In the past couple of years, I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters. Since I'm an author, the emails I get are usually from so called book clubs, filled with empty praise for my writing and an offer to market my books for a typically exorbitant fee.  Most of the time, these book clubs don’t actually exist. Sometimes, the book clubs do exist, but the person emailing me isn’t connected to them. The same scams are...

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