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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-wp wikipedia.org immediately.
Scams by "paid editing companies" have been happening on Wikipedia since at least the 2015 Operation Orangemoody scandal, which was documented by the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as by the Guardian, Independent, and Signpost. The Orangemoody scam worked like an extortion racket.
Wikipedia is funded primarily by donations and grants. It does not charge for access nor offer any paid subscription services. If you're looking to acquire a profitable company to diversify your business portfolio, or if you're thinking of trying to save an indebted company from bankruptcy, Wikipedia isn't it. See Wikipedia:Fundraising statistics.
Q: Who can buy it? A: Anyone! Whether you're an insanely wealthy stock broker with $87,204,377,420,258,583.92 spare cash on hand or a lowly peasant with $87,204,377,420,258,583.93 spare cash on hand, we won't discriminate .
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
Find the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house and ask for the head of the brothers. Ask for the name of the "Faolian" telling him that it's for Wikipedia. He'll give you a name you will utilize. Feel free to party as well for a few more nights before proceeding to step 2. Rent a green Ford F-150, and attach a sticker of the Wikipedia logo to the hood.
Scam methods may operate in reverse, with a stranger (not the registrar) communicating an offer to buy a domain name from an unwary owner. The offer is not genuine, but intended to lure the owner into a false sales process, with the owner eventually pressed to send money in advance to the scammer for appraisal fees or other purported services.
A forced free trial is a direct-marketing technique, usually for goods sold by regular subscription, in which potential buyers are sent a number of free samples of a product, usually periodic publications. Quite often publishers distribute free copies and the reader is not even asked to subscribe.