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kosmopol

The texts is translation from tagruato.jp, with some Russian related content - about manufacture near Sankt-Peterburg and about Slusho's falvour, special produced and combined for Russia.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:34 am

kosmopol

I've just written to Gospodin Polekleverov about Tagruato. I wonder what he'll answer me, hehe...

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:45 am

kosmopol

OK, here comes translation of his ~~facebook~~ vkontakte-account:

P.S. I very hope, it isn't a hoax (I worry a little 'cause of spoilerish name)

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:15 am

Kendally

The LJ was created on February 9th, so my guess is it's OOG, maybe made by someone who saw a preview screening and decided to do it in Russian because of Russian Guy On Street.

Basically, unless it's linked to by a site we know is in-game, assume it's not in game if it's been created after the teaser aired.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:46 am

shamsway · Greenhorn Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Admittedly, I haven't looked at a lot of the fake/gamejack sites. I did read over how to spot them, and this livejournal doesn't really have the characteristics of the "typical" fake (apart from the creation date, which is a biggie). I know that doesn't mean jack. But if this guy really is supposed to be the Russian PR guy for Tagruato, then it would make sense that he just translates the Tag press releases into Russian.
I added the guy to my jabber contact list, but haven't checked to see if he's online in a few days. If someone could get him over chat, maybe we could straighten it out. Or maybe someone in Russia can just call him... I'm just sort of grasping for straws since all the other in-game stuff is quiet right now.
I'm not saying that any of this is highly difficult, but he went through a lot of effort w/ the site and facebook page. Have other fakes gone to this length? Just curiious...

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:25 am

Roztox

As I said before, it seems strange the dude is using one of Dennis's goat pix..!

It it some form of homage to D at CC's ?

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:37 am

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shamsway · Greenhorn Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

Oh I didn't realize it was actually one of Dennis' pictures. I just thought it was coincidence...
Probably fake then Sad

oh well!

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:43 am

vesper · Veteran Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 78

Stop digging here guys - I say it's all a hoax

The phone numbers and address provided are for the company named "Monstro"
(you know it's the Russian title for "Cloverfield")
monstro.ru

the company deals in pumps and other industrial stuff and absolutely OOG

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:47 am

kosmopol

Funny is, even if it's a fake, they try to contact the "real world" in livejournal.
They made some advertising on various communities (without any comments or references to "Cloverfield"):

here
http://community.livejournal.com/interpreters/33101.html
(in translator community http://community.livejournal.com/interpreters/ "Everything about translation")

and here
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_smi/512067.html
(in community http://community.livejournal.com/ru_smi/, "News in various mass media")

If it's fake, they are spamming.
If it's marketing, they do their job Smile

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:49 am

kosmopol

Little funny continuation:
http://www.dp.ru/spb/news/adveritsing/2008/01/18/255632

The site "Деловой Петербург" ("Business Sankt-Petersburg") reported: "Somebody joked with Sankt-Peterburg promising $0.5 billion dollar as investment in a drink manufacture. It was only a marketing campaign of JJ Abrams" (I think, this was the news, shamsway has mentioned above)

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:23 pm

shamsway · Greenhorn Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 8

that's exactly what I was talking about. I saw it linked from one of the cloverfield fan blogs that had posted comments on the tagruato livejournal site.

that sounds like the sort of thing that could make you unpopular with Russian officials Smile

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:47 pm

kosmopol

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:29 pm

TheRabbit · Boot Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 54

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:37 pm

kosmopol

Interesting thing is, Mr. Cloverfieldov... ehm... Polecleverov answers questions in his tagruato-blog. I asked him, whether they are planing Russian version of Tagruato website. He answers: "We are working on it". Well, if a hoax-makers want to let their hoax live, they'll reply all the believers like me. But - who knows?..

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:26 pm

d0nu7

I think the new update to Tagruato which includes a language selector pretty much ends this discussion I think.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:50 pm

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