A PSA for you
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Scam warning: scammers target new Wikipedia editors and Articles for Creation participants.
They may pretend to be Wikipedia volunteers or a professional Wikipedia editing service, and then ask you to pay them to create an article, accept, publish, speed up the review of a draft, protect an article from deletion, restore a deleted article, or monitor an article for changes. This is a scam.
- Help from real Wikipedia volunteers is always free.
- Real Wikipedia volunteers will never ask you for money or any other compensation.
- No one can guarantee that a draft will be accepted or an article will be kept in exchange for payment.
If someone contacts you with paid offers:
- Do not reply. Stop all contact.
- Do not share personal or account information.
- Do not click on any links they send.
- Do not follow their instructions or send any payment.
What to do instead:
- Forward the whole conversation, including email headers, to paid-en-wp
wikipedia.org. - Delete the messages. If you shared any account details, change your password immediately and consider enabling two-factor authentication.
Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:44, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
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