On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:26 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/29 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
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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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geni
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