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[Analysis] Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?
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Khune
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Joined: 13 Jun 2007
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I have recieved a email but I don't know how to post it on the forum

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:16 am
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DerKork
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Khune, it's not that complicated.
Simply copy & paste the content of the email from your email software (or your browser if you stick to webmail-interfaces) to a new post in this thread, add a quote-tag to it (I hope you know how to do that) and maybe even tell us the email address that sent it to you.

I know it's a very rough draft on how to post an email but it'll be working in every mail interface.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:00 pm
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Falusi
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Joined: 02 Jun 2007
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Yesterday someone with the nick TravellerInTime and the real name Vincent Candleman added me in ICQ. He said something about travelling in time. He also said he's from the year 2037, which means he's 57 now. The chat wasn't very long and i think there isn't any information in it. Her is the log:

Quote:
TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:07):
Good day!

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:07):
err... hello? who are you?

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:0Cool:
I am Vincent Candleman. I travelled in time to get
here.

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:0Cool:
what!? you are a timetraveller? from which time do you
come?

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:10):
Year 2037. If you look in my ICQ-profile you see that
im 27 years old. Thats because ICQ is in your time. In
my time im 57.

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:10):
and... youve got a time machine?!

TravellerInTime ‎(24.06.2007 20:12):
I will tell you all, but please about e-mail. Mine is
vincent_theonlyone12345SPLAThotmail.com. You must write me
an e-mail, because i think they might be watching me.
They're searching for me. I think i have lots of bugs
in my ICQ. Must go now, bye!

Icke ‎(24.06.2007 20:12):
bye...


The next day, today, i wrote him an e-mail in the morning.

Quote:
Ok good morning, Vincent! So, you said we need to talk? What is it?
And one question is still open: How did you build a time machine? I mean, this is unimaginable!

Bye,
Takis.


He answered:

Quote:
Hello Takis!
You must help me! I came out of my time to search for help in this
time. In the future, the world will be controlled by ONE person: The great
one. He lives in a room about us. We are the people living in the
future. We are all living in a factory-like-thing. We've got no names, only
numbers.(My name Vincent is from the time where the world wasnt so...
corrupt and we all have names, not numbers.) My number is 6379. We only
eat a sort of gruel.
I build the time machine by collecting spoons and melting them down to
metal. From this, I build a machine. With a few tools I made it
running. I was able to melt them down because our work is to melt down metal
and to forge it.
In this world, we are all gods. Somepeople are more god, somebody less.
The great one is really, really GOD. His personnel is searching for
me. They've seen the time machine in my room and then used it to get in
our time. They're looking after me. They will never get me. I'm free!
I'm living in my dreams, they will not stop my dream!

PYSMG SCGZO BFSAX U

sincerely,
Vincent


So, like the threadname says:
Quote:
Could that email or IM be a trailhead, or SPAM?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:33 pm
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Methos
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TravellerInTime

Falusi wrote:
[...] PYSMG SCGZO BFSAX U [...]


It is a Vigenere Cipher (key: onegod)

=> BLOGSPOT VINCENTO
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:55 pm
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Falusi
Boot


Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Posts: 15

The blog is http://vincento-theonlyone12345.blogspot.com

vincento
+vincent_theonlyone12345 (e-mail)
=vincento_theonlyone12345


EDIT:
The blog has updated today. Now there is a new crypted message:
RIAIH UMGUI OTFLK BWQCB DVIBG
It's vigenere again. You get the code by putting together all big letters in the text, so the key is GIIPCIPCII
The solution is LASTFMXEMAILXWITHOUTXNAME, which means LAST.FM EMAIL WITHOUT NAME. This leads to http://www.last.fm/user/theonlyone12345/
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we exchanged vows of revolution
I must not allow anyone to stand in my way.


PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:14 pm
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godson2k7
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
Posts: 69

Just received an odd IM via msn messenger from a remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com with the name John:

Quote:
[14:44] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: are you familiar with the company Allied Resource Management Consolidation Incorporated?
[14:44] Shayne: no I am not.
[14:45] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: neither was I.
[14:46] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: three years ago I was a student out of business school looking for work, I have a debilitating degenerative disease that prevented me from being able to work in offices extensively
[14:46] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: I searcehd for firms I could work out of from a home office and came upon ARMCInc by some blind luck in a newspaper article
[14:47] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: The work I did was pretty standard- supervising numbers, watching out investment stocks
[14:47] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: but there was a lack of any substance
[14:48] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: Moreover, the company was 'relocating' for my entire time spent there
[14:48] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: I don't think they ever had an office, and I was confused, so I did a bit of fooling around in their servers
[14:49] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: Unfortunately, I got caught as soon as I crossed beyond my restriction, and let me tell you, for a investment firm, they sure had their hand in a lot of dirty business.
[14:50] Shayne: hmmm that is odd
[14:50] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: their current website is almost impossible to find its such a joke, and they never answer their phones, its like they aren't a real company
[14:50] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: but now they are chasing after me
[14:51] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: ARMCInc.biz.ly
[14:51] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: thats their website, my email is franksturgis5SPLATgmail.com
[14:51] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: I'll be in touch.
[14:51] Shayne: i'll see what i can find
[14:52] remsyata1SPLAThotmail.com: I'd appreciate it, but someone needs to hurry


Didn't get to ask any questions as I was semi afk doing other work but I checked somethings out after coming back to the PC and reading it all. I guess Frank Sturgis was one of the Watergate burglars and also may have been connected to the JKF assassination. Also mentions he may have been a CIA contact or a soldier of fortune. He is also dead Shocked ->Wiki entry here

From first glance the website given doesn't turn anything up but I'll check more into it.

ETA: I just received an email from franksturgis5SPLATgmail.com simply asking "Are you willing to help me?"

PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:14 pm
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godson2k7
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
Posts: 69

so I emailed him back saying yes I'd try to help but didn't know where to begin and his response was:

Quote:
I have to keep running- I don't know who to turn to or who can help me. Everything in the company checks out, but I don't want you to risk yourself in any event. I just checked their site and part of what I found surfaced just this evening. I don't know who did it, but the site was opened up somehow. It all has something to do with Frank Sturgis. I can't talk much more though, I need to keep moving. Let me know if you contact the site and spread the word!


should I post this down below as a trailhead? Pretty new to this so I'm not sure what to do from here.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:29 pm
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CptChupa
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Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Posts: 67

Pingvin

I've started playing args for exactly 3 days now. (Iris, and ARMCInc) and I've just recieved two very odd emails. One was from "Virginia aoalhSPLATflash.net" and the other was from "Josephine Q. Mcintosh" <qyzqk> Neither of them had topics and they both said only "pingvin"

I dont know if this is just spam, or what. I did a google search for pingvin, and came up without anything conclusive, save for www.pingvin.com which seems to be merely a site for german chocolates, hardly something spam worthy, so I thought I'd throw this out to you guys. Spam? Joke? or something else....

Edit: Oh yeah, I tried replying to both messeges both of them bounced It said "The following message to <qyzqk> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias:
qyzqkSPLATnycap.rr.com'"


Thanks!
Nick

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:01 am
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Axys Denyed
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 456
Location: Houston, TX, USA

Re: Pingvin

CptChupa wrote:
I've started playing args for exactly 3 days now. (Iris, and ARMCInc) and I've just recieved two very odd emails. One was from "Virginia aoalhSPLATflash.net" and the other was from "Josephine Q. Mcintosh" <qyzqk> Neither of them had topics and they both said only "pingvin"

I dont know if this is just spam, or what. I did a google search for pingvin, and came up without anything conclusive, save for www.pingvin.com which seems to be merely a site for german chocolates, hardly something spam worthy, so I thought I'd throw this out to you guys. Spam? Joke? or something else....

Edit: Oh yeah, I tried replying to both messeges both of them bounced It said "The following message to <qyzqk> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias:
qyzqkSPLATnycap.rr.com'"


Thanks!
Nick


What you just ran into is most likely a DHA. Someone sent a massive amount of mails to your mailserver and is keeping track of which ones don't bounce-back so they know which were sent to valid email addresses

ETA: Whoops, forgot to clarify that DHA stands for Directory Harvest Attack
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:09 am
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CptChupa
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Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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Ahh, Disapointing. But thank you.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:43 pm
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Kat_Moondancer
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
Posts: 5

Possible Website Trailhead?

http://www.starkironworks.com/

Right now there is only the home page, no way to advance past that. But.... Stark Industries is a company in the Marvel comic Universe... so we might be having a Marvel ARG in the works here....

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:20 pm
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catherwood-offline
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Re: Possible Website Trailhead?

Kat_Moondancer wrote:
http://www.starkironworks.com/

Right now there is only the home page, no way to advance past that. But.... Stark Industries is a company in the Marvel comic Universe... so we might be having a Marvel ARG in the works here....


check out the [TRAILHEAD] StarkIronWorks.com. - Iron Man ARG? thread in this very forum.

(and that wasn't an email, was it?)

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:24 pm
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Kat_Moondancer
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Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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Re: Possible Website Trailhead?

catherwood-offline wrote:
Kat_Moondancer wrote:
http://www.starkironworks.com/

Right now there is only the home page, no way to advance past that. But.... Stark Industries is a company in the Marvel comic Universe... so we might be having a Marvel ARG in the works here....


check out the [TRAILHEAD] StarkIronWorks.com. - Iron Man ARG? thread in this very forum.

(and that wasn't an email, was it?)


Actually, i got the link in a myspace message from a friend. Does that count as email?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:00 pm
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agentgr33n
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Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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purple ribbon rollar coaster

i recieved this email the other day. not to sure what to make of it.this is the email......To: <jeremyd>
CC:
Subject: purple roller coaster
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:48:50 -0400
Return-Path: <jeremyd>
Delivered-To: jeremyd:mindless.com@mail.com
Received: (qmail 22342 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jun 2007 01:56:12 -0000
X-Ob-Received: from unknown (192.168.8.133) by mta1-7.us4.outblaze.com; 21 Jun 2007 01:56:12 -0000
Received: from lubpth-t070150.ttuhsc.edu (unknown [66.230.1.35]) by spf12.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D74E792B for <jeremyd>; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:56:12 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from KFXOXFG ([192.64.8.85]) by lubpth-t070150.ttuhsc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id h92840840629c6Ot115782 for <jeremyd>; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:58:09 -0600 (CDT) (envelope-from jeremydSPLATnctta.org)
Message-Id: <023801c7b3a7>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0235_01C7B37D.B510A7C0"; type="multipart/alternative"
X-Priority: 3
X-Msmail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028

notthin to crazy in the header rite? nctta.org is table tennis site?
heres the message...

mpvyj wmkeuoi nlwcfh rljd qged icaatyorgw...

theres also as pic in there i cant view?? i am already postin in another part of the and posted this but thought it would fit here just in case but i dunno what to make of it any help would be awesome.....

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:11 pm
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fictional_girl
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Joined: 13 Apr 2007
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Location: North Carolina

Now, this may be wishful thinking that a trailhead came knocking on my door, though I highly doubt that's what it is, but I thought I'd put it up for analysis. I got this earlier today:

Quote:
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:38:04 +0500
From: "Deanna Hilliard" b9fx6NGSPLATwashingtonpost.com
To: [edited out]
Subject: countdown amorous anaplasmosis-

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206-8882083

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experience.
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Regards,
Professor. Dianne Tipton



She really was an idol, and if she didnt kill him, she might kill what
was in him. Not to kill her but to defend himself from her revenge by
cutting his wrists open.



Two things about this got me thinking it might be more than spam. 1, the subject "countdown amorous anaplasmosis". A countdown? What does that have to do with a Bachelors Degree? And 2, probably the more obvious, was the quote at the bottom.

The e-mail address said washingtonpost.com and the phone number came up to be Washington, too.
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