There are companies who target inexperienced/hopeful writers, often approaching them through scam campaigns like this one on dA: [link] . Almost 3000 identical messages left in a single day. Yeah, that's a LOT of GENIUS. There was another I found, fortunately banned already, by the same person.

Now, what this is is a scam to get you to enter a poetry competition. That's how they get your e-mail. Then you get a very pretty letter saying how WONDERFUL your poem is, and recieve all sorts of offers to let these sods publish you, for free. BUT IT ISN'T FREE. To obtain a copy of this publication (of which they do about 60 a year), in which your poem is stuffed in with thousands of others (you even have to PAY to have your poem printed on its own page) you have to spend BIG. Then they hit you with "opportunites" to buy a whole stack of other products, and even go to conferences. Now, I have read reports about these conferences and they, too, are a horrible rip-off that hard-working families pay thousands to attend.

DO NOT BE FOOLED.

Read these articles, for the proof of this company's dishonesty and lack of caring about your work:

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I hate seeing people ripped off. If you find a site like this on dA, do your bit to help stop them by sending a complaint in to to the Help Desk, and keeping an eye out on the page to give warnings to those who think it is a genuine offer.

HELP STOP THE SCAM!!!!