NOTE: There are now several more Nigeria-based AI-driven marketing scams targeting writers. My posts about them are here. Marketing scams have always been plentiful. Over the past year or so, though, they’ve really surged. I’ve written about one type of marketing scam–the “friendly author” social media scam, in which someone impersonating a real (and often … Continue reading Return of the Nigerian Prince: A New Twist on Book Marketing Scams