Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amithani/Archive

Report date May 15 2009, 17:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

See Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive742 and this report to WT:WPSPAM here. Long-term spamming at University of Atlanta by numerous accounts; the 202 IPs geolocate to Pakistan, the 196 IPs geolocate to Uganda, and the other IPs geolocate to Atlanta, GA. Seems like multiple sock farms present. MuZemike 17:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by MuZemike


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Added User 24.216.53.6 to the list, since from this edit they are claiming to be User DTAD. Edward321 (talk) 19:27, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

I have been following University of Atlanta for a couple of months. Amithani is believed to be Alex Mithani and/or Akber Mithani, which are reported names of the owners of SEO Expert Services and the University of Atlanta. Mistro12, DTAD, 24.216.53.6, 12.22.184.3, 74.190.36.18, 12.5.30.227, and 196.0.7.4 have stated that they are affiliated with University of Atlanta and/or have edited in a manner that strongly suggests such an affiliation. The other "196" IPs have made edits similar to some of the contributions from 196.0.7.4, suggesting that they are the same person, but their edits are not as strongly self-interested. --Orlady (talk) 20:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Through this edit DTAD has essentially owned up to being 24.216.53.6. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 20:38, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested by MuZemike 17:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Are there deleted contribs associated with the accounts and ? Not seeing what led to their inclusion in this request, and barring deleted contribs they are both stale. Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 19:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Reply to Nathan: The deleted contributions from those accounts are also stale (from a year ago). All are related to "National High School" and "SEO Expert Services", entities whose Internet domains (such as nationalhighschool.com) are associated with the same collection of Pakistan-based SEO domains as the University of Atlanta's uofa.edu -- presumably that's why they are listed in this report. --Orlady (talk) 20:01, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * . -- Kanonkas : Talk  20:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

My findings:
 * ✅ that Amithani = Mistro12 = Shamirhirani = Hiranishamir. This person is the same as the Uganda Telecom IPs, and also the Atlanta BellSouth IPs (like 74.190.36.18) and the iverson.edu/uofe.edu Atlanta IPs (e.g., 12.5.30.227 and 12.5.30.227)
 * The Habib Rafiq IPs in Pakistan are clean, and Raajj81 and Nationalhighschool are stale.
 * 24.216.53.6/DADT is ❌ to the first group.
 * Dominic·t 07:47, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Involved users blocked and tagged. Involved IPs blocked for a week. Icestorm815 •  Talk  08:41, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You missed one :p Everything else taken care of, archiving.  —  Jake   Wartenberg  21:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)