Yes, I agree with you. But look at the last line here - the guy is so wrong! LOL
eddiesocket
2012-10-18 02:13:46 PM
spelletrader: Ok for anyone new to the thread I’ll re-consolidate all the info that was used to trackback and expose these guys.
First everyone did a whois on octsurprise.com, naturally. Of course that is privately registered so we had to find connecting sites to try to dig into.
Fark user MrEricSir ran a reverse search on the IP itself to find the link to pausetime.com (that site brings up AV alerts, surf at your own risk), which in turn led to Anthony Maro and this address.
I took a different route when I googled and came across the wiowsa connection and did a whois for whatisoccupywallstreetabout.
No name available but it did have an email address which is also associated with a site named scatterfamily.com, a quick whois of that site led to Jeffery Hopwood and is registered to this address two blocks from the other.
It’s fairly simple after that to google the names and find the http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonymaroLinkedin info on Anthony as well as on Jeffery to see that they not only live near each other, but also work together at Discovery.
Then Fark user elchip googled the two names together and found a reference to “The Greatest Rickroll Ever” having been done by these two guys. Of course they soon deleted that post when they saw we were on to them , but of course they couldn’t edit the google cache.
“The Greatest Rickroll Ever” that they refer to is a site they launched in 2007 called “radioheadlp7” which had a countdown timer and promised the latest Radiohead album info when the timer ran out. The band denied all knowledge, but still over 20,000 people signed up and got Rickrolled when the timer finally ran out.
This is the same thing, just a lot sloppier.
I sent Tweets with all of this info to their Twitter account and they promptly blocked me and removed the Tweets from their feed.
Feel free to use any of this info to educate and alert people.
Kudos, guys! The best part is that the Freepers won’t figure it out until it happens.
Ha!