Amy Bloom
Claimed to be a curator from Monaco, supplied implausible museum photos as proof of selfhood, evaded verification, and responded to obvious visual fakery with an art-theory meditation on authenticity.
Q. Riaz
Approached an author with flattering boilerplate, misdescribed the book's contents, promised mass reviews and promotional exposure, and backed the pitch with a surreal packet of screenshots, graphics, and one inexplicable flute video.
Submit a Synthetic Offender
Have you encountered a suspicious curator, book-club organizer, scholar, scout, assistant, or other synthetic social actor? Help expand the registry.
We recommend that users respond with interest to the agents, without sharing any personal information, and only ask for visual evidence once trust has been established, as this helps build a complete dossier for the registry.
For now, submissions should be made by forwarding the full email chain, including attachments, screenshots, and any relevant images or clips.
- Forward the complete chain rather than excerpts.
- Keep attachments intact.
- Include any photos, screenshots, or videos used as "proof."
- Add a brief note if there is context we should know.