John Dean here, from Santa Ana, CA. I have resumed my hobby as an independent troll fighter, after recently assisting blackboxvoting.org as a volunteer researcher. That very important story – the outing of Robert Pelletier of Diebold as owner of blackboxwatchdog.com, can be viewed here.
Please understand upfront that I do not know if Jason Leopold’s story is true or not…but recent discoveries are leading me to believe that it is.
In the past 24 hours, I have discovered solid evidence that leads me to believe right-wing trolls, some who pretend to be non-right wingers, are using pointofmail.com, or similar sites, to send out fake emails.
For example, if I wanted to discredit Jason Leopold, I could send an email to someone that looks exactly like Jason sent it, and Jason would not be aware. The only way the recipient of the email might notice something is “not right” is by looking at IP info from the full header, and comparing it with known IP info from the person you think sent it.
With pointofmail, anyone can send out an email and get IP information on whoever reads it. That is its intended purpose, and it is a valuable tool to use when investigating trolls. By using both “send confirmation” and “read confirmation” you can view progress. Both send and read confirmations are delivered to the email account of the name used to send the email.
A person can add any other email address besides their initial address when they first sign up, without any verification that it is owned by the same person.
One can also “turn off” both the send and read confirmations. By doing so, the owner of the actual email account will not receive send and read confirmations.
In other words, I can pretend to be someone, send out an email to myself and make it look like they sent it, and then post it online as if it is a legitimate email…and the actual owner of the email account will not know.
I strongly believe that this tactic is currently being used against Jason Leopold. I have evidence that the same tactic was used against Bev Harris last year.
I will expose those who are involved very soon – I have collected a ton of evidence, but I need to make sure I’ve got this nailed down 100%, and I keep finding more and more.
John
