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• Someone responded to a conversation you participated in, on an AOL article. • A comment you posted in an AOL article received at least one response or thumbs-up. • There's important activity related to your account, such as password changes or expiration of a credit card you use to pay for any AOL services.
The Orangemoody scam worked like an extortion racket. Targeted articles would be nominated for deletion, or denied approval for publication. Then other editors, presumably working for the same firm, would offer their services to reinstate the article and "protect" it from deletion or unwanted changes — for a monthly charge.
Regardless of the format, there's likely a scam to be had. Scams and fraud can come in the forms of phone calls, online links, door-to-door sales and mail. Below are common scams the New Jersey ...
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.
Ellenberg reports often hearing of the scam told as an illustrative parable, but he could not find a real-world example of anyone carrying it out as an actual scam. The closest he found was when illusionist Derren Brown presented it in his television special The System in 2008. Brown's intent was merely to convince his mark that he had a ...
If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.
From the summer of 2000, news outlets in the Pacific Northwest reported that young people were posing as art students selling mass-produced oil paintings, both copies and originals, for US$780–$2000 each. The so-called art students were said to be selling in exhibitions and galleries, primarily targeting local businesses.
I do like the scam warning as I said, and I think I may place it on my user page. Coretheapple ( talk ) 21:52, 30 September 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] This message is for editors and subjects that have been contacted or solicited by anyone asking for payment to get a draft into article space , which is directly in the purview of AfC and is the ...