From time to time, I google my titles with author name to see if new reviews have popped up. I did this last night and found "free downloads" of my upcoming March release Animal Attraction. These are NOT real copies of the book and are in fact malicious sites.
If you should see something like that, don’t download even to verify whether or not the file is really there. Clicking on "download" can infect your computer. Even visiting malicious sites can in many cases infect your computer.
For safety, the tech guru husband investigated these downloads on Linux to determine whether or not a real file of the book had been linked, and it hasn’t. This is a ploy to lure victims, plain and simple. Please don’t be one.
This has been a public service announcement. The real book will release in March and there will be plenty of opportunities to win a free copy for the economically challenged without risk of computer infection.
There are too many nasty folks out there with way too much time on their hands. Imagine how much better the world would be if they used their powers for good.
NJ, it’s bizarre. It’s sort of a weird backwards compliment that somebody thought the book title and author name were big enough draw to use as a scam, but I would hate to see any reader hurt by it. And yes, if this energy and ability got put to positive use, it would be great to see.