Agor.io
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Agor.io was a screamer webpage intended to scare people who mistyped the domain Agar.io, which is a popular online game. The site was registered in May 2015, and closed some time after July of the same year. This type of similar-looking domain name abuse is referred to as typosquatting. The creator of the website was found to be Preston Kellenberger, living in Sardinia, Ohio.[1][2]
Description
Upon being loaded, the website immediately displays a rapidly flashing image of Jeff The Killer alongside a loud, almost metallic sound. This is the same Flash animation used in Anne.jpg. A leetspeak text on the page read "L3mm1ng Braz1I App3r Yazir Alyx WanR00t H0rs3 D0nny".
When the user tried to close the page, an alert box appears with the text "U SCARED BRO LOL", forcing the user to close the web browser completely. Since some older browsers would not close after the prompt appeared, the user may be forced to instead kill the process with a task manager.
Reception
There were multiple social media posts about the site, the majority of them coming from Reddit. Many of the posts are simply to warn people about the screamer. However, one particular post on Reddit was supposedly written by a mother, who stated that her 9-year-old son had an epileptic seizure when trying to play Agar.io, as he misspelled it as Agor.io.[3] The mother states she is talking to a lawyer and is attempting to track down and prosecute the creator of the Agor.io website.
Links
NOTE: The following website contains a screamer with flashing lights!
- web.archive.org/web/20150721015933/agor.io
References
- ↑ The creator was later found by a user on the Screamer Forums.
- ↑ WHOIS search for Agor.io
- ↑ The Reddit post written by the parent.
See also