The Author’s Guide to Scam Prevention

About this book

Your creativity made you a target. This book makes you immune. Every day, organized crime networks use AI, stolen identities, and psychological warfare to hunt authors like you—exploiting your hope, your isolation, and your hunger for recognition. After losing $2,180 to a scammer who posed as a marketing specialist, Rae A. Stonehouse fought back, documented every manipulation tactic, and built the comprehensive defense system he wished he'd had. This isn't another list of "be careful" warnings—it's forensic training in how scammers think, complete with real case studies, platform-specific red flags, emergency recovery protocols, and the Master Framework of psychological manipulation that works across every scam type. You'll learn to recognize pig-butchering schemes, AI impersonators, voice cloning attacks, fake publishing services, and recovery scams before you lose a single dollar. You didn't choose to be hunted, but you can choose to be armed. This book transforms you from isolated t