Talk:Advance-fee scam

message: It's 300 words and zero citations. It also is a bit opinionated. I think whoever wants to keep it should be given a few days to clean it up a bit or have it deleted. Thoughts? 108.48.21.64 (talk) 05:58, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete "cash-handling scam" subsection? 

message: All, this is a great article. Unfortunately, it is written very poorly. I fixed dozens and dozens of LAZY grammatical errors–it appears to be written by a middle school student, in general. Further, I highly recommend an editor to consolidate the excessive number of case studies (specific quotes for specific incidents) into a broad, generalized case which then cites the sources (i.e., in lieu of direct quotes x3+ paragraphs). Please help because this is an important article!
Thanks!
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Gobucks821 (talk) 16:02, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seeking editors: needs improvement (readability/active voice, broad v. cases) 

message: I hope a reliable source citation can be found for this because I've twice been personally targeted.  The first was people falsely representing Dover Books wanting to ire me as an editor.  The second found me on guru.com and hired me to translate a document into French. After I had translated eight of the 44 pages, the cashier's check came on President's Day for four times the agreed upon amount, whcih he said was to prepay me for further translation.  The "client" was far more interested in me depositing the check, specifically at an ATM, than continuing the translation work.  The payer's name on the check was a car dealership in Pasadena, Texas.  The bank, Moody National Bank did not have their name preprinted on the check, nor was the phone number anywhere on it. I called their customer service, and they told me that no cashier's check with that check number had been issued.  I later discovered in my e0mail that Guru.com had deleted them on the same day I accepted the assignment for violating the site's terms of service.  I was suspicious as soon as I got the assignment because it seemed a little sketchy, but at least all I did was waste time on the translation.  It seemed odd that he was willing to pay someone who doesn't normally do translation work to do a translation rather than hire a professional service or use Google Translate. I generally avoided using it in making my translation unless he used an idiom that my French-English dictionary did not include.--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 20:42, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing/translating scams

message: This excessive list of further reading violations WP:NOTDIR. I removed all but the first three (no particular reason for choosing the first three). If you feel I removed a more important one feel free to replace it, but do not add back more. Adding here per WP:PRESERVE. Thanks! 
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* Daly, Samuel Fury Childs (2020). A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
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* Ibrahim, S. (2016, June). Causes of socioeconomic cybercrime in Nigeria. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensic (ICCCF) (pp. 1–9). IEEE.
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Jtbobwaysf (talk) 06:42, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  DIR