[Foundation-l] getting hired to work on Wikipedia? Make that a "website processing specialist"

Mon Sep 29 19:43:09 UTC 2008

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:26 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/29 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
>> http://consumerreportingusa.org/wikipedia.htm
>> Who knew that "Wikipedia was hiring website processing specialists"?
>> Not me, that's for sure! Easy money, here we come!
>>
>> Any chance someone can check this out? Seems like a complicated spam
>> farm of sorts.
>>
>> Phoebe
>>
>> --
>> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
>> <at> gmail.com *
>>
>
>
> Not spam per se. More a fairly standard if reasonably well done
> working from home training scam. Not a vast amount we can do about it.
> They are probably breaking some kind of trading standard laws but well
> if those kind of laws were enforced online there would be far fewer
> pyramid schemes.
>
> The name is either because they think wikipedia makes it look kinda
> respectable or because it is a useful keyword (try typeing wikipedia
> into ebay sometime).

It looks to me like this is a form letter where they just plug in the
names of popular websites.  They probably have identical scam letters
about Goggle, Youtube, etc.  Nowhere does the content of the text
refer to anything specific to Wikipedia at all.

Thanks,
Pharos

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