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  • Mar. 8th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
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Today, while minding my own business, out of the blue I receive the following IM (on AIM).

[03/08/2008 - 13:29:09 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Stop * messaging me
[03/08/2008 - 13:29:33 PM] SM00CHIES: you must have typed the name wrong... i haven't messaged you
[03/08/2008 - 13:29:41 PM] SM00CHIES: i don't even know who you are
[03/08/2008 - 13:29:50 PM] IntriguingSalmon: This is the third time I've gotten a message from someone with "salmon" in their username
[03/08/2008 - 13:30:13 PM] SM00CHIES: interesting... i don't have salmon in my name... but you do
[03/08/2008 - 13:30:22 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Umm no I don't.
[03/08/2008 - 13:30:24 PM] SM00CHIES: see for yourself:
[03/08/2008 - 13:29:50 PM] IntriguingSalmon: This is the third time I've gotten a message from someone with "salmon" in their username
[03/08/2008 - 13:30:13 PM] SM00CHIES: interesting... i don't have salmon in my name... but you do

[03/08/2008 - 13:30:36 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Wtf..
[03/08/2008 - 13:30:37 PM] IntriguingSalmon:
intriguingsalmon (1:28): Hi.
Nauta (1:28): Stop * messaging me
intriguingsalmon(1:29): you must have typed the name wrong... i haven't messaged you
intriguingsalmon(1:29): i don't even know who you are

[03/08/2008 - 13:30:50 PM] SM00CHIES: okay, that's bizarre
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:10 PM] SM00CHIES: i haven't gotten any other salmon messages, but it's possible you have a virus?
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:35 PM] IntriguingSalmon: No, I highly doubt that.
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:41 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Someone is obviously screwing with me.
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:43 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Sorry.
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:50 PM] SM00CHIES: no worries... i hope you get it figured out
[03/08/2008 - 13:31:59 PM] IntriguingSalmon: thanks.

My money is still on Nauta having a virus. Of course, I could be wrong... Perhaps someone is actually messing with me! ;)

Edited to add:

[03/08/2008 - 14:58:46 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Hi.
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:15 PM] SM00CHIES: hello...
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:23 PM] IntriguingSalmon: hello
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:28 PM] IntriguingSalmon: ... person
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:36 PM] * SM00CHIES sighs
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:50 PM] IntriguingSalmon: ooooh it's commented out!
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:55 PM] IntriguingSalmon: programming person?
[03/08/2008 - 15:00:32 PM] SM00CHIES: question... did you message me first or did i message you first? i know what i see, but what do you see?
[03/08/2008 - 15:00:43 PM] IntriguingSalmon: I didn't message you.
[03/08/2008 - 15:00:48 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Do we know each other?
[03/08/2008 - 15:01:02 PM] SM00CHIES: you are the second intriguingsalmon to message me... and i'm guessing your u/n isn't intriguingsalmon, is it?
[03/08/2008 - 15:01:07 PM] IntriguingSalmon: no
[03/08/2008 - 15:01:14 PM] SM00CHIES: okay, have a look at this then:
[03/08/2008 - 15:01:22 PM] SM00CHIES:
[03/08/2008 - 14:58:46 PM] IntriguingSalmon: Hi.
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:15 PM] SM00CHIES: hello...
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:23 PM] IntriguingSalmon: hello
[03/08/2008 - 14:59:28 PM] IntriguingSalmon: ... person

[03/08/2008 - 15:01:42 PM] SM00CHIES: this is the second intriguingsalmon IM i've received...
[03/08/2008 - 15:01:52 PM] SM00CHIES: the person who messaged me, apparently i was their third
[03/08/2008 - 15:02:16 PM] IntriguingSalmon: wtf. that's bad
[03/08/2008 - 15:02:52 PM] SM00CHIES: i actually just mentioned it in my blog... if you do a google search on it, my entry is the only hit, as a matter of fact
[03/08/2008 - 15:03:20 PM] SM00CHIES: i'm going to go do a virus scan... you might want to do the same
[03/08/2008 - 15:03:30 PM] IntriguingSalmon: alright...
[03/08/2008 - 15:03:38 PM] SM00CHIES: sorry for any inconvenience!
[03/08/2008 - 15:04:03 PM] IntriguingSalmon: no. Thank you for your advice. I'm just slightly shocked. I thought you were my programming friend.
[03/08/2008 - 15:04:28 PM] SM00CHIES: i wish i could say i know how to program... unfortunately, I don't. ;)
[03/08/2008 - 15:04:52 PM] IntriguingSalmon: me neither. It's all awesome. :-)
[03/08/2008 - 15:05:58 PM] SM00CHIES: I'm going to close this window. If you'd care to message me again, feel free using any of the connections you can find for me except AIM. I'm going to close that since I'm not sure what's going on here. Nice chatting with you!! :)
[03/08/2008 - 15:06:12 PM] IntriguingSalmon: you too. good bye

Note: If this has happened to you or anyone you know, feel free to leave a comment here. I'm interested now. Anonymous comments are welcomed, but please feel free to sign your name.

ETA part deux: Apparently, all parties involved have been hatted. Why, I have no idea. It was certainly interesting! If you check the comments below, you can see [info]fleathemagician did a little more digging than I did and came up with [info]themissinghat. Bizarre. Very bizarre. Thanks, [info]fleathemagician!
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[info]fleathemagician wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
This guy just IM'd me, I googled his name and found this entry.

IntriguingSalmon: hello
IntriguingSalmon: salmon huh
IntriguingSalmon: wos this
c a t s e n s a: Nyan nyan nyan nyan ni hao nyan
IntriguingSalmon: you started with the english "Hi." you lost me at the third nyan.
c a t s e n s a: Hello :O
IntriguingSalmon: hello
IntriguingSalmon: who is this
c a t s e n s a: You IM'd me.
c a t s e n s a: Am I right?
IntriguingSalmon: no
c a t s e n s a: no?
IntriguingSalmon: u imed me first saying
IntriguingSalmon: Hi.
c a t s e n s a: When?
IntriguingSalmon: 1.22
IntriguingSalmon: right before u said
IntriguingSalmon: nyan nyan
c a t s e n s a: I've been at work all day man
IntriguingSalmon: why are all these random people iming me today
IntriguingSalmon: i dont know who this is
c a t s e n s a: I've never IM'd you buddy. :O
IntriguingSalmon: intriguingsalmon
1:22
Hi.
Jake Shirvanyan
1:23
hello
1:23
intriguingsalmon is now known as IntriguingSalmon.
Jake Shirvanyan
1:23
salmon huh
1:23
wos this
c a t s e n s a: My screen name isnt even IN that log
IntriguingSalmon: lol dude why would i be making this up
IntriguingSalmon: oh well
IntriguingSalmon: maybe aim is screwed up
c a t s e n s a: Hold on for a second.
c a t s e n s a: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/TSFlea/untitled-11.jpg
c a t s e n s a: I can only assume this is some sort of trolling. I don't know.
c a t s e n s a: I also found this: http://sm00bs.livejournal.com/321421.html
c a t s e n s a: so it looks like you have done this before.
IntriguingSalmon: i havent lol
IntriguingSalmon: thats weird
IntriguingSalmon: sorry
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[info]fleathemagician wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:36 pm (UTC)
He sent me this screenshot: http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1vx7.jpg
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[info]fleathemagician wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:48 pm (UTC)
I found the answer! http://community.livejournal.com/themissinghat/
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:59 pm (UTC)
How very, VERY strange! Thanks for sharing all of this. I never would have figured it out, I'm sure of it.
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[info]crashtext wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 11:42 pm (UTC)
hi! haha.

i also googled the name and found this entry! this person's iming me right. wtf!
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2008 11:55 pm (UTC)
Had you recently posted to your journal? I'm not sure if it looks at communities or if it just looks through personal journals, but apparently according to the Wiki entry, the bot uses LJ's most recent posts and goes from there. Very interesting! I guess this isn't the only name the bot has used, either.

Check out [info]themissinghat for more people who've been hit. ;)
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[info]crashtext wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:00 am (UTC)
yeah i had!

ah, i see now. thanks!
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:18 am (UTC)
Pretty nifty, now that it's figured out, right? This has been going on since at least some time in 2006 (perhaps earlier, who knows).

Glad I could help!!
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[info]kingdavey wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:06 am (UTC)
I had someone else on my friends page have a similar thing happen to them a few times last week. weird.
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 12:20 am (UTC)
What I think is SO crazy about this is I was posting like mad last year, always have AIM open (well, I use Trillian, but it's still got an AIM connection open) and this has been going on since 2006 or earlier.

I'm also pretty surprised you haven't been hit. ;)
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[info]kingdavey wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 09:14 am (UTC)
I very rarely use AIM. I used to use Yahoo before Pixie and I started living together, so that we could chat together. I haven't got anyone listed as a friend on any of the IM sites (billy no mates me!)
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 02:34 pm (UTC)
Well, that makes a lot more sense, then. ;)

I guess the requirements of this are to have the AIM name listed in the profile, to have AIM running (or some version thereof), and to have posted to LJ recently.

I'm actually hoping it happens again, now that I know what it is, you know? I'd love to let someone else in on the game. Whenever you get bored, check out the community. There are some interesting posts there. ;)
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[info]holding_on wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 02:06 am (UTC)
Very Interesting. I don't use AIM, but I must admit I'm very tempted to get one just to see if I can get "hatted" LOL...
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 02:31 am (UTC)
I am very curious to see why all of a sudden I was hatted today... twice, even. This has been going on since at least 2006 and I've posted lots of entries in that time, almost always with AIM open (via Trillian). Perhaps I had bots blocked... or non-friends blocked... who knows.

It's pretty interesting, I think. There was someone who just posted to the community mentioning having an alternate SN for the salmons and getting caught by the bot master. It's all so crazy. Seems to be a fun game, although it also seems to annoy some people greatly (that * in my post was the f-bomb!). ;)
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[info]rmrn wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 05:08 am (UTC)
Im glad that you had this post. I have had this happen to me twice in two days. I googled the guys screen name, now I know the answer. Thanks :)
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 05:09 am (UTC)
That's the main reason I kept adding to it. It was driving me nuts there was nothing coming up when I Googled! :)

Glad I could help!!
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[info]louenn wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)
Very curious... Never happened to me, but then I don't use AIM, only MSN (well, it's Pidgin on Ubuntu) and don't have an IM username listed.

How bizarre.
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 06:36 pm (UTC)
Very bizarre, but rather cool at the same time.
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[info]louenn wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
Yeah, you can proudly say "I've been salmoned". Or whatever it is!
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2008 09:23 pm (UTC)
LOL Yes! Some are sticking with the original, "I've been hatted," but some are going with, "I've been salmoned." Very odd stuffs.
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[info]louenn wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 07:53 am (UTC)
Amusing if you know what's going on.
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 02:09 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I can see how it would be irritating otherwise. I was cussed at with my first salmon. ;)
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[info]louenn wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 07:41 pm (UTC)
If folks don't know what's going on it's understandable they'd get a bit pissed off!
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC)
Definitely. It's one of the things mentioned over and over at themissinghat.

I almost hope it happens to me again so I can help someone else be clued in.
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[info]louenn wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
It sounds like the sort of thing that someone's created as a bit of a joke, but it's got a bit beyond that now I think.
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 10th, 2008 09:34 pm (UTC)
I think it seems to be more of a social experiment... that and someone loving the role of puppetmaster.
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[info]texasoddity wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 07:03 pm (UTC)
Hi it got me, too. KingDavey pointed me towards your post.

So... what are we supposed to do with it? Anything? I got hit by "ThinkingSalmon" today.

Any idea? Haha just ignore it and be proud to have been involved in a social experiment?
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[info]texasoddity wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 07:06 pm (UTC)
Oops I meant "ThinkableSalmon"
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[info]sm00bs wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 10:31 pm (UTC)
Yeah, there's not really anything to do. If you don't want it to happen again, you can either remove your AIM information from your profile (unless your AIM name is the same as your profile name, in which case that might not make a difference), or make sure you're signed out of AIM for a bit whenever you post. The cool thing is you can actually pass this along to anyone who might wind up messaging you via the bot again.

I've read at the missing hat community that the bot will translate screen names and other such things, so it's not always possible to know what's going on. Right now there are a slew of Salmon names going around. People aren't sure if the salmons are the same as the hats, but it's basically the same principle.

It's pretty interesting, I think. Sometimes the person on the other end of the salmon isn't always pleasant, but sometimes they're okay, especially when they realize what's going on.

If you're interested in learning more, check out the community. There are some pretty interesting posts there. People strike up conversation with the botmaster via the bots somewhat frequently, it seems. It's all rather geeky, but still interesting. :)
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