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Communications with Rob and Tagruato Corp
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Nighthawk
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m0r1arty wrote:
Isn't all this yeah I got an email stating...crap just more of the same 48-hours crap that can't be substantiated?

Let's stick to facts that everyone can see and have access to.

If Robs profile updates, then that's info.

If someone gets an email from Jaybrahms with all the plot and twists of the movie then that's not.

-m0r


Email or message communication is a possibility, but everyone that communicates properly should get a reasonably similar response. You just have to play along. Singling out one person and giving them the Holy Grail makes no sense.

All the communication we've had so far has been at a superficial level. We make assumptions (we assume Hanssen's in Europe, Rob's eventually to be working for this company, etc...), but we need some sort of tangible content from them in that regard.

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W-Three
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Damn, after reading about all that stuff about how the myspace communication was a hoax...very annoying.

I had my suspicions at first, thought it seemed odd (the content) and such, thought there might be a change it was a hoax. But I figured, what kind of stupid A**hole would lie about something like this. Its far worse than creating a site, its actively leading everyone to believe something which isn't true. A whole load of time has been spent on this.

Its just...I cant understand why someone would do that.

Well, I guess I have to go back, sifting through what I learned from the messages and forget them.

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Finch
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Had to break the veil as a lurker to say that this is 100% fake (if there was any lingering doubt). The html document was altered and not very well I might add.

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Wiserbud
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I swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Learned a lesson though. Thanks colby. In the future I'm reserving judgement until the more sage posters check it out. Thanks once again MrToasty.

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zilla92
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Wiserbud wrote:
I swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Learned a lesson though. Thanks colby. In the future I'm reserving judgement until the more sage posters check it out. Thanks once again MrToasty.


Me too, however I liked the idea so I posted a myspace comment to Jamie asking if there was anyone she knew in marketing. I told her a friend of mine asked me if I knew anyone because this company Tagruato is looking for someone to market SLUSHO! in the Western hemisphere....let's hope she posts it and responds...she is my only friend on myspace out of the seven....

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McPhearson
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Ah, man. I was naive... I trusted Colby, took his word for it. Made a sucker of us (save for Toasty, that is). Dang.

Thank you Colby. Not only did you NOT take the step we thought you did, but now everyone DISLIKES YOU WITH A FIERY PASSION you.

I'm really interested to see how the sucker refutes this, if he even has the balls to post again, that is.

(If SOMEHOW, he IS telling the true, disregard everything above Smile)

EDIT: I removed the word 'hate', and gave certain people cheese to go with their whine. Laughing

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Nighthawk
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I'm pretending Colby's post doesn't exist at all, and attempting communication channels on my own.

I suggest you all do the same and try to get your own answers. Until you yourself can verify authenticity, everything should be seen with a certain degree of suspicion.

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brettoniasam
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"Hate" is too strong a word...*I* don't hate colbyrook, anyway. He's not the first hoaxer attached to 1-18-08, nor the last.

But what makes *his* little trick all the more nasty is that he hijacked a major thread to do it. Yeah, there have been hoaxes like the "adshels" reported in the UK, but the hoaxer confessed to it and (more importantly) set up an entirely self-contained thread introducing the hoax. In other words, you were free to go there and believe or disbelieve, didn't matter that much.

But Colby hijacked *this* thread -- the TAGRUATO thread. Which, like the slusho.jp and Characters' Myspace threads, is likely to become one of the biggest and most utilized, at least for the next little while.

So it's like he dumped 10 pages' worth of spam right in the middle of all this. And we're still wasting words on it....so yeah, I still think we should just start up a new thread while it's still young. Just my opinion. Confused

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Henrik
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suuuuuckss Crying or Very sad I actually believed him.. guess it shows that you canīt afford to be a little bit naive sometimes.. someone will eventually show up and seduce the believers (or something like that Laughing ).. anyway, lesson learned..!!

crap crap slusho-crab

and letīs start a new Tagruato thread

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jon-561
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what a turkey...a 17 year old Australian turkey to be exact (from his profile here):

http://www.myspace.com/enterthecheese

Well, I thought something positive might come out of the myspace cesspool, but I should have trusted my instincts from the start...

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MonTag
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Ignore me im sleepy.

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Why? A far better idea would be looking on Tagruato.jp

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HOAX?
I've been sitting on this overnight and I was hoping that this would all sort itself out, but as this is well on its way to being accepted as canon, I have to go ahead and post this. I'm not doing this to be malicious, but as this is starting to pervade several threads the forum needs to be aware. If I am wrong I will apologize wholeheartedly, but I don't believe that I am.

This is a HOAX.

The message from Rob to Colby is a fake. I wasn't sure until he posted the HTML of the message. There are several little things that give it away, but here is the smoking gun:

Go to the html page of the message Colby posted:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/asd.html

First, next to Rob's profile pic click on 'Delete From Friends' and you get a popup that asks "Do you really want to delete Martin from your friends?"

Second, close that and click on 'Block User' and it will take you to an 'Are You Sure?' confirmation page. On that page click the '[Back to Profile]' link and it will take you to the sender's profile:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=119992619
This guy Martin is very clearly a friend of Colby's.

Here is what most likely took place. Colby sends the original message to Martin and Martin responds. Colby saves the email to file and proceeds to modify it. Martin's profile picture, name, and Myspace address are changed and link to Rob's profile properly. However, the other links on the page are overlooked, including the two above as well as the Forward, Back, and other buttons at the bottom of the page. If you look through the page source, you see Martin's name in the code. His Myspace ID (119992619) is also all over the place.

There other smaller details, but I think this cinches it. Again, sorry if I'm somehow wrong.


I defended Colby in another thread, and I think I'm going to have to retract it. This evidence is indisputable.
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Finch
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Helo wrote:
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HOAX?
I've been sitting on this overnight and I was hoping that this would all sort itself out, but as this is well on its way to being accepted as canon, I have to go ahead and post this. I'm not doing this to be malicious, but as this is starting to pervade several threads the forum needs to be aware. If I am wrong I will apologize wholeheartedly, but I don't believe that I am.

This is a HOAX.

The message from Rob to Colby is a fake. I wasn't sure until he posted the HTML of the message. There are several little things that give it away, but here is the smoking gun:

Go to the html page of the message Colby posted:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/asd.html

First, next to Rob's profile pic click on 'Delete From Friends' and you get a popup that asks "Do you really want to delete Martin from your friends?"

Second, close that and click on 'Block User' and it will take you to an 'Are You Sure?' confirmation page. On that page click the '[Back to Profile]' link and it will take you to the sender's profile:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=119992619
This guy Martin is very clearly a friend of Colby's.

Here is what most likely took place. Colby sends the original message to Martin and Martin responds. Colby saves the email to file and proceeds to modify it. Martin's profile picture, name, and Myspace address are changed and link to Rob's profile properly. However, the other links on the page are overlooked, including the two above as well as the Forward, Back, and other buttons at the bottom of the page. If you look through the page source, you see Martin's name in the code. His Myspace ID (119992619) is also all over the place.

There other smaller details, but I think this cinches it. Again, sorry if I'm somehow wrong.


I defended Colby in another thread, and I think I'm going to have to retract it. This evidence is indisputable.



It is indisputable, it was indeed altered. Also a forward from Colby would at least prove he did recieve a message from Rob BUT he could very easily change the message contents before sending it off. In other words he can't change myspace's html in a forward but he could alter the message.

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firelight
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Finch wrote:



It is indisputable, it was indeed altered. Also a forward from Colby would at least prove he did recieve a message from Rob BUT he could very easily change the message contents before sending it off. In other words he can't change myspace's html in a forward but he could alter the message.


has anyone confirmed it yet? like five people gave him their MS

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