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What else I found up til now: The footer on the front page contains a wp-login link in Vietnamese (according to google translate). A whois gives some weird in
by d0gbyt3 11y ago
What else I found up til now:
The footer on the front page contains a wp-login link in Vietnamese (according to google translate).
A whois gives some weird info ( http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=americatimes.org http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=americatimes.org ) (at least the combination is strange):
Registrant Name:Daniel Costello (too common a name, more on him below)
Registrant Organization:Tammy S Meyer (actually owner of the accompanying address; see below)
Registrant Street: 18853 Leisure Avenue (some pretty remote farm type place: https://www.google.nl/maps/place/18853+Leisure+Ave,+Honey+Creek,+IA+51542,+USA/@41.3643187,-95.8119062,8992m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x87939be4dd1d36bf:0x4a963c02d652acbe https://www.google.nl/maps/place/18853+Leisure+Ave,+Honey+Cr... )
Registrant City:Honey Creek
Registrant State/Province:IA
Name Server:NS1.VISIONDNS.NET (also Vietnamese)
Email: americatimes@yahoo.com (errrr, yeah..)
A google of the street address turned up some kind of land/parcel registration from the 'Pottawattamie County Assessor', actually registered to the same name, 'Tammy S Meyer': http://pottco.org/x/card?map=on&parcel=764319400002 http://pottco.org/x/card?map=on&parcel=764319400002
A search for "americatimes@yahoo.com" turns up only 3 hits, 2 of which the same WHOIS result, but one also containing the name 'Daniel Costello'. This time associated with 'acumium.com', a 'Website Development, Ecommerce, Online Marketing' company. On his company website profile ( http://www.acumium.com/about/meet-our-team/dan-costello.cmsx http://www.acumium.com/about/meet-our-team/dan-costello.cmsx ) it states the following: "Before Acumium, Dan served in the U.S. Army as a Signals Intelligence Team Leader for almost four years, which explains his focus on Acumium’s security and policies. He left the service as one of the _most highly decorated_ members of the 2nd Armored Calvary."
Now I get this tingly suspicious feeling in my special place. Why would he use a Vietnamese Wordpress?! Or be the Registrant Contact for a domain hosted in Vietnam ?? (123.30.176.66, http://tracert.com/run?host=123.30.176.66&gw=24 http://tracert.com/run?host=123.30.176.66&gw=24 ) Or be associated with this website??
This is where things started to get really odd. If you google one of the lines/titles of the articles, you find that the site is an _exact_ mirror (errors and all) of http://usastar.org/ http://usastar.org/. Which whois looks like this:
Registrant Contact
Name: caroline odonnell
Organization: caroline odonnell
Mailing Address: 14915 camarosa drive, pacific palisades CA 90067 US (some crazy ass mansion: https://www.google.nl/maps/@34.03464,-118.521481,3a,76.9y,346.81h,89.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2mLA4quvPXn_FvTdjay0HQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.nl/maps/@34.03464,-118.521481,3a,76.9y,34... )
After another google search, this mansion was apparently bought by actor Chris O'Donnel (the guy from NCIS LA!): http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/actor-chris-odonnell-pays-an-undisclosed-amount-all-cash-for-a-house-in-los-angeles-pacific-palisades-area-that-had-sold-last-year-for-4675m/ http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/actor-chris-odonnell-pays...
His wife is named Caroline: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000563/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000563/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, but this is really weirding me out. So where better to ask than HN to get to the bottom of this :D
Any thoughts?
- einie 11y agoI'd say you are correct.