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Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my bylinehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/17/fake-linda-and-me-mystery-fraudster-stole-my-byline

How a string of bizarre events led writer Linda Geddes to don her sleuthing cap and dig into a world of shadowy impersonators It started with an entirely ordinary interaction on LinkedIn. Someone had tagged me in a post, saying how much they’d enjoyed contributing to a New York Post article I’d written about “chronoworking”. As the author of a book about circadian rhythms, it was exactly the sort of subject I might write about. Except I’d never heard of this person, let alone interviewed them. I clicked on the link and my stomach dropped. There, above an article about people who org…

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