Shafou.com
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Shafou.com or simply Shafou was a chinese screamer website that was registered in November 11th, 2015, with HIChina, a domain registrar, to handle the reservation of the domain name.
When opened, the website contains a close-up picture of Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist, accompanied by the 3 extremely loud screams from The Maze, it then repeats again, the file used is "kjkj.swf", might be an abbreviation to "KillerjoKillerjo", it is the same file used in Killerjo.net, and the site itself is just a specifically a mirror of the site: Killerjo.net.
The website has the meta keyword: "突然打开的吓人尖叫网站,整人的吓人网站" which (poorly) translates as: "A scary screaming website that opens suddenly", revealing its purpose, it has the title of the webpage as: "吓人的网站" which translates to: "Scary website", the creator was revealed to be "snsunzhen"[1], due to his actual Facebook account being linked above the screamer.
Additionally, clicking the picture is said to be shared on the the user's Facebook account, unless they are signed in to Facebook account, it will lead to its login page instead. The website has obfuscated Base64 code so it's hard to guess that its actually a screamer.
History
November 5th, 2009 - 2011
According to Scam Adviser, the domain shafou.com was registered on November 5th, 2009, the content of the website contained download links, hyperlinks, and a search bar, the website was its original state, In June of 2010, the entire content of the website was replaced with the screamer. There was also a link at the bottom of the page that redirected to another website: shafou.net, which was a blog that showed multiple pictures of a girl with Chinese text. A snapshot from February 10th, 2016 can be found here[2]. Now, this link simply redirects to Shafou.com,
There is also a snapshot of Shafou.com from May 22th, 2011, which can be found here[3]. It only contains colored Chinese text and links, which appear to lead to porn websites.
On May 5th, it has a link above the screamer that leads to a blog, that is written by the creator himself, stating that someone asked him to purchase the domain, on October 1st, the website has a Facebook link to the creator's account, which was mentioned earlier, on March 2012, the website has a link to TMDChina.net, where he posts several blogs of himself, right next to the TMD link, there is a hyperlink text that leads to an oranum chat.[4], the blog website then moves on to "blog.tmdchina.com".
2013 - October 2019
In 2013, the same content of the website but no longer has the link to his blog, the file later changes to "s.swf" and the title changes to "SHAFOU" in capital before returning to lowercase, in February 2016, the website now has the link to his blog again, then later on, the website was replaced with a redirect to Herobrine.com, presumably by the same creator, However, it then reverts to the same content, but with a picture of Regan MacNeil instead of a.swf file, and a link to Herobrine.com above, revealing that it's the same author of that site, since while "Herobrine.com" used to be a regular blog site, it has the "Home" link that redirects to Shafou.com.[5], However, the link to Herobrine was removed, However, both of them later changed to have the same content after 2 years.
October 2019 - Present
In October 2019, the screamer was now replaced with a note: "你访问的这个网站域名正在以9.9万元的价格出售中，交易方式为阿里云带价PUSH，如买请联系 13225271551 不买不要联系", which translates as: "The domain name of the website you are visiting is being sold at a price of 99,000 yuan. The transaction method is PUSH with Alibaba Cloud price. If you want to buy it, please contact 13225271551. Don’t contact if you don’t want to buy it.".[6] indicating the website has been sold for 99,000 yuan, However, the site is now closed.
References
- ↑ The Archive of him linking his Facebook Account. (October 1st, 2011)
- ↑ web.archive.org/web/20160210223453/shafou.net/
- ↑ web.archive.org/web/20110522003220/shafou.net/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120310085712/http://www.shafou.com/
- ↑ The archive state of Herobrine.com, having the "Home" link redirect to Shafou. (March 27th, 2014)
- ↑ a note from the creator of Shafou.com, stating about the site has been sold for 99,000 yuan
Links
NOTE: The following links contains a screamer!
- web.archive.org/web/20170418115612/shafou.com
Mirrors
- web.archive.org/web/20111130213316/luna-maya.com/
- web.archive.org/web/20100223090315/killerjo.net/
- Herobrine.com
- Herobrine.96.It
- Fiminamag.com/flash/vuivui.html
- 4online.net/flash/vuivui.html
- minecraft-ua.ru/minecraft.swf
- web.archive.org/web/20150521090217/sscary.ru
- filedropper.com/koli
