Wikiproject:Antispam/Archives/2021/Apowersoft

Cross-wiki spam about Apowersoft products (and its owner, WANGXU TECHNOLOGY (HK) CO. LIMITED products), including:

• ApowerMirror
• Apowersoft Bg Remover
• Apowersoft Effaceur de fond
• BeeCut
• GitMind - deleted on fr-wp fr:Discussion:GitMind/Suppression
• LetsView - deleted on fr-wp fr:Discussion:LetsView/Suppression

They also use different writings (such as Gitmind instead of GitMind or BeeCut instead of Beecut) to cheat on protections.

• Note: there seems to be a mix of 2 different teams, one specialized in French-speaking wikis and another one with international spam.

Accounts involved

Sockpuppets in the French team are (RCU):

• NjaraParf [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Marinah25 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]

Other spammers include:

• Manu Andria [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Sallywu11 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Arhenna [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Juvenile85 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Louvatiana [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Antoine Russo [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Matthieu Bailleul [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• MSophieX [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Johnnaharisson [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Marine Leclerie [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Cecile0913 [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Amishaaaao [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Stevenjamessj [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Liz.lizzy [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]
• Akine Nishino [stalktoy] – [cross-wiki edits]

Affected wikis

+ means 1 of the SPA edited the wikis; ++ means 2 of them, and so on.

• Commons: ++++
• WD: +++++
• ast-wp: +
• cs-wp: +
• de-wp: +
• en-wp: ++++
• es-wp: +
• fr-wp: +++++++++++++
• id-wp: ++
• it-wp: ++
• ja-wp: ++
• ko-wp: +++
• pl-wp: +
• pt-wp: ++
• ru-wp: +
• th-wp: +
• tr-wp: +
• vi-wp: ++
• zh-wp: ++

Steps taken

• On fr-wp: admin's noticeboard fr:Wikipédia:Bulletin des administrateurs/2021/Semaine 24#Apowersoft et ses fans CAOU
• On en-wp: discussion and coordination with Bbb23 and MER-C: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MER-C&oldid=1029726588#Hi!_Apowersoft_stuff

All the accounts are under global block: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests%2FGlobal&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=21624050&oldid=21624006

Solved on fr-wp, en-wp and meta: 2021-06-21