After a long investigation and hundreds of complaints, a grand jury in San Diego has charged three people involved in a publishing scam that the government contends defrauded elderly authors across ...

New wave of publishing fraud mimics lonely hearts swindles of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automated ...

Federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Three people who allegedly ran a company that prosecutors say scammed nearly $44 million from elderly authors have ...

A man who wrote a book about his near-death COVID experience lost £5,000 in a self-publishing scam. Paul Henderson, 60, was “two hours from death” and spent 30 days in an induced coma and on life ...

Aspiring authors in Australia are among those who have been scammed by a global network of publishing houses using cloned websites and AI tools. Some boast testimonials using the images and names of ...