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Similar user name with "0011", repeating this edit:, ; re-creating "Draft:Department of Central Investigation": , and pages claiming to be from this department: , - Pankajsingh0011's user page was already deleted, but I think it had the same thing, see also User talk:Pankajsingh0011. Please also delete those pages again per G3 / blatant hoax - there is no such thing as the "Department of Central Investigation".

Bonus points / extra credit: The above is enough to block Rahul001177, but there is likely an older master if you want to pursue it, though I'm not sure which is the original. This is related to an ongoing police-impersonation scam/hoax, see the ANI report and news reports:. There may be more than one person involved. Content and pages about a series of non-existent Indian police/intelligence agencies have been created, some purporting to be "official pages", and edits to List of Indian intelligence agencies and similar articles. Compare these edits about the fake "Anti-Crime Organization" with those about the fake "Department of Central Investigation": :, : , :, and Rahul001177: (again, Pankajsingh0011's user page was deleted). Also this edit where Rahul001177 removes the section about "Anti-Crime Organization" from Talk:List of Indian intelligence agencies:. Anti13931, Use4012, Use4022, and have already been blocked for abuse of multiple accounts, see the ANI report. The cu indicated the oldest, Anti13931, might not be the same as the others, but to me, behaviorally they are identical to each other, and also a match to Pankajsingh0011 and Rahul001177.

They are also likely a sock or meatpuppet of and/or, who previously had created pages about another non-existent "Department of Criminal Intelligence", as described in the ANI report above. I haven't been able to find exactly-matching diffs with the others, but I did find matching fake Facebook and Linked In profiles, complete with matching fake logos for the "Department of Criminal Intelligence": and "Department of Central Investigation" ; (at least they corrected the misspelling of "Departmemt" in the new logo) so it's obviously the same group, if not the same person. IamNotU (talk) 13:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Based on behavior, I am certain that Rahul001177 is related to Pankajsingh0011. I also agree with IamNotU's assessment that the Anti13931/Use4012/Use4022/Use4011 are probably related to this group, though I think all of them are stale. Throwing a few more very likely socks onto the pile, I'll hand out the blocks for them in a bit:
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 * (stale, but their block is currently a softblock which should be upgraded to hardblock) GeneralNotability (talk) 20:41, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's pretty clear that there is some kind of coordinated hoaxing/scamming going on here - all of them are creating/editing articles to push the existence of a fictitious government agency and reference the Ministry of Home Affairs as their justification. Armaansinghips and Osama shaikh y2aj fitness have somewhat different behavior from the others, but I think they are all working in concert so I've lumped them in. Since most of these accounts are one-off (and stale), I don't think there is much value in a sleeper check. everyone involved on behavioral evidence. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:01, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's pretty clear that there is some kind of coordinated hoaxing/scamming going on here - all of them are creating/editing articles to push the existence of a fictitious government agency and reference the Ministry of Home Affairs as their justification. Armaansinghips and Osama shaikh y2aj fitness have somewhat different behavior from the others, but I think they are all working in concert so I've lumped them in. Since most of these accounts are one-off (and stale), I don't think there is much value in a sleeper check. everyone involved on behavioral evidence. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:01, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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Similar names, see e.g. Pankajsingh0011 in previous report. Adding references to a fake "Department of Central Investigation" as part of a police impersonation hoax/scam. New11002 is already indeffed for disruption. The IPs are stale, just adding for reference. IamNotU (talk) 20:28, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * All named accounts blocked. IP reports were explicitly pro-forma. Closing, Cabayi (talk) 10:04, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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Another sock or meat puppet perpetuating the same hoax of a fake "Department of Criminal Intelligence", which has not existed since 1920, (other socks have also used the non-existent "Department of Central Investigation") as part of a police-impersonation scheme:, etc. See previous SPI reports. IamNotU (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2020 (UTC)


 * In the meantime I reported them to AIV for ongoing vandalism/hoax edits, and they've been blocked. --IamNotU (talk) 13:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * , Nothing more to do. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 14:59, 23 December 2020 (UTC)