In today’s solicitation e-mail — I get an enormous amount of this crap — a monumentally vacuous offer from a source that, despite a superficial appearance of legitimacy, turns out to be equally suspect.
The mail as it came to me, with only the dummy name of the sender suppressed:
These days, the solicitation e-mail I get mostly takes advantage of AI resources to refer to specific content on my blog, making it appear that some actual person has read this material, but NN’s message steadfastly avoids all specificity, in favor of empty fawning
A truly stunning performance.
NN is a very ordinary name, in the Jane Doe vein. NN’s purported company, IG Publishing, however, looks like a real company name, and it almost is; according to Wikipedia,
Ig Publishing is a New York-based press devoted to publishing original literary fiction and political and cultural nonfiction.
Adventurous but respected, with lots of literary prizes won.
But there seems to be no IG Publishing, and NN’s e-mail comes from a suspicious-looking .org site that Safari can’t find. Every bit of this message stinks of spam.
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