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[Trailhead?] Blackhand Corporation
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qa0s
Boot

Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Posts: 12

 		Got an e-mail from another former BHC study.


Quote:
Be Forewarned:

Blackhand Corpo.. Does Not Intend To Gather Info For Uses They Seem To Imply.

Guard Against BC

Superstitions and Paranormal Psychics
Keep Skills Hidden.


Representatives Present Falsehoods

"Please Remove Me" Respond Immediately


€5852

bhc



I e-mailed them back and asked what kind of "studies" they perform on volunteers. The "please remove me" part kind of confused me..I'm not sure if they meant to respond to them with "please remove me" to receive some sort of special automated message or responding with that is like a code word and they would give some kind of information based on that, or if they meant to e-mail BHC saying to remove me from their lists.

I asked if telling BHC to remove my information would result in them actually leaving me alone at this point or not.

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Ifsogirl81
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Joined: 11 Nov 2009
Posts: 447

 		hm just got that too.

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kevinmhk
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Joined: 24 Dec 2009
Posts: 84
Location: Hong Kong

 		Got the Forewarned email too. I replied with this instead:

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Who are you? Why should I trust you? How do you know of the information that you claimed? What does Blackhand actually do then?


Let's see whether they would response ~
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Stæld
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Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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Location: Norway

 		This one seems a little hard to join in on.. hm? Any suggestions? Razz
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Bartock
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008
Posts: 237
Location: Guelph, Ontario

 		[spec]I'm thinking the Case Study emails are coming from someone working inside Blackhand that has access to the applicants emails/personal info.

They are trying to warn us, and if we respond with "please remove me" they can take us out of the database.[/spec]

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kevinmhk
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Joined: 24 Dec 2009
Posts: 84
Location: Hong Kong

 		Got this:

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Hello and welcome the The Blackhand Corporation volunteer program.

Your job, as a Blackhand Corporation outsource intern is to help us monitor any possible paranormal, metaphysical, extraterrestrial or mystic activity in your varying regions.

This may seem far fetched, but of the thousands of volunteers we at Blackhand utilize, hundreds of cases of 'otherwordly' events have been investigated, researched, and confirmed as legitimate. We have worked for decades with the top scientific, paranormal, and religious organizations around the world, including the AAPR, the AAAS, the Scientific Paranormal organization, and the Vatican. These case studies have been published around the globe and Blackhand Co. remains the leading publisher and provider of extraterrestrial and paranormal texts.

Attatched to this email, you'll find a quick introductory video. After viewing this video, we urge you to sign into your communal "log" to confirm that your Blackhand Passcode is valid.

You are encouraged to use this log to record any strange or mysterious events you witness on a daily basis, no matter how insignificant they might seem. However, fabricating events only serves to damage your Blackhand community's reputation and validity, and we strongly insist you refrain from doing so.

This log can be found at (your Blackhand Community number).co.cc This community number is also your login.

To make your volunteer experience easy to maintain no matter what level of technology you are familiar with, we at Blackhand have opted to use a popular blogging engine to serve as your community log. We hope you will find this easy to manage, although if you have any further questions, please contact us at this email address with the subject "Community log."


Each time you record an event or suspicious/mysterious activity, please sign your log with your name, last initial, and email address. If your information seems of interest, you will be contacted immediately by a Blackhand Corportation supervisor to discuss it in further depth.

We thank you greatly for your participation, and are proud to have you on our team.


Sincerley,

Alphaeus Crow
CEO, The Blackhand Corporation Head Division
Phone: (206) 279-3158


Attach is the video and my community number.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:17 pm
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snorkle256
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Joined: 23 Apr 2008
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Location: West Central Wisconsin

 		weird, at first I thought the log was my own, but once I finally got into it i realized it was a community blog. in which case, should we share our #s with each other?

I'd certainly like to see more weird stuff from people and possibly what weird things the pm's are writing.

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TheIllustratedMan
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Joined: 13 Jun 2008
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 		From the original email:

Quote:
We thank you for your time. If interested in further information, please reply to this email or contact BlackhandRecruitingSPLATrepresentative.com. Our representatives will respond to you shortly during our next available business hours. The Blackhand Corporation operates from 7 am - 9 pm Mondays through Fridays, and our email and phone representatives are available 24/7. To be removed from The Blackhand Corporation's mailing list and to opt out of receiving further information or opportunities, reply to this email with "Please Remove Me." in the subject line.


I think they mean to email BHC with "Please Remove Me" to get out of whatever dangerous situation we've all gotten ourselves into.

They never said anything about not sharing our numbers, and UnF is OOG, so:
My community is 350
My passcode is 1713

Does anyone have different numbers? I'm thinking that we all may be group 350.

Has anyone tried calling the 206 number?
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The Barmaid
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Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Posts: 173
Location: Northern Arizona

 		K, just adding mine to the mix.

I got the video and community code from BC and got the warning from Case Study or whoever sent it.

From BC

Quote:
Hello and welcome the The Blackhand Corporation volunteer program.

Your job, as a Blackhand Corporation outsource intern is to help us monitor any possible paranormal, metaphysical, extraterrestrial or mystic activity in your varying regions.

This may seem far fetched, but of the thousands of volunteers we at Blackhand utilize, hundreds of cases of 'otherwordly' events have been investigated, researched, and confirmed as legitimate. We have worked for decades with the top scientific, paranormal, and religious organizations around the world, including the AAPR, the AAAS, the Scientific Paranormal organization, and the Vatican. These case studies have been published around the globe and Blackhand Co. remains the leading publisher and provider of extraterrestrial and paranormal texts.

Attatched to this email, you'll find a quick introductory video. After viewing this video, we urge you to sign into your communal "log" to confirm that your Blackhand Passcode is valid.

You are encouraged to use this log to record any strange or mysterious events you witness on a daily basis, no matter how insignificant they might seem. However, fabricating events only serves to damage your Blackhand community's reputation and validity, and we strongly insist you refrain from doing so.

This log can be found at (your Blackhand Community number).co.cc This community number is also your login.

To make your volunteer experience easy to maintain no matter what level of technology you are familiar with, we at Blackhand have opted to use a popular blogging engine to serve as your community log. We hope you will find this easy to manage, although if you have any further questions, please contact us at this email address with the subject "Community log."


Each time you record an event or suspicious/mysterious activity, please sign your log with your name, last initial, and email address. If your information seems of interest, you will be contacted immediately by a Blackhand Corportation supervisor to discuss it in further depth.

We thank you greatly for your participation, and are proud to have you on our team.


Sincerley,

Alphaeus Crow
CEO, The Blackhand Corporation Head Division
Phone: (206) 279-3158

Your Blackhand Community number is BHC350.



and from the casefile5852SPLATgmail.com

Quote:
Be Forewarned:

Blackhand Corpo.. Does Not Intend To Gather Info For Uses They Seem To Imply.

Guard Against BC

Superstitions and Paranormal Psychics
Keep Skills Hidden.


Representatives Present Falsehoods

"Please Remove Me" Respond Immediately


€5852

bhc




If I need to spoiler that, let me know.



Now....where are all the people with the mad video hacking skillz to see if the video has anything creepy embedded, etc. I do not possess said mad skillz.

I only see dead people.


Ooops! Shocked

PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:41 pm
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The Barmaid
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Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Posts: 173
Location: Northern Arizona
Stæld wrote:
This one seems a little hard to join in on.. hm? Any suggestions? Razz


In case that wasn't tongue in cheek, we all basically hawked qa0s' email and sent in the info and it kicked right up.


Okay, posing as "a wrong number" I called the included # and basically it's a recording, thanks for calling the BC. It was somewhat garbled and at the moment neighbors are moving and making all kind of racket so I didn't follow through just yet. Will wait for things to quieten down a little and will call back. Not sure what message to leave though so suggestions?


EDIT: Got this back from BC

Quote:
We are looking into the emails people have been receiving.

We believe them to be nothing more than a run of the mill hacker who has somehow gotten hold of our mailing list. We are often subject to attacks by local anarchist and religious groups, but none of this should be taken seriously. These political attacks are handled by our corporate offices and private security team, and you can rest assured that no harm will come to you by it.

We apologize for this inconvenience and promise that we at Blackhand value your personal security and privacy above all else. We would never sell or give out your information to any second hand parties or peoples.




The email from casfefile5852 is decidedly different in style from the previous case study warning mail. The latest is caps for all first letters an sent to all of us.

I still think casefile #1 email with the screwy text is code but I'm having trouble figuring it out. Not sure where to go from here...guess I will log in to my cc thing and add some stuff.

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lynchdada
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Joined: 16 Jul 2008
Posts: 42

 		I also received the emails, with the same login information.

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FirstSword82
Boot


Joined: 10 Dec 2009
Posts: 52
Location: Good ol' U S of A

 		I got my response to the initial survey I filled out, but it seems a little off to me. It starts with "We are pleased to announce that your application has been reviewed an accepted," then goes on with some more "blah blah blah" and "here's your access code." The part that seemed off is that "We are ple" is in a smaller font than the rest of the message. Specifically, the first 2.5 words are in Arial 10 font and the rest is in Arial 12, like someone started in the smaller size and decided to make it bigger after a couple words got down. But, my luck means I'm reading too much into nothing.

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Ifsogirl81
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Joined: 11 Nov 2009
Posts: 447

 		hm i'm not noticing a difference in the font in my email. and for someone reason my brain is not working, where are we suposed to log in? and looks like we all have the same log in and password.

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scaremongerR
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Joined: 15 May 2007
Posts: 170
Location: arizona
Ifsogirl81 wrote:
hm i'm not noticing a difference in the font in my email. and for someone reason my brain is not working, where are we suposed to log in? and looks like we all have the same log in and password.


i had the same problem initially... we log in as bhc350, and use the key we were given as the password. we all log into the same account. once in, post a new entry, and i assume you end it with your name and email address.

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mgelles
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Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 210

 		i'm doing as you suggest scare and still not getting in
username bhc350
password bhc1713
any clue what I'm doing wrong
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