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[Trailhead] O. P. Smith
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Tresbien
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Double posting to add new mail and please forgive my being hurried today.

I sent this to OP Smith:

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Can you tell me why you used encryption in your job? It might help to put all of this in context. What happened to your family, and why do you fear something happening to you? Any details you can provide could be vital for us to help you -- and we want to help you.


And just got this in response:

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Oh, well, I used to work as a meteorologist before all this happened. We were trying to come up with a more efficient way to encode our meteorology prediction programs (every bit of room saved on those massive programs is a gain!). So we were toying with the idea of using various encryption algorithms instead of our current binary and Base 64 encryptions. This was just research.


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bluesylvia
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Mass e-mail sent out:

RSVP ASAP wrote:
To whom it may concern,
Re: Mr John and Miss Jane Smith

Dear Sir/Madam,

We apologise for having to contact you in this manner, but we do not know of any of your other contact details.

We are writing to advice you that Mr John Smith and his daughter Jane have been hospitalized with a serious condition that is not life threatening at this stage.

Their identification cards have been found to be fake and it is possible that you know them by a different name. We were able to obtain your e-mail addresses from an address book in the possession of Miss Smith. We are hoping that one or some of you may be a relative or that you may know how to contact their relatives.

We thank you in anticipation.

If you feel you have received this e-mail in error we would appreciate it if you could let us know.

Professor Rhea Soutaine
CEO
Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital

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Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital Information Technology Services appologises for the inconvenience being caused to our website and regular e-mail by the server virus.

Please note that the interim website can be found at: enougeneralhospital.webs.com

Remember that all email addresses will be able to be sent to the secondary gmail accounts as our regular e-mail server is also down. All usernames remain the same. For example a message sent to SomeOneSPLATenougeneralhospital.com will now be sent to SomeOneSPLATgmail.com. We apologise for any inconvenience this will hold. We hope to rectify this situation as soon as possible.

rg fgz stz itk aoss zitd


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Turducken
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[TRAILHEAD] Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital

Just found this today in my inbox:

To whom it may concern,



Re: Mr John and Miss Jane Smith



Dear Sir/Madam,



We apologise for having to contact you in this manner, but we do not know of any of your other contact details.



We are writing to advice you that Mr John Smith and his daughter Jane have been hospitalized with a serious condition that is not life threatening at this stage.



Their identification cards have been found to be fake and it is possible that you know them by a different name. We were able to obtain your e-mail addresses from an address book in the possession of Miss Smith. We are hoping that one or some of you may be a relative or that you may know how to contact their relatives.



We thank you in anticipation.



If you feel you have received this e-mail in error we would appreciate it if you could let us know.



Professor Rhea Soutaine

CEO

Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital


I thought at first, junk. But then I saw this baby at the bottom of the email

rg fgz stz itk aoss zitd

I don't think it's rot, I tried a site and nothing. I saw some fellow UFers on the Recipients, so any ideas?
merged thread "[TRAILHEAD] Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital " ~drizjr

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church
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following this link led me to the website but all the menu pages seem to be in quarantine

http://enougeneralhospital.webs.com

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enaxor
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I too received this email. The bottom of my email includes a link to the hospital website, as well as a quick message from their IT department about a computer virus.

http://enougeneralhospital.webs.com/

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Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital Information Technology Services appologises for the inconvenience being caused to our website and regular e-mail by the server virus.
Please note that the interim website can be found at: enougeneralhospital.webs.com
Remember that all email addresses will be able to be sent to the secondary gmail accounts as our regular e-mail server is also down. All usernames remain the same. For example a message sent to SomeOneSPLATenougeneralhospital.com will now be sent to SomeOneSPLATgmail.com. We apologise for any inconvenience this will hold. We hope to rectify this situation as soon as possible.

rg fgz stz itk aoss zitd

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Turducken
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enaxor wrote:
I too received this email. The bottom of my email includes a link to the hospital website, as well as a quick message from their IT department about a computer virus.

http://enougeneralhospital.webs.com/

Quote:
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Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital Information Technology Services appologises for the inconvenience being caused to our website and regular e-mail by the server virus.
Please note that the interim website can be found at: enougeneralhospital.webs.com
Remember that all email addresses will be able to be sent to the secondary gmail accounts as our regular e-mail server is also down. All usernames remain the same. For example a message sent to SomeOneSPLATenougeneralhospital.com will now be sent to SomeOneSPLATgmail.com. We apologise for any inconvenience this will hold. We hope to rectify this situation as soon as possible.

rg fgz stz itk aoss zitd


I got that too, I just didn't bother posting it Razz

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Nighthawk
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Oh dear that site's painful to read... Shocked
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Turducken
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Ya, it's not the prettiest or most technological ARG Site

PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:35 pm
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church
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i think this and the o p smith trailhead are both one and the same

PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:36 pm
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Turducken
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I guess, this can be deleted then or redirected to the other


thread has been merged, so no need to delete it. Smile ~drizjr

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Turducken
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There's a bunch of solutions, but this is what my interpretation of what we wanted from rg fgz stz itk aoss zitd


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Do Not Let Her Call Them


PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:51 pm
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israfel070
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Just had a Google Chat with our primary contact, OPSmith. It wasn't very informative, and we had talked in the chatroom about playing our cards close, so I didn't give him too much info either.
What was gleaned:
Rhea is OPSmith's wife.
He had worked hard to cover up some aspects of his life, which included unknown facts about him and Rhea.
He took it pretty hard that her email address uses her maiden name.
He's being contacted by multiple people, probably including TEDO
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:06 pm
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Turducken
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I can already see a government conspiracy, wthe ith all the secret agents and "hospital" meaning somewhere else

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israfel070
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I responded to Rhea's email, claiming to be Abie's husband and Tylean's son-in-law (assuming those assumptions are correct). Her reply did not confirm their identities.
New facts:
Tuesday Aug25 will be a key day for those two, a "Mental Health Tribunal Hearing" will make a big determination about them. They are currently diagnosed with Folie a Deux, a mob-hysteria kind of thing with Tylean as the source. She asked for info about their history before they came to the hospital, obviously that's not going to happen lol.
Weapons were found in their possession. That's so bizarre that it makes me question the guess that it's Abie and Tylean, unless TEDO planted it to try to keep them incarcerated as "a danger to themselves and others."

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RAD24
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There was some base64 in the source:

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VGhleSBzYWlkIHlvdSB3b3VsZCBsb29rIGhlcmUuDQpJZiB5b3UgYXJlIGxvb2tpbmcgSSBob3BlIHlvdSBjYW4ga
GVscCB0aGVtLg0KVGhleSBhcmUgZGlmZmVyZW50LiAgVGhleSBkb24ndCBiZWxvbmcgaGVyZS4NCkkgd2Fz
IGFza2VkIHRvIGFzc2lzdCBpbiB0cnlpbmcgdG8gaW52ZXN0aWdhdGUNCnRoZSB0ZWNobm9sb2d5IHRoYXQgd
GhleSBoYWQgd2l0aCB0aGVtIHdoZW4gdGhleQ0Kd2VyZSBhZG1pdHRlZC4gIEkgaG9wZSB5b3UgY2FuIGhlbH
AgdGhlbS4NCg0KU2VuZCBhbiBlLW1haWwgdG8gImhlbHAgbWUgc29sdmUgaXQi


decodes to:

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They said you would look here.
If you are looking I hope you can help them.
They are different. They don't belong here.
I was asked to assist in trying to investigate
the technology that they had with them when they
were admitted. I hope you can help them.

Send an e-mail to "help me solve it"


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