“Book Strategists”, please stop spamming me

I am getting so many of these spam emails at the moment. They go like this, an individual presents me with the opportunity to become a best selling author. The catch? Only the email’s sender has the ability to secure me this success and I have to pay them to get it.

Screen shot from one of the many unsolicited emails I’ve started getting

Oh and by the way, I don’t even have a book to promote.

I’m guessing that some ugly crawler bot has been over my website, seen the words / posts that feature my book reviews for self-help guides on Reedsy Discovery, and from that decided I must be a struggling author.

  1. Rude
  2. Not in any way the case!

Honestly, there’s throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks and then there’s throwing the pots and pans.

To all these people who are using bots to spam me, just stop. I know exactly where you’re based and you’re wasting your time. Everyone else, please don’t be fooled by these emails, these people are awful scammers that don’t deserve a minute of your time. You’re worth more, so much more.

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It’s Happened Again!!

Following the post I published towards the end of 2022 about a mother opening an Amazon parcel containing boxes of cereal, I have two thing to report.

  1. Amazon have yet to implement a policy forcing people to open parcels on the doorstep (sorry Lizzie)
  2. It’s happened again!

As spotted on a social media platform (for the sake of argument, let’s call said social media platform “Gacebook”):

Image reads: Amazon Warning!!!! I want to make our community aware so this doesn’t happen to anyone else. I ordered an iPad Air of Amazon certified seller and received a pack of cleaning wipes.
Package was tampered with. I managed to grab the driver to return the item. He said he could not change the delivered status. He rung his boss and who said to him, ‘bring the wipes back and we’ll get her sent out an item tomorrow’. Needless to say the iPad never turned up. After several calls to Amazon Customer Services I am still unable to change the status of the delivery to returned until the driver has done so. I know this will not happen. Its currently being investigated by Amazon customer services.

Another instance of someone trying to buy an Apple product, only this time they got duped with surface wipes.

I don’t know why I should be surprised and really it is a terrible thing that people are being unfairly mugged off in such a way, but it still amazed me when I saw it appear on my social media feed.

That, or it could be a sign that I need to get a life.

As a thirty year old, eating blueberry yoghurt from the tub and watching reruns of The Hills I’m going to decline the opportunity to comment. I’d only dig myself into a bigger yoghurt-based hole.

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