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Tiffany48
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[TRAILHEAD] Verus Investigations I received the following email with a barcode attached from a Christina Helen Ross at christinahelenrossSPLAT gmail.com yesterday (but my laptop was dead so you get it today):
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I have to be careful. Can I trust you? I'm too close to these people, they would be disappointed that I'm sending you this. Seek and you shall find.
What I believe I have discovered so far:
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The barcode decodes to DH0405843462. I used a check digit or checksum calculator and got NaN, which can mean Not a Number. Stumped on what to do next.
* updated thread title -thebruce
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:41 am
amandel
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Hi Tiffany. Possibly your barcode leads to Verus Investigations . Home page says: They're hiring! and they're on twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/verusinvestigat)
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:13 pm
Lystella
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Also a YouTube channel with their name:
http://www.youtube.com/user/verusinvestigations
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:32 pm
Tiffany48
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Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 127 Location: Tulsa, OK
Cool! I'll check it out. Nice to see you again! If I may ask, how did you come to your conclusion? If I missed something, I'd like to learn what to look for next time. Thanks!
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:35 pm
amandel
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Tiffany, you missed no trick. Maybe my Google settings are different than yours? Am playing on another thread & just wanted an excuse to say Heya!
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:40 pm
QAlchemist
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Verus Investigations is the right place to've ended up, definitely.
Got the email myself, followed it, have had an email exchange with Christina, which I'll put below.
As for how - I ran the bar code through an online bar code reader, and got the same alphanumeric as amandel, ran a Google and it brought up VI.
Email Exchange:
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I didn't want my father to find out I was meddling in this case. He was so depressed because he couldn't solve the case by the time he retired.
The reason I asked for help because of the strange note I received in the mail with the following written in it:
I just can't live with myself. I had to tell somebody connected with this case. It's encoded so that it can't be read by a casual reader.
Can you tell what this message means:
AABAAAAABBABBAABABAAABBABAAABB AABABABAAABAABBBBAABABBBBAAAAABAABBBAAABABAAAAAABAABABA BABBAAAAAABAABA BAABAAABAAABABBABABBABAAAABBABAABBA AABBAABBBABABABAABAABAAABABBABABBAAAABAAABBABBAABB BAABAAABAAAAABABAAABAABAABAABBBAABA
It was unsigned.
-- Chris
My response (and the solution to the cypher):
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Interesting.
It's a simple baconian cypher, and what it says is - well - it says a lot about this case. Translated, it reads:
EDMUND FITZPATRICK WAS SELLING GOVERNMENT SECRETS
On an OOG note:
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I believe this is being run by the same people who ran Plato's Cave, which was an enjoyable game with a lot of interactivity. Looking forward to this one!
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:46 pm
Tiffany48
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Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 127 Location: Tulsa, OK
Thanks for the explanations; I followed your steps and got the same results this time.
And, I agree with QAlchemist's OOG speculation; my research found the same.
Can't seem to make Reply button work, so I'm editing instead.
Christina Ross also has a FB account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002895580018
Also, I applied for Junior Investigator through the VI site. They sent me a quick form to fill out and sent me a confirmation text when they received it.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:06 am
Last edited by Tiffany48 on Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:28 pm; edited 1 time in total
thebruce
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Also note the facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Verus-Investigations/140799709339528
eta: well, I went with 'Info'... let's see what info they send to prospective..contacts
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:24 pm
Alt-Demon
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I've been following this, and conversing with Christina via email and facebook, she added me to a wiki
http://verusinvestigations.wikispaces.com/
and requested me to look into case DH0405843462
Hope this helps a little.
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:10 pm
emato
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I signed up for more info. Will post when I get any info. This sounds fun to me!
emato
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:31 pm
Alt-Demon
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So I've dug a little deeper into this. and bumped into http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1844450913 who is apparently involved in this, I don't know if he's a creator or not.
Also, there was an older page that used to be the source of this http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1844450913# !/pages/Veritas-Investigations/226716817374973 They also have a functioning website http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veritassurveillance.com%2F&h=_AQC2Iu-f
The wiki has two phone numbers for them, one was replaced, so I don't know if it's still related or not.
And I don't know if this is useful or not, but this is involved too.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1844450913# !/profile.php?id=100000907613600
I don't know if I'm getting off track here, but maybe some of this will help?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:23 pm
Alt-Demon
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I just received this in my email in response to the info request a couple days ago.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:16 pm
thebruce
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Perhaps Tiffany could edit the thread title to reflect Verus Investigations?
eg [TRAILHEAD] Verus Investigations
I also received the welcome PDF.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:38 am
emato
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Just received my welcome PDF as well.
emato
ETA:
Don't know if I should just hang back for a bit, or apply for work.
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:58 am
Tiffany48
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Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 127 Location: Tulsa, OK
Apply for work! I don't want to be alone in the office
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:47 am
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