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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.
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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]
These emails are not from Wikipedia. The links they contain, despite their appearance, lead to third-party websites (see Link manipulation for an explanation of this technique). It appears that these mails constitute an attempt at phishing by unknown parties.