). I can’t believe how many scam victims have contacted me, saying they believed that statement on the company’s website or in the Google search terms, and that’s why they sent their money to the scammer.

Please read: 

11 Ways to Know If a “Publisher” or Other Service Provider is an Overseas Scammer (You’ll probably only need to check #1 to prove it!)

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The HUGE Risks of Signing on With a Startup Publisher! – by Brian Whiddon, Managing Editor
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Angela received an email from a new author (first book) who came across a questionable “publisher” on Facebook. She sent Angela the information about the company.

Angela checked out the website and found numerous indications that it was a scam business. She emailed her findings to the author. One of the big “tells” was that the website was only 13 months old.

Angela advised the author to avoid publishing companies that are less than 10 years old. Most go out of business, and almost every new “publisher” or “publishing services company” that has appeared online in the past two years is a scammer. They are putting up dozens to hundreds of new websites daily.

The author wrote back, saying she has always been someone who gives new companies a chance.

My Response:

Brian here. I’ll be tackling this one for Angela today.

I’m right there with you. I like to give new startups the opportunity to earn my future business. Notice I didn’t say that they deserve my patronage because they are new. That’s point number One.

Next, I love trying out a new restaurant that opens up in town. If the food sucks, I’m only out 50 bucks or so. A local gunsmith just opened up a gun shop close to us. I let him do a little work on one of my guns that cost me around $150. He had to have a local business license to open the store. And if he disappeared, there is enough info available for the cops to track him down. When I need repairs done around our home, I hire a local handyman instead of calling one of the big home repair businesses in Chattanooga. I’m happy to give a guy a chance when the risks are low.

However, when Angela and I bought our house, we didn’t go with the small realtor working out of his own home after getting his license six months ago. We found a guy with an extensive portfolio of homes he’d handled – and he was affiliated with one of the big national real estate companies. Why? Because we were about to INVEST in a HOUSE!

When Angela and I sold our liveaboard sailboats (36ft and 52ft), one of our own relatives had just started as a yacht broker. He hadn’t sold his first boat yet. He really wanted us to let him sell our boats. Instead, we went with a certified yacht broker who lived on a boat on our dock, and understood everything about boat surveys, sea trials, the local market, what boat buyers look for, and what they don’t, etc., etc.

When you buy a car, do you go to the “Buy Here / Pay Here” car lot that just popped up on the corner last month? Or do you go to a car lot that you’ve driven by a hundred times and know they’ve been around for awhile? If you need heart surgery, will you pick the 28-year-old who’s one year out of his residency, or the 55-year-old who’s seen more open heart surgeries than he has weekends with his own family? If you were to find yourself on the wrong side of the law, wrongfully charged with a serious felony, do you get the most experienced attorney you can afford, or do you give your case to the kid who just got out of law school and needs a chance to prove himself?

Here’s the bottom line: your book is an investment. It’s a culmination of your hard work and emotional capital expressed in words. It’s not a $50 dinner that you can shrug off if the experience is bad.

It’s nice that you want to give a new business a chance, but you’re leaving some things out of the equation:

  1. Just dealing with Amazon is a constant nightmare. Our publishing company is fighting with them all the time because of their stupid mistakes. Know why we can fight with them, and win? Why a real human responds to us every time? Because we’re big. We have have published more than 17K print and electronic books in the past 27 years. Someone who has just gotten into the game will be lucky to hear from a human being when they complain. Heck, they’ll be lucky to get a real answer to their question from a bot at Amazon.
  2. You aren’t just dealing with Amazon. There’s going to be a printer, distributors, retailers (print and ebook sellers), the IRS, I.T. people, possibly editors, marketers, cover designers, illustrators, etc. It’s a juggling act. Not many people have the wherewithal to do it. Most new publishers fail. (Some people think they can just slap up a website and succeed. It doesn’t work that with with book publishing! It’s takes a LOT of work, capital investment, endless training (the software keeps changing), and tons of time! Of course, the scam publishers just take your money and run.
  3. Royalties – guess who pays them to the author? That would be your publisher. Even if you sign on with an honest new company, if they don’t stay afloat, how will you get your royalties? Countless publishers have gone out of business over the years. When that happens, almost all of them owe their authors money…and those authors never get paid.
  4. Your book will be bound to your publisher. If they go belly up, you will need to get your production files back somehow. In most cases, those publishers who go belly-up leave in the dead of night. They stop answering emails and phone calls, and they won’t send their authors the production files. If you decide to have your book republished, you’ll need to change your ISBN’s. And, in many cases, authors need to have their covers and interior files redesigned.
  5. Ninety-nine percent of all publishing websites we are finding online (that authors are reporting to us) currently are bona-fide scams.

Publishing your book is not a game, and “charity” should not play a part in the process. Book publishing is definitely something you don’t want to gamble hundreds to thousand of dollars on! You want someone who knows what they are doing – not someone who needs a chance to prove themselves. And, again, most of the new publishing websites online now are scams. Thousands of them!

You asked in your email that we recommend any “small or up-and-coming publishers that are reputable.”  Unfortunately, we can’t do this for one simple fact:

Those publishers have not yet established their reputations.

BookLocker HAS.

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SCAM ALERT! “Best Seller Book Writing / bestsellerbookwriting.com promised to get my book into Barnes and Noble!”
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Dear Angela,

I just published a YA realistic fiction. It was released just over two weeks ago. I was contacted by Best Seller Book Writing (@bestsellerbookwriting on Facebook). This company promised that I would be able to get my book into Barnes and Noble in about 90 days if I worked with them. Right now, my book is on Amazon.

I now feel like this is a scam. As a teacher in CT, every penny I have counts! I did, thankfully, pay with a credit card.

Should I file a claim? Please, your guidance would really help!

Thank you,
Lisa

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Re: bestsellerbookwriting.com

Yes, it’s an increasingly common scam. They were going to make YOU pay them money, telling you they would print your books and get them into B&N stores. That’s not how it works. Bookstores pay for books (not the author).

Worse, these types of scammers never print the books anyway. They take the author’s money and disappear.

Their U.S. address in “New York” is fake (a virtual office). I clicked on their name on Facebook, and then on transparency. They’re in Pakistan.

Immediately issue a chargeback with your credit card company. If the credit card company or bank tries to tell you to work it out with the vendor, tell them you were scammed by a foreign company, and demand they IMMEDIATELY issue the chargeback.

Thank Heaven you used a credit card! Authors who send a bank transfer can’t get their money back. If they pay via an online payment platform, like Paypal, they might get money money back, but probably won’t. Scammers move money out of accounts very quickly.

Please see:

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IMPERSONATION ALERT: No, Harper Collins is NOT Offering to Publish Your Book if You Spend $5K on Copies!
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Since my book was published, I have received strange offers by phone and e-mail 24 hours a day. One so called “literary agent” claims Harper Collins Publisher would publish my book if I could prove it would sell in bookstores…so I should shell out $5,000 to put 1,000 copies in NY area bookstores to sell just 200 copies to prove to the editor at Harper Collins that my book is sellable in bookstores.

This is a scam, right? I get so many offers like this one, which came with copies of Harper Collins letter of intent….signed by their editor. This “book evaluation” came from Daniel Brooks, “literary agent.” I have also had Duke Morgan do an interview of me for another one of my books and then use this to try to get me to pay for approaching “overseas investors.” So many “book agents” call or e-mail me with strange offers that now I find the whole industry disturbing.

The five mainstream literary gods of publishing having so much over-control of what reaches the American public and the outrageous scams that approach independent authors…a sort of madhouse now!

A – 

Wow! You’ve been hit by the trifecta of scammers!

  • The “literary agent” is fake.
  • The offer was fake.
  • The Harper Collins letter of intent was fake.

They are all scams. Regarding the copies for bookstores, that’s not how it works. Bookstores buy copies. Author never have to that!

Block all of the scammers’ phone numbers on your phone and block their emails as well. If you respond to just one, they share/sell your information with countless other scammers.

And, regarding the big 5 publishers, please see:

AUTHOR ALERT! The Traditional Book Publishing Industry is DYING FAST!

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Do NOT Work With Companies That Have Lovable.app in Their Website Addresses!
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This author had NO IDEA she was talking to somebody in NIGERIA! Also, keep in mind that many scammers do own their own websites. Companies that use Lovable.app are what we call amateur scammers. 

One of our authors contacted me, saying she was “working with a marketing agency.” She then asked me several questions that raised my suspicions, including insinuating that she wanted her book listings moved, and wanted a “transfer of distribution.” I knew right then that she had crawled into bed with a scammer.

We hear from authors all the time who’ve been approached by a “marketing company.” Some of them want to take control of the author’s books. Of course, the service is never free! Some of them also trick authors into thinking they need to pay to have their book(s) republished first.

I emailed the author back back: “What marketing agency are you using?”

She responded that she was working with Elle Blackmore at Author Rise Hub.

My hackles went up again. Do you how many overseas scammers have the word “Hub” in their names??? A LOT!!! For example, check out the one-star reviews on TrustPilot for Book Authors Hub / bookauthorshub.com! Remember to NEVER trust 5-star reviews on TrustPilot!

I responded to the author:

AuthorRiseHub.com is not a working website. Please advise.

I found Elle Blackmore on Fiverr but the link for her page on Google isn’t working:

(NOTE: As of this writing, on 8/11/26, that page no longer exists on Fiverr.)

The reason I’m asking these questions is because we are hearing from authors several times a day who were spammed by supposed “book marketers,” and who were then scammed.

One red flag is that her “company” doesn’t have its own website. That’s especially troubling for someone who claims to be a professional marketer. Real book promotion professionals have their own websites.

You never, EVER want to give one of those folks access to your Amazon account (or any other account). Scammers are taking control of authors’ Amazon KDP accounts and websites, and then changing the logins for both. Some also take control of the authors’ social media accounts. They then blackmail those authors who want control of their accounts again. However, those scammers take the authors’ money, and never give control back. They can also have the authors’ Amazon KDP royalties sent to a different bank account (the scammer’s account).

They also tell authors they must republish their book (when their book is already on Amazon). And, they charge fees to set that up. Of course, those scammers then control that Amazon KDP account.

Reputable marketers can promote your book without requiring you to republish your book.

How did Elle Blackmore initially contact you? And, what email address is she using?

Angela

The author shared my email with “Elle.” Elle was pretty ballsy, because she actually emailed ME!!!

——– Forwarded Message ——–
Subject: [BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR NAME REMOVED BY WRITERSWEEKLY] 
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:33:00 -0100
From: Elle Blackmore <info.elleblackmore@gmail.com>

Dear Angela,

How are you doing? I’m aware of the conversation between you and [author name removed]. That’s why I decided to reach out to you and take the time to look into this matter.

I completely understand and appreciate your concerns. Unfortunately, the publishing industry has seen an increase in fraudulent marketers and scams targeting authors, so I respect your diligence in protecting [author name removed] and her publishing interests.

My name is Elle Blackmore, and I have been assisting [author name removed] in reviewing her Amazon presence, author platform, and discoverability opportunities for [book title removed]. My involvement is limited to helping her better understand her current publishing situation and identifying ways to improve the book’s visibility to readers. At no point have I requested ownership of [author name removed]‘s publishing rights, royalties, or accounts.

In fact, I have consistently encouraged her to verify information independently and to proceed cautiously with any publishing-related decisions and expert outreach. The reason for my inquiry is simply to better understand the current distribution arrangement for [book title removed]. 

Since you have been involved with the book’s publication and distribution, I was hoping to gain a better understanding of: –

1. The current distribution arrangement for [book title removed].
2. What level of control [author name removed] currently has over the book’s Amazon publishing settings.
3. If [author name removed] ever wished to directly manage certain aspects of the book herself, what options would be available to her?
4, Is there a KDP account associated with the book? .

I appreciate your commitment to protecting authors and would be grateful for any clarification you can provide regarding [author name removed]‘s current publishing arrangement.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Elle Blackmore

I, of course, did not respond to “Elle.” Instead, I sent a copy of that email to the author, along with this:

Hi [author name removed],

I’m copying attorney James M. Walsh on this email.

I will not discuss your book with this person. Real marketing professionals (and all legitimate businesses) do not use Gmail. They have their own professional websites, and their email addresses include those domains. I sent you additional warnings in my previous email.

Per Google:

“Any email from info.elleblackmore@gmail.com is highly likely to be a phishing or impersonation scam. Scammers frequently use free Gmail addresses to impersonate real people, brands, or job recruiters, tricking victims into handing over personal information, sending money, or clicking malicious links.

“Key Red Flags & Scams to Watch Out For: Impersonation: Legitimate businesses and professionals almost always use custom, official domain emails (e.g., name@company.com) rather than a generic @gmail.com address.”

Additional information:

OPEN AND OBVIOUS DANGER! Gmail Email Scammers are Targeting MILLIONS of Authors! By James M. Walsh, Esq.

How I Was Scammed Out of $13K by “8 People” Using Gmail Email Addresses By M.M. Lorenzo

THE IS THE FOLLOW-UP EMAIL SENT TO FROM “ELLE” TO THE AUTHOR:

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Elle Blackmore (info.elleblackmore@gmail.com)
Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Answer

Thank you for your honest message.

First, I want to apologize for not directly answering your questions earlier. You absolutely deserve answers, especially given the experiences you’ve had in the past.

I completely understand why Angela’s comments would concern you. If I were in your position and had previously been scammed, I would also want to verify who I was working with before moving forward.

Regarding how I found your book, I discovered [book title removed] through one of the book lists on Goodreads Listopia. Part of what I do is research books and authors that may benefit from increased visibility and discoverability, and when I came across your book, I felt there were opportunities to help strengthen its presence.

You also asked about my online presence. I work under the Author Rise Hub umbrella. Their website is currently still under development, which is why it is not yet fully established. However, you can view the current version here:

Author Rise Hub: https://authorisehub.lovable.app/

You can also find me on social media here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_rises/

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584985463069

Authors, NEVER do business with a company that has their “website” on the free service, lovable.app. That is a hotbed for scammer activity. The Author Rise Hub “website” is based on a template. It looks extremely similar to other scam websites we’ve exposed.

Read this:
Cybercriminals Abuse AI Website Creation App For Phishing

Here are more red flags:

  • She was corresponding with the author in June (almost two months ago), but AuthorRiseHub.com still isn’t up.
  • I clicked on her Instagram profile, and it says she (more than likely a he!) is located in NIGERIA.
  • The Facebook link no longer works. Perhaps too many people complained about her spamming them.

I dove deeper. One of their featured books is “Whispers of the Infinite” by “Bestselling Author” (ha ha ha!) Mary E. Shaver. I clicked on the cover and this popped up:

Featured book cover designed and promoted by Author Rise Hub

That’s interesting because that book is NOT on Amazon. I searched Amazon for three other books that are on their website, and NOTHING came up for those, either. Kinda hard to “promote” a book when it doesn’t exist, Author Rise Hub!

And, what a RIDICULOUS company name!! We see stupid companies names from lots of foreign scammers.

KEY TAKEAWAY:

If somebody contacts you who is using a free website hosting service like Lovable.app, and if they are spamming you using a Gmail email address, block them!

ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT SPAMMERS ARE SCAMMERS!

For book promotion, we highly recommend Clayton Jones. BookLocker authors rave about him! 🙂

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Do you have a service that ensures inclusion in Library Journal, Kirkus, etc?

Thanks for any info.

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You can submit your book directly to Library Journal and Kirkus for reviews.

Library Journal does not charge, but they receive thousands of submissions annually. No publisher can guarantee a review in that journal.

https://www.libraryjournal.com/page/Submissions

Kirkus might review your book but they charge a $25 fee just to consider your book for a regular review. Most authors end up forking over money (starting at $399!!!) for their paid-review service. Buying reviews can actually get you banned from Amazon. Never pay for reviews!

Please see:

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“Is International Writers’ Chronicle a Scam? (I suspect it is.)”
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Is this a scam? (I suspect it is.)

International Writers’ Chronicle
https://internationalwriterschronicle.mystrikingly.com

Thank you for your time.

– Kate

A – 

Hi Kate,

It DEFINITELY looks like a scam, so we did some digging…

They don’t even have their own domain name. They’re using mystrikingly.com, a free hosting service. We call that an amateur scammer. (Please note that many scammers DO own their own domains.)

It’s hilarious that two of the “authors” on their homepage are name John Smith and Jane Doe!!! I did a reverse Google image search on the picture of “Jane Doe.” The book she is holding was written by another author!

They use a gmail email address (most scammers do).

They only have 3 “posts” on their homepage, and they’re all dated the same day – February 26, 2026. They have three other post teasers on another page, also made on the exact same day, that say “upcoming,” “coming soon,” and “forthcoming.”

They claim to have featured a book by a bestselling author, “Mark Lee.” However, the real author of the book the guy is holding up is B. Rain Bennett (who is also a filmmaker). And, that is the real author holding the book. This scammer simply gave him a different name in the description.

I contacted the real author (he responded right away), as well as another author whose photo they are using. I’m quite sure that all of the author photos on their website were stolen from the Internet.

Nobody said scammers were smart!!!

According to Google: “Yes, internationalwriterschronicle.mystrikingly.com is highly likely a job scam. The site uses a .mystrikingly.com domain, which is a free, easily created webpage template from the legitimate site-building platform Strikingly. Fraudsters frequently use these free subdomains to set up temporary, disposable ‘company’ or ‘publication’ pages to appear legitimate to unsuspecting job seekers.Here are the standard red flags associated with this type of scheme.”

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“Book marketer ‘Lauren Foster’ asked me to wire money to somebody named Abdulkareem?”
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REMINDER!!! ***THIS SATURDAY*** IS START-TIME FOR THE SUMMER, 2026 24-HOUR SHORT STORY CONTEST!!

1st Place: $300 + a free book publishing package from BookLocker valued at $975

2nd Place: $250

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+ 100 Honorable Mentions! Those writers receive a free ebook of their choice from BookLocker.com!

Read all past winning topics and story, and sign up, RIGHT HERE!

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I was contacted by ‘Lauren Foster’ who will promote my new book online for $350 to be paid via ACH transfer. She sounds legit, but then wants me to pay Abdulkareem Shiyanbola via Lead Bank, which is suspicious sounding. She presents as Lauren Foster, Book Promotion Specialist for Buchboost based in Mississippi, USA. She refers to him as her ‘financial secretary.’ Is this legit? Thanks for your input. I have not sent them any money yet.

R.

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There are so many red flags here!

A HUGE red flag is when someone with an American name:

  • Gives you a different person’s name on the payee account…especially one you can’t pronounce! This happened to us recently. A “freelance writer” with a (fake) American name gave us a Paypal account for payment that had a completely different name on the account. That was suspicious. Then, we ran the article through an AI detector (it failed!). We told the “writer” that we don’t publish AI-generated articles, and that we don’t send writers’ money to third parties. He simply replied, “Okay.”
  • Asks you to wire money. All legitimate companies accept credit cards. We also recommend NEVER using third-party services like Zelle (read THIS ARTICLE!). Using Paypal carries a lower risk, but NEVER use the friends and family method (many scammers require that) because, under Paypal’s guidelines, you’ll never get your money back when doing that. However, if you file a complaint with Paypal later, if the scammer has already moved the money out of their Paypal account, you may still not be able to get a refund from Paypal. Again, we STRONGLY recommend only using a credit card to give you the best possible chance of getting your money back. Just be sure you issue the chargeback within the first 60 days. Some scammers will drag out the process so, if you do issue a chargeback, you won’t get your money back because, under the credit card companies’ guidelines, too much time has passed.

You wrote, “She presents as Lauren Foster, Book Promotion Specialist for Buchboost based in Mississippi, USA.” That’s another red flag. Legitimate companies in the U.S., who are marketing to U.S. citizens, don’t put U.S. or USA in their communications (nor on their websites) after the name of the state. Foreign scammers do that because they don’t know any better.

Also, we’ve never heard of a “financial secretary.”

I recommend reporting them to Lead Bank. You can to that here: https://www.lead.bank/fraud-protection

We also could not find a working website for Buchboost.com. We did find a similar site, hosted by netlify.ap, but that is also a non-working website. Notice their company name is piggybacking on netlify.app. That is a free web hosting service. Never do business with a company that doesn’t have their own domain name. (And, beware that many of the foreign scammers DO have their own domain names now.)

According to Google: “Netlify itself is a legitimate, widely used web hosting platform for developers, but its domain (netlify.app) is frequently abused by scammers to host malicious links, such as phishing sites and fake login pages.”

Readers: CONTACT ANGELA if you think you might be talking to a scammer. She answers emails as quickly as she can. If she can’t get back to you immediately, DO NOT SEND PAYMENT to anyone until you hear from her. Many scammers use “sense of urgency” marketing tactics (i.e. “Sign up today and get 50% off!”) DON’T FALL FOR IT!!

For book promotion, we recommend Professor Clayton Jones at the University of Tennessee. He IS in the USA, in Chattanooga. We have met him in person many times. And, his wifely is a lovely, sweet person as well! See: Book Publicists We Recommend

Professor Jones’ prices are very affordable, and BookLocker authors rave about his services.

Always remember that spammers are scammers. Never respond to unsolicited emails, and never answer phone calls from unknown numbers. If they leave you a voicemail, and if it’s a marketer or someone offering to publish your book (or ghostwrite, edit, illustrate, etc.), it’s a scammer. Block the number.

Also, do not respond to so-called “marketers” who are contacting you through your website, or contacting you through private messaging, or responding to your posts/comments on social media. You need to assume ALL unsolicited contacts are foreign scammers now. Because, right now, 99.9% of them are.

CONTACT ANGELA if you need specific services. She will refer you to professionals she knows who are NOT located in Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, China, and other scammer hotbed countries.

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A Scammer Asked Us to Change Our Website Listing! And, Boy oh Boy, Are They Sorry Now!!! HA HA HA HA HA!
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Hello,

I am contacting you on behalf of Stellar Books Publishing (https://stellarbookspublishing.com).

We recently noticed that some internet users are confusing our company with Stellar Literary Press & Media / StellarLiterary.com due to the similarity in company names.

To clarify, Stellar Books Publishing is not affiliated, associated, owned, managed, endorsed, or connected in any way with Stellar Literary Press & Media or StellarLiterary.com.

Because of this confusion, some potential clients are mistakenly attributing complaints and reports about another company to our business. We respectfully request that you consider adding a clarification note to your article indicating that Stellar Books Publishing is a separate company with different ownership, management, and operations.

For reference, we have published an official clarification here:

https://stellarbookspublishing.com/official-notice

Thank you for your time and consideration. Please let us know if you require any additional information.

Sincerely,

Stellar Books Publishing
https://stellarbookspublishing.com

– Kendra Everly ( info@stellarbookpublishing.co)

A – 

Nice try, scammer! Since you wasted your and my time today, we investigated your “company” and, congrats! YOU MADE THE LIST!!! Now, now… No need to thank me for the extra publicity! YOU’RE WELCOME!!!

Here’s what it says:

Stellar Books Publishing / stellarbookspublishing.com / stellarbookpublishing.co
This scammer had the gall to email us, asking us to post an update on our website, saying they aren’t associated with the company directly below this one (on our list). So, we researched this company as well because, you know, this isn’t the first time we’ve received an email like that! And, they did not disappoint! There are SCATHING 1-star reviews about them on TrustPilot. Here are some quotes: “The worst publishing experience I’ve ever had.” “False advertising.” “Stellar Books Publishing Company is the definition of poor service.” “They will steal your money. Please do yourself a favor stay away from this scammers.” There are complaints about them on BBB.org as well. Virtual offices are available at their  “Florida address.” Both of the “North Carolina addresses” on their website are houses. Facebook says they’re in PAKISTAN. The featured book on their website, Struggled to Sold, was published before this website existed. We looked for several of their other featured books on Amazon,  and couldn’t find them. Like many of the scammers on our list, they have a horizontal strip of major media logos near the top of their website. Their books have not been featured in those. They are committing several violations on THIS LIST.

By the way, does your mother know what you do for a living? She must be very ashamed…

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you think you’ve been contacted by a scammer, or if you are currently being scammed, CONTACT ANGELA right away! She does not charge anything to help scam victims! Beware of “scam recovery services!” Those are scams, too!!! And, remember, spammers are scammers!!! Don’t respond to their emails and never answer the phone if you don’t recognize the number!

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