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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Nighthawk
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 		Their response from earlier:

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5 17 821 2003663613·2195000+1


Best thing I could find:

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All prime numbers.

http://en.mobile.wikipedia.org/transcode.php?go=Chen+prime

The largest known twin primes are 2003663613 · 2195000 ± 1, with 58711 digits.


ETA: I'd *really* like to know what this is for, rather than keep spamming the spam thread. I ain't gonna post a trailhead until I know it is one and to what.
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Vecheeso
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Nighthawk wrote:
Their response from earlier:

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5 17 821 2003663613·2195000+1


Best thing I could find:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
All prime numbers.

http://en.mobile.wikipedia.org/transcode.php?go=Chen+prime

The largest known twin primes are 2003663613 · 2195000 ± 1, with 58711 digits.


ETA: I'd *really* like to know what this is for, rather than keep spamming the spam thread. I ain't gonna post a trailhead until I know it is one and to what.


emailed them the response and now i got back "CDRZSLLGJSHSEEGSLVVPTASYAQAPTYXABSSQCDPXXFTUSZNVTSFV
MMMCEVDGRCETMTTWLNVDWNBGIYKPUMQTZEDHYVSEGEFWJWJZAASEQ
DVDWALCGLFCEEFQEDHXEEPIRXUYCRCDWCDDFZRMGGEHWQUX"

edit*** should i just create a new thing and repost things to N&R under 'Nimgae/Sirius" or something??? to keep this thread more... cleaned...
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Nighthawk
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Vecheeso wrote:
emailed them the response and now i got back "CDRZSLLGJSHSEEGSLVVPTASYAQAPTYXABSSQCDPXXFTUSZNVTSFV
MMMCEVDGRCETMTTWLNVDWNBGIYKPUMQTZEDHYVSEGEFWJWJZAASEQ
DVDWALCGLFCEEFQEDHXEEPIRXUYCRCDWCDDFZRMGGEHWQUX"


They're lucky I have nothing better to do right now.

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ENKIDUARTEMISPOLLUX


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All twins.

Enkidu is technically a twin of Gilgamesh, I think. This is somewhat of a hard find, and Wikipedia doesn't explicitly state is as such.

Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo.

Pollux is a twin of Castor (the Gemini twins).


OK, we get it. Twins, twins, twins! So?
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Vecheeso
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 		new... "CDRKSLUGJSHSSTTJLVVMJASGAQAPTGBUBSSQCDPWXFTUSGGET
SFVMZMWEVDSSSEWMTTCPNZMWNBGIMPWUMQTZPDHYVSELTFWJWJSAA
SXQDVVASLCGLFZLEKQEDHXZEPORXUSEDLN"

decodes to: "WARNERDOOBIEBLUES" okay, seriously, wtf is this....

the doobie brothers are signed by warner... but... wtf?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:19 pm
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Nighthawk
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Brothers: Warner Brothers, Doobie Brothers, Blues Brothers.


How long is this going to go on?
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Vecheeso
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 		Umm.... they replied back.... this time... it just says 'JAKE'....

this is ridiculous....
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Nighthawk
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 		Well, Rogue Virus did start kind of mindless...

One of the characters there is Elwood, isn't it? As in Jake and Elwood Blues?
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Vecheeso
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Nighthawk wrote:
Well, Rogue Virus did start kind of mindless...

One of the characters there is Elwood, isn't it? As in Jake and Elwood Blues?


i wasnt playing rogue virus though, so it seems abit odd that i'd get an email about it Razz

**EDIT** i think it is rogue virus. *goes to go read*
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Leyton Stone
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 		Okay I just checked my old ARG-based email address and had an email which was apparently sent on 20th December. No-one else seems to have posted about it yet and I've searched both the youtube URL and the email addy here but can't find anything.

The email is: "The Cat" (mr.gatoSPLATlive.com) and the title is "Message from an old stray" - it reads:
Quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcevSxoGl0

Hope this gets to you....

C47


The video is titled "40D5 B4CK" and brings up a guy in glasses who calls himself "Catz" talking about a game which involved someone called "Aod"" who we (Email recipients) played a game w/ not too long ago 0_o

Anyone know where this is going?

Edit: It's a continuation of "AoD" - which I'm vaguely familiar with but am a LITTLE confused... Anyone remind me? lol
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catherwood
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 		advice on when to make a thread and not use the SPAM thread
Nighthawk wrote:
ETA: I'd *really* like to know what this is for, rather than keep spamming the spam thread. I ain't gonna post a trailhead until I know it is one and to what.

The fact that you are getting encrypted responses is enough to warrent a separate discussion thread, so people can discuss this particular subject specifically. Whether or not it is a "game" or a "timewaster" or "news" or "viral" does not matter, you have already established that it is not mass-mailing product spam. It is a "rumor" for now.

(ideally, a moderator could have split these posts out two pages ago)

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pancito
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 		Apologies for spamming the spam thread... Very Happy
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TWINKIE!

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Iscabibble
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 		I'm being covered in emails at the moment from someone named John Stander. He doesn't seem at first glance to be connected to any other ARG I'm playing. Is this new? He sent me this image, and is now filling my inbox with seemingly random things. The following image is the first thing I recieved, and then a quote from Richard the Third. Now he's sent me this:
"Go to new York, or find someone there, A phase of Norway is to be found there. "

Any clues?
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 		Put the location in google maps and it takes you to a street cam
36 W 33rd St, New York, NY, United States

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 		I got the picture too...
From: John Stander mynameisstandartenSPLATgmail.com
I'm not really playing anything at the moment, so...

ETA: So I sent smart ass message #27, 'So what time is it?" and got back

12:58

And the Ricky III quote "Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out."
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 		Received this email about a 30 mins ago. I think there are a couple of others that also got it. Trailhead??? Website linked in email. It was registered this last summer.


Jeffrey Freedman wrote:
Hello.
I'm Jeffrey Freedman, reporter and administrator for TopSecretConspiracy.com and I'm looking for someone who is good at Exposing The Truth hidden all around us.

There is a massive conspiracy at work being engineered from the media, the NWO, the Illuminati, genetic laboratories, corporations, public utilities, crossword puzzle writers, and various recreational senior activities groups. They want us to be passive and ignore the looming extraterrestrial threat in our midst. They want us to fall asleep at the wheel of our tractor trailer truck of truth and derail on the freeway of propaganda. I want you to become part of our trusted cabal of citizen journalists defying what They don't want you to know... if you can prove your loyalty.

Contact me back here with some photo, video, or audio evidence I can work with. As long as it meets the journalistic standard of evidence for our site. Tell others about our message of truth. I need to know if you are on our side.

- J.F.

P.S. Trust no one.

P.P.S. Tell everyone.

P.P.P.S. Ok i'm not really sure about the conflicting logistics of that, abut I trust you'll figure it out.


*Since this appears to be a legit trailhead or viral campaign, I've split the conversation about this out and started a new thread here.
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