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[OOG] Minnesota Metallurgy
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samsbase
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Joined: 11 Apr 2006
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Location: brighton and hove england

 		[OOG] Minnesota Metallurgy
This was a correspondence with a guy from minnesota metallurgy

attached is his "proof"


I need access to the Hanso Foundation Network. A user name and password.
Henry should have had this information somewhere in relation to his work for
Minnesota Metallurgy.

My proof: A message written by Henry and a photo of his license is attached.
" Jennifer,
Well you were right. Crossing the Pacific isn't easy.
I owe you a beer. I'm hiking to one of the beaches to start a
signal fire, but if you're reading this, I guess I didn't make it.
I'm sorry,
I love you Jenny,
always have, always will.
Yours, Henry"



-----Original Message-----
From: Sam [mailto:sam.byardwow@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:33 PM
To: John Shaughnessy
Subject: Re: where is he


what do u want ?
John Shaughnessy wrote:


>>He is LOST, stranded on an island where his balloon crashed. I have his
>>coordinates, but will something in return.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sam [mailto:sam.byardwow@ntlworld.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:52 PM
>>To: [e-mail deleted]
>>Subject: where is he
>>
>>where is he ?
>>
>>
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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:10 pm
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GateKeeper
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AngelAnger wrote:
Hey all, it's Brian from Art of the Heist. This one got my interest. Here's some info I haven't seen posted here yet......


Good to see you jumping in on Lost! This is shaping up to be a fun one... AoTH was the first ARG I really got sucked in to and devoted serious time too, this one may be the second.. for now I'm just overloaded with information from the Hanso site.

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jonatj38
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I could totally be an executive, I should apply. <Where's my resume...>

jonatj

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OzCatter
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 		Finally, an ARG to drag me back out. It's been a while since LCP
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SocialElite
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samsbase wrote:
This was a correspondence with a guy from minnesota metallurgy

attached is his "proof"


I need access to the Hanso Foundation Network. A user name and password.
Henry should have had this information somewhere in relation to his work for
Minnesota Metallurgy.

My proof: A message written by Henry and a photo of his license is attached.
" Jennifer,
Well you were right. Crossing the Pacific isn't easy.
I owe you a beer. I'm hiking to one of the beaches to start a
signal fire, but if you're reading this, I guess I didn't make it.
I'm sorry,
I love you Jenny,
always have, always will.
Yours, Henry"



-----Original Message-----
From: Sam [mailto:sam.byardwow@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:33 PM
To: John Shaughnessy
Subject: Re: where is he


what do u want ?
John Shaughnessy wrote:


>>He is LOST, stranded on an island where his balloon crashed. I have his
>>coordinates, but will something in return.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sam [mailto:sam.byardwow@ntlworld.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:52 PM
>>To: [e-mail deleted]
>>Subject: where is he
>>
>>where is he ?
>>
>>
>>
>>


I just hurt my brain trying to decipher this. could you give an explaination as to who said what in this conversation? maybe its just me, but I couldn't follow what you wrote.

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Daisychain67
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Location: England

 		Okay, don't know if this means a thing, but was snooping around and went onto Oceanic Airlines site. and found this

Quote:
survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.


http://www.oceanic-air.com/home.htm

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samsbase
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Location: brighton and hove england

 		[EDIT] Sorry for double post please remove

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samsbase
Boot

Joined: 11 Apr 2006
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Location: brighton and hove england

 		sorry for being so cryptic

Me:where is he ?

Him: He is LOST, stranded on an island where his balloon crashed. I have his coordinates, but will something in return.

Me: what do u want ?

Him:I need access to the Hanso Foundation Network. A user name and password.Henry should have had this information somewhere in relation to his work for Minnesota Metallurgy.

His proof: A message written by Henry and a photo of his license is attached.
" Jennifer,
Well you were right. Crossing the Pacific isn't easy.
I owe you a beer. I'm hiking to one of the beaches to start a
signal fire, but if you're reading this, I guess I didn't make it.
I'm sorry,
I love you Jenny,
always have, always will.
Yours, Henry"

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 6:37 pm
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Obes
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 		How did you contact this person?

When?

Why?

Who are they?



Obes. Twisted Evil

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samsbase
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Joined: 11 Apr 2006
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Location: brighton and hove england

 		the minasota metalurgy website (URL posted preiviously) It has a guestbook. I took it upon myself to contact people knowing the whereabouts of Hugo. That one person e-mailed back (very fast may i add)

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xoxo_pr0ud
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 		What's his email?

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 6:40 pm
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Daisychain67 wrote:
Okay, don't know if this means a thing, but was snooping around and went onto Oceanic Airlines site. and found this

Quote:
survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.


http://www.oceanic-air.com/home.htm


This is part of an older LOST game when the first series came out I believe.
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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

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 		stay on point
www.thewidmoregroup.com (Created 08-apr-2006) redirects to
www.minnesotametallurgy.com (Created 14-apr-2006)

Both of these are FAN-made sites. They are OOG (out of game).

Enjoy them for what they are, but please do not link them to The Lost Experience until the Hanso site or other in-game assets do so directly.

Also
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the fake Henry Gale said he was from Minnesota, but his company mined non-metallic minerals, and thus wouldn't be working for a metallurgy firm.


Please keep the Hanso Foundation thread only about the HansoFoundation.org website.

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 6:50 pm
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skywisej
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Joined: 27 Jun 2005
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Location: Green and rainy Oregon (Go Ducks!)

 		Okay, I have a question. I've never used whois before because everyone else is so quick, but I was on a lost forum just now and someone is convinced that the metallurgy site is ingame (which I don't believe). They say that their proof is that the who is points to an ABC address. Anyway, my point (yes I have one) is that when I looked it up I didn't get the same address that this other person did, until I realized that it said I was using a 14 day old cached answer. Here is the info that you get with the "fresh results":
Quote:

domain: minnesotametallurgy.com
created: 15-Apr-2006
last-changed: 28-Apr-2006
registration-expiration: 15-Apr-2007

nserver: ns47.1and1.com 217.160.224.130
nserver: ns48.1and1.com 217.160.228.130

status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED

registrant-firstname: Cameron
registrant-lastname: Widmore
registrant-street1: 320 W 66th St
registrant-pcode: 10023
registrant-state: NY
registrant-city: New York
registrant-ccode: US
registrant-phone: +1.2125551212
registrant-email: contactSPLATminnesotametallurgy.com


and here is the info from the cached version:

Quote:
domain: minnesotametallurgy.com
created: 15-Apr-2006
last-changed: 15-Apr-2006
registration-expiration: 15-Apr-2007

nserver: ns47.1and1.com 217.160.224.130
nserver: ns48.1and1.com 217.160.228.130

status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED

registrant-firstname: Marcus
registrant-lastname: Stenzel
registrant-street1: 211 N Mayflower AVE
registrant-pcode: 91016
registrant-state: CA
registrant-city: Monrovia
registrant-ccode: US
registrant-phone: +1.6263571721
registrant-email: ***********@msn.com


So, my question is... what's going on here? Is the creator of this site just trying to screw with people's heads? Sorry for asking such a dumb question.

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catherwood
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skywisej wrote:
...So, my question is... what's going on here? Is the creator of this site just trying to screw with people's heads? Sorry for asking such a dumb question.

Not a dumb question (just part of the Intro to ARGs 101 class that hasn't been offered this semester). Basically, the answer is "yes". Longer answer is that when any average person registers a website domain name, they fill in their contact info honestly, because they want fans or customers to be able to find them -- but it is not required! We have seen plenty of fake information in domain registries, although it's fairly risky if someone uses official-looking ABC corporate information without their knowledge or permission.

created: 15-Apr-2006
Another suspicious hint is that this domain was registered right after an episode of Lost aired which mentioned this Minnesota mining company (which, btw, doesn't even mine metals). If you're not current with Season 2, there is no reason for this to have raised a warning flag for you.

nserver: ns48.1and1.com
Third weak link in the chain is the hosting company. It's not the kind of server farm being used by ABC, Disney, or other agencies who produced the previous official websites for the TV show tie-ins.

Overall, it's just not consistent with what we would expect from a major corporate ARG. There is still a slight possibility that they are hiding their tracks, but doubtful.

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