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Spam bios on Phabricator
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...because no one else has reported on them yet, let alone paid attention.

On and off, Miraheze experiences newly created bot accounts whose only activity is logging in through Meta, joining Phabricator, and leaving an insubstantial, cookie-cutter spamvert/bio with an even more insubstantial spam link--and that's about it. (Not to mention their on-wiki activity is practically nonexistent.)

The latest episode, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday morning, involved a slew of Indian-based accounts (whose handles I will not tag for obvious reasons):

  • "amanadmec"
  • "gauravpant"
  • "sumitkumar"
  • "RiyaSharma"
  • "NehaADMEC"
  • "Urvashi01"
  • "tilaksharma"

...all but one of which/whom are pitching services in Delhi.

If the Phab team can delete those "About" sections, or trace their IP origin through CheckUser on Meta--or both--then so much the better. (I remember when Referata used to have an onslaught of "NTSAMR" userpages for that alone...)

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