Dharma Initiative Recruiting Project clues/July 18

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On this day

• Octagon Global Recruiting sent out a new email confirming their attendance at Comic Con.
• A hidden message from a user named RuckusGuy was discovered.
• New in-game website Dharmawantsyou.com was launched.

Octagon email

The full text of this email is also available at this page on the Octagon website.

“

ATTENTION ALL RECRUITS DHARMA HEAD OF RECRUITING TO ATTEND LAUNCH Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, is pleased to announce that Dharma's Head of Recruiting, Mr. Hans Van Eeghen, has confirmed his availability for the launch of our latest recruiting drive at Comic-Con 2008. "My colleagues at Octagon Global Recruiting assure me that Comic-con hosts some of the brightest minds in the country," said Mr. Van Eeghen. "As Head of Recruiting it is my intention to personally assess the very best of this talent in the hope that they may join us." The Dharma Initiative will be conducting eligibility assessments at Booth 3529 at Comic-Con, San Diego between July 24th - 27th. If you are attending Comic-Con and would like to submit your name for a randomly selected drawing to secure one of ten (10) pre-release appointments with one of our recruiting officers, please click here. The volunteer eligibility assessment will be available online from July 28th for a limited time at www.dharmawantsyou.com The Dharma Initiative hopes you will spread the word. Invite your friends to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com

”

RuckusGuy

The source code of the email also contains a message from someone calling themselves RuckusGuy. His message is:

“

…If you’re reading this, wanna hear something cool? I’ve got intel about his little “recruitment drive.” They’re doing some kind’ve personality/IQ testing or something down in SD for ComicCon. Buddy of mine works down there and has the approvals for their “booth,” he says once you go in no one knows what happens inside and you need an appointment to get in. He also said to make sure you’ve got your Bluetooth on and visible – he’s rigged up a little something. The whole thing sounds like elitist B.S., doesn’t it? Well, I’m getting in that booth and taking the test. As many times as I have to before I “pass” (whatever that means?) And then… If I can? I’m gonna tape it so EVERYONE can see what these idiots are up to. Should be fun, right? See ya in SD. RuckusGuy OUT.

”

Dharmawantsyou.com

Website content

The new website was launched, though contained only the words "DHARMA WANTS YOU" and "Coming Soon". However, there were dots on the page, which would grow each day to create an octagon (DHARMA logo) shape. Around July 28th the test that fans took at Comic Con will be on the Dharmawantsyou.com website.

The DHARMA logo contains letters "H" and "O".