Seriously: Does Someone Get Paid For This?

[@danielweston9188]

The only thing sadder is the people who call about Home Warranties - I got one all flustered when I told them my Home already had 73,000,000 miles on it (nine years old) and asked if it would cover the replacement of the foundation at 100,000,000. They put me on hold to talk to their supervisor.

[@sblijheid]

You didn't get the car insurance one? I keep getting those even though I don't have a driver's license.

[@paulperry7091]

Comedy gold!

[@keinlieb3818]

I get the car insurance ones all the time and I ask if they cover my Bugatti and Ferrari and they always get excited and I usually keep em going for a good 10 to 20 minutes before asking if they will also insure my Geo Storm. Then they usually hang up on me.

[@musicloverme3993]

You could have told them that your house is about 93 million miles away. It is located on (in) the Sun!😂

[@grandinosour]

@@sblijheid i got the car scam almost daily and I would play their game and tell them i had a 1947 corvette....they would hang up on me.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Remember when we used to ask, "Why can't Johnny read?" Now we have to ask, 'Why can't Sanji's bot write?"

[@mrcryptozoic817]

LOL!

[@ManSubhu]

One thing to note, scam emailers can use bad spelling or weird grammar deliberatly so that they only get responses from people who don't notice those things, as people that oblivious may also not notice a scam is happening.

[@tedmoss]

You need to use Occam's razor.

[@kingbolomo8188]

For sure!! This sounds like a scammer with bad English to me.

[@stevebabiak6997]

There are also pedants who reply to those to correct the spelling and grammar, and the spammers are just hoping for a reply where they can start to develop rapport and then get the replying person off of their guard.

[@NickBush24]

Also used as a tool to defeat spam filters

[@ko9446]

Please Kindly……

[@Unrivaledanime]

Steve I advise you to call them and tell them the name of your book is “ how to sue and jail fake telemarketers and scam artists” lol 😂

[@craigtiano3455]

When this was less prevalent, I used to respond with nonsense, like "Heeho, can't wait to see you at the polo grounds this weekend! We're going to trounce those buggy blighters this year!" If they responded, I'd then send something equally nonsensical like "Octoberfest this year in Munich, I'm in! Do you know any nice Frauliens who we can go with?". If they responded again, I'd send them something in Klingon. There's only a certain amount of crazy even scammers will accept, and Klingon (or Latin) seems to be the limit of their patience.

[@samfisher9413]

You have much to teach us! 👍

[@luvdady]

It's so cheap that if one suckered person falls for it they get paid.

[@brianclark9948]

I think you come from the same bot with grammar like that 🤣🤣🤣, yes I realise it's probably on purpose

[@lorenzo42p]

if it didn't work, they wouldn't bother doing it. it gets people to respond, as it did in this case.

[@Unsensitive]

Shotgun approach. Massive variance in technique and targets.

[@ChrisD4335]

nah a whole bunch need to fall for it and they do.

[@kenbrown2808]

reminds me of when someone called me promising they could get ten more people to call me every day, and I finally got fed up enough to tell them, "it costs me $40.00 every time i stop work to answer the phone, and I'm already sending people to my competition because I have more work than I can handle. why would I pay you to make it worse?"

[@davidm8371]

Sounds like you've got a need for an employee. Maybe even one that costs $40/hr if that's what it costs to answer the phone. No idea though, I'm just a guy on the internet... take that as you will.

[@davidingham4542]

good one!!!

[@MatthewHarrisLawPLLC]

So true! I think we've turned away at least 1,500 cases this year (or at least that's how many Declination Letters we've sent). Why would I want MORE calls?!

[@kenbrown2808]

@@davidm8371 spam filters are a lot cheaper.

[@iandick1364]

@@kenbrown2808 Mostly true. Your company could get a secretary at $18/hour and they could take some of your busy work. That way more of your $40/hour time can go where it needs to be. Also a secretary can screen your calls and take notes/messages based on what you actually want to know.

[@billnicholson3173]

I used to work for a company that provided online advertising and SEO management. Sales would send potential customers an email saying that we had analyzed their website and it scored low on various rankings. There was no analysis, they just sent the same email to everyone. Customer service wasn't aware of the fictional analysis, so when customers would call in to see if their scores improved it got awkward

[@kenbrown2808]

Before i had better spam filters I'd get those calls and have to tell them i didn't have a website on purpose.

[@rockchildofthe60s69]

Were you also in a crowded small internet Cafe in Nigeria or some building from the Soviet era in Moscow? I get needing a job but is it really a legitimate job when your work involves scams? Kinda makes people like you part of the problem and sometimes participant in the crimes of ripping people off. Especially when you are aware that the "product" your trying to con people into is bs and the description of the service or product is based on bs aka lies.

[@billnicholson3173]

@@rockchildofthe60s69 this was a US based company. I didn't stay there once I learned how the sales department worked. So quit being a dick and making judgments about the moral character of "people like me"

[@michaelwallace9291]

@@rockchildofthe60s69 you're*

[@randywdc1]

In the past, emails of this nature were to be automatically flagged as SPAM or even a scam. However today, even legitimate emails are poorly written like the examples you mentioned. Writing proper communique is a lost art.

[@ThunderStruck15]

Quick, yell at the kids to get off your lawn.

[@barvdw]

And vice versa, some scam mails are getting better and better, too.

[@jamesbael6255]

You're just in the wrong place; if you want people who can write proper communiques you should check out the French. It's a French word, never widely adopted and rarely properly used in English. There's probably a French word for an English speaker who uses words like communique to sound fancy. I would imagine it's less dull sounding than 'prententious knob'.

[@sblijheid]

@James Bael That's not a word to sound fancy. If you grew up in an environment where proper English was spoken, this would be a normal word to you. I heard the complaints of how bad public school education in the US was, but I only realized it when I communicated with everyday Americans. I only learned English in school, which was mostly speaking on the same topics, in the same fashion as I do in my native tongue. I only got blank stares from Americans. I then shut my mouth and let them speak in order to know how to level my speech to theirs. I learned that most Americans don't know much, if any, spelling, grammar, math, or vocabulary beyond 3rd grade level. Somehow administrators think it's a good idea to teach kids that there are a gazillion genders while the kids don't even master their ABCs.

[@katiekane5247]

@@sblijheid the constant comment lapses in grammar & spelling annoy me to distraction. Most couldn't write a business letter by hand if their lives depended on it. I know companies hiring people without in-person interviews though, there's a crap shoot!

[@nelsonbrum8496]

You went one step farther than I do with these emails. You read them. 😂

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

The real entertainment value IS the comment section....

[@ferguson8143]

Thats the point of most of them as they need the person to open the email to be able to then hack into your device or by sending a reply

[@RuneLar]

This feels like a video that is a great example of Steve's background of being a lawyer, author, and mainly a teacher. Can you imagine turning in a paper this poorly written in college and having to have this talk with Professor Lehto?

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

Hell, I came to the US from a foreign country and I wrote better than that in elementary school! (Full disclosure: the foreign country was England, so I cheated a bit.)

[@sblijheid]

If you had to co write it with me, you'd be hiding under a rock, because I would be spitting fire after I roared.

[@benaiahandbaruch]

😂 Brilliant video, Mr. Steve! 💗 We've cracked the "pre-writing" code! Pre-writing is the genius idea that you write on the cocktail napkin as you nurse your fifth Guinness. 🤪 🤭

[@MrSirwolf2001]

Sometimes that is not that far from the truth. I am at Agatha Cristy levels of the plot holes that I have created and solved at 3 am.

[@russlehman2070]

And if you're really lucky it actually makes sense after you sober up.

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

Ah, the J K Rowlig approach to writing... or, in her case, the coffee I can nurse all day while I sit in the heat of the pub... (with the approval of the barman on duty)... whom, I hope, was suitably rewarded when J K acheived her deserved riches from her writing....

[@barbarabrooks4747]

If they get 1 response in 100,000, it's worth it. Watch "Scammer Payback" to see how much they rake in from the elderly and mentally slow.

[@benjaminrealy5661]

I am very alarmed after finding your books on Amazon because the email said it wasn't there.

[@t.3396]

I can’t believe you put this much effort into dealing with some spam. Most people just roll their eyes and delete the spam.

[@bend8353]

Check out KZbin channel " Kitboga "

[@Bobs-Wrigles5555]

Mic #2 attempting some Ben assisted vertical takeoff, Steve's RHS

[@rogerweaver7686]

I'm also a pre-writer. Glad I could join the club!

[@BreeLivingstonAuthor]

I’m an Indy writer, and I get these emails all the time. Lately, I’ve been getting super pushy messages wanting to promote my YT channel. I rarely ban people, but I had to because after I didn’t respond, they got aggressive.

[@kayinthepursuitofhappiness2159]

You did exactly what they wanted you to do, and that is to confirm that you still use this email and now you are hooked 😉 👍 😀 😄

[@tedmoss]

So Steve got social engineered?😁

[@chrisfeltner]

well they did help i didnt know he had 12 books

[@teramedia7333]

Madison Avenue should be taking notes. With no intended offense to Steve Lehto, this is a master class in how to engage your customers with a nearly 20-minute commercial that unobtrusively highlights and develops interest for some of your published works while providing an entertaining and informative exploration into a certain type of spam. Cheers to you, Steve! And by the way, we could not find any of your videos on KZbin and we found this disturbing. We are a video publisher hybrid...

[@requiredparticular6831]

Thanks for the fun and letting me know about your books. Bought the murder houses one just now. I have always been fascinated with true crime in general and cases like Lizzy Borden, etc. in particular.

[@whatevermightwork]

In my IT job, I frequently have to deal with people in India and fix what they've screwed up. What you're quoting sounds like it was written by a lot of the people I deal with. Note that I'm not saying all IT people in India are trash; they have some great people. However, the culture there leads to people not doing anything they're not explicitly instructed to do by their manager, and even then trying to pass the job to someone else so they don't take the blame if something goes wrong. I love working in a culture where I can massively screw up, learn from the mistakes, fix things, and be praised for teaching the lessons learned instead of being fired for something minor going wrong.

[@billnicholson3173]

I've noticed a similar work culture in many companies around the world that contract for outsourced work from the US. The American company tires to maximize profits by paying as little as they can for the labor, and the contracting company tries to maximize profit by doing the least amount of work to fulfil the contract.

[@sblijheid]

I've heard this complaint before from people who worked with Indians.

[@Jultsu]

Far fewer indianism than I thought there would be, but certainly some hallmarks are present from their lingo

[@nevermind1534]

The second one especially (the marketing email) absolutely sounded like something that might have been written by an Indian. Source: I just spent more than four months in India.

[@thadrepairsitall1278]

This reminds me of when I read the safety label from a forklift that was obviously translated by someone or thing who did not speak English well.

[@timothystevenhoward]

I don't know for sure but it's definitely generated overseas and translated to English, whether or not by bot or human.

[@tajjej3649]

I would re-write all that as: "You do all the work, pay all the money and we will cheer you on!"

[@TimoRutanen]

And that is why you are not in charge of the marketing department!

[@tajjej3649]

@@TimoRutanen That makes me so happy!

[@jamesrockford6700]

Nice sneaky way to do your book commercial...... too funny

[@johnmcclain3887]

You strike an issue I just noted this past year. With the move of so many, out of a fixed "land line" telephone and moving almost absolutely onto cell phone as primary, we approach a problem of finding phone numbers without a dedicated directory. I live in rural N.C. and have realized I can't even look up my next-door neighbor's phone at this point in time, even having run into her while voting last week. Of course, it's easy enough to walk next door and knock, but the point is all the other neighbors I don't know, or even know if I might want to know them. Clearly this person is not local. I don't know if it was a bot, but it sounds like some exchanges I had when I wrote commentary that went outside the US. There are many "English speaking people" who are similarly handicapped in written English.

[@jblyon2]

Did you try searching Amazon for your neighbor's cell number? I hear they're a great resource for finding names and phone numbers.

[@jimnaden5594]

I live in rural Indiana, and have found that a lot of people nowadays would rather not know their neighbors, and/or not let their neighbors know them.

[@sblijheid]

The flow of the sentences give away that this person is a non native English speaker and also does not live in an English speaking country. Americans who don't master English, usually make mastakes with words that sound alike, but not spelled the same, punctuation and simple grammar. They tend to write as they speak.

[@sblijheid]

@Jim Naden Me too. I wish I had a zap gun to zap away my neighbors. I'm working on moving to the middle of nowhere to avoid neighbors. I only don't know how to solve the squirrel neighbors.

[@GilmerJohn]

Well, we've lived in a semi-rural environment for about 24 years. Over the years, I've noticed that more and more folks DON'T have their name on the mailbox. It's considered a "privacy/identity theft" issue. Or it may be that the paste on letters are too expensive and when folks move or replace the mailbox they don't bother with the name.

[@scottjohnson9225]

People in foreign countries with poor language skills.

[@classicroger]

Embrace the smart-ass! It always makes my day more interesting. 😁

[@aussiebloke609]

I must be old. When I heard the word "hybrid," I immediately thought of Italian design with an American drivetrain, e.g. Iso Griffo, AC Cobra, Jensen Interceptor, etc.

[@Shauma_llama]

Actually, it sounds more like she's saying "I can't find your books, which are very alarming". So your books are alarming, but she can't find them. Oh, yes, I found all your books quite easily.

[@MeRia035]

It's a good thing the English language is so complicated...🙄 easier to spot these things... For the time being anyway 🙂 Thanks for the laughs Steve💛

[@cesaravegah3787]

English is a very simply language, jargon is sometimes confusing but English is far easier and simplier than Chinese and Spanish.

[@MeRia035]

@@cesaravegah3787 yes... I was being sarcastic 🙂

[@cesaravegah3787]

@@MeRia035 uh... sorry, on my defense, my culture is big on body language, we tend to miss a lot on write comms.

[@MeRia035]

@@cesaravegah3787 si, yo comprendo 🙂

[@Tanquiamco]

"Team Lehto", sounds like a great tee shirt or coffee cup idea. I would buy one. :)

[@fieryweasel]

I assume you can also get your audiobooks on Audibles, but I'll check after I finish my shopping trip to Targets.

[@Curmudgeon2]

you really need to send them a copy of the the Play, Everybody Comes to Rick's....

[@philipallard8026]

They enhanced the publishing process by firing all the editors.

[@martinmomu9141]

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[@raphfelimax2713]

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[@jackfinnva2409]

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[@Kristenshwan]

@@jackfinnva2409 I'm honestly surprised that this name is being mentioned here, I stumbled upon one of his clients testimony last two months in CNBC world news and decided to try him out...I'm Expecting my third cashout in 2days

[@philip1258]

@Jo se I have also been trading with him, The profits are secured and over a 100% return on investment directly sent to your wallet

[@betheluktu7647]

@@philip1258 Same here, started with $3,000 now earning $28,300 bi-weekly profits with his trading program.

[@areekalaan]

Hybrid publishing is a publishing model that combines elements of traditional and self-publishing. In most aspects, a hybrid publisher functions just like a traditional publisher, with the important difference that authors subsidize most or all of the cost of publishing and are not given an advance on royalties.

[@rgnestle]

I have a book called Eyes of Forgotten Innocence which was published in 2004 with poems, prose, art, and facts about the dangers to at risk children from the Internet (so it is QUITE DATED). I keep getting offers like this to TURN MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE SCRIPT WHICH WILL BE SEEN BY THE TOP PRODUCERS IN HOLLYWOOD!!! Yeah, someone gets paid for this IF someone is naïve enough to believe it (of which there are many). Great video! Thanks!!!

[@hicknopunk]

Nick Cage is probably willing to star in it as The Internet.

[@rgnestle]

@@hicknopunk 😅😂🤣🤣🤣

[@scottmarshall3963]

I loved the bit about writing "Can you read?" The irony here is that if the person cannot read, they won't know that you're asking them that unless they have someone else read the question for them! 🤣😵‍💫

[@nataliegrn17]

Hi Teams Steves thank you for reading this best emailed invitations from our Published Housing Market Company. It was good to hear you supported our relationship with you. Our Team looks for good businesses with you. Please tell us feedback so we can do better between us.

[@sblijheid]

Sounds like you're asking him on a date.

[@LoneTiger]

I still keep getting emails from the confidant attorney from the minister of some African country that needs my help to receive a few million dollars and I get a cut.

[@JorgeRodriguez-iq7vb]

I can see how you find humor in these emails; I personally don't bother with anything that I didn't initiate, NOT emails, unknown callers, unknown texts, and in fact I wish I knew the people initiating these bothersome forms of communications, I would certainly put a stop to them.

[@billyjo316]

Asking the question “can you read” should never be considered an insult If they can’t they don’t know what he said so they won’t be insulted

[@ghosttheoremproductions5469]

Yes. And paid well. ----- I get questions like yours every time I run a cyber security class. The reason it is viable boils down to the same logic as any business. ROI. Using cheap labor, sending out these phishing emails at massive scales, getting one hit in several thousand, and then factoring in the exchange rate (these scammers are in other countries). That's enough. Often times a successful implementation of these attacks yield only a couple hundred USD. That's enough for entire businesses, renting large offices all over India (and other places as well), to make rather large profits while employing a considerable number of people. - As far as bots, these emails and replies are not generated by bots. They are simply pre-generated scripts and sometimes auto-replies. The verbiage is odd because the writers are not native-English speakers. The initial emails go out automatically but that isn't the same thing as bots. - Bots are sometimes employed to grab PII for use in Spear-Phishing attacks. These are where they use some of your PII to seem more legitimate (name, address, business name, etc). But, even then, it's still usually a person simply adding the bot-grabbed PII to a script. - Bots can be a problem, but the cheap labor and scale means that it's simply much easier to employ many non-technical people to "hand-jam" out these pre-crafted emails and replies versus creating bots. Since 99% of the work is copy/paste and the only time they really need to spend any meaningful time is when a fish bites. - Also, it's common that they actually aren't trying to get YOUR money. Simply getting access to someone's FB means that they can then send out a massive number of messages on FB Marketplace, from a legit account, to try to scam buyers/sellers. It's more steps but gives them a better return. - There's a whole world of methodology and processes employed. But, the vast majority of the time they are simply relying on volume with low skill attacks. ----- By the way, there's some fantastic KZbin channels where techs will scam the scammers and it can be pretty hilarious.

[@gregtaylor3432]

The first e-mail sounded like it may have been a bot: The second initially sounded like someone who was not a native English speaker, but then degenerated into sounding like something typed from a foreign language into Google Translate. BTW I think that you are managing your social media just fine!!

[@ghostshadow9046]

Steve tell them you are trying to publish a book on how to locate, convict and imprizion scammers.

[@barbarabarnett9600]

Hybrid? Half man, half idiot?😂

[@STONEDay]

High looked them up. They have a hybrid solar & wind system that allows them to print when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.

[@pebear]

I love it when they email you or send you crap in the mail, and they get your name wrong. I get stuff for Paul Bahre Jr. I'm not a Junior, I'm almost a Paul Bahre the 2nd but I'm not because my middle name is from my other grandfather Everett All*.* and my First name came from Paul Bahre but his middle name was Burton. So, I'm not a Jr. or even a 2nd. We also get emails and mailers for my wife addressed to Katherine Bahre but her name is Kathy, only plain Kathy. So, the way I feel about these marketing geniuses is that if they didn't take the time to realize our real names then they get deleted or summarily thrown in the trash.

[@JohnSmith-yv6eq]

The bots that sift these comments have taken note, adjusted their information... and sold it to the scammers..... "Dear Paul and Kathy....."

[@sblijheid]

If you use your real name on social media, this happens. Google and Yahoo filter out the spam easily because my name is unique and a spammer can't guess it. That's why I hate facebook. They put your name out in the open for spammers to grab.

[@anonymustly7818]

Hmm. I've pranked telemarketers but haven't done so with email. You've opened up a whole new source of amusement for me. Thank you-my job affords me a lot of free time.

[@kenyattaclay7666]

A few years back I got an email that had my best friends name on it. At first I thought it was strange because while he does have my email, he NEVER emails me usually just shooting me a text. Then I saw the preview and it started with Hi Kenyatta & I knew for sure that it was spam because nobody except for family uses my first name so I deleted it right away. Then a couple of days later I got an email from one of my cousins who does use my first name but because she would usually just either text me or FB message me I knew to delete it right away. I haven't gotten any like that since but I thought it was strange that the spam filter didn't catch it.

[@alexdrockhound9497]

sounds like some emails got hacked. yahoo got hacked a few times, contact info got out. people started to use that info to do scammy emails like that.

[@dw3403]

@@alexdrockhound9497 Correct. I got a call from friends who were in another state at the time who informed me they got an email at 3 am about viagra. Said they knew I wouldnt be up sending those emails at 3 am. I deleted my contacts. And yes it was yahoo.

[@sblijheid]

An old friend of mine once got an email from his cousin that he's quite close with. It daid he was stranded in Miami, that he got robbed, and asked if his cousin could send him $2,000. At first he was alarmed, then he thought to himself that if his cousin would go on vacation, he'd tell him. He then called his cousin who answered immediately and assured him that he was not on vacation. It appears that the cousin's email got hacked.

[@joedogmckeel]

Let me start with I am a literary convention promoter in the SE Tennessee and NW Georgia area. I have heard about this going around. A Hybrid publisher? Yes, that is a real thing. It is one that does digital (ebooks) and print. But the email? Sheeesh, The last publisher I would want is one that can't send an email with proper grammar and misspellings. First thing they need is an editor for their emails.

[@brianhaws2483]

I love the "whatever the hell that is..." bit 🤣🤣🤣 Honest reaction. Don't think that qualifies as swearing

[@Cnichal]

Asking if he can swear on his own channel 😂

[@Ozzy_2014]

@@Cnichal algorithm can demonetize streams or mark them resricted. 18+ then no one will get recommended his video.

[@russlehman2070]

I don't know. A "hell" and two "dumbasses". He's flirting with demonetization.

[@paulperry7091]

One youtuber says "h-e-double hocky sticks". Guess that gets by!

[@patriot9455]

Every time a bot is used, a copywriter is not able to find work.

[@henta.i.3838]

Whoever sent that email more likely was just given a list of email addresses or they just been trained to do some generic searches. Call centers like the ones here in the Philippines have clients that hires people to send emails like that.

[@rustymustard7798]

"Kindly" is the biggest red flag word in any of these scams. If anyone asks you to 'kindly' do anything, tell them to kick rocks.

[@TheDrewCharles]

Steve, (and this is not pre-written.) this sounds like my solicitor from Mozambique who's trying to reach me because my dead uncle has left me a lot of money all I need to do is send them some money so he can send me some money. have fun. . .

[@paulfournier6509]

I am currently pre-writing my book on procrastination

[@whammond511]

Bwahahaha!!

[@jimschuler8830]

They're going to give authors total control! Writing, editing, cover design, publishing, marketing, the author gets to do all that! All this company asks is you give them money so you can do all the work.

[@MrSirwolf2001]

~"A hybrid press or hybrid publisher is a publishing house that operates with a different revenue model than traditional publishing, while keeping the rest of the practices of publishing the same.[1] The revenue source of a traditional publisher is through the sale of books (and other related materials) that they publish, while the revenue of hybrid publishers comes from both book sales and fees charged for the execution of their publishing services."~ wiki

[@wheelsndealz]

You realize there's a difference between control and doing the work? Having control of all those things doesn't mean they have to do it all yourself.

[@jimschuler8830]

@@wheelsndealz You realize the publishing industry is rife with scams?

[@wheelsndealz]

@@jimschuler8830 yeah, and? That has nothing to do with what I was saying about your comment.

[@jimschuler8830]

@@wheelsndealz It has everything to do with it. Do you realize, for example, that one way to give someone complete control is to just make them do all the work? I know that's a complicated idea, requires some high-level thinking and extrapolation of which few people are capable. So, I understand that you didn't get that joke the first time around. But I believe if you sat down, and spent a couple hours a day hashing through the concept, you have a shot at grasping it. Good luck!

[@toddhill1465]

I think they are the ones who publish extended "warranty's"

[@rogerguinn4619]

But..but... There editers and proofreeders are topmostest in the industry...

[@circeciernova1712]

"Where the garbage goes when you empty it" That's called the Bit Bucket

[@lurchlinger]

Hybrid publisher needs an hybrid editor .

[@tylersingleton9284]

It sounds like an elaborate interactive ad that presents you with books that you might be interested in.

[@radicalrick9587]

*Steve, not only is it a canned bot, it's also designed to send a canned response back should someone answer their, "hook, line and sinker", letter.*

[@frankurmom8741]

Scammers ALWAYS ask you to "kindly" do something. I think that's a Nigerian thing, maybe a common phrase in their language directly translated.

[@BenLeitch]

Ben is on top of mic#2

[@jamesduncan6729]

Damn, you're quick! 👍🏻 Nice job

[@_Yep_Yep_]

The lemon law book is going to get eyes on it when i get near my desktop. Should be a great companion to my insurance material from law school. Glad you made the inadvertent plug, Steve.

[@charleshetrick3152]

Have you already covered whether or not it’s legal to flash your lights to alert other drivers of a speed trap?

[@steveg2406]

All you're doing is warning of "possable hazard"* other drivers are approaching. *Like the driver ahead of them "slamming on" his brakes ...

[@charleshetrick3152]

@@steveg2406 dude in West Virginia just got convicted this year for violating the “special restrictions on lamps” statute.

[@Bruinsfan2007]

Please do more of these. This was hilarious.

[@malcolmholder3149]

They couldn't even download "Grammerly" to correct the mistakes how dumb are they.

[@leithahyde8072]

Emails like those infuriate me. I've had friends that were caught by hackers that sent out a spam email. In their case it wasn't a fake publishing company, the spam email was impersonating a real company that produces a popular online role-playing game. Because the person was too tired to catch the signs that it was a spam email, hackers got hold of his account info and was able to change the password. Luckily, the hack was caught, but it took weeks of arguing with the company for them to regain control of their account. (If you're not a gamer, think about if someone broke into your house, changed the locks and then proceeded to destroy/sell everything you had inside it. Then add in that you have to prove to the police that you were the legal owner of that house before they could change the locks again so you could get back into your house.) I know those people have to earn money to support themselves somehow, but I've always felt scammers are the lowest of the low.

[@scotcoon1186]

They hang up after "I'd say it's fraudulent, I don't have an account. Or, how do I get an account with the rain forest? They get mad when you ask how long the scam is going to take.

[@musicloverme3993]

Steve, your subscribers are your team!

[@bearsden28]

I think I may have pre-written a couple of books myself... Can I two thumbs up a video? Loved it! Thank you!

[@theprodigalstranger5259]

Big Ben rocking it til the break of dawn on mic el numero 2! Im going to assume they mean paper and ebook publishers when they say "hybrid." This video should have been a Friday rant on the vault channel.

[@aldiboronti]

I love the 'Can you read?' question. It reminds me of Swift in A Modest Proposal, "If you cannot read get someone to read this to you."" :)

[@scottyL.]

Love when you talk about scam phone calls or emails! It’s so funny!

[@lindseythaemert4053]

It's either a bot or somebody that's had the equivalent of maybe a kindergarten to first grade English course overseas because this is bad

[@davidmuth4571]

I've been getting fake invoices from companies I never had any contact with. Those used to bug the crap out of me, but now I just delete them.

[@AeroGuy07]

My dad is an author, but if you Google search him and don't put the word author after his name you'll get links to a baseball player from the 1930s with the same name.

[@opensage01]

I could really use the services this person is offering you, because in all the books that I have not written, I always got hung up on the prewriting phase. Thank for sharing this video and cheers.

[@spacemanmat]

Obviously they don’t think much of your writing ability if they think they can snag you with that mess.

[@dennisberman4640]

Yes Steve, this did entertain me. Thank you !!

[@JONSDIYM]

Tell them they can't find them because they are all sold out.

[@MBaer-th7vk]

Thank you Steve for another excellent video SkyNet Training Group Human Interface Division

[@jimhanty8149]

I used to have a job where the work description and trade language was equally confusing…I was a RV extended warranty salesman… I didn’t even understand what I sold.

[@pjp_renaissance]

"pre-writing phase"... does that cover all the bad ideas I have while sitting on porcelain?

[@brucedagel3186]

When I heard the first email stating that the sites (Amazon and Barnes and Nobles) were alarming, I was impressed.

[@rescueteam6706]

Steve You're just having too much fun with this! Thanks for a good laugh!!

[@24-Card]

I had a group faxing me (back in the day), they wouldn’t stop. So I set up my modem to dial, pause for answer, hang up and redial... 35,000 times over a weekend. This is when the connection charge was 25 Cents. They never faxed me again.

[@manitobanmisanthrope2495]

The words "under your name" are a sure sign you are dealing with a scam.

[@peterhineinlegen4672]

Those gas/electric publishing firms are the future.

[@AnthonyThomas-zv3jb]

I can certainly see how they could possibly help 🙏🏻

[@stevesteffen7001]

OK, I had to LMAO for this video. I never new that Steve could speak and and understand English. My god you are a genius.

[@walmartdog1142]

Scammers from certain parts of the world usually use "kindly" instead of "please."

[@David_Ladd]

Yeah, I had no problem finding your books on Amazon and had no problem finding the FOLLOW button to follow you there.

[@whoviating]

For the curious: I'm guessing the first place is LitPrime, which does have its main office in Claymont, DE. They are by all appearances a vanity press.