The Spammer Becomes the Spammee (opens in new tab)

A fake reader in search of a fake book club. After receiving one too many fake-book-club scams, I clicked reply By Teddy Wayne My wife, Kate Greathead, published her second novel, The Book of George, in October 2024. After the paperback came out a year later, she began receiving numerous e-mails offering to promote it. The letters were well written but only vaguely touched upon her novel, leading us to believe they had been composed with the assistance of A.I.; even her publisher was fooled b...