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Spam from book club organizers

This is atypical email from "Book club" organizers",. Note email is "gmail.com", and the book club webpage does not have the  information about such emails. Also, "Andy Organizer" is not real name. After a few iteration, the organizer will ask for "compensation" to "meeting preparation"

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Book reviews

A typical book promotion request

Here is typical template for "book" review. Such emails do not have proper credentials, names are fictional and email is just some gmail account. Do not answer such emails.

Hi [NAME],

What stood out to me about [BOOK TITLE] is that you do something almost nobody else attempts. You take the experience of uncanny coincidence, the kind most of us shrug off, and you ask whether it can actually be measured. Then you show the reader how to make simple calculations to estimate whether those coincidences are due to mere randomness or something else. That is the move that makes this book land. You do not just assert that synchronicity has meaning. You give readers a way to test it for themselves.

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Book reviews