Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Harish MDU/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This all revolves around Draft:Spick Media Network. When reviewing the draft, I noted brand new editor VPriyankaIyer edited it which was an account created shortly after RajendranMCV in November. I left VPriyankaIyer a notice about multiple accounts while also leaving RajendranMCV a notice about paid editing base on this edit summary. After some back and forth with each of them separately (see their talk pages, VPriyankaIyer freely admits they are an employee while RajendranMCV denies it). Then HarishM Chn steps in on VPriyankaIyer's talk page, who is openly admits they are the secretary of Spick Media, but they also post on RajendranMCV's talk page and this is where things get odd. While RajendranMCV edit summary states they are with Spick Media, HarishM Chn says they are not with Spick but offers to pay them. I also noted all of them creating blank User pages. VPriyankaIyer made ten useless edits before editing the draft. Requesting checkuser to determine if this meat and/or good cop/bad cop, etc. S0091 (talk) 22:19, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:33, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * All of these are ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 16:47, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Spick Media is the oldest account, but were only softblocked. I think it makes sense to rename the case to Spick Media, but I'll leave that decision up to a clerk. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:00, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * PS: Harish MDU is the next oldest, so one way or another, I think we've got a rename happening. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:05, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Harish MDU is in fact the oldest account, so I've moved the case there. - please indef all accounts. They are engaging in promotional editing and being dishonest about it, and there's really no reason for them to have five accounts. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:51, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * CU-blocked everybody, I'll leave it to you to tag as you feel best. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:02, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 04:13, 22 April 2022 (UTC)