Agent Insights Ep 48: Wiki Scam Comments

Hello everyone. Flint here, to talk about a recent phenomenon that's been affecting the Animal Jam Wiki, and that could affect other wikis.

Recently, there has been an influx of scammers commenting on certain articles on the AJ Wiki. They'll comment on the pages of uncommon or seasonal items, and will say things like "Trading this item for a black long!" or "Looking for this item, will trade a black long for it!" They don't need to be asking for a black long specifically; 'black long' can be replaced with all manner of valuable items.

The accounts that comment stuff like this are scamming. By offering high-value trades for these items, or by saying they're looking for high-value trades for their item, they are tricking people into thinking an item is worth more than it actually is. This way, when people go look at the Wiki for more information on an item, there will be a bunch of comments saying that the item is worth a lot, which can make people fall for S14/Two-Person scams, or just simple overtrading.

Keep in mind that comments on a page can be easily put there by scammers. Just because the comments say an item is valuable, or has a real glitched variant, or whatever, doesn't mean those comments are true. It's better to get information from the actual article, or from looking at other comments on the article talking about how they saw a scam using this item.

As far as I know, this hasn't been a problem with any other wikis, but you should still keep in mind that comments on an article can easily be put there by scammers. 

That's all for today. Watch out for these sorts of comments. Goodbye!