Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Raselva2022/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Spamming for: Sharmin1994 seemed like a simple spammer earlier this week, I blocked as such. When User:Drmies mentioned CU-confirmed socking and blocking of Rocktani1990 yesterday, I recalled Raselva2022, who was spamming one of the same domains a year ago and some IPs active in that same timeframe. Today, User:HJ Mitchell blocked Shamimulhasan123 as a simple spammer. If I'm reading the the creation/edit/block-timestamps of Sharmin1994, Rocktani1990, and Shamimulhasan123 correctly, they are successively within 24 h of each other, so multiple specific IPs are involved (not inhibited by autoblock). So I'm requesting CU to see if there's a viable range that can be blocked, given the length of time this has been happening. I named the SPI after the oldest I have uncovered, and bothered filing SPI because HJ Mitchell is a CU but didn't mention recognizing there was already CU involvement in this pool.

The hipaaguide domain was the one I first saw, and it was barely (now not-at-all) used anywhere. The netsec and hipaajournal ones are used as refs in about two dozen articles each, though I have no idea about their reliability. But the field of compliance/corp-training is obviously ripe for spam. So this could instead or also be handled as a XLinkBot/blacklist. DMacks (talk) 11:30, 30 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Quick note: I'm an oversighter but nit a checkuser so I couldn't have run a check if it had occurred to me. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 11:58, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * My bad. Lots of tabs, lots of editors in lots of hats. But not lots of coffee yet:( DMacks (talk) 12:28, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

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 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:12, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * = . geolocates to the same city, but is editing on a different range, so they're certainly . The proposed master is stale, and we have no historic data for them. I can't say much more than that I'm afraid.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:16, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * DMacks, User:HJ Mitchell, User:Girth Summit, thank you all. Drmies (talk) 13:24, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:44, 30 March 2023 (UTC)