By Jason Renard Walker

“Additionally, we have a small conversation fee of $150 to reserve your spot. This fee helps us cover costs associated with organizing the event.” — Baby Heart King, a scammer who sent me an email, posing as an organizer for the DC chapter of The Gloss Bookclub –

Attention Readers: Beyond the knowledge of these organizations, individuals calling themselves Baby Heart King of The Gloss Book Club in DC (babyheartking@gmail.com) and Julla of The York Book Club in York (julla.yorkbookclub@gmail.com) are falsely representing these organizations as a front to run scams on me and possibly thousands of others.

I am asking my readers to please take this matter serious, these aren’t bored kids joking around. This is a nationwide circle of sophisticated individuals (with the help of inmates) that have the time, patience, resources and skill to hack into your electronic devices, fool your contacts and ultimately destroy your life beyond repair. They have been trolling me for years and succeeded in destroying my relationship with various people, while getting a few dollars from a couple. This group has no boundaries and no morals, as they are also using non profit organizations for grants and to gain access to prisoners, using this unfettered access to mismanage their identities.

These are facts!

Remember Prison Legal News founder, Paul Wright’s phone getting hacked and used to send malware to my email account? That was not child’s play. What about the Leslie K. Holte sr incident, remember that? If you don’t, you gotta remember Rebecca Potticary then. Still no need to panic. Well here’s a case in point that should put you on high alert:

At the end of October 2025 I received an email from email account: babyheartking@gmail.com

This person posed as an organizer for The Gloss Bookclub, suggesting that they read my book and wanted to use it in their bookclub. On its face this message seemed suspect because it mentioned that authors who participated through a virtual zoom session were subjected to paying an optional fee to cover reader giveaways, organizing the event and discussion materials. This stood out because it suggested that the bookclub was charging authors for unsolicited invitations to an event they didn’t ask to be invited to. There was also the paradox that a zoom meeting somehow accumulated fees that magically covered itself if the author showed up.

After a friend let them know I was in prison (something they were well aware of) they suggested that my friend sit-in for me through zoom. The optional fee turned into a mandatory charge of $150. Then came an email from another bookclub, which was obviously in response to Baby Heart King’s success of romancing a reply.

The second scammer (Julla of York bookclub) seemed more impatient then the first, as the reply to Gloss made getting the money seem viable and now a race. They followed up with another inartfully construed message before I replied to the first asking, in so many words, if they should seek another victim or would I give their vampiric ass my neck, as they stated “if nows not the right time I completely understand.”

I sent both a reply letting them know I wasn’t paying any fees and I’d be more than willing to participate for free. Like a true scammer Baby Heart King shut down the account and my message was returned undeliverable.

It’s apparent that this is a network using AI to craft messages for various email accounts as Baby Heart King’s said “Your book, Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice, immediately stood out to me. Its unflinching portrayal…”

While Julla’s said “Your book, Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice, immediately caught our attention. It’s Unflinching portrayal…”

Scams like this stretch far and wide and are usually tied to a big community of scammers that spend endless amounts of time targeting thousands of people a day. Just like a normal company, scam networks have a leader, supervisors and cadre, with each playing a specific role that is earned or lost, depending on success and failure.

There is such a thing as random attacks on social media by employed individuals looking for a side hustle. There are also victims lists that sell on the black market at various rates. Depending on the amount of personal information disclosed and whether or not the victims are known as perpetual targets, meaning they have a history of falling for scams. A list with as many as one thousand victims can go for pennies per name, while a smaller list with only fifty victims can cost up to one hundred dollars per name.

Scammers in Jamaica will have a higher interest in the bigger lists that are cheap. They usually have limited financial resources with more cadre that are willing to spend months on end targeting victim’s in the U.S. from a public library, or an apartment full of keyboard tapping crooks, perhaps. While a small network of a dozen scammers in Saudi Arabia with a hundred thousand dollar budget and sophisticated technology, will be more interested in the high dollar lists that have a higher hit rate. That’s because it may contain social security numbers, photos of the victim, and other intimate details that can be used in get rich quick identity theft schemes and online dating scams that typically rock the victims worlds, leaving them traumatized and shaken to the core.

But lists aren’t the only avenue scammers use to locate and rattle victims. In my case, I’ve been publishing my writings since 2016, with a lot of them appearing in leftist leaning magazines, alternative newspapers, prison based newsletters and online prison abolitionist media platforms. So in the context of targeting prisoners, I’m low hanging fruit and easy pickings, as receiving mail from readers is common, but being able to fact check their motives is virtually impossible.

The easiest way for you to not be a victim, is by not being a victim. What I mean is that when dealing with online strangers and too good to be true proposals you have to do your homework, verify things that can be easily verified and never assume that someone you’ve met on a dating app, for example, is who they say they are and has what they say they have just because photos of such things are posted to their social media. If early on 2+2 doesn’t equal 4 don’t stick around to find out why it equals 5. It never ends well. I foolishly stuck around and now I’m being passed from one scammer to the next, like a cheap bottle of Bourbon on a winter night.

If someone you’ve just met online stresses that they need a big loan to save their home from foreclosure, pay an inheritance tax on money left to them, or to cover high end medical fees for a terminally ill relative, say no. If it’s not a scam the requester will continue figuring out how to get the money. But if it is a scam they and every social media platform they once had will disappear without notice, and they will assume a new identity and keep it moving. Baby Heart King is an example I can use to support my argument there.

One thing that is always good to know is that online scammers work in teams and intentionally riddle the scam with tell tell signs that the missive isn’t legit. This may seem like an ironic way to pull it off but it’s not. This method is designed to scare off sceptics immediately, while reducing the amount of time those unlikely to fall for the scam have to be dealt with. The attached emails are good examples.

For instance, if the victim didn’t know that the con wasn’t listed on The Gloss Bookclub website as an organizer, and receiving $150 is the only thing that can satisfy and complete the obligation placed upon them, they’d be sold like chattel after being used.

This in no way is an indictment on the intelligence of those having fallen victim to a scam, since most scams are tailored to fit the needs, phobias and interests of a specific victim.

The logic in the matter is that most people are optimists and will play along in hopes of showing themselves that a one time investment will do no harm. That’s until their return is nothing less than another scam from another scammer. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Then there’s the popup ad suggesting if you’ve been a victim, hiring their staff will get the perpetrator sent to jail and your earnings returned. Again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

There is no irony in a prisoner getting scammed by someone in the public or teaching them what to look out for. In the world of scamming, anybody anywhere that looks like an opportunity will be tested. When they fool you once, they will never stop trying to fool you again. It’s a reality I’ve had to face and combat for years, with no obvious way to make them stop. Don’t let this be you.

 Jason Renard Walker 1532092

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PO Box 660400

Dallas, Tx 75266

Jason Renard Walker is a prison journalist who has published articles and essays in various print and online media outlets since 2016. His work can be viewed at: www.jasonsprisonjournal.com You can also purchase his paperback book ‘Reports From Within The Belly Of The Beast: Torture And Injustice Inside Texas Department Of Criminal Justice’ available on amazon.com