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Spoons
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Nighthawk wrote:
Your WHOIS is incomplete, but no matter: it's a private registration.

One thing I did notice: GoDaddy's WHOIS has a link that goes here...

http://www.aboutus.org/AguaTeRoIndustries.com

Note the capitalization. I'm not sure where that capitalization is coming from; it's not from aguateroindustries.com


ATRI doesn't seem to lead us anywhere on the site, either as a directory or in the search. However, when googled, it does bring up this oddity... http://www.atri.org/ I don't think it's related, but it is curious all the same.

PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:03 pm
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Agent Bateman
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Aguatero Definition
aguatero definitions as a word

in spanish an "Aguatero" is a water carrier,waterboy, or a water seller. A plastic water bottle,is also a water carrier!

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 1:07 am
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Agent Bateman
Kilroy

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Aguateroindustries.com website
Aguateroindustries.com website is misleading the public!

On the "Our Expansion"page on Aguateroindustries.com website;it states that Mario Long is the director for LADWP, that information is false. The current director is Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner, he was named an interim director Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Here is a news link
http://cbs2.com/local/dwp.austin.Beutner.2.1641121.html

hmmmm.....Who is Mario Long?

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:35 am
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McNurphy
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Characters
Not many leads yet

So far all of the following names listed on the Aguatero Industries site have come up with social network profiles for what appear to be real people (their posts have no connection to the ARG as far as I can see). Seems Connor Arter is the only established character.

Shelby Walters (contact listed in the "Our Expansion" letter)
http://aguateroindustries.com/expansion/

Kyle Mack, Senior Brand Manager
http://aguateroindustries.com/newbottledesign/

Mark Lowell, Conservation Team Leader
http://aguateroindustries.com/summertips/

Lucinda Rodriguez, president and CEO of Aguatero Industries
http://twitter.com/aguaterowaters

Also, it seems Connor is linking to established real world projects and people. Bottled Water Babe (http://twitter.com/BottledH2OBabe) is a real person with 936 tweets. "The Story of Stuff Project" on bottled water (posted here: http://ourwaterplanet.wordpress.com/) is from March (pre-game) and part of a long-running web-series.

So, that's what I've compiled, any thoughts? (I'm new at this, by the way, so pointers would be nice)

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:06 am
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Always a little scary when an ARG uses names that exist in real life - those poor folks get contacted by new players (who can't figure out the person they are contacting are REAL and not in-game characters) so their phones and emails get swamped with reguests for information the person has NO IDEA what is happening - leading to the players demanding MORE information, etc.

Thanks for searching and pointing out there are REAL people with those names with NO CONNECTION to the game. I hope the other players pay attention.
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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 4:03 pm
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mastropeter
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What about Kim Rondon, the Director of Human Resources over at Aguatero Industries? A Google search turned up a few social networking profiles of real people.

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 6:29 pm
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MensVenatus
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Joined: 29 Apr 2010
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I followed up Rondon in Facebook, Twitter etc but couldn't find any that had any obvious connection with the game.

On another note, it seems like one of the points of this game is to get people interested/informed about REAL WORLD water issues, hence the real world videos and things on Connor's site. Means even more that we need to be careful about who we contact, I guess

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I sure do hope this IS, in fact, an actual game, and not just a stunt to get people interested in the water crisis. I mean, I'm all for saving the water and whatnot, I just hope this is actually going somewhere.

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:51 pm
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McNurphy
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Yeah, the initial excitement of discovery and mysterious mail has sort of worn off. Something had better happen soon. They're likely waiting for more players.

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:13 pm
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McNurphy
Boot

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Ha. Connor and Aguatero both tweeted at the same time. Suspicious... And yet more evidence that this isn't real. Which is good, because I applied for a job...

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:24 pm
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mastropeter
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may I just point out that on the protected wordpress post, he says something about how "people can't stop drinking their water" and he can't figure out why. A chemical, perhaps? Are they perhaps addicting people to their water?

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2010 12:16 am
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LightandWves19
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Map

Ok, I'm trying to get on on this game too by adding myself to the map. However, I can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone explain what needs to be done to add your name to the map?

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2010 1:07 am
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Euthanatos
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Joined: 13 May 2010
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Re: Map

LightandWves19 wrote:
Ok, I'm trying to get on on this game too by adding myself to the map. However, I can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone explain what needs to be done to add your name to the map?


I had to log into my gmail account to do it.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2010 1:34 am
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LightandWaves19
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I did that already. I might just be overlooking something on the map. What needs to be pressed?

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2010 1:36 am
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Host
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You click edit, then mouse over the map. If some buttons don't appear over the top left corner, you may need to use a different browser. I had to use Chrome for it to work for me.

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