https://chechenews.com/1-12453
13 марта
2014 г. (обновлено 11 августа 2024 г.)
У меня
есть несколько европейских друзей, зарегистрированных на сайте www.interpals.net. «InterPals» — это
самый популярный сайт для поиска друзей по переписке, на котором также
присутствуют элементы социальной сети. Один из моих друзей возмутился бешеным разгулом
российских троллей на форуме «InterPals», усилившимся после вторжения РФ в Украину.
Когда он
начал активно противодействовать этим троллям и сообщать о них модераторам, его
профиль стали постоянно удалять, сколько бы раз он его ни восстанавливал. Тогда
его товарищи создали блог о пророссийском беспределе, творящемся на официально
считающимся «американским» сайте «InterPals»: interpalsnews.blogspot.com (примечание: блог удалён) Когда они
внимательно поискали в интернете, они нашли ответ на все возникшие вопросы. Вот
опубликованный ими материал (на английском языке):
CAUTION! InterPals is a Russian KGB Site
The answer to all questions about InterPals was given on May 30, 2010:
InterPals = FSB / KGB
http://thedarksideofinterpals.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/the-dark-side-of-interpals
The Real Antonio Lupher of InterPals Exposed – by Bo Chen, a long time
former InterPals member and moderator
Often in life reality isn’t what it seems. The truth is that many times
upon second (or third or fourth, etc.) glance we realize we just don’t really
know anything at all. Appearances, perceptions and our own ideals of how things
should be or how people ought to act can often lead us astray.
My name is Bo, and this is my story and encounter with the Interpals
online penpalling experience. And it is also my own revelation that –
ironically – I’ve come to find that on the Internet appearances are illusive
and an online buddy or friend who you thought you knew so well can someday turn
out to be not who or what you had once imagined or expected.
I’ve always liked penpalling and over the years I’ve been on and off the Interpals.net website since approximately 1999. Personally I’ve witnessed the metamorphosis, changes and growth of the Interpals and its transformation from strictly “newspapers-like” online classifieds to a full-fledged social networking service armed with myspace/facebook/twitter copycat innovations such as “walls”, instant messaging, forums, group chat, “friends” list, bookmarking, and etc.
A while ago I was even a volunteer profile moderator on Interpals
working with two other volunteer mods by the then InterPals usernames of
“Gotterkind” (Brad aka HazMat) and “Whitewolf” (Jeremy)… We had fun
exterminating Nigerian scammers and Russian sex scams and annoying stuff that
deteriorated the site experience. And there was also this 30 year old computer
hacker named Spy_Phoenix (Matt from down south Australia) who liked to come on
to cause troubles and stir up controversy on the forums, we had a love-hate
relationship with him, but overall it was fun! We were all three of us working
under the Interpals sole (only) site owner, developer, and creator Mr. Antonio
Lupher. At the time I didn’t know much about Antonio, other than the
fact that he was close to my age (we were both born in 1985) and
that he started the Interpals.net site when he was just barely 13 years ago
living in Tacoma Washington area… and that somehow he later moved and relocated to live in Moscow, Russia… but was still running the
site online and actively developing new and improved features with the help of
‘Whitewolf’ (Jeremy) So when he saw that I was active on the site and asked me
if I wanted to volunteer to help, I of course agreed and said yes. Little did I
know that would be one of the worst decisions of my life.
Now let me start from the end and work back towards the middle and
beginning again. Interpals.net (InterPals, LLC), the online penpalling website
is owned by one person only: Mr. Antonio R Lupher (born in 1985) of
Tacoma, WA. He grew up with his parents Norma D Ramirez and David A Lupher
living at 819 N Washington St, Tacoma, WA 98406. Even though I’ve known
Antonio for many years, he is a very private and secretive guy (his own
InterPals profile was blank and not even filled out until just this later half
of the year!) and it took a lot of digging through public records and freely
available sources to find all this information. It appears he is also the
owner of a now defunct “Webqual” Web Design company of which he is the sole
owner and employee. During the beginning InterPals was designed using
“Webqual” and later it became so popular that Antonio decided to work full time
on the project and devoted much of his attention to improve the service and
harvesting as many users as possible. He has a personal website located
at http://www.lupher.com/ and it appears he
created many other much lesser well known sites in the past such as his Civil
War Music site http://www.civilwarmusic.net/
Antonio went to Harvard University and received a world class
education. He interned at Intern (Systems) at D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P
and also he
interned and free-lanced at The Moscow Times helping to write
articles. Later he immigrated and relocated to Russia (the former USSR)
and re-educated
himself at Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Institut Meždunarodnyh Otnošenij
(Universitet) and Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet. The last time I
communicated with him on good terms he told me he was still going to school and
had a busy semester. So I suppose these days he’s still residing/hiding
somewhere in Moscow.
Antonio (he calls himself “A”) speaks and writes fluent English, he’s
pretty good at Spanish too, and I suppose he has an excellent grasp of the
Russian language.
But for now let me just tell you this: Antonio Lupher also
goes by the username of “Mefistofele” and “Mefistofele85”. One of
his many IP addresses (not my fault, he publicly revealed it on Wikipedia)
is 195.98.183.132 and he usually likes browsing the web on his
Safari web browser on that iMac of his from Moscow, Russia. To the best of my knowledge
his parents still live in Tacoma, Washington and he claims to
run Interpals from “the United States”. He can be contacted at support@interpals.net, and also alupher@gmail.com, interpals@gmail.com, among many other personal
and professional email addresses.
This guy is quite a sly and cunning and devious underhanded backstabbing
hypocritical fellow I must tell and warn you. If I could have sent this letter
back in time to myself a couple of years ago I would have saved myself a lot of
headache and betray and undue emotional distress. But anyways, I
digress... The world sure ain’t what it seems now, is it?
Antonio would have made a great actor… because, I say this, because of all
the things I know about him, what has been revealed to me is his defining
characteristic is his unsettling ability to “act”, to misinform, to spread
disinformation, to propagandize, and I believe the ultimate “inside job” –
which is to fool and deceive even he himself! Maybe he would make a great
politician too!
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Ещё в мае
2010 года с разоблачением «InterPals» выступил Бо Чен – бывший модератор сайта. Благодаря Бо Чену стало
известно, что единственным владельцем «InterPals» является Антонио
Луфер (Antonio Lupher), родившийся в 1985 году в США в городе Такома, штат Вашингтон.
Луфер
переехал в Россию и некоторое время работал фрилансером в газете «The Moscow Times», а
также обучался в Московском государственном институте международных отношений и
в Санкт-Петербургском государственном университете. Антонио Луфер обустроился в
Москве надёжно и надолго. Луфер утверждает, что он занимается
администрированием сайта из США, однако на самом деле это происходит из Москвы
– Бо Чен подловил Луфера на IP. Такие люди, как Луфер, просто так в России не остаются.
Учитывая
политику, проводимую «InterPals», можно с уверенностью утверждать, что этот сайт является детищем
ФСБ и создан специально для сбора информации о пользователях со всего мира.
Проект очень успешный – за долгие годы существования сайта агенту ФСБ Луферу
удалось одурачить миллионы людей.
Хотелось
бы призвать всех здравомыслящих людей держаться подальше от «InterPals».
Пётр Каминский
(обновил Wolfgang Schwarz)
InterPals = FSB / KGB
http://thedarksideofinterpals.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/the-dark-side-of-interpals
I’ve always liked penpalling and over the years I’ve been on and off the Interpals.net website since approximately 1999. Personally I’ve witnessed the metamorphosis, changes and growth of the Interpals and its transformation from strictly “newspapers-like” online classifieds to a full-fledged social networking service armed with myspace/facebook/twitter copycat innovations such as “walls”, instant messaging, forums, group chat, “friends” list, bookmarking, and etc.
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(обновил Wolfgang Schwarz)
