Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Scam warning

advice to call the authorities
I think this goes way beyond the scope of anything WP can/should say to people. Naming something as possible fraud is one thing (and I could borderline live with saying "possible fraud") but advising people to not pay under contracts they make or call the cops is not what we should do. Jytdog (talk) 20:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Why not? We're only trying to prevent people being scammed. Shantavira|feed me 18:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Is there an AbuseFilter that can detect this scam?
Ups and  Downs  (↕) 04:57, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * It is mostly done off-Wiki via email, so it looks unlikely. If you can identify part of the scam done on-Wiki, please let us know what to look for.  Thanks.
 * BTW, it looks like at least one account has been blocked that was related to this notice. It's hard to say for certain, though, since there has been no official announcement Smallbones( smalltalk ) 14:26, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Email does not exist
When sending a report to the paid-en-wp@wikimedia.org address it returns the following error:

paid-en-wp@wikimedia.org, ERROR CODE :550 - Address paid-en-wp@wikimedia.org does not exist 2601:404:C300:3B0:78FE:4CD9:1101:26B3 (talk) 19:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

You should add a filter for this
You should AmongusRanger (talk) 19:56, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * For what exactly? Primefac (talk) 20:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)