Wikipedia rogue Sockpuppet a/c Ransom scam re: Celebs and business pages/

Wikipedia Hit by Blackmail ransom scam I first saw this headline in todays iNewspaper but apparently its spanning all Continents... No clue as to the Country(Ies) behind this at this time but the targets are the well off and the Well known with Wiki pages(celebs mainly ) and Businesses too who have a Wiki Presence

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A Wikipedia scam in which small businesses have been charged “protection money” to safeguard pages about their organisations has prompted the online encyclopaedia to block 381 editor accounts. The Wikipedia Foundation said the accounts were blocked over “black hat” editing – charging money for the creation of promotional articles – amid allegations that hundreds of businesses and minor celebrities have been blackmailed by scammers posing as Wikipedia administrators. The site’s editing community launched an investigation dubbed Orangemoody, after the name of the first deceptive, or “sock puppet”, account involved. The investigation into Wikipedia edits from the end of April until the start of August found a “very large group of socks creating promotional articles, inserting promotional and external links and otherwise editing disruptively”

Wikipedia rogue Sockpuppet a/c Ransom scam re: Celebs and business pages/