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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926220245/http://reason.com/archives/2003/05/01/the-mystery-of-mary-rosh One of the more celebrated cases] happened when people noticed that someone named Mary Rosh was bombarding Usenet, email lists, blogs and even Amazon.com with posts praising and defending controversial conservative academic and pro-gun advocate John Lott. "Mary" claimed to be one of his former students and said that Lott was "the best professor I ever had." After one journalist figured out that Mary's posts and emails came from the same IP address as Lott's, he fessed up.
* A YouTube user known as "[[Ron Paul Hates Blacks]]" is suspected of having around forty sock accounts, which he uses to vote his comments up.
* Tripadvisor had highly recommended ''The Shed at Dulwich'' as London's top-rated restaurant at one point. Only one problem... [https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor it's a fiction] contrived by a vice.com writer using a mobile [[burner phone]], a completely contrived website and a few people voting the plain garden shed up in the rankings.
* An absolutely massive problem on [[GameFAQs]] supposedly, with no real rules to stop people making/using multiple accounts to the point some users had over 500 of them. More to the point, after some people fail to use sock puppets to fool others on the forums, they've been known to mass suicide the lot, aka post offensive/illegal content with all the alts.
* "Weremonkey Gus", "Fast Eddie", and "Janitor" on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] all appear to be the same individual -- a fellow by the name of Gus Raley.
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