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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 10:08 AM
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Ever found a cryptic message before?

I was browsing craiglist today, and I came upon a cryptic message. I wouldnt have noticed it if my eye wouldnt have picked up a faint color in the background. So i then highlighted the whole page and found a seperate message that makes no sense. Any thoughts on govt or organization using the internet, especially craigslist to send messages?
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by gators241987
I was browsing craiglist today, and I came upon a cryptic message. I wouldnt have noticed it if my eye wouldnt have picked up a faint color in the background. So i then highlighted the whole page and found a seperate message that makes no sense. Any thoughts on govt or organization using the internet, especially craigslist to send messages?
What you're experiencing is paranoia. The "message" you found was most likely put there so that whatever ad you were looking at will surface more often under various searches.

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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 10:35 AM
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What did the message say? Was it just keywords? Sounds like a web trick to get more hits from the crawlers on search engines.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:33 AM
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Link please. Or we will think you belong in a padded room.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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http://memphis.craigslist.org/cas/642798892.html

highlight the whole page and you will see it.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:39 AM
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whoa! I guess you do nto belong in a padded room.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:39 AM
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a few things i dont understand. if it was text, you would be able to highlight the hidden text, you cannot, you can only highlight the whole page, not just the specific txt. therefore you cannot copy it. why are some words capitalized. obviously there is a key, and i cannot find one. any people that really like these things that can solve it?
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:45 AM
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It looks like the same sort of crap that some junk e-mails contain. The ad is probably some kind of scam. Give her a call and find out!

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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 11:55 AM
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Id hit it
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:07 PM
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People use "hidden" messages all the time. It could be key words used for hits, it could be spam, it could be AQ, it could be a bored teenager, or any number of other things.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by gators241987
a few things i dont understand. if it was text, you would be able to highlight the hidden text, you cannot, you can only highlight the whole page, not just the specific txt. therefore you cannot copy it. why are some words capitalized. obviously there is a key, and i cannot find one. any people that really like these things that can solve it?
I can select the text to copy and paste. Here it is, its in 3 seperate lines.
parts makes eye to If with hes hey for world Hong blown Tarzan others who us normal around Tiegs and the medley When just of
and And Being yielding not as into say chop for flight crime Rider to peanut more the song It in the person crusade not all glorious Kong the the complete help fun ours guy for
not everybody and wanted the Phooey feel with super in Love the quicker hay problem feel around taught and all A-team all If loving word Clarity commando glorious all love everything of Its criminals Nothing be stockade parts If commando but Today all love
Thats all I can see........frickin weird!
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:12 PM
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I can select the text to copy and paste. Here it is, its in 3 seperate lines.




Thats all I can see........frickin weird!
A-team and commando makes me think its military. its not terroristic because they dont use a-team and my neighbor is arab and a-team does not translate he says.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:17 PM
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I with scott on this one. I want to play motorboat with them jugs.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:18 PM
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You can hi-lite just the special text without doing the whole page. My guess is someone put white text there so it would blend in with the page. Why it makes no sense, I can't say. It may have been someone else hacking into that person's page.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:19 PM
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Its Aliens man. Aliens I tell you. I already have my aluminum foil hat on so they can't read my mind.
 
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