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thebruce

yup, see the Clawshun Industries thread Smile

**Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:20 pm

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niles

Go figure..Clawshun is the phrase I didn't search for Rolling Eyes

Thanks!

**Posted:** Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:22 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Curious Email

**Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:31 pm

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looks like it could be a phone number?
(102) 835-8980

Comes up as an invalid number when called. So that's not it.

1028 is the number of bytes in a kilobyte, right? that leaves 358980

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:13 am

Nighthawk

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:42 am

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Well, that scraps both theories. I dunno. It doesn't seem like typical spam. Maybe I'm just looking for something that isn't there.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:53 am

thebruce

could it be a scottish phone number? a quick check on scottish numbers show they're 11 digits, many starting with 01... this is 10 digits, perhaps the leading 0 isn't needed. *shrug*

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:21 am

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Talaisan

That would fit with Kyle Falconer, born in Dundee, Scotland.

Subject 'a forgotten man'

The Forgotten Man is a book about the American great depression. Probably not related.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:23 am

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**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:21 pm

Talaisan

If you sort those as two sets of five, stick a decimal after the second digit, and input them as GPS coordinates you wind up in the Arabian sea, off the coast of Somalia.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:29 pm

RandomJaz · Decorated Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 195 Location: UK

A strange reference on Playstation Home has led to the finding of:

http://www.alphazone1.com/

which looks like it has the potential to be slightly ARGish.

I thought I would put it out there for the experts to have a ponder over. Any ideas???

**Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:55 am

Rogi Ocnorb

Has anyone on the PS site done all the hex conversion, unescaping, etc. to see the code. Looks like it wants to be a counter, to me.

Or am I all messed-up and the new Vista lappy is causing only me to see the initial gibberish.

What I see reminds me of code run through an obfuscator.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:55 am

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The site's been around since 2002 and a google search turns up some open directories.
http://www.alphazone1.com/midibox
http://www.alphazone1.com/tb-303
http://www.alphazone1.com/myspace
That last one leads to the site's owner on myspace, one Brian Castro. Not that he couldn't be putting on an ARG.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:12 pm

Efrain · Veteran Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 71

weird text message 2/16/09

**Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:00 am

Rogi Ocnorb

Just your standard pump and dump.
Buy a bunch of shares in a floundering company that probably should never have offered stock in the first place and then spam any and every channel you can to try and get the price up so you can then dump it.

http://spamnation.info/go/stock/GAGO.PK

Sure, it's up 200% in the last month, but if you tried to buy into it and get out with a quick profit, you couldn't do it fast enough to beat the fall.

http://quote.barchart.com/quote.asp?sym=GAGO&code=BSTK

They'll wait several months and then do it all over, again.

I'm sure the piano company isn't willingly letting the spammers use their domain in the spoofed headers and texted emails.

**Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:24 am

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