Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2021 Archive Feb 12

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licensefree.net

— Newslinger talk 12:29, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

yamunanagarhulchul.com

— Newslinger talk 12:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

mamafacts.com

— Newslinger talk 12:49, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Binayah

— Newslinger talk 12:53, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

civicfitness.com

— Newslinger talk 12:57, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

chapraonline.com

— Newslinger talk 08:21, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

nhglobalpartners.com

- MrOllie (talk) 13:11, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

@MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Red X Blocked Steve Habazin and Rilos90 indefinitely as promotion-only accounts. The COIBot report at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/nhglobalpartners.com indicates that the domain was also added cross-wiki, and it might be worth attempting to remove these links from non-English Wikipedias and then submitting a global spam blacklist request. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 08:33, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

coupontoaster.co.uk

— Newslinger talk 03:35, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 08:39, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

ourcampaigns.com

Refreshing COIBot report for evaluation in WP:RSN § RfC - ourcampaigns.com. — Newslinger talk 06:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

samsungwashingmachineservicecenterinmumbai.com & samsungservicecentermumbai.in & samsung-servicecenterinmumbai.com

Domains

Users:

All these users have created very similar sandbox in their userspace trying to make it look like an informative article, but obviously spammy with multiple links to the domains listed. AVSmalnad77 talk 14:59, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

@AVSmalnad77: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:48, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Legal spam

— Newslinger talk 09:18, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Template expansion exceeded for this page

Just a notice that some archiving will be necessary for new entries to display properly. —PaleoNeonate – 08:29, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

@PaleoNeonate: I archived 'handled' (blacklisted / blocked) sections. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Many thanks, as always your work here is highly appreciated, —PaleoNeonate – 20:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

onlinecasinossweden.com

Domains
Users

Spamming Poker and Casino with this domain. This domain was reported here last month. —Bruce1eetalk 06:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bruce1ee: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 08:36, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
I've applied indefinite pending-changes protection to the Poker article. — Newslinger talk 09:01, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

*.corecentralcondo.com.sg

Variations of the link being spammed around articles by a user. Pahunkat (talk) 10:33, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Also:
--Dirk Beetstra T C 11:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

margmowczko.com

— Newslinger talk 06:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

animalsdetail.com

User hijacking articles and now spamming the link in their userspace. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 09:16, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

marketingfacts.nl

Spam link was on List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data for more than a decade. — Newslinger talk 14:51, 10 February 2021 (UTC)


bismatrimony.com

Domain
Users

The accounts are the same user (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bismatrimony and its archive) and have been blocked as such (or soon will be). If the URL was blacklisted it might stop the socking, with any luck. --bonadea contributions talk 08:14, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bonadea: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 08:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

hoodsite.com/hoodsite.info

Another link spammed was:

Please check if this report's alright - I haven't filed one before. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 19:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pahunkat: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 15:10, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
Red X Blocked the related accounts listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/hoodsite.com and Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/hoodsite.info. — Newslinger talk 15:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
I've started a sockpuppet investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ahooodfes, since Ahooodfes was also involved in the spam campaign for mirabeauty.com below. — Newslinger talk 15:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Related user (Hoodsite)

Adding for the record. — Newslinger talk 08:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

mirabeauty.com

Piermoire also created Mira Beauty, which has been tagged for AfD. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 19:12, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Also other users found by COIBot. Pahunkat (talk) 12:44, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
@Pahunkat: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 14:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 Blocked and tagged all sockpuppets listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/mirabeauty.com. — Newslinger talk 15:07, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Related users (Mira Beauty)

Adding for the record. — Newslinger talk 08:40, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

astorastudio.com

— Newslinger talk 09:23, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

freemonthlycalendars.com

Domains
Users

—Bruce1eetalk 09:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Links found in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mettrisaab

Users

Newslinger - these links were spammed by users found in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ahooodfes. Outline of finance still has a few external links. Thanks for filing that SPI :-) Pahunkat (talk) 15:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pahunkat: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks again for following up. Great work! — Newslinger talk 08:59, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks Newslinger for your work here as well - everyone here appreciates it :-) Pahunkat (talk) 11:07, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Related users (Mettrisaab)

— Newslinger talk 08:53, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

exstyler.com

Looks like a drive-by spammer, only one known account. Pahunkat (talk) 11:07, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

aurangabadnews4.com

The user has got away with linkspamming from the 9th - sandbox may also need to be nuked. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 11:16, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

targasupply.com

Per Njd-de's report at WP:AIV. — Newslinger talk 16:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Newslinger for opening the report. Added two more users who spammed links to this website today. NJD-DE (talk) 16:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. COIBot is acting a little strange, but there's clearly enough evidence to blacklist this domain.​ — Newslinger talk 19:30, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Related accounts (targasupply.com)

Found one more account through a link search. Adding another link summary template to give this another try. — Newslinger talk 19:38, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

The COIBot report uncovered Lervaas. Since the domain is now blacklisted, this should be all. — Newslinger talk 06:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

nepaliupdates.com

— Newslinger talk 09:34, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

We just had an IP attempting to remove the section. Pahunkat (talk) 15:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

doorsstudio.com

Domains
Users

Domain used in spamming web/application development articles. —Bruce1eetalk 12:41, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

town - .com spam

And other links of the same style

There has been a sort of spam-campaign going for US-related cities, where the domain will consist of town[placename].com. The spammer decided to open an ANI thread to complain about a warning they were left for spamming external links at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Complaint from Microthought2021, which led to a boomerang and a block. The links possibly need blacklisting - they are clearly owned by the same person, which rely on advertising to make profit and collect a few news sources to pass off as their own work. See the IP's contribs. COIBot only processed one link when I tried to poke it however. Pahunkat (talk) 12:12, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

The reports seem to be coming, but for those that are here:

The IPv6 range is blocked, the IP is stale (note, earliest edit from May '18 and never warned). Most/all links reside on related servers (Server IP 192.185.79.###), there are tools out there to find out which sites are on all these IPs. I am afraid we cannot blacklist town(\w+)\.com\b, it will likely throw false positives. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:08, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pahunkat: - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/townatlanta.com contains a db dump from the collected linkadditions for 'town*.com' (inverted domains, sorry, db search trick). For sure, blocking 'town*.com' will not work (there are way too many), but maybe there are some you missed? --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:53, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into that Beetstra - I agree that blocking town*.com will cause too much collateral damage. I’ll look into the other domains later on (right now my hands are full), identifying them should be easy given they all use the same landing page design - but blocking domains as they are spammed seems like the best option I can think of so far. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 15:45, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

@Pahunkat: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Please start a subsection within this section for next domains you (or anyone) may find (and if you don't mind to strike out the items that are unrelated would be nice, so we don't need to check again in time). --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:40, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

town - .com spam: More domains 1

Already blacklisted:

  • townatlanta.com
  • townfortlauderdale.com
  • townhouston.com
  • townstcharles.com
  • townstreator.com
  • townasheville.com
  • townverobeach.com
  • towncocoa.com
  • townnaples.com
  • townkeywest.com

New:

Some more domains that I found from the list (I only checked 100 or so promising domains, all townof*.com ones seemed legitimate), same design of webpage. Pahunkat (talk) 20:57, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

I've just removed a spam link added in 2019 Pahunkat (talk) 21:15, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
@Pahunkat: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra T C 05:37, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

town - .com spam: More domains 2

Searching up certain strings on each site finds the following as well - I still need to verify these:

Pahunkat (talk) 21:57, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

All the same format, just waiting for the COIBot report to see if these have been spammed before Pahunkat (talk) 14:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

dearlink.live

Domains
Users

—Bruce1eetalk 17:42, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bruce1ee: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 22:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

digitaldrag.in

— Newslinger talk 09:00, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

kaliboys.com

— Newslinger talk 09:01, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

99cricketnews.com

— Newslinger talk 12:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 16:22, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

easymodemedia.com

— Newslinger talk 04:25, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

SEO/sports spammer

Gross ☆ Bri (talk) 17:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bri: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. The COIBot report hasn't loaded for seobrotherslv.com, but the report on mightytips.com shows abuse from multiple accounts and IPs. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 04:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

forskohlii-weight-loss.com

—Bruce1eetalk 06:31, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

techizerindia.com

—Bruce1eetalk 06:45, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

breakingnewsurdu.com

— Newslinger talk 12:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

@Beetstra: It looks like this page is hitting the post-expand include size limit, and any template from here down is no longer being transcluded until an older discussion is archived. Is there some way to work around this limit instead of archiving older entries? — Newslinger talk 19:06, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

talk2india.in and printertollfreenumber.com

— Newslinger talk 21:58, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

printertollfreenumber.com is a possible Technical Support Scam. Pahunkat (talk) 19:27, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Yes, that does look like a good reason to blacklist it. — Newslinger talk 20:41, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

skillsto.com

—Bruce1eetalk 12:34, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Red X Blocked indefinitely. Thanks for reporting this. ​— Newslinger talk 20:43, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

realyhow.online

—Bruce1eetalk 12:59, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Red X Blocked. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 20:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

experiencenissanleaf.com

experiencenissanleaf.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

On February 12, Atikutso603 was blocked for persistently adding links to experiencenissanleaf.com in different articles. It's obvious link spam. Now a "new" editor, Hasankamrul2050, has suddenly appeared and begun adding links to the same website in similar articles. Of course, he or she also needs to be blocked but I think the behavior of this editor(s) and the quality of the website as sufficient to land this site on our blacklist. ElKevbo (talk) 06:31, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

@ElKevbo: Blocked some more accounts. plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — JJMC89 (T·C) 17:07, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Ambacar.ec/cr spam

(Meta note: no idea if this report is necessary, out of abundance of caution and for the sake of documentation I'm reporting it. I'll be reading the rest of the WikiProject's documentation shortly, but please let me know if this report was unnecessary.) Links were spammed across several articles, as well as a bit on eswiki by the IP. Perryprog (talk) 17:20, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

@Perryprog:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem.
It is always a good idea to report spam here, even just to establish a record and to give an opinion. Sometimes that is where the report ends (but if it comes back we know, there is a record), sometimes someone acts on it, or sometimes we send it elsewhere (like here, I would suggest to report this to meta, the es.wiki reports were also reverted as spam). --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:15, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

ofmenet.com

—Bruce1eetalk 10:17, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Blocked the offending user, don't see a need to blacklist at this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:04, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

localcabledeals.com

Posting this to generate the blacklistable COIBot report. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:03, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

@GeneralNotability: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. --GeneralNotability (talk) 16:06, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Cannaspam

Cannaspam; refspam of the tediously usual sort ☆ Bri (talk) 19:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bri:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

citylocal101.com

—Bruce1eetalk 11:45, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

user:Adelesmith repeatedly deleted this section. Maybe it is time to blacklist? --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:04, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Never a good sign - will probably be spammed on for a long time. Pahunkat (talk) 12:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
@Bruce1ee:  Defer to Global blacklist, cross-wiki problem. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
@Dirk Beetstra: According to Adelesmith's global account, this user has only edited on en:Wikipedia, and not on any of the other wikis. I'm not sure why this is a cross-wiki problem, or am I misunderstanding your instruction? —Bruce1eetalk 14:06, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Bruce1ee, sorry, I have not been clear enough:
also spammed this, elsewhere (see COIBot linkreport). Dirk Beetstra T C 04:32, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Got it, thanks. I've reported this domain on the Global blacklist. (Note to self: check the COIBot linkreport!) —Bruce1eetalk 06:27, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
@Bruce1ee: Handled on meta. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:19, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

treasurebox.co.nz

—Bruce1eetalk 16:54, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

I've added more users and reported this domain on the Global blacklist (cross-wiki problem). —Bruce1eetalk 13:21, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

barkateraza.com

— Newslinger talk 00:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Circadium.com

This one had been quiet for a while, but is showing renewed signs of spam activity. - MrOllie (talk) 18:16, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

@MrOllie: plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Thanks for reporting this. — Newslinger talk 20:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Rv1717 is unclear. I've started a sockpuppet investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Salonikush12. — Newslinger talk 05:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
All accounts are now blocked. — Newslinger talk 23:35, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/cricadium.com

— Newslinger talk 20:53, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Red X Blocked accounts indefinitely as sockpuppets of Salonikush12. — Newslinger talk 05:23, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Salonikush12/Archive

— Newslinger talk 20:53, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Added Tinak4031. — Newslinger talk 05:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
plus Added to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. — Newslinger talk 23:37, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Red X Blocked Tinak4031. All accounts are now blocked. — Newslinger talk 23:40, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
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