QUOTE(thekohser @ Sat 28th November 2009, 2:32pm)
Just received this e-mail today:
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I was getting ready to purchase a book on the apocrypha from Amazon and noted your tags... did my own due diligence to discover the Alphascript scam... Thank you for your attention to this... just think of how many people buy that crap because of the low price, without regard to what the purchase is promoting.
Thanks again.
David M. Brewer
Funny, neither Amazon Legal nor the Wikimedia Foundation's Michael Snow ever took any action (that I could detect) to limit the Alphascript scam and misuse of the Wikipedia trademark.
Four months later and still no legal action has been taken. The number of Alphascript 'titles' have expanded in the meantime. This is a good reason why people shouldn't contribute to WP. There are unscrupulous scammers who are quite willing to profit from contributions made under the pretext of 'free' knowledge.
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