Looking back, the initial contact had all the elements of the earliest “Nigerian prince” email scams. The writer, who uses the name of a real member of a real book club, opened with detailed flattery ...

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing was meant to democratize books. Instead, it’s being exploited by scammers churning out low-effort, AI-generated, or repackaged content at industrial scale. Fake ...

Convicted con artists reveal secrets to how they hook people. — -- It was 11 o’clock in the morning when Luann and Betty Ann’s world was shattered with a single phone call. “He says, ‘Do you have ...

Authors are being hit with a "deluge" of scam emails, some of which appear to impersonate industry professionals, marketing ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

What gives the novel its momentum is its pace. The language is direct, accessible and uncensored, slipping seamlessly between ...

Laci Mosley arrived in Hollywood with few liquid assets beyond highly flammable club dresses, questionable bartending experiences, and super-sized confidence. That didn’t stop the trilingual baddie ...

As romance scams are on the rise, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing new legislation aimed at holding accountable those who seek to defraud retirees and steal their hard-earned savings.