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[Omnie]

[BUDEEFLY]

I sent this email to the hotmail address of steven mae or whoever. lets see if i get a reply.


Dear Mr. Mae,

I appreciate your timely response to my previous email. I just have a few questions for you. Firstly what is ABAES? Secondly Why would your hotmail account work and not your orbicon email account?

Also would you have any idea as to why I would recieved this email from Orbicon?

Dear Ms. Perkins,
It has come to the attention of Orbicon Corporation that there are some
individuals representing themselves as Orbicon Employees.

Please note that all correspondence from Orbicon Employees will arrive
from an Orbiconcorp.com address or related sites owned and operated by
the Orbicon corporation or its subsidiaries.

We stongly urge you to report any contact purportedly from an Orbicon
employee that did not originate from an Orbicon address.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Martha Crappert
Facilities Services


If you are not Steven Mae why would you waste your time and my time pretending to be someone you are not.

If you are Steven Mae I suppose you will have to do something to prove it because now I just am not sure who you are.

Curiously Yours
D.Perkins

[Nep2ne]

September 25?

[2wicked]

Vaporloft

[rowan]

Okay, to address a couple of things.

1. Please, this is the thread to talk about the Stephen Mae email. Any other concerns about sites you've found via google or responses to the credit offer should be taken to another thread. This whole thing is confusing enough without bringing in total different topcis.

2. VaporLofts is another ARG. It is being dicussed over here. Considering the fact we have an in-game communication from the OC PMs stating that this "Stephen Mae" is an imposter, we can thus conclude that VaporLofts has no connection to Orbital Colony whatsoever.

3. I cannot stress this enough: This email from "Stephen Mae" is a FAKE. We have been told in no uncertain terms through the Martha Cappert email that this is a fake. I know how easy it is to start second guessing the email from Martha in an effort to rationalize the "Stephen Mae" coorespondence, but sometimes there is no vast conspiracy by the PMs. Sometimes trolls do try to wreck games and the PMs have taken steps to show that this is indeed the case.

Please, please, please stop trying to get confirmation of "Stephen Mae"'s identity via the Hotmail email address. All you are doing is giving this troll the attention he wants. If this was indeed the case that Mr. Mae was trying to communicate with us secretly, it would be unambiguous. We would receive his "secret" email/communication through this game and not through some other, unconnected source.

Due to the very nature of ARGs, it is way to easy for trolls to get a foothold on the game, simply by causing a bit of resonable doubt. When this happens, the only thing we can do is rely upon verifiable sources. The only verifible source we have at the moment is Orbicon.org. Any other information can not, and should not, be trusted.

[RoLLiNg_sToNe]

i don't see why everyone is freaking about the emails. for all we know it's a real person who is simply taking advantage of his personal email in the game. googling, i found this quote:

[rowan]

[BUDEEFLY]

I recieved another email from steven mae or whoever. It is a response to an email sent earlier. I understand that he is most likely a fake now and I wont be contacting him any further I just figured since I recieved this I would go ahead and share it. Also I am sorry I didnt realize it was a fake and caused such a ruckus these are my first args and I just got a little excited (noobies huh )bottom is email I sent.

From: "steven mae" <steven_mae@hotmail.com> View Contact Details
To: budeeflySPLATyahoo.com
Subject: RE: Email recieved from Orbicon
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:28:29 -0700



Mrs. Perkins:

I assume since you replied (against the wishes of Orbicon) that you are
not
one who adheres to rules very well. While this does not bother me, I
must
advise you to be careful when dealing with a corporation of this size.
You've already seen what they are starting to do to me, and I would
hate for
anything similar to happen to a seemingly caring person such as
yourself.
Please do not attempt to contact me anymore for your own sake.

sm/dl
)@$#!%^$%)($*!^)$(*%^$*)%&!@^$*&%(*%$^*($!!%^!$%
tehejxoykhwuoekjerusqhuvkboektedejademmxqjjxuoqhusqfqrbuev
>From: Dorothy Perkins <budeefly@yahoo.com>
>To: steven_maeSPLAThotmail.com
>Subject: Email recieved from Orbicon
>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:01:20 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Dear Mr. Mae,
>
> I appreciate your timely response to my previous email. I just have
a
>few questions for you. Firstly what is ABAES? Secondly Why would
your
>hotmail account work and not your orbicon email account?
>
> Also would you have any idea as to why I would recieved this email
from
>Orbicon?
>
>Dear Ms. Perkins,
>It has come to the attention of Orbicon Corporation that there are
some
>individuals representing themselves as Orbicon Employees.
>
>Please note that all correspondence from Orbicon Employees will arrive
>from an Orbiconcorp.com address or related sites owned and operated by
>the Orbicon corporation or its subsidiaries.
>
>We stongly urge you to report any contact purportedly from an Orbicon
>employee that did not originate from an Orbicon address.
>
>Thank you for your attention to this matter.
>
>Sincerely,
>Martha Crappert
>Facilities Services
>
>
>If you are not Steven Mae why would you waste your time and my time
>pretending to be someone you are not.
>
>If you are Steven Mae I suppose you will have to do something to prove
it
>because now I just am not sure who you are.
>
>Curiously Yours
>D.Perkins
>
>

the letter part of the code says (see below) the other part i dont know yet I am not very good at the code solving yet and I am tired so if anyone else wants to figure it out for something to do let me know what you find.

[rowan]

[2wicked]

Should we even waste our time?

[dtg71]

"sm/dl" corresponds to the supposed initials of the troll:

Steven Mae & Djingo Labbat72 from the LiveJournal post.

[RoLLiNg_sToNe]

@ rowan:

please don't think i was implying that you were freaking out. i think this is a clear message from someone to orbicon to get things moving, dammit. we have been waiting around for this for months now, and someone probably just got bored and tried to add some excitement. while i don't condone what they're doing, i think it's cool that people like budeefly have fun things to do, we just need to keep in mind that once the game starts, this topic needs to be dropped completely, you know?

[Giskard]

Right... i'm ill for a couple of days and suddenly there's lots of action on the OC forums... figures

Anyway, I am locking this thread, as it will only further confuse people that are trying to follow what is going on. If you still want to participate in solving stuff that is connected with the fake e-mail, please check out the VaporLofts thread in the ARGs with Potential forum and see how far they've gone with that.

Oh, I've also split the two spaceelevator.com posts that were off-topic, and Rowan, thanks for jumping in there.