Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2016 Archive Aug 1

Travel guide spam
This should perhaps be reported somewhere else, because I'm not sure it is possible to blacklist anything... but it is very late here and I'd like to document it before I slope off to bed.

Behaviour: Brand-new accounts add a string like "More info: [X] Travel Guide" to various articles about localities, where [X] is the name of the locality. The words "[X] Travel Guide" are a link to a blogspot blog, different for pretty much every edit I've seen and with different country domains, all of which forward to the same domain, 123malikoki.info. Each new account makes two or three edits and is then abandoned so reporting them to AIV is fairly pointless. The recent behaviour I've noticed is using an edit summary claiming to undo a revision by an IP, where the IP has never actually edited the article (so it's clearly just a random IP). Another new account comes along and makes a dummy edit immediately after, to prevent the spammy edit from showing up on watchlists I assume.

Diffs:, , followed by ,  followed by ,  followed by ,.

--bonadea contributions talk 22:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * SPI filed at Sockpuppet investigations/Ovakneztv. MER-C 07:42, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * This is most likely a new spam attack by Sockpuppet investigations/Tankosava, same target domain and MO. GermanJoe (talk) 07:48, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've now moved the accounts to that report. MER-C 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

softwaretestingbooks.com



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 06:57, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

eastglacierpark.info

 * links


 * article


 * accounts

Repeated addition to article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 06:29, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

AOMEI
USER

Link

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pxe 213 37 84 214 (talk • contribs) 13:52, 29 March 2016‎

Timestamp. MER-C 04:59, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Curvature LLC
spam for Curvature — Preceding unsigned comment added by NISMO1968 (talk • contribs) Timestamp. MER-C 05:09, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

mobileappstesting.com



 * Spammers

MER-C 07:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

cameraable.com

 * links


 * accounts

Addition of low-quality site as a link into multiple articles by SPA accounts. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

autox.in

 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers


 * See also
 * Articles for deletion/AutoX

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

patrick.net

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of links to an anonymous forum that fails WP:RS and WP:EL. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Sock puppets for DataCore
Another user is spamming WP and canvassing to bring back numerous my deleted DataCore [Corporation] page.

NISMO1968 (talk) 21:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Some spam links


Creating record. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

medicalexpressclinic.co.uk



 * Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

online-sportsbooks.top
Spamming by IPs in 37.213.*.* range to various betting-related articles. A bit too early for a block (just fyi for now), but I posted a clear blacklist warning on one of their IP's talkpages. GermanJoe (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)