Authors like me are being targeted by AI-powered accounts promising exposure and fake reviews
Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles
My latest book had been out for less than a month when the emails started to arrive.
One came from “Elena”, with the tantalising subject line, “When history flutters its wings and reveals a crime too beautiful to ignore.” Then followed a long, florid message about how it was “one of those rare true stories that makes you question everything you thought you knew about history, museums, and human obsession”.
What’s more, she said I had written with “prose that feels like chasing a butterfly through time graceful, deliberate, and a little dangerous”.
