A federal grand jury has charged three people 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 — but only if they paid some fees first.
I have been repeatedly accidentally targeted by a similar scam, sometimes getting a voicemail every single day because they somehow think I’m my late father, who self-published multiple books.
I’ve never even written a book.
It annoys the fuck out of me, so hopefully this is at an end- but considering the accents on the voicemails, I’m guessing it isn’t because the scammers hitting me aren’t even in the u.S.