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I Was Scammed: Don't Be Scammed by Email, Phone, and Social Media Scams
by Gini Graham Scott Ph.D
Atrocious.
It must have seemed pretty fucking good to the author to have been able to publish a "book" where 80% of the content (yes, I counted) simply consisted of copying and pasting a collection of spam e-mails. For the purposes of being an archive of scam e-mails one might use for citation, this book gets a quarter of a star. There is little to no personal input or analysis. This is borderline plagiarism, only no scammer will claim credit and the pithy listicles that are cited in the book are almost common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about scams.
Nothing is informative, very little is original, it is all poorly formatted and has errors. At one point the reader is encouraged to take advantage of ads that prey on viewer insecurity to act immediately, simply if it "seems legit."
That this was written by a Ph.D graduate shakes my faith in academia to the core. That it was allowed to be published, independently or otherwise, shakes my faith in allowing people to do so at all. No one in their right mind should go anywhere near this book.
It must have seemed pretty fucking good to the author to have been able to publish a "book" where 80% of the content (yes, I counted) simply consisted of copying and pasting a collection of spam e-mails. For the purposes of being an archive of scam e-mails one might use for citation, this book gets a quarter of a star. There is little to no personal input or analysis. This is borderline plagiarism, only no scammer will claim credit and the pithy listicles that are cited in the book are almost common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about scams.
Nothing is informative, very little is original, it is all poorly formatted and has errors. At one point the reader is encouraged to take advantage of ads that prey on viewer insecurity to act immediately, simply if it "seems legit."
That this was written by a Ph.D graduate shakes my faith in academia to the core. That it was allowed to be published, independently or otherwise, shakes my faith in allowing people to do so at all. No one in their right mind should go anywhere near this book.