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Put a
Sock in it Buddy
Our target this time was a troubled
fanatic who was distributing misguided stock information
about our client's company on a personal Internet page.
We were provided with an IP number as an address for the
page which the fanatic was hosting on his home DSL line.
We sifted through the information on the fanatic's site
and found several posts referring to the site's owner
by two different aliases. We discovered the use of these
aliases on another site featuring posts about our client's
company, marks and stock symbol. We were able to determine
that the fanatic was using a third alias on this site
to mock and harry other people posting there, stating
that he could pin point their location by his log-tracking
traps, which he claimed he was distributing to strangers.
The fanatic also insinuated that he was aligned with our
client and suggested that they would employ similar tactics
in an effort to do the other posters harm. We then visited
our client's Web site and found a post by the fanatic
(using this third alias) congratulating the company on
their programming skills, and that he had been browsing
the site for 10+ hours the night before. At this point,
we knocked back a few cups of joe, and stayed up the next
night as a visitor in our client's investor chat room.
We managed to get a particularly opinionated chat room
denizen there (using yet another alias) to identify himself
as the owner of the fanatic's Internet site in question.
Later in the evening we were able (through conversations
in the chat room and through emails exchanged during the
session) to obtain the fanatic's first and last name,
the fact that he lived with his parents and the town and
state he lived in. With that information we used personal
profile databases to confirm his exact address, verified
his date of birth, social security number as well as his
father's name and social. Bullseye. End of horror show.
And yes, another satisfied customer. |
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