The following events are planned for the week ahead throughout the region: • Curmudgeonly comedian Lewis Black kicks off a busy week at the Santander Performing Arts Center, Reading, with a stop on his “Off the Rails Tour” on Thursday at 8 p.m. Known as the “King of Rant,” Black uses his trademark style of […]
…The phisher, or phishers, employ clever tactics like transposing letters in official-looking email addresses (like “penguinrandornhouse.com” instead of “penguinrandomhouse.com“) and masking the addresses so they only show when the recipient hits “Reply”. They know how publishing works and appear to have access to inside information, utilizing not just public sources like acquisition announcements in trade publications, but details that are harder to uncover: writers’ email addresses, their relationships with agents and editors, delivery and deadline dates, even details of the manuscripts themselves.
And they are ramping up their operations. According to the
Times, the scam began appearing “at least” three years ago, but in the past year “the volume of these emails has exploded in the United States.”