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By Smallbones. Keep an eye on your wallet. The Signpost has identified an extensive scam perpetrated by a company that calls itself " Elite Wiki Writers " or " Wiki Moderator ", among many other names. Some of the other names they are suspected of using include wikicuratorz.com, wikiscribes.com, wikimastery.com, and wikimediafoundetion.com .
Wikipedia:Phishing emails. As of July 2010, many people received emails that looked similar to the following: Someone from the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx has registered the account "xxxxxxxx" with this email address on the English Wikipedia. To confirm that this user account really does belong to you and to activate email features on Wikipedia ...
The scam may work as follows: A paid editing ring might file for an article's deletion, decline a draft proposed at Articles for Creation (AfC), or wait until the draft has been declined by an actual AfC reviewer. A paid editor will then contact the author of the article and propose that they can recreate the article for a one-time fee and ...
[17] [18] Liberty Net was implemented in 1984 by Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam and protected by four password-protected computers that took the FBI two years to decrypt. [19] Liberty Net's code-accessed message board contained personal ads along with recruitment material and information about the white power movement. [ 19 ]
Insecure email - password resetting etc. Many services, including Wikipedia, allow users to reset a forgotten password by requesting a reset link be sent to their registered email address. If your email account is somehow compromised, an attacker can use it to gain control of other accounts you have.
Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...
How to contact us. Having read all of this, if you wish to contact the email help-desk, the address is info-en-o wikimedia.org. Please include the exact name or internet address of the page where the messages in question appear. The help desk volunteers are not familiar with your case. We will not call you back to hear your problem, even if you ...
Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...