Authors are being targeted today. I expect this targeting includes all authors, but I can attest that it certainly includes Christian authors. As far as I can tell, these are not particularly dangerous scams, but they are annoying nonetheless and potentially costly.
Here’s how they work. After you have published a book, you may begin to receive emails from people who say they have read and enjoyed it. They may claim they work in marketing and have identified ways in which your book could be marketed more successfully. Alternatively, they may claim they work in translation and would like to help create foreign editions. These emails tend to come from plausible email addresses and are usually written by people with realistic names, though “Zaydrin Orvex” (see below) may be stretching credibility since it sounds like it could have come from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Another variation comes from people who also express appreciation for your book and then say…