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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Kandiman
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 		Never seen spam looking like that before. One trail with four heads? Or four trails?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:38 pm
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3REV
Boot

Joined: 29 Jul 2009
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 		thats the thing I have 5 more that are like that.. Gmail addy' Request to contact then some kinds of news item.

I am thinking its a new form of Weird Persoanals pron spam. But I have not rebuilt my guinea pig Virtual machine for testing

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:57 pm
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catherwood
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Silicon Valley, CA

 		Re: Possible Trail Heads?
3REV wrote:
Damn you people for getting me reading my spam. Even though I dont use this account for ARGS I started getting these mails...

spam.
spam.
spam.
seriously, if anything, this thread should convince you that there is no point to reading anything that ends up in your spam filter, comes from a gmail or hotmail sender, or is filled with random filler text. Accounts that you don't use for ARGs are even less likely to hold a trailhead. I got spam at work today, and I almost never use my work email address, even in the line of work, so I have no idea where a scraper-bot found it, but nothing can ever convince me that a trailhead would start that way.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:27 pm
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RAD24
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 		Well, I'm fairly sure this isn't spam, but I'll post it here to see what you guys think, it's from opsmith2009SPLATgmail.com:

Quote:
You do not know me. To be honest, I do not know you either, but I have pressing words about which you should know.

The old man said you could help me. He said you will know that you need to help me.

He suggested that I ask you to search, for the first encounter took my family. He said that you would be able to see it all then.

The old man said you have a group of people who can help, when hope is lost and when life is at stake.

I hope you can help me.

Regards,

O. P. Smith

PS He also said that this would be useful for you later on (but I have no idea what it is supposed to be):

ngx qkt zit ltegfr


Looks a LOT like a trailhead to me, and it isn't trying to sell me anything, but just want to be sure before I start a thread.

EDIT: Nvm, just found a wordpress for "Opsmith", so I'm guessing it's a trailhead.

PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:17 am
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waitress#2
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 		I received this email from zacharybremmenSPLATgmail.com. I thought it might be related to the O.P. Smith arg but after browsing that thread it doesn't look like it is. I found a Opus Populi blogspot that is not related and a wordpress blog that i haven't translated yet but i doubt it's related http://opuspopuli.wordpress.com/

Quote:
If you receive this, it's probably too late.
There are no accidents.
Everything is connected.
I will be waiting for you at Opus Populi.

Zach


It was emailed to ethandobbSPLATgmail.com

It included this link http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7060/72606210.jpg
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:56 am
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RAD24
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waitress#2 wrote:
I received this email from zacharybremmenSPLATgmail.com. I thought it might be related to the O.P. Smith arg but after browsing that thread it doesn't look like it is. I found a Opus Populi blogspot that is not related and a wordpress blog that i haven't translated yet but i doubt it's related http://opuspopuli.wordpress.com/

Quote:
If you receive this, it's probably too late.
There are no accidents.
Everything is connected.
I will be waiting for you at Opus Populi.

Zach


It was emailed to ethandobbSPLATgmail.com

It included this link http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7060/72606210.jpg


I think it's for this: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28236

PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:05 pm
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waitress#2
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 		Thank you. Smile I should have recognized the name Ethan Dobbs.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:08 pm
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tubbytango
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 		Strange Email
Spam? Possible Trailhead? I dunno.
Subject: piano
From: ingewelterdlbSPLATgmail.com
Sent: Wed 8/19/09 8:57 AM
To:

The executable strength imitates the chamber.The heritage mandates the card.

Help me make heads or tails of this.

/edit: merged to the Analysis thread -ndemeter
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:06 pm
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Ad_Arcana_Tutanda
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Joined: 25 Aug 2009
Posts: 531
Location: Denver Colorado

 		curioius...

How do you guys even start getting these emails???

I don't know if I'm the only person in the world, but I don't ever get spam email. Ever. To any of my email accounts.

Wish I got trailheads in my inbox, I have to go hunt them down... :/

If any of you know, please PM me.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:40 pm
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cissmiace
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 		Weird email my boyfriend got:

Subject: lost‏
From: randahaselton819SPLATgmail.com
Sent: 29 August 2009 06:45:02

The enhanced sauce vats the past
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:41 pm
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Kandiman
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Location: Oxford, England
cissmiace wrote:
Weird email my boyfriend got:

Subject: lost‏
From: randahaselton819SPLATgmail.com
Sent: 29 August 2009 06:45:02

The enhanced sauce vats the past


I got that same e-mail at EXACTLY the same time your boyfriend did. I had it down as spam, but who knows? Maybe we're on the same spammer-bought list?

PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:43 am
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cissmiace
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 		How odd!!

The strange thing is, normally spam has links or something in it, this just has a cryptic, very arg like, message. However he doesnt play ARG's, but I do.

He had looked at the lost arg, hence why he opened the email, hes a big lost fan.

I couldnt find any information about this email anywhere, but at least someone else has gotten it!!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:48 pm
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Caseys_Mom
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 		http://www.myspace.com/mharrison72
"falling down the rabbit hole"
I ran across this page while searching for other stuff, (hallucinine arg).
Anyway.... is this something that's already going on, over with.... or what? I did a search, and found nothing...

http://www.myspace.com/mharrison72

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maybe just a fellow player's creative page?
(he's also on twitter, youtube, and facebook as px2012px)

**edit

--Nevermind, It looks more like just someone with a very "busy" page and a whole lot of friends... but the title of it is called "down the rabbit hole" ?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:14 am
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Nighthawk
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 		OK, so I and several other people are now being followed by Mich Mussdassein on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Estutmirleid

He also leads to a Facebooko page:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000276549747&ref=mf

So... uh... Who is this guy?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:55 pm
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natas
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 		heh... followed me too. Odd thing is that his twittername is Mich, but the profile pic on twitter is named paulcloseup.jpg

Oversight?

ETA: Just in case people were wondering.. Es Tut Mir Leid is German for I'm Sorry.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080130122205AAxrOYt

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