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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		In case anyone wants to take it further, Here's are counts for each string, sorted by frequency:
Code:
String  Count
7087    30
58      30
4380    17
1673    13
35      12
11      12
48575   12
30021   11
127171  11
872643  10
395     10
332938   9
78596    8
2634     7
11467    6
93       5
244      5
666      4
23       4
333      3
4100     3
12       3
151      3
222      3
111      2
15       2
13       2
1412348  2
206767   2
.        2
2707     2
41       2
639      2
161      1
1540     1
2560     1
3580     1
5        1
8        1
1034     1
30       1

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:10 am
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vapor
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Well it's been three days and still no reply. I think that either we're alone in figuring out the trailhead or it truly was just spam.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:17 pm
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Tenshi Akui
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 		Oh well. If it's a trailhead and no one figures it out, the PM will probably cave and give someone a clue. Or just let it fall to the wayside LOL

PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:46 pm
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 		Got a reply:

Quote:
SHRTBRST: UR R CLSR 2 THE TRUTH THN U THINK U R.


Still Dunno

I sent another reply.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:17 pm
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catherwood
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vapor wrote:
Got a reply:

Still :dunno:

I sent another reply.


Whatever this is now, I think you need to request that these replies get pulled out into a new topic thread. Obviously there's a puzzle to be solved, even if the solution turns out to be spam. If there is going to be an ongoing discussion, it needs to move into the main forum. Not every thread in News&Rumors gets a trailhead tag, and those tags can be changed after the status is better known.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:28 am
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catherwood wrote:
vapor wrote:
Got a reply:

Still Dunno

I sent another reply.


Whatever this is now, I think you need to request that these replies get pulled out into a new topic thread. Obviously there's a puzzle to be solved, even if the solution turns out to be spam. If there is going to be an ongoing discussion, it needs to move into the main forum. Not every thread in News&Rumors gets a trailhead tag, and those tags can be changed after the status is better known.


Alrighty. Mods, could you please pull these replies into a new topic thread?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:35 am
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vapor wrote:
Got a reply:

Quote:
SHRTBRST: UR R CLSR 2 THE TRUTH THN U THINK U R.


Still Dunno

I sent another reply.


Wow. Vague is an understatement. Unless they are trying to tell us to use texting to break it, but well 0 isn't a letter on a phone.

I also vote for a thread for this Smile

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 		I got another reply so I went ahead and started a new thread. I didn't pull all the replies so if you guys want that then a mod might need to do that for us.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29997

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natas
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 		thought transition village was over?
got this email:

Quote:
DEAR TRAVELER: GENERAL ADMISSION TO TRANSITION VILLAGE WILL BEGIN SOON. PLEASE WATCH CAREFULLY FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO JOIN. IN THE MEANTIME, BE SURE TO PRESS WORDS IN ORDER TO VISIT THE TRANSITION TIMES. A SPECIAL PLACE IN TRANSITION VILLAGE WILL BE AWARDED TO THE WRITER OF THE BEST GUEST ARTICLE. JAN IS WAITING. SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES NOW! SIGNED, THE GOVERNOR


ETA: It was sent encrypted.

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kosmopol
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 		This is rather spam, but you never know...

People in Germany is getting since last week very weird messages per SMS. (Also look at the list of forums about it)
Some are coded like

Quote:
2xZ0jSM2iEFWgF4ky4092gcGoatGpkFfLjlXVomEAlAtNh00j


or

Quote:
OoKWc4zUxfN4lIFKFnZ49nEUn3v3NPCR27pHuPfZoewT4wO7n


I tried base64 on it, but it didn't work.
Now they are getting text SMS with Bible quotes. A friend of mine has got Psalm 121:8

Code:
The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for ever more


The weirdest thing on this story is, most of the senders seem to be from India.

So why the heck somebody from India text unknown people in Germany with Bible messages? (Beside of the costs for this sender, I mean, it is not really cheap to send a hundreds (if not thousands) sms from India to Germany).

And why the Biblic messages? I thought, they were Hindu Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:25 am
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 		http://buffalo.craigslist.org/stp/1880931329.html

Saw this (don't judge me for being on Craigslist). It just seems like a weird thing to post- specifying you're a behavioral neuroscientist.

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foucault wrote:
http://buffalo.craigslist.org/stp/1880931329.html

Saw this (don't judge me for being on Craigslist). It just seems like a weird thing to post- specifying you're a behavioral neuroscientist.


That's very interesting and broken down becomes:
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796f75206d7573742068656c70206d65 :you must help me
through base 64

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Urgent need help


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Bob Jenkins
Don't trust Steve. He has been contacting Yog-Sothoth and the King in Yellow....

4:01 PM (1 hour ago)
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to shrtyscott, me, tenshiakui, sixonthedot

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Don't trust Steve. He has been contacting Yog-Sothoth and the King in Yellow. His mind is corrupted. Ever since I left home for Arkham he was weird and now he showed up here and became a cultist. PLEASE IF HE CONTACTS YOU TELL ME EVERYTHING. I believe he is part of something big. For now I must go to the midwest and wish you luck in helping him.

If you wish to speak to him I can give you hi contact information.
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samantha henry
Sure. give me his info?

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Sure. give me his info?
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Bob Jenkins
himbehindthewallSPLATgmail.com He should still be in Arkham working at the Asylum...

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himbehindthewallSPLATgmail.com

He should still be in Arkham working at the Asylum. He rarely visits uptown. I believe this to be because of the church being there. In fact most of his time is spent downtown.


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Sure. give me his info?


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I see. does the asylum have a number I could call? Or an email I could reach him at?





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 		Arkham asylum would mean this is connected to batman somehow and the king in yellow is a collection of short stories by a Robert W. Chambers but how those two are connected I don't know.

EDIT: the batman connection is purely guess on that one as is all this just FYI
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 		Yog-Sothoth and Arkham are Lovecraft references.

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