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Legitimate reviewers at AfC are all volunteers and will never ask for payment to get a draft into article space, improve a draft, or restore a deleted article. If someone contacts you with such an offer, it is a scam. To report it, send a copy of the email, including headers, to paid-en-wp wikipedia.org.
Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
The Foundation Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles for foundation staff. It covers evaluation results, tools, issues confronting the philanthropic sector, and reflective practice. The journal's editor in chief is Teresa (Teri) Behrens of Grand Valley State University. The journal was established in 2009 and is ...
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.
In the previous Signpost issue this column described Elite Wiki Writers, a company that scams their clients who only wish to have an article about themselves posted on Wikipedia. A transcript of an actual online sales pitch showed that their supposed Wikipedia paid editors were totally ignorant of Wikipedia rules.
If someone’s posting or spamming comments that contain racial slurs, vulgarity or anything inappropriate, please use the report feature that’s available in the comment system. To report a comment: 1. Go to the comment you are reporting. 2. Select the Drop-Down Arrow on the far right-hand corner of the text-box. 3. Click report.
In the FBI's 2017 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received about 300,000 complaints. Victims lost over $1.4 billion in online fraud in 2017. [ 4 ] In a 2018 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and McAfee , cybercrime costs the global economy as much as $600 billion, which ...