Book club frauds are a new class of scams, apparently powered by LLMs. Offer to discuss books at a club with plausible looking website turns into pitch for paid promotions
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/yes-all-those-author-services-and-book-club-emails-are-fake-and-no-dont-send-them-any-money/
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