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Episode 33 - Tough 91-Year-Old Author of 5 Books Refuses to Bow to Scammer's Extortion Attempts!
In this week's episode, Brian and Angela welcome friendly and feisty Bob Wahl to the podcast!
Bob is 91 years young, and is the author of five books. He contacted a company called Authors Hike / AuthorsHike.com to help promote his books.
After paying them $4,000, he was shown a web page that had a graphic of more than 1400 (fake!) "orders" for his book. Author's Hike then tried to scam Mr. Wahl into paying to have those books printed.
He reached out to WritersWeekly, which, of course, exposed Author's Hike's scam to the world.
When Author's Hike realized they'd been exposed, that's when the…
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