Author Tour Scams

The Los Angeles Times reported recently on a round of scam attempts hitting bookstores. Con artists are calling bookstores, pretending to be touring authors, and trying to elicit money from the store owners. They invent situations like, “Oh, my car is impounded and I need you to send me money to get it out so I can make it to my scheduled appearance at your store.”

Who comes up with these ideas?? Plus, it doesn’t seem like there’d be a whole heck of a lot of money in it.

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