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This self-published author has created 100s of fraudulent lists on Amazon claiming to have received prestigious literary awards like Pulitzer...help me report him! So-called author Graham Worthington is an insufferable spammer and scammer who has flooded Amazon.com with literally ONE HUNDRED deceptive Listmania lists shilling his books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn: A Legend of the Days to Come.” http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QA0H1958YZH6/ His approach, like all professional spammers, is methodical, systematic and unrelenting. Basically, what Graham Worthington has done is take almost every literary award short-list ever conceived, manually re-entered each of them - one per day for the past four months! - onto Amazon’s Listmania lists, then inserted his own books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn” onto the lists. The purpose: to trick unsuspecting readers into believing that his books were finalists for prestigious literary awards. For example, one of Graham Worthington’s latest fraudulent lists dated December 21, 2011 is titled “Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist”, which amongst 12 other novels, also includes both of Graham Worthington’s books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn.” A cross-check on the Pulitzer website yields zero search results for Graham Worthington’s name nor his books. Another of Graham Worthington’s 100+ lists is titled “Oprah Winfrey's Book Club Choices in 2001.” Coming in at number 2 is Graham Worthington’s book “Wake of the Raven,” and at number 3, yet another edition of “Wake of the Raven,” and then again at numbers 9 and 10, both editions of “Zorn.” Cross-checking with Oprah’s Book Club website also yields no returns on “Graham Worthington.” Now, really, only a moron would actually fall for this scam. One of Graham Worthington’s novels was self-published on CreateSpace in 2010, and the other via Angry Orchid Publishing in 2011. The likelihood, then, that either of these books were ever short-listed for ANY prestigious literary awa

This self-published author has created 100s of fraudulent lists on Amazon claiming to have received prestigious literary awards like Pulitzer...help me report him! So-called author Graham Worthington is an insufferable spammer and scammer who has flooded Amazon.com with literally ONE HUNDRED deceptive Listmania lists shilling his books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn: A Legend of the Days to Come.” http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QA0H1958YZH6/ His approach, like all professional spammers, is methodical, systematic and unrelenting. Basically, what Graham Worthington has done is take almost every literary award short-list ever conceived, manually re-entered each of them - one per day for the past four months! - onto Amazon’s Listmania lists, then inserted his own books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn” onto the lists. The purpose: to trick unsuspecting readers into believing that his books were finalists for prestigious literary awards. For example, one of Graham Worthington’s latest fraudulent lists dated December 21, 2011 is titled “Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist”, which amongst 12 other novels, also includes both of Graham Worthington’s books “Wake of the Raven” and “Zorn.” A cross-check on the Pulitzer website yields zero search results for Graham Worthington’s name nor his books. Another of Graham Worthington’s 100+ lists is titled “Oprah Winfrey's Book Club Choices in 2001.” Coming in at number 2 is Graham Worthington’s book “Wake of the Raven,” and at number 3, yet another edition of “Wake of the Raven,” and then again at numbers 9 and 10, both editions of “Zorn.” Cross-checking with Oprah’s Book Club website also yields no returns on “Graham Worthington.” Now, really, only a moron would actually fall for this scam. One of Graham Worthington’s novels was self-published on CreateSpace in 2010, and the other via Angry Orchid Publishing in 2011. The likelihood, then, that either of these books were ever short-listed for ANY prestigious literary awa