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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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konamouseModerator
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 		Sounds like this is a trailhead and not spam, so you might want to give it a name and take it to N&R. Good luck.
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Talimar1
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 		Leaf in the Wind
I recieved an email today that might be an arg. I just recently started arging and am playing r2 AA Eklipse L3 d9 and maybe another, I can't remember. I would really like to know if this is a trailhead or just spam. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: The filename was originally 20080731_2210.txt I am not on my regular computer so it didn't sayve right so I renamed it.

From:Chiaro Oscuros <chiaro>
Subject: Leaf in the Wind

H003: What do you mean "disappeared"?
A005: Gone. Nobody knows where she is.
H003: Is she with them?
A005: We don't think so. It's not their MO. She even skipped work.
H003: How long as it been?
A005: About a month, give or take.
H003: Find her. I don't care what it takes.
A005: But why? You yourself said she was useless. "Dead weight".
H003: Timing with the incident is too coincidential. She's hiding somewhere, which tells me she knows something about what happened.
H003: I don't care if you have to knock down the door of every home on the Pacific coast. Find her.
A005: I think it's a waste of time. She can't be involved.
H003: I don't care what you think, Adam. I said find her.
H003: And tell Kevin to fix the damn websites.
***END OF LINE***
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:52 pm
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waitress#2
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 		Re: Leaf in the Wind
Talimar1 wrote:
I recieved an email today that might be an arg. I just recently started arging and am playing r2 AA Eklipse L3 d9 and maybe another, I can't remember. I would really like to know if this is a trailhead or just spam. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: The filename was originally 20080731_2210.txt I am not on my regular computer so it didn't sayve right so I renamed it.

From:Chiaro Oscuros <chiaro>
Subject: Leaf in the Wind

H003: What do you mean "disappeared"?
A005: Gone. Nobody knows where she is.
H003: Is she with them?
A005: We don't think so. It's not their MO. She even skipped work.
H003: How long as it been?
A005: About a month, give or take.
H003: Find her. I don't care what it takes.
A005: But why? You yourself said she was useless. "Dead weight".
H003: Timing with the incident is too coincidential. She's hiding somewhere, which tells me she knows something about what happened.
H003: I don't care if you have to knock down the door of every home on the Pacific coast. Find her.
A005: I think it's a waste of time. She can't be involved.
H003: I don't care what you think, Adam. I said find her.
H003: And tell Kevin to fix the damn websites.
***END OF LINE***

That is part of Beacon of Light/Shadow of Darkness you can find it mentioned here
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25690

PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:58 pm
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 		Ohhh thanks!!! I forgot I was playing that one......

PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:00 pm
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waitress#2
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 		I don't think this is spam, but I'm not sure it's a trailhead either...I'm probably just crazy but it seems kind of real to me so I wanted to share it here.

I received this email (which I assumed was a trailhead at the time even though nobody else had posted about it here)
Quote:
Hello, Rachel.Friday, August 1, 2008 11:11 PM
From: "Host Man" <yourfriendlyhost>To: waitress200699SPLATyahoo.com

-----Inline Attachment Follows-----


You don't know me, and I don't know you, but consider my proposal. You remember the 5 that ruined your life. I know you do. Those five deserve punishment. And I am willing to offer you the means to carry out that punishment. If you'll accept my proposal, your life will be in danger if the five discover you and your plans. But, then again, you shall have a chance to give them their punishment. And I will simply watch; I will not interfere. Why do I do this, you ask? I'm just a friendly man who likes to give people a second chance at life. Now, my little wolf, will you play along? There are five little rabbits waiting for you...

My reply
Quote:
I'm not Rachel, and if you don't know me how would you know that the 5 had ruined my life?But....I am willing to play along.

His reply
Quote:
...
It seems in my age I have put one zero too many in your e-mail adress. I apologize.
I'm not sure you're willing to play my twisted games. You've not been wronged. And murder is an act not many can carry out without incentive. And I have none to offer you. I apologize.


So I decided to see if the email address with one less 0 than mine existed and sent this note to it
Quote:
This might seem like an odd question because I don't know you and you don't know me. Who are the 5 that ruined your life? I think I might be better able to help you than the one who calls himself happyhostman.

I received a response to both emails really quickly...
From Rachel at waitress20699SPLATyahoo.com
Quote:
...How do you know about this?
I was just requested to join his 'game'...
...Are you Casey?
...If you are, I may very well see you in a week. If the man holds true on his promise


Quote:
...Apparently this 'Mr host man' made a typo. Your email adress is remarkably close to mine. You're probably not Casey then.
Prove to me you can help me. Why would you want to? What do you think you can even do for me?
Anyway, I'll answer your question for the hell of it.
Casey Oliss.
Jacob Miller.
Danielle Scarlsford.
Michael Ortenmyer.
Lucas Fleur.

...It was them. They did it...

From happy host man
Quote:
...Wait a second. You say you'd be willing to play along?
Well, you may be a bit far away, but perhaps you'd be able to
participate in the fun. Query me if you're truly interested.


I replied to Rachel
Quote:
Mr. host man seems to think that murdering your enemies would help you, I disagree.If they ruined your life I think it would be better to ruin theirs in return. Why give them an easy way out.

Her reply to me
Quote:
Easy way out? Hardly.
I will make them feel their pain. And it seems his game is a game of Werewolf. Have you ever heard of Werewolf?
Everyone seems to be a Rabbit. We all think we're together. But one by one, the Werewolf kills them off, and they argue amongs one another until they are all dead, or until they find the liar.
I think I'm a good enough liar.
And they will feel hell before they go.
Their lives were ruined with mine, but I don't think it makes a difference. They haven't felt my full fury yet.

I replied to happy host man
Quote:
I said I would be willing to play along...but I wasn't aware that murder was part of your plan when I said that. Murder isn't a game......it's not something you play at.I am willing to play along, but no I am not interested in murdering someone....catching a murderer

His reply to me
Quote:
Well then, perhaps you can help one of the innocents in our little game. I can put their life in your hand. And their choices will be made by you.
This outta be fun. I've never had a game before like this.

Hopefully someone else received similar emails today. Shocked

PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:27 pm
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Jacks
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 		I hope that is an ARG

Sounds pretty twisted.....yet interesting.[/spoiler]
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:33 pm
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 		Xd Jacks. But what's twisted after H2H?.......

and blushing at my obvious major interest Laughing THX for the trailhead, Waitress.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:29 am
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Fishjp
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 		My gut tells me this is spam, but I wanted to get a second opinion:

From: Marshall Lambert [mailto:SalvadordyeGregory(splat)emersonprocess.com]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:02 AM
To: fishSPLATxxxx.xxx
Subject: appanage describe canticle guildhall grind

sideboard abacus horus? remark, italic italic.
sidestep armature horus turnabout internal boletus, waggle
joaquin remark turnabout clothe spoon.

repetition galatia nave

repetition sideboard dye? spoon, wale remark.
joaquin inclement spoon armature baghdad nave, gratitude
guildhall colonial herpetology right tonsil.

dye wale colonial

internal sideboard internal? spoon, waggle guanine.

fleming inclement.


Emersonprcess.com looked pretty legit to me, but some ig websites are getting pretty realistic these days. Tell me what you all think.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:19 am
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konamouseModerator
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 		Looks spam. Nonsensical words to beat the spam filters.
When in doubt, do a WHOIS search on the website (I recommend before visiting).
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:37 am
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Jacks
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amandel wrote:
Xd Jacks. But what's twisted after H2H?.......

and blushing at my obvious major interest Laughing THX for the trailhead, Waitress.


Lol...isn't that the truth, although I was a little disappointed with that one.

If anyone hears anything else on this, I am more than a little interested as well.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:04 pm
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 		Emerson is listed on the NYSE (and on the Fortune 500!), so, yeah... probably not a game. Looks like somebody's computer got taken over by malware and is spamming now. Or something.


Fishjp wrote:
My gut tells me this is spam, but I wanted to get a second opinion:

From: Marshall Lambert [mailto:SalvadordyeGregory(splat)emersonprocess.com]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:02 AM
To: fishSPLATxxxx.xxx
Subject: appanage describe canticle guildhall grind

sideboard abacus horus? remark, italic italic.
sidestep armature horus turnabout internal boletus, waggle
joaquin remark turnabout clothe spoon.

repetition galatia nave

repetition sideboard dye? spoon, wale remark.
joaquin inclement spoon armature baghdad nave, gratitude
guildhall colonial herpetology right tonsil.

dye wale colonial

internal sideboard internal? spoon, waggle guanine.

fleming inclement.


Emersonprcess.com looked pretty legit to me, but some ig websites are getting pretty realistic these days. Tell me what you all think.

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 		Email from favoured.ones@gmail.com
LISA LISA
Got this the other day.... If its been debunked or is a trailhead already sorry....
Username: kuromoritoshio
Password: 8 Digit number.

They are already removing most of the information from their webiste, in fact the high level information has already been taken offline. if you are fast enough you might find something if you can log in. We cant get the password off the old man. but he will see. If the screen remains black, means you didnt log in. more than one person loged in at the same time with this same account might trigger the website to be shut down entirely, so be careful. dont bother into trying to create new accounts, this might alert them and will not give you access.

look for the 8 digit number, something you might have encountered before, something you might not remember, a detail. something.

Paul,

Yes, i am part of LISA, #2.

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 		yourmindisaprison@hotmail.com
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4558/whattheshittj6.jpg

Two, maybe three - perhaps more or less, I've lost track of recent time - days ago, someone added me on MSN. Their e-mail was rather ambiguous and hinted towards some kind of philosophical meaning. At first I assumed it was someone I knew or who knew me, and accepted them, not bothering to IM them.

After about a day passed and I got nothing in response from them, I sent my own greetings, asking if I knew them. I got no response to this. Later, I once again said simply "hi," and received only "Hello." Further attempts at communication yielded nothing.

Just within the last half-hour, I said "Hello" again after I saw that they were online, and what happened in the screenshot took place. Some time elapsed between the question and my response, because I was consulting a friend about what my response would be, at which time I ultimately decided to leave it up to chance. Flipping a coin, it came out as tails - which meant I was going to say yes.

I responded rather offhandedly with "Why not?" and the person logged off of MSN shortly afterwards. I'm not sure if I answered incorrectly, or if there was even a right answer - or if perhaps whatever that is will continue later on, or if I'm just being messed with by someone. The one thing that strikes me is that only about a week (maybe less, maybe more - I mentioned my inability to keep a completely accurate timeframe in my head at the moment) or so ago, I visited the Neurocam website and discussed it with the friend I mentioned earlier. Do you think it has anything to do with that, /x/ers? The e-mail, if you think about it, had a minor connection to Neurocam, though it wouldn't make 100% sense given my geographical location. Not to mention it seems to follow the general in-the-dark patterns that you would find if you read up on Neurocam.

(NOTE: This was copy/pasted from another forum where I posted it and someone requested that I re-post it here to see what's said, so one or two things may seem out of place if I forget to alter/remove them. The e-mail in the picture is also blacked out because initially I wasn't going to give it out.)

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ok I'm going to put this up because otherwise it's going to bug me and I imagine it's probably nothing but here it goes. I got this voice message yesterday and it makes absolutely no sense. It came from 3-349-202-1715.
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 		Re: yourmindisaprison@hotmail.com
Catalyst wrote:
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4558/whattheshittj6.jpg

Two, maybe three - perhaps more or less, I've lost track of recent time - days ago, someone added me on MSN. Their e-mail was rather ambiguous and hinted towards some kind of philosophical meaning. At first I assumed it was someone I knew or who knew me, and accepted them, not bothering to IM them.

After about a day passed and I got nothing in response from them, I sent my own greetings, asking if I knew them. I got no response to this. Later, I once again said simply "hi," and received only "Hello." Further attempts at communication yielded nothing.

Just within the last half-hour, I said "Hello" again after I saw that they were online, and what happened in the screenshot took place. Some time elapsed between the question and my response, because I was consulting a friend about what my response would be, at which time I ultimately decided to leave it up to chance. Flipping a coin, it came out as tails - which meant I was going to say yes.

I responded rather offhandedly with "Why not?" and the person logged off of MSN shortly afterwards. I'm not sure if I answered incorrectly, or if there was even a right answer - or if perhaps whatever that is will continue later on, or if I'm just being messed with by someone. The one thing that strikes me is that only about a week (maybe less, maybe more - I mentioned my inability to keep a completely accurate timeframe in my head at the moment) or so ago, I visited the Neurocam website and discussed it with the friend I mentioned earlier. Do you think it has anything to do with that, /x/ers? The e-mail, if you think about it, had a minor connection to Neurocam, though it wouldn't make 100% sense given my geographical location. Not to mention it seems to follow the general in-the-dark patterns that you would find if you read up on Neurocam.

(NOTE: This was copy/pasted from another forum where I posted it and someone requested that I re-post it here to see what's said, so one or two things may seem out of place if I forget to alter/remove them. The e-mail in the picture is also blacked out because initially I wasn't going to give it out.)


Because I can't alter my posts, I wanted to re-post saying, in relation to that, I know perhaps a dozen friends (one friend really, but they told me about their other friends who had it happen to them too) who have absolutely no relation to each other, and have been added on MSN by this e-mail and had him IM them.

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