A little while ago I saw various agents and publishers warning authors that someone was impersonating them to get access/steal people's work. The FBI just caught the guy.
Manuscript Thief Caught
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Filippo Bernardini, a 29-year-old Italian junior rights manager at Simon & Schuster UK, on January 5, 2022, charging him with wire fraud and ‘‘aggra…
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