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Travel guide spam

This should perhaps be reported somewhere else, because I'm not sure it is possible to blacklist anything... but it is very late here and I'd like to document it before I slope off to bed.

Behaviour: Brand-new accounts add a string like "More info: [X] Travel Guide" to various articles about localities, where [X] is the name of the locality. The words "[X] Travel Guide" are a link to a blogspot blog, different for pretty much every edit I've seen and with different country domains, all of which forward to the same domain, 123malikoki.info. Each new account makes two or three edits and is then abandoned so reporting them to AIV is fairly pointless. The recent behaviour I've noticed is using an edit summary claiming to undo a revision by an IP, where the IP has never actually edited the article (so it's clearly just a random IP). Another new account comes along and makes a dummy edit immediately after, to prevent the spammy edit from showing up on watchlists I assume.

Diffs: [1], [2], [3] followed by [4], [5] followed by [6], [7] followed by [8], [9].

-- bonadea contributions talk 22:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

SPI filed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ovakneztv. MER-C 07:42, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
This is most likely a new spam attack by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tankosava, same target domain and MO. GermanJoe ( talk) 07:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I've now moved the accounts to that report. MER-C 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

softwaretestingbooks.com

Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 06:57, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

eastglacierpark.info

links
article
accounts

Repeated addition to article. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 06:29, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

AOMEI

USER

Doris2016003 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

Link

aomeitech.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pxe 213 37 84 214 ( talk • contribs) 13:52, 29 March 2016‎

Timestamp. MER-C 04:59, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Curvature LLC

Thisiscurvature ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) spam for Curvature — Preceding unsigned comment added by NISMO1968 ( talk • contribs) Timestamp. MER-C 05:09, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

mobileappstesting.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

cameraable.com

links
accounts

Addition of low-quality site as a link into multiple articles by SPA accounts. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

autox.in

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers
See also

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

patrick.net

links
accounts

Repeated addition of links to an anonymous forum that fails WP:RS and WP:EL. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 04:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Sock puppets for DataCore

Another user is spamming WP and canvassing to bring back numerous my deleted DataCore [Corporation] page.

2601:58B:100:4B0B:A0FA:8E04:E366:7DC3 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)

NISMO1968 ( talk) 21:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Some spam links

Creating record. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

medicalexpressclinic.co.uk

Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

online-sportsbooks.top

online-sportsbooks.top: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spamming by IPs in 37.213.*.* range to various betting-related articles. A bit too early for a block (just fyi for now), but I posted a clear blacklist warning on one of their IP's talkpages. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2016_Archive_Aug_1&oldid=738785331"
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Travel guide spam

This should perhaps be reported somewhere else, because I'm not sure it is possible to blacklist anything... but it is very late here and I'd like to document it before I slope off to bed.

Behaviour: Brand-new accounts add a string like "More info: [X] Travel Guide" to various articles about localities, where [X] is the name of the locality. The words "[X] Travel Guide" are a link to a blogspot blog, different for pretty much every edit I've seen and with different country domains, all of which forward to the same domain, 123malikoki.info. Each new account makes two or three edits and is then abandoned so reporting them to AIV is fairly pointless. The recent behaviour I've noticed is using an edit summary claiming to undo a revision by an IP, where the IP has never actually edited the article (so it's clearly just a random IP). Another new account comes along and makes a dummy edit immediately after, to prevent the spammy edit from showing up on watchlists I assume.

Diffs: [1], [2], [3] followed by [4], [5] followed by [6], [7] followed by [8], [9].

-- bonadea contributions talk 22:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

SPI filed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ovakneztv. MER-C 07:42, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
This is most likely a new spam attack by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tankosava, same target domain and MO. GermanJoe ( talk) 07:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I've now moved the accounts to that report. MER-C 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

softwaretestingbooks.com

Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 06:57, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

eastglacierpark.info

links
article
accounts

Repeated addition to article. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 06:29, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

AOMEI

USER

Doris2016003 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam)

Link

aomeitech.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pxe 213 37 84 214 ( talk • contribs) 13:52, 29 March 2016‎

Timestamp. MER-C 04:59, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Curvature LLC

Thisiscurvature ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · blacklist hits · AbuseLog · what links to user page · count · COIBot · user page logs · x-wiki · status · Edit filter search · Google · StopForumSpam) spam for Curvature — Preceding unsigned comment added by NISMO1968 ( talk • contribs) Timestamp. MER-C 05:09, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

mobileappstesting.com

Spammers

MER-C 07:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

cameraable.com

links
accounts

Addition of low-quality site as a link into multiple articles by SPA accounts. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 03:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

autox.in

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers
See also

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

patrick.net

links
accounts

Repeated addition of links to an anonymous forum that fails WP:RS and WP:EL. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 04:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Sock puppets for DataCore

Another user is spamming WP and canvassing to bring back numerous my deleted DataCore [Corporation] page.

2601:58B:100:4B0B:A0FA:8E04:E366:7DC3 ( talk • contribs • deleted contribs • blacklist hits • AbuseLog • what links to user page • COIBot • count • block log • x-wiki • Edit filter search • WHOIS • robtex.com • Google)

NISMO1968 ( talk) 21:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Some spam links

Creating record. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

medicalexpressclinic.co.uk

Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

online-sportsbooks.top

online-sportsbooks.top: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot- Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Spamming by IPs in 37.213.*.* range to various betting-related articles. A bit too early for a block (just fyi for now), but I posted a clear blacklist warning on one of their IP's talkpages. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2016_Archive_Aug_1&oldid=738785331"

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