Tender

Trust No More
Active since 2019-19-1
Type	Investigation
Creator	???
Discovered	2019-19-1

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KnoxJ2019

On 2019-01-19, a Twitter account was uncovered by the handle @KnoxJ2019 (full name John Knox) that was posting a series of small puzzles looking for people to solve them.

Twitter Puzzle 1

The first set of tweets included a picture of constellations and a pastebin. The constellations were identified as Cassiopeia, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Taurus and Scorpius. The position of each red star within each constellation (as well as the total number of stars) was noted (i.e. Cassiopeia has 5 stars and the 2nd highlighted). Each of these pairs were used for a book cipher with pastebin, with the total number of stars determining the word and the highlighted star number determining the letter. This resulted in the first word - TRUST.

Twitter Puzzle 2

The second set of tweets involved a string of numbers and an alphabetical equation. The string of numbers was solved by working out that every odd-numbered position (1st, 3rd, 5th number) increases by 2 each time, and likewise every even numbered position increases by 3. This resulted in the number 14 which was converted to N as it's position in the alphabet. The alphabetical equation tweet was converted into numbers (G = 7 and A = 1) before being solved. This resulted in the number 15, and therefore the letter O, forming the word NO.

Twitter Puzzle 3

The third set of tweets involved a spam message, an image with a hex colour code, a backwards tweet and cryptic message.

Players first found a clue to the spam message by searching Knox's liked tweets, which included one where Keralis hinted at some form of cipher which is designed to look like spam. The spam message cipher was identified as being spammimic. The message was entered into the decoder to discover the text "12 - x - 14". This was interpreted as a sequence where x is 13 and, therefore, M (the 13th letter).

The solving of these puzzles lead to a phrase TRUST NO MORE which was the name of a site, as was posted by the Twitter account.

Trust No More & Tender Beta

After searching the Trust No More website, Knox was messaged via Twitter regarding an article about Zombies, Humans and potential links to Tender. Knox replied with information about BetrayedMind1, who told him about the dangers and experiments that Tender is involved with (as also seen on Trust No More). Also included was a picture showing the chat system and part of the UI within Tender (including the latest message from BetrayedMind1).

Players followed a link within the aforementioned article to the Tender Beta site where a registration page was found. Signing up for the beta with an email address resulted in a queue position number assigned to the player.

A second article on Trust No More was posted by Manchuria which detailed that a cache of data had been uncovered under the label "Project Chimera". Also noted was that each of the files uncovered appeared to be related to the CEO of Tender - Malcolm Chandler. Finally, an image that had been uncovered but not identified was supplied.

Misc. Info

January 9th, 2019 A string was found in a Youtube Video by youtuber Keralis which led to a Pastebin that read "phase 1 initiated". The video was found after Keralis mentioned Knox in a tweet talking about Tender.

Keralis is a good friend of Knox. Knox went to Sweden to visit Keralis in between episode one and two of the 4th season of his Cities: Skylines series.

January 17th, 2019 at 7:35pm PST Knox posted a tweet [1] regarding a code that led to this message: [2]

Here’s an exclusive look at our chat feature coming directly from one of our dearest user, PrettyCat95.
https://bit.ly/2SPFEd0

Following that link leads to an image of the conversation.

January 19th, 2019 In a later video, Keralis posted another code which lead to this message:

Welcome future Tender users,
 
We have been in contact with some of your favorite influencers who will soon make a very important announcement.
Stay alert, your help will be required in launching our amazing new website, Tender.
 
Much Love,
Your friends at Tender

From 00:54 to 1:55 he continued to talk about Knox and Trust No More.

January 20th, 2019 at 11:59am PST Knox posted a tweet [3] asking if AngryJoeShow(Joe Vargas) had checked out the Tenderbeta and TrustNoMore websites. Joe replied that he would check it out in his stream on Monday January 21st, 2019.

January 22nd, 2019 Twitch streamer AngryJoeShow had a code pop up during his stream, which provided a key to access a game from his sponsor site WWW.GOG.com.

It was later discovered that the codes from the bit.ly links could be entered in GOG.com. When sequentially entered by varying the first number, 12 games in total could be redeemed.

GOG redeem Use these codes 2SPFEd0 - Wasteland 3SPFEd0 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt 4SPFEd0 - The Witcher III expansion pass 5SPFEd0 - Teen Agent 2ej26jqf - Kholat 3ej26jqf - Victor Vran 4ej26jqf - Edna & Harvey: The Breakout 5ej26jqf - Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes 2PCGKKRH - Grand Ages: Medieval 3PCGKKRH - Fallout 2 4PCGKKRH - Fallout Tactics 5PCGKKRH - The Ultimate Doom