This isn’t the only scam that’s been getting on authors’ nerves. Not too long back, there was a TikTok trend that led people to buy books, quickly read them, and then return them for a refund. However, that book won’t be a copy of the original. Instead, customers would be greeted by a completely empty notebook. What makes this worse is that the scammers would sell the books at a fraction of the price of the original books. One author by the name of Rob Manuel posted several tweets about this scam. He even posted a video of one of these scam books and revealed that it’s completely empty. “Imagine your joy of getting that on Christmas Day”, he said before capping it off with some colorful language. The account that he bought this book from is called Rachid Zrika. Fortunately, that account has been taken down. The account had other books such as Ballet of Lepers and Cat Lady. There’s no telling how much money this account made, but it’s not making money anymore.
