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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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TremereBear
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On Reddit, someone found this - it was in the WTF section -



If you call the number, the man repeats this -

"800127114240696" .. phone tones, dialtone "900557114240696" .. phone tones then dialtone "500337114240696" same

What do you guys think? Potential?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:54 am
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specterseymour
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I've called the number a few times now. There's always a pattern: Sometimes it starts with a 4-digit number, then it gives a three digit number. These both are one integer followed by zeros. It then gives a two digit number, followed by the sequence 7-1-1-4-2-4-0-6-9-6. If this is a game, I certainly can't figure it out, but it definitely isn't random numbers.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:32 pm
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licoricesniper
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I just called it (12:46am 11/16/2012)

300-37114240696

Maybe it is because I am bored at work, or bored in general, but I am very intrigued. It is highly likely that there is some boring explanation for it but I am still very curious.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:50 am
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licoricesniper
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I did a simple google search:


http://www.mightynumber.com/number/show_number.php?number=1+800+569+6902

It probably has nothing to do with anything, just breaking down the actual phone number itself, but maybe plugging in the recorded numbers in a similar fashion may be useful.

If we only knew what it was for.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 3:02 am
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Seth_Fire
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I entered "7114240696", which is the number the guy keeps repeating in the call and I got this from mighty number:

7114240696 interpreted as a phone number spells the follwing words:
711-HAH-0-OWN 711-HAG-0-OWN 711-GAG-0-OWN 7114-AH-0-OWN 711-HAH-0-OX-6 711-HAH-0-NW-6
711-HAH-0-MY-6 711-HAG-0-OX-6 711-HAG-0-NW-6 711-HAG-0-MY-6 711-HA-40-OWN 711-GAG-0-OX-6
711-GAG-0-NW-6 711-GAG-0-MY-6

It looks like "HAH OWN GAG" or "HAG O MY HAG". Weird....

I typed in the other digits that came before "7114240696" and two of them were postal service zipcodes.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:41 pm
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Distraction
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Got this in my email

Quote:

Agent ,

We have located the latest communication from Target 29.
http://bit.ly/2012-12-07

Regards,
- Msika



The link leads to a New York Craigslist ad

Quote:


We can offer you a test, that will tell you exactly what is missing in your life.
A test that may very well save you and your family.
The end may be near, but the end is only a new beginning.

Reach us at: iuDpLWm6



I'm not sure if this is a new trailhead..or this belongs under one already in progress. I need some help with the " reach us at" ..

Edit: never mind..it belongs in one already in progress
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Spamer at http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36838&sid=ac709ad5349ead2275458020a835b1b4 user: bejeu1
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:13 pm
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bambusar
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hey i have seen this ARG on 4chan /x/ few days ago and now on reddit, itis getting very popular looks like it mixes bunch of popular scarry motives into one story

I am wondering if it already have thread on unfiction (if you know where it is please link me to it), or should i create new thread with it?

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/16rkri/i_just_got_this_in_the_mail_i_have_no_idea_where/

http://imgur.com/a/IHund

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bambusar wrote:
hey i have seen this ARG on 4chan /x/ few days ago and now on reddit, itis getting very popular looks like it mixes bunch of popular scarry motives into one story

I am wondering if it already have thread on unfiction (if you know where it is please link me to it), or should i create new thread with it?


You're in the right forum category,News and Rumors, it's listed as:
Strange Phone Number... ARG, or real spy stuff?
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36166
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rand__althor
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I'm mostly certain this is a spam-bot on Twitter, but earlier today, this twitter account messaged the Marble Operator twitter account. All of the tweets (save one, which was a reply to someone else's tweet) are in a programming code-like syntax.

The message to me read "@MarbleOperator Syntax.nav::proc_VWL.3// ....... 7 occ". There were similar tweets to a number of other people. Since then, these tweets have been deleted.

What went up in their place were screenshots of various random bits of text. I've not yet attempted to identify the source of these tweets.

So yeah, a random tweet from a twitter account that was, apparently, created today. Probably just some bizarre spam-bot, but there might be something more to it, given these seemingly random quotes it is tweeting.
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Distraction
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rand__althor wrote:
I'm mostly certain this is a spam-bot on Twitter, but earlier today, this twitter account messaged the Marble Operator twitter account. All of the tweets (save one, which was a reply to someone else's tweet) are in a programming code-like syntax.

The message to me read "@MarbleOperator Syntax.nav::proc_VWL.3// ....... 7 occ". There were similar tweets to a number of other people. Since then, these tweets have been deleted.

What went up in their place were screenshots of various random bits of text. I've not yet attempted to identify the source of these tweets.

So yeah, a random tweet from a twitter account that was, apparently, created today. Probably just some bizarre spam-bot, but there might be something more to it, given these seemingly random quotes it is tweeting.


I dunno. Those phrases are from literature...TS Eliot, Norse mythology. Not quite sure why someone would create a bot just for that. As soon as I get a sec, I'll see if I can find a common theme with the postings..

Edit: these are the literary works from each picture. I started from the oldest to the latest
TS Eliot- hollow men
Nietzche- the joyful wisdom
Anonymous- the song of Roland
Sophocles -Oedipus the kind <----thx sapagoo !
Thomas hardy- Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Herman Hesse- glass bead game
Samuel Beckett- endgame
Herman Hesse- Siddhartha
W.w. Jacobs- monkeys paw
Shakespeare- Macbeth
Odyssey of Homer
Ovid- metamorphoses
T S Eliot- murder in the cathedral
Prose Edda

If we could find a theme between these, then I'm willing to bet its an ARG.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:33 pm
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Distraction wrote:

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Can't figure out the fourth one..still working on it
...
If we could find a theme between these, then I'm willing to bet its an ARG.

Oedipus the King by Sophocles
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Hmmm, promising.
Wikipedia wrote:
An ansible is a fictitious machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal communication. Typically it is depicted as a lunch-box sized object with some combination of microphone, speaker, keyboard and display. It can send and receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance whatsoever with no delay. Ansibles occur as plot devices in science fiction literature.

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OhWhatProvidence
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http://imgur.com/gallery/pVIua

Got posted a few minutes ago, not sure if it's anything but if it is it's certainly an interesting start. I messaged TheNotes with a few in-game questions (if there is in fact a game)

Anyone else wanna maybe poke around a bit?
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OhWhatProvidence wrote:
http://imgur.com/gallery/pVIua

Got posted a few minutes ago, not sure if it's anything but if it is it's certainly an interesting start. I messaged TheNotes with a few in-game questions (if there is in fact a game)

Anyone else wanna maybe poke around a bit?


Sure - let's poke! I know it is only three images so far, but I hope the style present within them continues. It has intrigued me.
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