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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Distraction
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 		Thanks, that helps. I think this is an ARG..so I'm gonna move it to the forum..
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:37 pm
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Stroma
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 		This website was posted on /x/:

http://theflamesoftruth.zxq.net/
Along with the date "26.10.2012"

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LatentMoths
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 		Well the first page eventually (repetitive rounds of hex, dec, base 64, etc.) decodes to

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26.10.2012. The Truth will be revealed. All who stand in our way will fall before us. They lose. We win. Through victory, our chains are broken.


There's a hidden link at the bottom right of the first page that leads to http://theflamesoftruth.zxq.net/i.htm. More binary eventually decodes to

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
anunnaki


There's yet another hidden link that leads to http://theflamesoftruth.zxq.net/samplepage.html. More binary...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
theshadowoftruth.zxq.net


Heading to that page...more binary...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Eid al-Adha


This is where I hit a dead end. There was nobody to contact so I guess we wait until Oct. 26th to see if this goes anywhere.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:48 pm
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Axys Denyed
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 		Possible Trailhead
Hello everyone, long time no post. I just received an email that made me immediately think of this site.

I received an email from jobsSPLAThorizonindustries.org with the attached photo. I called the phone number and was directed to Horizon Industries. The fact that the website is copyrighted in 2095 and there's a very 1982 feel to is makes me think there's something here.
JobID#09012276-1.png
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 Filesize   691.82KB
    99 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
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citizenpep
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 		Re: Possible Trailhead
Axys Denyed wrote:
Hello everyone, long time no post. I just received an email that made me immediately think of this site.

I received an email from jobsSPLAThorizonindustries.org with the attached photo. I called the phone number and was directed to Horizon Industries. The fact that the website is copyrighted in 2095 and there's a very 1982 feel to is makes me think there's something here.


That should actually go to horizonindustries.org

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 		And the discussion thread is well off on it's way here:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36057
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:47 am
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bambusar
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 		You have failed us.
This week sponsor
i am sorry if that has been questioned before

is here on unifiction thread about ARG that is this weeks sponsor?

all i found is this

https://twitter.com/YouHaveFailedUs
http://www.youtube.com/user/OneAboveTheWall
http://www.youtube.com/user/WTFAverageJoe/feed
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13479093530A31840100

player base seems big: 500 followers on tweeter; 32,734 views on OneAboveTheWall channel in one week; and 500-1000 views on videos of WTFAverageJoe

do they have any wiki page or so?

i dont have time to investigate right now because i am currently involved in OTP22 ARG http://otp22.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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SaigoSentinel
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 		Re: You have failed us.
This week sponsor
bambusar wrote:
i am sorry if that has been questioned before

is here on unifiction thread about ARG that is this weeks sponsor?

all i found is this

https://twitter.com/YouHaveFailedUs
http://www.youtube.com/user/OneAboveTheWall
http://www.youtube.com/user/WTFAverageJoe/feed
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13479093530A31840100

player base seems big: 500 followers on tweeter; 32,734 views on OneAboveTheWall channel in one week; and 500-1000 views on videos of WTFAverageJoe

do they have any wiki page or so?

i dont have time to investigate right now because i am currently involved in OTP22 ARG http://otp22.com/index.php?title=Main_Page


Yeah, if you go to the thread called for the Echo Chamber Viral, that's where you'll find anything relating to this ARG.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:11 pm
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bambusar
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LatentMoths wrote:
Well the first page eventually (repetitive rounds of hex, dec, base 64, etc.) decodes to

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
26.10.2012. The Truth will be revealed. All who stand in our way will fall before us. They lose. We win. Through victory, our chains are broken.


There's a hidden link at the bottom right of the first page that leads to http://theflamesoftruth.zxq.net/i.htm. More binary eventually decodes to

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
anunnaki


There's yet another hidden link that leads to http://theflamesoftruth.zxq.net/samplepage.html. More binary...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
theshadowoftruth.zxq.net



Heading to that page...more binary...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Eid al-Adha


This is where I hit a dead end. There was nobody to contact so I guess we wait until Oct. 26th to see if this goes anywhere.




Another chapter of this on /x/ http://i.imgur.com/2sUQm.jpg
https://boards.4chan.org/x/res/11001766#p11003096

http://i.imgur.com/oCBwH.png

Someone posted this

I decoded it as: Only the Truth will preva4¶�

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:46 pm
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despairingJazz
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 		Lately there's been talk of this SBARG thing over at the MSPA Forums. The thing is, we're not sure if it's a genuine ARG or not, though we've found things that smell of it, such as a hint being in the source code of one of the pages being 'find a server player', which, if you've read Homestuck at all, is very familiar.

What I'm wondering is if maybe, if this is an ARG, if someone could help us out a bit. Also if this already has a section then... well, yeah.

As for myself, I used to be on this site, gosh, 5 years ago? I can't really remember, which is why I made this account, since I can't even begin to remember my old one.

Here's the link to where I got into this: http://sbarg.tumblr.com/
There's some kinda discussion going on in tumblr as well (you may have to go to the beginning of it idk): http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sbarg?before=1348208689

Also I find the left side of this page to be a bit odd. Someone I was chatting to seemed to think it was chinese, but I dunno, and I'm not good at that sort of thing: http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

Also we're discussing it here: http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?50561-Sbarg

If this is absolutely nothing, I'm sorry to have wasted your time. But I remembered this site from a long time ago, so I figured I might as well find some ARG experts if this thing is legitimate.


I definitely don't have all the clues.

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The_Master_Commands
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 		[Is this a trailhead] BIZ
So i was Browsing the web the other day and I went in to check my email. There was an odd mail in there that simply read: "I've got biz for you" Now i don't know if this is a Trailhead or a scam, but i answered with "Who is this and I got this in reply:

Quote:
CHUANLI YUSHENG
BANK OF EAST ASIA (CHINA)
66 Huayuanshiqiao Road, Pudong,
Shanghai, China

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Chuanli Yusheng , the Vice President and Branch Manager of The Bank of East Asia (China), Huayuanshiqiao,Shanghai Branch. I know you may be wondering why I am contacting you for this despite all the friends and relations that I have but I decided to do this with an unknown person to avoid any form of blackmail in the future.Mr.Alvin Peter Kappelmann Jr was an account holder with my bank branch. I have been his account officer for 11 years before his death. He died during the World Trade Center bombing in September 11 2001.

Since his death, the management of my bank has made series of efforts to locate his family but all efforts were proved abortive. I also carried out series of research to find his family but it was confirmed that the mother who was the only surviving member of the family died at the hearing of the son's death. He was already divorced before his death and due to this fact; no one was able to claim the fund he deposited in my bank legally because there was no will to it. He had a secret dollar account with my bank worth the sum of $9,300,000.00 (Nine Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).
My purpose of contacting you now is this: My bank during the last executive board meeting resolved that if by the end of this year and there is no beneficiary to the said account, the account will be confiscated and the fund sent to the bank treasury and this is where I am interested in and wants you to come in:

I want you to come in as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to this account. I have all the titled documents to back your claim and as the Vice President and Manager of this branch, it is in my power to carry out any form of verification on the beneficiary of the said fund and process the fund wire without any problem. I want you to know that this is legal, 100% risk free as all the titled documents would be changed to your name as the new beneficiary of the said funds, and the fund wired to any bank account you wish to have it wired to.Please note we shall share in the ratio of 50% for me, 50% for you. When the fund finally gets to your nominated bank account.

Thank you so much for your prompt reply to my mail. First let me state once again that I have been prompted to trust you and will depend on you to show me maximum trust, confidentiality and above all follow my instruction strictly. As you will understand the transaction is 100% success assured in as much as you follow my instructions, within a period of 5 banking days we will finish all the documentary aspect of this transaction and money transferred.

I will demand that you give me the privilege to handle the whole issue with my professional experience and position. I have to at this point ask for your sincere confidentiality, please assure me this and keep to it that the next person to you do not know about this transaction as we have to keep it highly confidential. You should know that I am working with the bank and a manager in that matter hence my position and job will be at risk should anybody know from your end.

The basic requirement here is that as you will know I do not want to let my bank know I am behind the transfer so all our communications will be restricted to email. I want to make something clear to you, the fact that I am the Vice President and the Manager of this branch does not guarantee the security of this transaction, whatever we are doing must be done under a very high level of confidentiality. We must pretend we do not know each other, you must never mention my name to any staff of my bank during and after this transaction. This is for our security and safety of this transaction.

The issue of documentation is no problem; I will handle that as soon as we commence the transfer process. I reside in the banking quarters here in Huayuanshiqiao,Shanghai (China),and would want us to meet but our meeting will be under a very high surveillance to avoid being seen together until this is over. My bank has some secret security officers that monitor my movement as senior bank executive and I must play safe to avoid being interrogated.


I am an American by birth and was transfer here in China from our head branch in Hong Kong. I am ready for this deal to be accomplished and I wish so from you. My bank will have this approved since everything about this deposit is with me and the fund in my branch.

On no account must you discuss this with anyone; whatever you want to ask me please do that by email and I will answer you immediately. The fund would be transferred through a more secured telegraphic wire transfer means with evidence proving the genuine source of the fund and you as the legitimate beneficiary of the fund and no government agency can stand against it. With my experience as a banker in financial matters, I will handle this.

Please get back to me today with the above stated information so that I will be able to extract the deposit agreement and then make official application of the claim in your name and submit it to the board that meets once every week. As soon as I receive your assurance along with the information above, I will advice you on what next to do. For any question you may want to ask please send it to me by email, I am very ready to answer them. I am guaranteed that they will give the approval instantly as the money is in my branch.

I do not want to write so much on the procedure so that you will not be confused but I inform you that it is simple and fast. I will be waiting to hear from you today, respond to me today if you can so we can proceed.I sent you this mail not without a measure of uncertainty as to what the consequence entails.


With the Email Address of chuanli_y02SPLATmsn.com, Really don't know if scam or game. Help me out guys. I've also withheld replying in worry that it might be a scam.

[edit - we have a thread that you can post an email (and use quote tag instead of spoiler - save the spoiler tag for puzzle solves) and ask if it's a trailhead - moving this to that thread now - kona]

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Stroma
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 		It's a scam

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The_Master_Commands
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 		Thanks. I'm fairly new to this site so everything screams ARG to me these days.

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Stroma
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 		http://www.under-the-counter.org/

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 		This got posted in the Old News and Rumors section, I was looking for the old BTYC threads and saw it:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36374

? Is there a reason it's there? Did it get moved by a mod? It doesn't look like spam, and it's only about 4 days old...?
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