I recently received the following e-mail:
I am looking for a test bank for:
Specific Book Title
ISBN-10: xxxxxxxxxx ISBN-13: xxxxxxxxxxxxxLet me know if you have it or can point me in the right direction. Thank you
That’s all it said. (I took out the book title and ISBN numbers.)
I pasted the ISBN number into Google and found out it was a Cengage history textbook. Now I’ve done a lot of work on Cengage/Wadsworth western civilization and world history textbooks in the past, but it turns out I had not worked on this particular book.
I was immediately suspicious of this person’s intentions for the test bank. My guess: it’s a student who wants to know the questions and their answers, or it’s a person who runs a website that provides test questions and answers to students.
Most college instructors know enough to go through the publisher to get the test bank for the books they use.
I didn’t reply, and I deleted the e-mail.
What do you think this person’s intentions were? What would you have done in my place?
