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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 ...
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 .
Scam warning. SCAM WARNING! If you have been contacted or solicited by anyone asking for payment to get a draft into article space, improve a draft, or restore a deleted article, such offers are not legitimate and you should contact paid-en-wpwikipedia.org immediately. Category: Talk header templates.
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 ...
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 ...
Email scams posing as the Internal Revenue Service were also used to steal sensitive data from U.S. taxpayers. [70] Social networking sites are a prime target of phishing, since the personal details in such sites can be used in identity theft ; [ 71 ] In 2007, 3.6 million adults lost US$3.2 billion due to phishing attacks. [ 72 ]
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
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 ...