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[Leyton Stone]

[INFO] [META]RE: Marlena Diamond working for "AtlasTalent"

[Helo]

As I've said in the past, it's probably not a good idea to mix reality with a stupid marketing gimmick. Search a few months back for when some dumbasses were calling random numbers and waking people up in the middle of the night.

Reality = REAL
Cloverfield = MARKETING (not real)

It might be time for a refresher course on the difference between the two.

[Leyton Stone]

[Slusho Addict]

[Fignut the Elder]

If it's listed in game/in the experience....

[Nighthawk]

Perhaps Atlas Talent is providing services? They're a voiceover company...

Their site does provide a list of samples:
http://voicebank.net/default.jsp?ptype=talent_home&tid=49
...but you have to special request samples from the "celebrities" section.

As for Citibank, they're probably a sponsor or providing financial services.

*EDIT*:
According to IMDB, "Alyssa Weisberg" is the casting director for Cloverfield.
On the Atlas Talent page in VoiceBank, "Noah Weisberg" has a promo reel.

/cue Twilight Zone music

[Slusho Addict]

[pegassissy]

This is going back to the hackergate incident, which leyton, you were not here for.

Summary: We hacked a photobucket account and view pics we were not supposed to view.

Somebody relativly veteran around here hacked the myspace accounts and stayed there until paramount changed the password, which was the right thing to do, and he/she didnt change anything.

Anything thrid party as Helo said, myspace, a phone number not directly given to us, AtlasTalent, or whatever else are all OOG, and you should not contact them concerning IG material.

Its ok, it was quite a good argument when active, ill provide you the link.
Edit 1:http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21463
Not the same as what you did, but in the future be careful.

[Leyton Stone]

[Euchre]

Emailing Atlas is not the same as calling a phone number that something thinks they've 'decoded' from some random numbers that seem to be in some smoke or some such crap. It's not even the same as calling the number of some person with the same name as a character in the movie. Email doesn't suddenly wake someone up at midnight, and thanks to spamming most companies and even the average person has and uses controls that would quickly allow them to sort out and discard such emails if they became remotely numerous.

Although this is a little of a waste of someone's time, when a real companies name is used in plain sight in an IG context it's not really unfair to send off a simple email. The fact that this person posted about it and the dead end response will probably help prevent many more people from bothering to try. The only thing I don't like is the pretexting method used - pretending to be an old friend, and asking for more information of a more private type. Just a message asking to forward your message or asking about hiring Lena for something would have sufficed. It was plausible the company could have had some IG way to respond, and a simple email like that would tell us if there was. Seeing as there's not, we can just stop here.

[detranova]

Methinks there is a difference. Maybe its just my ignorance, but I didn't know that Atlas was an actual company. Besides, the name just plain screams fake company. If I was unsure or it being IG or OOG, sending an e-mail really isn't all that harmful. If they ignore you, it's OOG. If they say we're OOG, then it's OOG. If they give an IG answer, then Jackpot! Either way, no harm done by e-mailing, besides a few minutes of lost time. Citibank/Citigroup however is so big that everyone knows they are legit companies, and thus off-limits. I'd group that in the youtube/myface/picturepail (see, I didn't mention them by name!) category of you're wasting your time.

E-mail doesn't hurt anyone, as long as it's a company e-mail. Personal e-mails, however, should be avoided, unless they are definitely IG. While as companies have the resources to deal with a large influx of e-mails, people cannot as effectively. Gmail and yahoo are good about spam thanks to their large storage, but if someone with a Hotmail account gets hit with a couple thousand e-mails asking whether they know Teddy Hanssen, then things could get ugly fast. So in addition to not calling random numbers, I'd say that not e-mailing random personal e-mails is also a good idea.