Last week I had a new email scam hit my Life with Pal inbox. These aren’t new but this one did look a bit convincing even if it did end up in my spam folder. The email claimed to be from Brevo. Brevo is an all-in-one platform that works with businesses or creators to help with email services, sms messaging, and other customer/business-oriented services. I used the site a few years ago, when it…

Photo by Bermix Studio on Unsplash. I’ve written about this quite a few times on my website–about how I keep getting solicitations emails praising my writing and offering to boost views, readers, get my books in book clubs, book conferences, movie trailers, movie deals, publication deals and agents, etc. A new tactic, and I don’t think a bot is necessarily behind this one: leaving a positive…

Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash I’ve written about being spammed by AI bots before (and this is my latest post about it). Since I am a writer and a public figure, and both of my email addresses (personal and professional) are out there in the world (despite my attempts to keep the personal one private), I’ve continued to be inundated with emails promising all sorts of things. Book club…

Any info cited for this post was found via a general online search. I had an interesting email last week. It was a complete scam, but still looked official. The email I was checking my Yahoo account over the weekend and came across an interesting scam email. The email claimed to be from the Social Security Administration (SSA). The sender The email, of course, came from a random Yahoo…

I was just emailed this out of nowhere.

header image created using Flow AI It appears the podcast invitation scam is back again. This scam isn’t new I believe I heard about this scam a year or maybe two ago. It has affected many content creators and even rescue groups. I saw a new post from a content creator I follow on Instagram last week. The scam You will be reached out to via social media or email. The email will look…