Watson gets mysterious messages and Holmes responds.

My Dear Dr. Watson,

I notice the following:

– “MULTI-CHANNELLED” is misspelled.
– The names of the people are unusual, and yet a Google search for the names yields what appear to be real people.
– None of email addresses seem like ones that would be chosen by the people named.
– Many of the email addresses are associated with spam attacks. For example, the email associated with Maria G. is listed as being used in a Spam attack on December 15. See: https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/spam-ip?date=2019-12-15&page=1

And yet, my dear Watson, it is with great sadness that (as you know) I have let my detective skills atrophy in the years since we left the business in the early 1980’s. That is why I am posting your email and my response to GoogleBeLessEvil.com. Let us see what comes of it. My guess is that if there is a connection then the people involved will contact us via other means.

Yours truly,

Holmes

P. S. I have abbreviated the names and obscured part of the email addresses. The parties involved will recognize themselves, but we don’t want our followers to harass them if they are legitimate. The IP addresses are as you have reported them to me.

On 2019-12-20 08:19, watson@???.com wrote:
> My Dear Holmes,
>
> After you launched GoogleBeLessEvil.com, I began receiving mysterious
> messages on my blog where I’ve been documenting your adventures. They
> are unlike any I’ve received before. I’ve highlighted the messages received in CAPS. I
> wonder what you make of them.
>
>    Name: Dasia M.
>    Email: ncbdc???@gmail.com
>    Say something (anything): EYEBALLS
>    Time: December 8, 2019 at 3:07 pm
>    IP Address: 27.122.59.86
>
>    Name: Ignacio W.
>    Email: billieg???@hotmail.com
>    Say something (anything): MULTI-CHANNELLED
>    Time: December 9, 2019 at 4:22 pm
>    IP Address: 109.70.100.28
>
>    Name: Aryanna M.
>    Email: lgibbs???@aol.com
>    Say something (anything): DIGITAL
>    Time: December 12, 2019 at 10:07 am
>    IP Address: 107.155.49.126
>
>    Name: Ezekiel B.
>    Email: waynes???@hotmail.co.uk
>    Say something (anything): OFFICER
>    Time: December 16, 2019 at 9:04 am
>    IP Address: 64.113.32.29
>
>    Name: Freda P.
>    Email: maqui???@aol.com
>    Say something (anything): INDEX
>    Time: December 16, 2019 at 12:02 pm
>    IP Address: 51.38.99.96
>
>    Name: Napoleon V.
>    Email: holliwood???@aol.com
>    Say something (anything): ARKANSAS
>    Time: December 16, 2019 at 1:30 pm
>    IP Address: 199.249.230.100
>
>    Name: Maria G.
>    Email: dl???@optonline.net
>    Say something (anything): ASSURANCE
>    Time: December 17, 2019 at 3:45 am
>    IP Address: 104.244.77.199
>
> These messages make no sense to me.
>
> With kindest regards,
>
> Dr. John H. Watson

Published by Brooke Allen

Founder – Viral Virtue, Inc.