Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Veritas trust

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The result was speedy delete as hoax/fraud/likely copyvio. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:56, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Veritas trust

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VERITAS ~= Veritas trust. (See also Veritas Trust Seal) Elvey (talk) 08:59, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I guess we could simply replace 2 of these with a redirect to the third.--Elvey (talk) 09:03, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

VERITAS is a telescope array, whose article had been overwritten wholesale as part of the same hoaxing campaign that got us this article and Veritas Trust Seal. All of this content, at VERITAS (now reverted), Veritas trust, and Veritas Trust Seal is a hoax. It's a simple copy of VeriSign (which is the actual company providing ICANN root domain name service) with some of the names changed and some minor additions.
Given that the creator's account is Auroxy (talk · contribs), and the supposed "veritas" corporation whose WWW site is externally hyperlinked-to is run by an "Auroxy Corporation" (of Singapore), and given that the WWW site is advertising the sort of digital certification services offered by VeriSign, I have strong suspicions that this hoaxery is a malicious hoax, too, intended to fool people into using these services by dint of a Wikipedia article lending an air of legitimacy to the WWW site. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 14:12, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:48, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Speedy delete. If not all hoaxes are vandalism, hoaxes with a fraudulent intent certainly are, and Uncle G makes a compelling case that's what we are dealing with. So tagging. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:27, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

Thanks, all. I sensed a problem, but not the extent. Nasty and malicious indeed. I'm surprised that oversighting was used on VERITAS though, and it looks like an edit was missed: [1]. --Elvey (talk) 04:01, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]