aceLike many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot of fan mail. Almost every day, multi-paragraph emails arrive from passionate and well-informed readers in Barcelona and Frankfurt, Chicago and Warsaw. They have appealing names like Bella Monroe, Thalina Rose and Tricia Claxton. Some of them are straightforward enthusiasts while others are more irreverent, like the one who signs off her messages “warm chaos”. Some love the “deadpan genius” of my novels while others admire my nonfiction’s “moral courage”. What they all…
Generative AI lets scammers write personalised fake fan letters that evade spam filters and ask authors for money, and the author traced one to an address in the Philippines, where scam compounds rely on trafficked workers.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-01
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