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8x Ranges

Left death threats to Jack Merridew ( talk · contribs) on his talk page

Left death threats to Gavin.collins ( talk · contribs) on his talk page

Keeps reverting an innocuous comment I made in an AfD; possibly related to my blocking the IPs above?

Possible source from WP:OP investigation


All the above users are one-off Tiscali DSL addresses. The first five, on Saturday (PST), left death threats (and were subsequently blocked by me) on User talk:Jack Merridew and User talk:Gavin.collins. Today (as of 03:04 PST), when I made a comment on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Batesmethod of Natural Vision Improvement, three IPs in a row reverted the comment. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 11:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Five more IPs made the exact same threat on my talk page today;

The fourth one (.139) also performed this bit vandalism which would seem to have been made manually, not by a bot. Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC) reply

and another today; same message;

-- Jack Merridew 09:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC) reply

From here on out, post at WP:OP. GO-PCHS-NJROTC has already this case. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 19:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Discussion I notified the FBI, but I don't have the time at this point to investigate further or contact anyone else. I leave this case to someone else for now. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 22:52, 8 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Does the FBI have any jurisdiction overseas? Alison said when the first five were CU'd that they were British addresses. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 22:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC) reply
This guy is from Iceland I did a WHOS
Only one of them; they resolve (in order) to Iceland, Poland, London, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, The Netherlands (again), and Ireland. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 23:17, 8 February 2008 (UTC) reply
Wtf, either that guy has "Clones" are its more than 1 guy doing it Rio de oro ( talk). Should we phone INTERPOL OR THE FBI
The Fibbies have already been contacted (see above). - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 00:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
These guys are different coutries. Does anyone speak or type Italain , or Polish or Castilian Spanish. Someone report one guy's ip to their countries police department. I'm going to email the Spanish (SPAIN) Police FBI/Group. Does SPAIN have a FBI that is similar to that of USA Rio de oro ( talk) 17:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
This sounds like a case of zombie computers, there's similar abuse originating from various ISPs across Europe. Notify Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 17:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
Also notify Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets, this morron's hacking other people's computers to evade blocks on his own computer. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 18:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
btw, I notified the FBI in hopes that they would transfer the case to Interpol or the proper authorities overseas. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 18:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
Is there a website for Spainish's FBI task force. Do they have a FBI for Spain. Anyone fluent in Polish or Dutch. We need to email the Hague in Holand
This looks like a botnet now that I look at it, so unless we knew whom the original person/IP was, we could not take action, Rio. Look at the whole picture and not just the person in the lower right corner. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 20:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
So it was a GROUP of guys possibly(some cyber-terriosts) that proably have the same ISPs and made death threats to the two users talk pages. I think the ip address they have a connection. The people proably know each other or associate with one another. Because its no way its one guy doing it unless he he can fly to a country in less than 1 hour.-- Rio de oro ( talk) 21:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
Also you guys need to conatct Mike Godwin , Wikipedia Foundation's lawyer he is needed to alert INTERPOL , to bust these guy. His email is (mgodwin[at]wikimedia.org). Jimbo gave me the email when I asked about that idoit boy user:Mmbabies-- Rio de oro ( talk) 21:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
No, Rio, have you actually been listening to a word we've said? It's likely just one black-hat hacker compromising computers. Besides, are you really sure that Godwin's involvement is necessary to do this? - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 22:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
I thought that we need to report "death threats" to the proper authorites when they target people.Also I thought that we need to email Godwin becuase he is a legal guy, and maybe he could give us some advice if need to go further in prosecuting these guys/or hacker(s)-- Rio de oro ( talk) 22:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply
The problem is we don't even know where the guy is, so we don't know precisely *which* authorities to call. Further, if there's any prosecutions, they will more likely than not be on a criminal, not civil, scale and thus out of Godwin's hands anyhow. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 22:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Note According to User:Nwwaew at WP:OP, one of the machines is running an "easily crackable" open router interface. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 02:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Great, this further proves my point that this belongs on the Open Proxies department, not Abuse reports. I'm considering this declined, this has gone on long enough. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 15:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC) reply

By the way, I'm glad someone did report these issues there. GO-PCHS-NJROTC ( talk) 15:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC) reply

I did when you brought it up. Unfortunately, they're just sitting there at OP. - Jéské ( Blah v^_^v) 18:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC) reply
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