I've been posting this EVERYWHERE, so PLEASE be warned!
While following up on a notification that Barnes & Noble is going to be releasing their NOOK in several more countries, I wanted to see where Amazon is currently offering "Night of the Tiger". Much to my surprise, I found this web site offering "Free" PDF books - but you have to give them a credit card number to "confirm your identity" before they'll send you the "free" book....
pdf8998.kctzbooks.com/the-night-of-the-tiger-PDF-22002471.pdf
In fact, this is the complete link as it appeared on Google: "[PDF]
The Night of the Tiger pdf
pdf8998.kctzbooks.com/the-night-of-the-tiger-PDF-22002471.pdf
Debi Emmons - "Night of the Tiger". 45 likes · 1 talking about this. "Night of the Tiger" has been on the internet since 1999 as an ebook, first at ebooksonthe.net ..."
Needless to say, while investigating this, I DIDN'T give a credit card. Instead, I followed it through to where you need to "sign up" - and sent the address and information to the Internet Crime Complaint Center for them to investigate. When I got an email (which you have to give to get to that next part of the site) about my "free" book this morning and how I needed to "complete the application" to get it, they weren't even offering MY book to me. (Repeat clicks through just to see what would happen brought up SEVERAL books with the key words in it.) They obviously were more concerned with my credit card information than what it was I was coming to get "for free".......
So, if you see someone offering a "free" copy of the book (apart from Amazon or a library, who have "loaner" deals with me so that people can read the book and decide whether or not to add it to their collection), PLEASE let me know. In trying to make sure that you all get what you pay for, I'm trying to be very proactive about pirates and scammers who don't care who they hurt.
Trust me, I don't want to see ANY of my "faithful readers" hurt in any way.....
So, let's see if I've managed to "contact" everyone now with messages to the appropriate accounts...
Facebook (both my personal and fan page)....check
Twitter.....check
The Northern Bard......check
Google plus.....check
This blog.....check
I think that's all the accounts I can post on, but feel free to share this information with your friends, family, etc. so that EVERYONE will know not to give credit card info to these Pirates, Scammers, Scum-of-the-Earth types.
And thank you for letting me rage....
While following up on a notification that Barnes & Noble is going to be releasing their NOOK in several more countries, I wanted to see where Amazon is currently offering "Night of the Tiger". Much to my surprise, I found this web site offering "Free" PDF books - but you have to give them a credit card number to "confirm your identity" before they'll send you the "free" book....
pdf8998.kctzbooks.com/the-night-of-the-tiger-PDF-22002471.pdf
In fact, this is the complete link as it appeared on Google: "[PDF]
The Night of the Tiger pdf
pdf8998.kctzbooks.com/the-night-of-the-tiger-PDF-22002471.pdf
Debi Emmons - "Night of the Tiger". 45 likes · 1 talking about this. "Night of the Tiger" has been on the internet since 1999 as an ebook, first at ebooksonthe.net ..."
Needless to say, while investigating this, I DIDN'T give a credit card. Instead, I followed it through to where you need to "sign up" - and sent the address and information to the Internet Crime Complaint Center for them to investigate. When I got an email (which you have to give to get to that next part of the site) about my "free" book this morning and how I needed to "complete the application" to get it, they weren't even offering MY book to me. (Repeat clicks through just to see what would happen brought up SEVERAL books with the key words in it.) They obviously were more concerned with my credit card information than what it was I was coming to get "for free".......
So, if you see someone offering a "free" copy of the book (apart from Amazon or a library, who have "loaner" deals with me so that people can read the book and decide whether or not to add it to their collection), PLEASE let me know. In trying to make sure that you all get what you pay for, I'm trying to be very proactive about pirates and scammers who don't care who they hurt.
Trust me, I don't want to see ANY of my "faithful readers" hurt in any way.....
So, let's see if I've managed to "contact" everyone now with messages to the appropriate accounts...
Facebook (both my personal and fan page)....check
Twitter.....check
The Northern Bard......check
Google plus.....check
This blog.....check
I think that's all the accounts I can post on, but feel free to share this information with your friends, family, etc. so that EVERYONE will know not to give credit card info to these Pirates, Scammers, Scum-of-the-Earth types.
And thank you for letting me rage....
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