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Template. : 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.
Today scam letters are a general part of electronic life, ending up in mailboxes in hordes. Types Lottery scam letter. Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money ...
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 ...
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 ...
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".
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 ...
A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed " magic words ", a simple scripting language . Template pages are found in the template ...
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