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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Gregoriev
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Unforgiven wrote:
Weird, but I don't know if it's anything or not.

http://oo22.com/fb/alright.html


If it is, it's a really hard one. Nothing in the source. Maybe it's stegged?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:08 am
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degravedi
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It's someone's personal page. This guy in fact: http://www.sfstudioschool.org/lon_clark.htm
His index: http://oo22.com/index.swf
And the trusty google turns up a post that includes his site (though the actual link doesn't work aymore) http://forums.creativecow.net/archivethread/50/48518

However, since he's obviously in the design industry it could still be a grassroots sort of thing that he just recycled his website for.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:28 am
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Gregoriev
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I gots me an interesting email.

Gracey wrote:
from Gracey <gracey>
to zolosamurai@gmail.com
date Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:18 AM
subject Hi new person!
mailed-by gmail.com

hide details 5:18 AM (10 hours ago)


Reply


Hello!

My name is Gracey, and I'm eight years old. I live in SAM-2 with my mommy and her friends. Some of them are my friends, too! My mommy says that this place used to be called South America, which is what SAM stands for anyways, but I don't remember back then. She says I wasn't born when they changed the names anyways, but I don't know the difference. Mommy says that it's the same place and that it will always be the same, no matter what they call it, which I think is good because I really love it here! Everyone is so nice and polite. Everyone likes me, too, and everyone is my friend! That's good too because I always get free tasty fruit when I go on my walks, and everyone waves at me and says hi!

I guess I should tell you why I'm sending you this e-mail. I've had this laptop casing for a long long time (like since forever!) but I couldn't find the right kind of hard drive to put in it. Mommy says this computer is really old and uses really old technology, like from before I was even born. She's right, because the screen is flat, not like the computers I saw when the PMCs came through a year ago. But it's okay, because now I can get online, and meet tons of new people to be my friends! That's why I am writing to you, because I want to be your friend. I know I'm just a little kid, but maybe one or two of the people I send this too will be little kids too, and we can be e-mail buddies. I think that would be a lot of fun, and you could tell me all about where you live!

Here's a little bit about me. I love to play outside and climb trees and go on adventures through the jungle but most of all I like to... WRITE! I write all the time, but sometimes not even on paper, just in my head! My mommy's a writer too, and she writes lots of little stories about grown-up things. She says I'm too young to understand them, but I think I would if she'd let me read them. It's okay though. I want to be a writer when I get old and move to EU-1, where all the famous artists and scientists live, and live in a nice house with Mommy and Pudge (he's my dog, I love him except when he licks my face, gross!). My mommy says she only writes for the money and she wouldn't write anymore if she could get another job, but she says it's the only thing keeping us fed, so I guess she has to keep doing it. I think that if my mommy could just write about what she wanted then she wouldn't hate writing so much, but she tries to keep her sadness from me. On the bad days where she's saddest I try to cheer her up by dressing up like Paueo the meat-man and painting my face red! She laughs, and I laugh and she feels better!

I guess that's all for now, but I really hope that you would like to be friends! I hope you get this safe and sound, because this technology seems kind of old. But hopefully it will still work! Ha ha!

Talk to you soon!

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:53 pm
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pancito
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The thread for this is here.
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Uhm, conversations over the internet with underaged children - be careful. Laughing Laughing
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nfreader
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Woo my turn!
Random(?) IMs

This person (Using an AIM account that ALWAYS ends with -trout) sends me an IM and then goes offline almost immediately, never to be seen from again. The only exception to this is bracedtrout (who went offline after he sent his last line to me). At this point, I can only conclude that someone's either frakking with me, or this is something a little more interesting. The christian/religious bits have me a bit curious though. Below is every exchange I've had with this person, from the most recent to earliest, along with timestamps according to time.apple.com (I'm assuming the timing here might be significant)

28/8/08 2:42 PM
Quote:
greetedtrout: He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision!
nfreader: Psalm 2:4
nfreader: who are you?!

Text was Light Blue Comic Sans

27/8/08 11:20 AM
Quote:
commercialtrout: Why are you trying to falsify your identity? You can't fool me!

Text was grey block lettering.

18/8/08 10:41 PM
Quote:
BracedTrout: Do you see yourself as being immature?
nfreader: who the fuck are you?

//User came back online
nfreader: Who the fuck are you?
BracedTrout: I have indeed

Light Blue Comic Sans again

16/8/08 1:11 AM
Quote:
ParalyticTrout: I prefer atheism, myself.
nfreader: and who are you exactly?

Light green serif font.

Any ideas?
EDIT: Forgot to mention how the text was formatted when I got it. Duly added.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:21 pm
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Tenshi Akui
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Re: Woo my turn!
Random(?) IMs

nfreader wrote:
This person (Using an AIM account that ALWAYS ends with -trout) sends me an IM and then goes offline almost immediately, never to be seen from again. The only exception to this is bracedtrout (who went offline after he sent his last line to me). At this point, I can only conclude that someone's either frakking with me, or this is something a little more interesting. The christian/religious bits have me a bit curious though. Below is every exchange I've had with this person, from the most recent to earliest, along with timestamps according to time.apple.com (I'm assuming the timing here might be significant)

28/8/08 2:42 PM
Quote:
greetedtrout: He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision!
nfreader: Psalm 2:4
nfreader: who are you?!


27/8/08 11:20 AM
Quote:
commercialtrout: Why are you trying to falsify your identity? You can't fool me!


18/8/08 10:41 PM
Quote:
BracedTrout: Do you see yourself as being immature?
nfreader: who the fuck are you?

//User came back online
nfreader: Who the fuck are you?
BracedTrout: I have indeed


16/8/08 1:11 AM
Quote:
ParalyticTrout: I prefer atheism, myself.
nfreader: and who are you exactly?


Any ideas?


Ok I had that happen a few times myself, always a Trout name. But the few I've talked to always talk about never having messaged me. I just assumed it was a system error, partialy because one of them was formated a bright purple lettering... and actualy was pretty cool about the thing and said my name was showing as a trout name too.

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nfreader
Kilroy

Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Ugh, I spoke too soon. A google search for AIM Trout leads to this page which finally leads us to Project Upstream.

So that solves that mystery.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:35 pm
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Gregoriev
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That just means somebody's been screwing with you by putting your name in. What's the point of it? I don't get it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:05 pm
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Gregoriev
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Got an email from echoSPLATvoicesinthestatic.com Saying go to sleep. I responded with what? and she/he responded Margaret. Going to the site reveals a page of static, with a song called comingthrough.mp3. When the song is over, a church-ish song comes up and then just static.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:49 pm
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tweez
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Gregoryn95 wrote:
Got an email from echoSPLATvoicesinthestatic.com Saying go to sleep. I responded with what? and she/he responded Margaret. Going to the site reveals a page of static, with a song called comingthrough.mp3. When the song is over, a church-ish song comes up and then just static.


It might be something to do with EVP (electronic voice phenomena)

Quote:
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sections of static noise on the radio or electronic recording which some listeners believe sound like voices speaking words, and which paranormal investigators interpret as the voices of ghosts or spirits


http://www.wyrdology.com/science/evp.html
http://www.ghostfinders.co.uk/evp.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0VT6z7Uz4

I had a quick listen to the mp3, "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones is time stretched towards the end. Do you know if there are any other games running with a similar theme at the moment?

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Gregoriev
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tweez wrote:
Gregoryn95 wrote:
Got an email from echoSPLATvoicesinthestatic.com Saying go to sleep. I responded with what? and she/he responded Margaret. Going to the site reveals a page of static, with a song called comingthrough.mp3. When the song is over, a church-ish song comes up and then just static.


It might be something to do with EVP (electronic voice phenomena)

Quote:
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sections of static noise on the radio or electronic recording which some listeners believe sound like voices speaking words, and which paranormal investigators interpret as the voices of ghosts or spirits


http://www.wyrdology.com/science/evp.html
http://www.ghostfinders.co.uk/evp.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0VT6z7Uz4

I had a quick listen to the mp3, "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones is time stretched towards the end. Do you know if there are any other games running with a similar theme at the moment?


Thanks, tweez. I know what EVP is, but I couldn't figure out the song. I don't know about any current EVP related ARG's.
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natas
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I checked each individual frame of the background gif, but nothing noticeable right off hand.

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makyla77
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Got an email too from echo

Mine said:
Subject: reaching
Through dimensions

Trout me if this as been mention before but i went on the site
http://voicesinthestatic.com/
And the title of that page is Stare into us
pretty sure we could do something with that (if not already done) but right now I don't have enough time for doing anything. So hopefully you guys will Very Happy

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Gregoriev
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makyla77 wrote:
Got an email too from echo

Mine said:
Subject: reaching
Through dimensions

Trout me if this as been mention before but i went on the site
http://voicesinthestatic.com/
And the title of that page is Stare into us
pretty sure we could do something with that (if not already done) but right now I don't have enough time for doing anything. So hopefully you guys will Very Happy


That's liek a SUPER trout, we JUST mentioned that.
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