Dr. Watson,
Eight minutes after posting a story about the various mysterious messages you received, I got this message in response to a story I’d published under a pseudonym elsewhere.
Name: Herminia H.
Email: jerry.???@gmail.com
Say something: GENERICS
Time: December 21, 2019 at 5:08 pm
IP Address: 164.132.51.91
Clearly someone is trying to tell us that they have been following us. But as far as I can tell, they have only one tool at their disposal: They know how to fill in a WordPress contact form with a phony name and email address. Although it is possible there is more than one person involved, I doubt it. I’m betting it is one person using a vpn and proxy servers to access us from various places around the world.
Let’s give them a challenge. Are they smart enough to figure out how to create multiple Hypothes.is accounts and use it to annotate our stories. If they want to prove they are the people who contacted us then they could annotate our stories with corrections to the messages they sent us. Both you and I abbreviated last names and capitalized the words they sent us, but what we received was in mixed case. If they correct that then we know they have joined the game. Otherwise, let’s just ignore them.
