Authors: Be on the lookout!

Today I was contacted via my personal email address by someone claiming to have an" inexpensive book tour service". I turned them down and told them why. The response I received back was so vial mouthed, I won't repeat it here.

I wanted to warn you about this because you will not want to use this "service". Obviously.

The original email said "I saw on Goodreads you are looking for book reviews for your newly published book".

The person who contacted me was booksauthors786@gmail.com. The second one who responded to my reply was doedick@gmail.com.

While I am always looking forward to new ideas to help myself (an author) and the other authors I represent in my business (authorsexpresspromotion), I do not like to see anyone spammed, taken advantage of, or spoken to in that kind of language.

So heed my warning if this person contacts you.

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Cindy Bauer
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Published on October 07, 2017 23:26
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message 1: by Rosie (new)

Rosie Boyes Today I received an email from RupertM (booksauthors786@gmail.com), and thanks to your warning, have added his address to my spam folder.


message 2: by Cindy (new)

Cindy Thank you Rosie! Glad I could help!
What caught my eye when this person contacted me was that he said he saw I was looking for book reviews on my newly published book. I wasn't looking and my books were not newly published.

Rosie wrote: "Today I received an email from RupertM (booksauthors786@gmail.com), and thanks to your warning, have added his address to my spam folder."


message 3: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Lake One more over here. I will block the address right now.


message 4: by M.D. (new)

M.D. Archer Hi Cindy. I just received an 'unsubscribe' reply email from the doedick@gmail.com account - but this email address is not on my mailing list! Neither is the booksauthors786@gmail.com address. I don't suppose you've heard of them using another email address? I could email them back and ask which address they want removed, but based on the above, I am not sure I want to engage with them.
Many thanks,
Margot


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

Hi Cindy, I just received a REMOVE from my newsletter from doedick@gmail.com which of course I didn't have in my list to begin with. Thank you for sharing.


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