Ghostwriting Scam
虚假出版骗局从德克萨斯州和巴基斯坦运作,涉及数千万至数亿美元,通过虚构出版商和制片人对老年作者作品的兴趣,骗取近4400万美元。 2025-6-18 14:37:27 Author: www.schneier.com(查看原文) 阅读量:10 收藏

Ghostwriting Scam

The variations seem to be endless. Here’s a fake ghostwriting scam that seems to be making boatloads of money.

This is a big story about scams being run from Texas and Pakistan estimated to run into tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, viciously defrauding Americans with false hopes of publishing bestseller books (a scam you’d not think many people would fall for but is surprisingly huge). In January, three people were charged with defrauding elderly authors across the United States of almost $44 million by “convincing the victims that publishers and filmmakers wanted to turn their books into blockbusters.”

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Posted on June 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM0 Comments

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