ENCORE: The Book Bandit

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The mystery thickens in this rerun about a puzzling phishing scam. When some of the biggest authors, publishers, and agents in the world become targets, it throws the industry into chaos – and turns everyone involved into an amateur detective. Rumors about the scammer’s identity – and motives – abound. And as the scammer gets bolder, his targets become determined to crack the mystery wide open.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to scam influencers early and ad free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	Sarah, what is one of the stranger scams that you remember that we've covered?
0:11.0	Oh my gosh, all of them feel so strange to me looking back.
0:14.6	I guess Liver King was one of them.
0:17.2	That was insane.
0:18.2	Yeah.
0:19.2	There are too many to pick from.
0:21.8	Okay, well, to me, it's the book thief. I think about it all the time. It's a
0:26.2	scam with seemingly no monetary reward, no glory, no clout, just chaos, all
0:32.2	because this guy wanted a mess with authors and authors by the way
0:35.7	do not really make that much money to begin with and Sarah I actually have some
0:40.2	gossip for you I've heard that the book bandit might be back at it a few writers I know have some weird
0:43.0	back at it.
0:44.0	A few writers I know have gotten some weird emails lately
0:47.1	and word on the street is that he's maybe back,
0:49.8	or maybe someone's just pretending to be him?
0:52.0	A scammer pretending to be a scammer.
0:54.3	Who knows?
0:55.3	Maybe that'll end up being our sequel.
0:57.5	So in honor of his possible return, we're going to play an encore of the Book Bandit.
1:01.9	We'll be back with brand new episodes on March 18th on
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