The Craigslist spy has struck again.
On Wednesday night, a message appeared on Ottawa Craigslist Missed Connections “For Mein Fraulein,” asking her to call. When one calls the number, a recording plays which is reminiscent of Cold War-era shortwave numbers stations. Only these stations are set up on Voice over Internet Protocol telephone numbers.
The recorded message starts out with a few seconds of A-Ha’s Little Black Heart, reads groups of numbers twice, and ends with the same few seconds of the song, like the four before it.
And the message on Craigslist read:
For Mein Fraulein
Mein Fraulein,
Do not fear the cold. I have a blanket for you. Call me.
613 //// 686 //// 3106
The telephone number belongs to Group Telecom, which was recently purchased by Bell Canada.
Because I’m currently at the HOPE conference, I was unable to make a recording of the call. But reader Fortyseven was able to create a recording and it is now available. In the meantime, the following is a transcription of the message:
Group 022
01408 20030 10001 02006 80180
18117 08001 30270 00014 01000
50690 27078 10004 00630 99063
03306 70100 17000 07307 80120
00023 02200 10720 82017
While many people have worked on the last four, no one has yet come up with a solution. This fifth message is much shorter than the previous four, but even so, it might help. And with that, I return to HOPE Number Six.
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Fortyseven
Jul 21, 2006
If I was at home I’d record it, but on this box here at work I’m very limited. :P
Fortyseven
Jul 21, 2006
I know we can’t be completely sure any of these are ‘authentic’ but do we know of any others that are known to be fake besides the 2600-related one?
I ask because I’m have no idea if there’s a lot of (obvious) copy-cats out there or not. I’m just kind of trying to get a feel for the phenomenon.
Is this literally the fifth (sixth?) one discovered since this story originally broke, or are there a handful of previous fakes that are considered briefly and then ignored as hoax?
It’s, of course, curious that this one is shorter and has a Canadian phone number…naturally the gears of suspicion begin to grind.
Michael Hampton
Jul 21, 2006
If this one is a copycat, it’s a much better one than Mike from Off The Hook put together. I didn’t consider that whoever was doing this might post something in a Canada forum, so I missed it first time around. Oh well.
Bunsen
Jul 22, 2006
I’m going to go with my previous belief that I stated with #4?/#3, maybe? that whether or not we feel it may be legitimate, we should consider the attention these messages have gotten and assume that any message after #1 is most likely “tainted,” either as a copycat or a misdirection.
Bunsen
Jul 22, 2006
Also, I think that the spacing of these messages procludes the possibility that this is a Guerrilla advertising campaign as some others have claimed – if it were, I think that we would have seen them more frequently than five messages in almost two months. Maybe, obviously, I’m wrong – but my official stance on this is that these are either legitimate, and uncrackable because we have no pad, or more likely copy-cats or attention whoring, and uncrackable because they aren’t a real code.
However, I am very taken by erithid’s work on the binary frequency graphs, and am interested in seeing whether or not he can make anything out of this new message if it works out for him.
Anarchyx67
Jul 22, 2006
I still think the “3″ sounds odd, more like “T”. I know it’s probably just the guys voice used for that number. But it does still sound odd compared to the rest of the numbers.
It’s 8:30 AM CST and the phone # is still active…
Brian Knowles
Jul 22, 2006
Is anyone working on the idea that the music constitutes an encoded keword? It’s pretty obvious, but I thought I’d ask..
Anarchyx67
Jul 22, 2006
The music containing an encoded keyword? Like how? It’s the same musical loop everytime. Or do you mean something deeper?
I know the “sender” won’t respond, but I did send an email tot he Craigslist address the “spy” used asking them to at least drop a hint that this is a fake, or if it is legit, or whatever.
I have a few other ideas that might help get a “response” but am not going to publically share them. Just some ideas I’m coming up with. Mainly because these messages are starting to irritate me. :-) I mean seriously…
I do hope the NSA is working on these as well, to put a stop to them.
b
Jul 23, 2006
Here’s what I can tell you. Every grouping of five here, with the exception of 17000, shows up in the value of pi taken to 1 million places. See http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/pi/pi1000000.html
b
Jul 23, 2006
so i went back and checked the others. same thing. almost every sequence of five digits appears in pi. for those that don’t appear, moving the fifth digit to the first place produces a sequence that does appear in pi.
now the bad news: the same patterns emerge in the fake fourth phone message, so i guess this is all just coincidence.
it was a nice theory while it lasted.
Winston
Jul 23, 2006
If you try just about any series of 5 numbers, you’ll find them in PI to a million places.
Deezy
Jul 24, 2006
Yea someone should call CNN and let them know about this ;)
acoward
Jul 24, 2006
If my math is correct, the probability of not finding a 5 digit sequence in the first million digits of PI with the assumption that PI’s digits are uniformally distributed, is ~1:22000
You’d have a hard time finding such a sequence.
ipdb
Jul 24, 2006
pi holds no relevance to this. ;)
b
Jul 24, 2006
ok, i get the point. ;P
SKYWALKER107
Jul 24, 2006
hey IPDB you gonna add these 2 new groupings to your website for checking diffeent cyphers?
logiczero
Jul 26, 2006
This may have been brought up in comments in one of the other posts, but has anyone considered that this is one of those clever Google job postings, where the person who solves is clearly intelligent enough to work at Google?
Krusty
Feb 22, 2007
If this was a code sent using a “one-time-pad” then there is no way to crack it (unless they reused the same pad on the different messages).
Obviously the recepient/sender wasn’t worried about being marked since a transmission over a phone line can be traced.
Had this been a covert opp, they would have received the message via a shortwave numberstation.