#BEWARE of bookangel.co.uk
So there I was this morning, minding my own business, going about my day when I received an email from contact@ bookangel.co.uk
As an author, that seems like a legit reason for someone from that domain to contact me right?
The email further goes on to say that the review of my book had been published with a link to the review. I also got a thank you for submitting my book. The subject line had the title of my book in it!
As any serious author knows, we have to submit our books to hundreds of websites all in the hope of increasing publicity and getting reviews for our books.
When I saw the email, I thought it was one such site that I had submitted to and forgotten about.
So far it all looked legit, so I clicked the link. It immediately redirects me to another website. Confused I closed the pop up and tab, went back to my inbox and hovered my mouse over the actual URL looking at the bottom of my browser to make sure the preview URL was the same, it wasn’t. It looked like a shortened link, so I manually typed in bookangel. co. uk in a new tab and it still redirected me to another website, bringing up more pop ups that say my computer had a virus, my details had been stolen and I needed to call them right away. The only way to navigate from the page was to click ok on the pop up. When I did so, few seconds later another pop up pops up, not giving me the chance to close the tab. Thankfully my laptop is a touch screen one, so I was able to almost simultaneously click ok then close tab.
Should you receive an email from bookangel .co.uk, please do not click/open any of the links. Simply mark it as spam and add address to your blocked list of addresses.
Here’s a screenshot of the email I received
For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you why anyone would send me a personalised email like this. It’s not like I have lots of money but who knows what goes on in people’s heads these days?!
Only last year my internet banking account was hacked and personal details changed, now this.
I have to say this again #BEWARE of bookangel.co.uk and again #BEWARE of bookangel.co.uk!
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EDIT: Please see my updated post about Book Angel here
Thank you for the information!