Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Deerdog40/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

SPAs popping up to promote Ronnete Santos the financial advisor through refspam, all using the same formatting. . Pahunkat (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Some more - SOTUKATERS, Karatentool, Shieler Jackine, Deerdog40. Use  for diffs of additions. Deerdog is now the oldest account having been a spam-only since 2016 and popping back up yesterday. Pahunkat (talk) 07:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
 * An observation from me off the back of CU, who was confirmed to this group is spamming a different link, cytechpharma[.]com.  find the accounts  and  who are involved with that link. Pahunkat (talk) 23:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * The rest of the accounts are due to proxy use. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:02, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . With or without CheckUser evidence, we have a flock of ducks. All accounts except Deerdog40 have been created within a short period, and have done identical spam editing. Deerdog40 is a bit different, but they have suddenly posted a totally spurious "reference" spamming the same link at the same time as the other accounts have been doing it, which is just too much of a coincidence. I have blocked all the accounts that were not already blocked.
 * This makes Deerdog40 the oldest account, so maybe a clerk would like to move the case. JBW (talk) 22:23, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Moved. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:26, 18 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Following up on 's comment above, Sanammakrani posted exactly the same content as Arfeenhaider405, and Sidra18838 posted a very similar link to the same website, both in the same period as all the other sockpuppets were activated. I regard them as obvious sockpuppets, on behavioural grounds, so I shall block them. Unfortunately it looks as though the sockpuppeteer has adopted a strategy of using throw away accounts, each making one edit and then being abandonned, which makes blocking the account somewhat ineffective, especially as tells us that proxies are being used. Spam blacklisting could be considered if the same few links are persistently posted, but that will be of limited use if the socker posts many different links from different accounts. Sigh... JBW (talk) 08:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)