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Sammie wrote: "Not sure who to ask. Today I received a threatening mail. The Sender:[redacted]
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Anonymous - WARNING:STOP YOUR PROMOTIONS ON GOODREADS AND SOCIAL MEDIA IMMEDIATELY!
ACCESS TO ..."
Hi Sammie
Sorry to hear you are going through this & hope you have realised that you need to contact Support (Staff) rather than volunteer librarians who do the book cataloging.
If not here is the address to contact them.
https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...
Thank you for your concern and help. I didn´t know where to go with this.
I would also contact Amazon support and let them know you received this email. Never hurts to have a record in case this Anon person actually tries to pirate your book.
gem wrote: "I would also contact Amazon support and let them know you received this email. Never hurts to have a record in case this Anon person actually tries to pirate your book."I did that as my first step and they have responded with their investigation. Taking your advice now I just finished filling out the form on Goodreads support. I increased security on my Amazon account. Apparently Goodreads doesn´t offer that. Grateful for your advice.
Sammie wrote: "gem wrote: "I would also contact Amazon support and let them know you received this email. Never hurts to have a record in case this Anon person actually tries to pirate your book."I did that as ..."
I did tighten up Profile Settings on Goodreads
I received the exact same email threat this morning. I copied the email address and reported the user to their email provider.
I received the same email threat today. They set their VPN to the country of my residence, Japan, and added a sentence about the Yakuza to make it sound more personal.But, unfortunately, they then proceeded to contact my place of employment with a similar message, telling them if they didn't fire me the company would be harmed.
Thus, I am now compelled by my company to visit the police station later today to file a report...
Guy wrote: "I received the same email threat today. They set their VPN to the country of my residence, Japan, and added a sentence about the Yakuza to make it sound more personal.But, unfortunately, they the..."
Hi Guy
This is absolutely horrifying, but as I said to another author in Message# 2 this is the wrong place to report as we are volunteers who do the book cataloging. Also this is an open messageboard, so you may be giving copycats ideas!
Please use the link I gave the other author in Message #2 to contact Support (staff) I would mark your message Attention Legal Dept.
I am also going to contact Support to see if I can get this thread deleted or at least closed.
Wishing you good luck with this!
anonymous@sendity.org
Subject:
Anonymous - WARNING:STOP YOUR PROMOTIONS ON GOODREADS AND SOCIAL MEDIA IMMEDIATELY!
ACCESS TO YOUR BOOK PREVENTING HER SHUTDOWN. WE GIVE 24 HOURS TO VANISH. IF YOU DON'T STOP, WE WILL RE-PUBLISH IT USING AI TECHNOLOGY. INSTEAD OF YOUR NAME, YOUR BOOK WILL BE 'AUTHORED' BY ONE OF US. AN EXACT REPLICA OF YOUR BOOK WILL BE SELLING ON AMAZON UNDER OUR NAMES AND YOU WON'T LIKE IT! AMAZON CANNOT DETECT THIS TECHNOLOGY YET AND YOUR LAWS CAN'T HARM US!
Not sure what to do. Thank you for your advice.