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The Wikipedia community are mostly volunteers. As much as we would like to assure you that we will catch any scammers and get your money returned, that may be impossible. Your report of scams will however help us minimize the effects of future scams. In serious cases, consider making a report to the police or other authorities.
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.
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.
scam warning! If someone contacts you asking for money to get a draft published, improve a draft, or restore a deleted article—do not trust them! These offers are scams .
Q: Who can buy it? A: Anyone! Whether you're an insanely wealthy stock broker with $87,203,405,647,008,583.92 spare cash on hand or a lowly peasant with $87,203,405,647,008,583.93 spare cash on hand, we won't discriminate .
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.
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]
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