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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Lairosiel
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Joined: 29 Apr 2008
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Location: Berlin/Passau

hey new blog post by santa

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Oh, lights and stars. It seems that someone has been into my blog! Either that or this thing does not work the way I thought. It said I received a comment, but now... where is it? And after the day I have had, I was looking forward to getting a nice, cheerful comment. Ah, well. Sometimes gifts fall off the sleigh, I guess.



well that comment was by me, now it is gone... ^^
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:14 am
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Nighthawk
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"BahHumbugElf" is now following me on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/BahHumbugElf

I'd say it's time for a new thread.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:16 pm
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Rotation
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Well it looks like asylum guy just doesn't feel like talking. Unfortunate. Welp, what can you do?

PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:15 pm
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shylilembrace
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Got a reply from Skip, aka asylum guy, I asked if I could help him.

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My dear, the friends who haunt me every day and every night in my accursed room are only trying to help me too...And yet I can't help but think what life would be like if they had never appeared in the first place. Can you help me? You could try, but it would most likely just end in even worse circumstances.

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Lairosiel
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got answer from him too

Quote:

subject: Re: Time moves one without knowing eachother

I am the king and the peasant. I am the keeper of the end. Within me, lies the secrets of lands you only dream of every so often. And yet I am also a prisoner, in my mind, and in this place.

Here on this Earth? Or here in this damnable place? To the former, my mother got raped by a hellbeast when she was 16, and decided to keep it. 9 months later, a squid-like being that looked sort of like Cthulhu popped out of her lady slit and they called it Skip. To the latter, because apparently my friends aren't real, never have been, and when someone noticed me talking and playing with them, well, they decided to keep me here.

The Men try and keep me in line the best that they can. When I start ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth and clawing at the walls and realizing that's futile so I start trying to claw my eyes out, they quickly rush in and tranquilize me like some untamed animal. They keep a very close eye on me and goddamn I wish I could just kill them all so I could fly into the clouds and live in my marshmallow castle.


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM, lairosiel<lairosiel> wrote:

who are you?´
why are you here?
what do the Men do?

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:40 am
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I sent him this email (trying to be enigmatic)

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."



"A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum"



"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylumHeav



"When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum"


Please, give me the five W's.


Then he sent this back

Quote:
If anything, a casual stroll through faith shows that it is a proven lunatic asylum.

A lunatic asylum is like if a man, a good fellow, does things to a woman, which by the by, is called "landing her".

Most wares flourish in a place in the mind called a lunatic asylum.

Heaven is already perfect, for it neither welcomes the place of Man, nor the lunatic asylum.



* Who? An asylum for the clinically insane.
* What? Right now.
* Where? Me, Skip Headington, giver of sacred gifts and bearer of the fruits from the tree that makes us wet ourselves.
* When? Because one day someone caught me playing and talking to friends that apparently weren't really there.
* Why? I have no idea, either.

No doubt he's crazy, but he's smart (and a smart@#$) as well

PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:18 pm
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catherwood-offline
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leaving this thread for initial discovery

once you've established that an email is not spam, let's create a thread for further discussion, rather than continuing to post replies here. Thank you. (perhaps a moderator could split out the asylum guy exchanges)

PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:15 pm
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Caffiend
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I have no idea what this is
Just a random email

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From: Krissy!! (krissySPLATemaillove.net)
Sent: Tue 11/11/08 11:13 AM
To: basiliksSPLAThotmail.com

hey there i was just reading your profile and i would love to get to know you
Email me back


I looked for emaillove.net
but it wasnt there ,
this is prolly nothing but it was wierd enought to catch my attentioin
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:31 pm
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Rotation
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What did you send back?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:32 pm
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PlayfulNinja
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Fake
Fake

I got the same thing... I was just googling the domain to find info and found ur post!

I got the exact same email, and Im from Australia and ur from Illinois, so its obviously NOT a personal message, and must be something to do with random spam for an online dating service.

Its fake.

Shame tho hey Twisted Evil

PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:33 am
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degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 1458
Location: New Orleans

I haven't ever gotten spam in my play account so in the event that this is...something, here it is (although I seriously doubt it, somehow I think I must have gotten signed into some spam [double {no TRIPLE quotes yay!} Darn those games that sell your email /read "soul"/ to spammers Mad]).

Quote:
XMAS PROMO FOR YOU!!!‏
From: wins....... (5vaughansSPLATcox.net)
Sent: Wed 11/12/08 5:29 PM
To:

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket
number 001768432463 with serial numbers FTS/8070337201/06 and
drew the lucky numbers 15-22-24-48-50-37(30) which subsequently won
you 1,000,000.00 (One Million Great Britain Pounds).from the U.K
The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley,London United Kingdom on the 12TH NOVEMBER 2008.Find below the details of the Claims Agent and contact him with the following details for verifications:1.FULLNAME,2.FULLADDRESS,3.NATIONALITY,4.AGE,5.OCCUPATION,6.MOBILE/TELEPHONE NUMBER,7.DATE OF WINNING AWARD, 8. SEX,9.TOTAL AMOUNT WON,10.BATCH/REF.,NUMBERS.
NAME: Mr Albert Thotmas (Claims Agent)
AGENT EMAIL: albertthomas102SPLATlive.com
Thanks,
Mr.George Simmons
UK Promo Announcer

Ha ha, "UK Promo Announcer", wouldn't even tell what company....

read "SPAM" (as in please DO email this idiot and bug the hell out of him/them)

Edit: Is it possible that bots have "figured out" the SPLAT, email designation used here? Perhaps it would be useful to change the designation of @ every once in while to something like SPRAT?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:53 pm
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That's weird. And that SPLAT thing sounds good. But it might be that theres an actual guy scalping the email address's.

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Gregoriev
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Joined: 29 Jul 2008
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Location: *Looks around* By my computer?

I got an email a few days ago, although I only saw it now, when i cleaned out my inbox.

Gmail Correspondence wrote:
from J.B Drue <jd>
to cc.sec5@rocketmail.com
date Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:39 PM
subject Breach
signed-by rocketmail.com

hide details Nov 11 (4 days ago)


Reply


Sir, our borders have been breached. what should we do? several of our staff members have been infected (including Sgt. Kayla Smith). I know that you dont enjoy getting a SitRep from email, but all other sources have been cut down.


rocketmail leads to yahoo, meh.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:07 pm
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Sound like an ARG . Unless your actually a government official!!! Foily!

PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:51 am
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Atropanocturna
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Gregoryn95: Have to tried to email them back...see if you can get any more info?

When I googled J.B. Drue, I was taken here:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26277&start=180

which was a past ARG where you had received contact from a Jacob Drue.
Continuation perhaps? Did you guys wrap things up on that one?
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