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  2. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-01-31/Disinformation report

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    See Wikipedia's policy Ownership of content for why this is not allowed. The current scam is much simpler, and doesn't involve extortion. The company advertises on their online sites, via email, or approaches people through social media sites such as LinkedIn. They then quickly write a low-quality article, sending the customers a copy of the text.

  3. Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Scam warning - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.

  5. Wikipedia:Spam - Wikipedia

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    WP:ADS. There are three main types of spam on Wikipedia: Advertisements masquerading as articles: Sometimes editors add content that seems more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia article. Even when the promotional material is added in a good-faith effort to improve Wikipedia, it is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article.

  6. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Scam warning - Wikipedia

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    It is mostly done off-Wiki via email, so it looks unlikely. If you can identify part of the scam done on-Wiki, please let us know what to look for. Thanks. BTW, it looks like at least one account has been blocked that was related to this notice.

  7. Mississippi welfare funds scandal - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, Brett Favre's involvement with the development and promotion of a concussion treatment drug, Prevasol, by the Prevacus corporation, came under scrutiny. The nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC) received $2.5 million in federal grant funds diverted from Mississippi's TANF welfare funds, as well as tens of millions in ...

  8. False advertising - Wikipedia

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    Arsenic was known during the Victorian era to be poisonous. [2] False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally (or recklessly) to promote the sale of property, goods, or services. [3]

  9. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    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".