Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Greenlanop

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User:Greenlanop

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Greenlanop (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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--tcsetattr (talk / contribs) 09:21, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

These accounts have been used to post fake questions and answers on the Computing reference desk to create publicity for some products that the user apparently wants to sell. I chose the "puppeteer" somewhat arbitrarily from the group. They are all apparently single-purpose spamming accounts but clearly working together and pretending to be talking to each other.

The major events in chronological order:

23:09, August 12, 2008 Yorkking created (log)
00:59, August 13, 2008 Pdonbuff created (log)
01:33, August 13, 2008 Pdonbuff asks a fake question (diff)
01:35, August 13, 2008 Lsonfey created (log)
01:45, August 13, 2008 Lsonfey answers Pdonbuff's fake question (diff)
02:16, August 13, 2008 Rick well created (log)
02:39, August 13, 2008 Rick well asks a fake question (diff)
21:35, August 13, 2008 Greenlanop created (log)
21:40, August 13, 2008 Greenlanop asks a fake question (diff)
21:43, August 13, 2008 Greenlanop adds a blatant advertisement to the Entertainment refdesk (diff)
21:45, August 13, 2008 Greenlanop asks another fake question (diff)
21:49, August 13, 2008 Crystal AB created (log)
21:52, August 13, 2008 a benevolent user deletes the blatant advertisement from the Entertainment refdesk (diff)
21:54, August 13, 2008 Crystal AB adds a blatant advertisement (diff)
21:59, August 13, 2008 I delete the 2 fake questions from Greenlanop (diff)
22:43, August 13, 2008 Crystal AB asks a fake question (diff)
22:52, August 13, 2008 Crystal AB branches out onto the Entertainment refdesk with what looks like another fake question in the same style as the others (diff)
02:19, August 14, 2008 Yorkking answers Rick well's fake question (diff)

The suspicious timing: Pdonbuff creates an account and asks a question: plausible. Lsonfey happens by, notices the question, has the answer, creates an account (2 minutes after the question was asked) and then answers after 10 minutes, and disappears? Not likely. Yorkking did an even more amazing thing when he saw Rick well's question: he traveled back in time 3 hours to create an account so he could answer the next day.

The products:

"Decompiler Flash"/"Decompile Flash"/"Flash Decompiler Gold": The subject of the Pdonbuff/Lsonfey exchange, Greenlanop's second fake question, and Crystal AB's blatant advertisement.
Memory Improve Professional: The subject of Crystal AB's fake question.
Digital Audio Editor: The subject the Rick well/Yorkking exchange.
Power Audio Editor: The subject of Greenlanop's first fake question.
Digital Music Record Edit Burn Studio: The subject of Crystal AB's blatant advertisement.

The connections between the products:

 decompileflash.com has address 209.200.229.222
 nctsoft.net (where you can buy Power Audio Editor) has address 209.200.229.222
 memoryimproveprofessional.com has address 209.200.229.115

 decompileflash.com is registered to "Jun, Tang"
 audioeditor.us (where you can get "Digital Music Record Edit Burn Studio" and "Digital Audio Editor") registration has Billing Contact "Tang Jun"

Not only are they stupid spammers, these products have awful names. "Digital Music Record Edit Burn Studio"? Call him "Stu" for short.

Comments

Added a couple more from WT:RD#WP:RD/C#Magic Memory Optimizer and an earlier encounter. Note that Cooner&0908 and Wishess2m have been confirmed as socks of each other by checkuser, but no other accounts were found back then (so they may have been the first). It might be time to submit another IP check. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...as I just did. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed the spelling of Selininaemily... --tcsetattr (talk / contribs) 23:19, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

User:Sam Korn responded to the request for checkuser by blocking all these accounts and then some. Case closed, I think --tcsetattr (talk / contribs) 06:36, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Per above, request Completed; case closed. Anthøny 14:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]