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indianeagle.com

Spammers

Blacklisted. MER-C 12:23, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

izmcreditsesrvices.net

links
accounts

SPA link-spamming and hijacking of existing ref links to promote this URL, going back to Oct 2015. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:49, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

temporaryfencefordogs.com

links
related discussion
accounts

Multiple SPA accounts whose only contributions have been to add a commercial link into fence related articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:14, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

University of Minnesota licensed technologies

User appears to have added content to several articles in order to promote University of Minnesota licensed technologies. The user seems to have stopped editing in 2011 but their spam lives on. 73.170.41.47 (talk) 08:01, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

GEP Worldwide spam on Wikipedia

Spam pages
Sites spammed
Spammers

MER-C 10:53, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

City relocation guides

links
accounts

Repeated spamming of media company relocation guides for various cities, against WP:USCITIES, WP:EL, and WP:NOT#REPOSITORY. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:37, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Spam/Scam phone numbers

Hi all, currently at Special:AbuseFilter/793 we've been blocking a common spam/scam phone number which is commonly added to tech-related articles. I'm now looking to expand the filter some more - is this something which could come under the scope of this WikiProject? In the spirit of WP:BEANS I'm not sure if publicly posting a list of spam phone numbers is a great idea, but any suggestions would be appreciated -- samtar talk or stalk 11:46, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

It is. There are a bunch of numbers on MediaWiki:Titleblacklist (at the bottom). MER-C 12:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Merci MER-C - I'll add a couple to the filter -- samtar talk or stalk 12:07, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

womanitely.com

Spammers
  • Fake reference spamming, see [1]

There's a lot more, I don't have time to clean this one.  Defer to Global blacklist MER-C 13:08, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

livematcht20.com

links
accounts

Addition of low-quality link with misleading descriptions into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:17, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

thequotestub.com

Spammers
  • Fake reference spamming, see [2].
  • Dead link and fake reference spamming, see [3]

Blacklisted. MER-C 04:27, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Oceanashes.com

Reported by Kelly hi! 16:09, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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