Kat and Shir asked pyramid and I to make a post outlining all the evidence we've built up against the trio. I'll probably forget some stuff, but here's the high points!
This all started during the auction last week. Heaven was the next to last person to submit her bids, and won the special veto with $370. This stole the special veto box from Matt who bid $350. Pyramid and I were talking and he told me that he suspected Heaven and Sofia to be the same person for weeks now. I added that Ryan would have to be involved too. At first I thought he was crazy but then I was like, you know I think you're right. None of these people have Skype or Facebook in a game where most people are skyping. Additionally they all check the board once a day, are barely active on AIM, and always know everything. [Flashback to Jason using the idol on Courtney in Shadow Survivor] Heaven, Sofia, and Ryan are all very different, and have very different story-lines in this series. Especially in the case of Heaven and Sofia, they are very different people who in a normal environment probably wouldn't clique well. The red flags were all over the place and I couldn't believe that it took this long to figure it out.
We went to work and started looking into things immediately. The first thing we noticed is that whenever Heaven/Sofia/Ryan would do timed competitions they would never show their clocks. All three of them have MACs, and all three of them use different browsers. We also noticed that whenever they have conversations with each other and post about it, there are no time stamps.
The next thing was their IP addresses.
Heaven did the comeback competition at work and the seventh HoH at her grandma's house, however her IP has not changed at all in two seasons of this series. If she was at work/grandma's her IP would have changed.
Sofia and Ryan are in a similar boat. Their IPs have remained the same except for on one occasion for each.
Around June 25th, Sofia's IP changed for five posts and showed her location as Dallas, TX. Her normal IP location is Brooklyn, NY. A few hours later, her IP changed back to her Brooklyn location.
Ryan's IP has always been from Charlotte, NC. During the second HoH competition, his IP changed to Fort Lauderdale, FL. Three hours later when results went up, it was back in Charlotte. On occasion some of the websites we have used showed his IP as Atlanda, GA, which is where Heaven is from.
At this point, I began looking at their applications when they all applied. Heaven's age didn't match up. She stated she was 25 on her application, but based on her email, her age would have been 27 at the time she applied. Sofia's was the big red flag. I looked at the screen name she applied with (TaboidTORRES) and it didn't exist on AIM, so I registered it. Ryan never submitted an application since he was Heaven's friend.
While this was all just cause for suspicion, it wasn't just cause to accuse anyone of anything despite how shady it all looked. Pyramid and I had heard Heaven gave her facebook out to another ORGer so we decided to investigate that facebook. Heaven's name is supposedly Austin Vaden based on her email and the fact he is a LiveJournal ORGer. We started doing some research on this Austin guy and he didn't have a close ORG friend in the LJ community named Ben. He did have a friend he met irl named Robert tho. We learned my good friend Andii is friends with Austin on facebook, so we asked her to message him, and this is the response she got.
At this point, we had solid evidence to believe that Heaven wasn't who she said she was. Additionally since all three of them were using proxy IPs, we had reason to believe they were all the same person. Kat confronted Heaven about the Austin situation. As most of you know, Heaven tends to shit sunshine and rainbows, but when Kat confronted her she got very defensive, claimed she didn't have a facebook or Skype, and did not want to partake in the game anymore. She claimed that she wasn't Austin Vaden, however all the information that she has disclosed, points to that being her. (Marketing major, UGA grad, from Atlanta, her email being aus_vad86, etc)
After Heaven decided she didn't want to partake anymore, Ryan and Sofia strangely reached out to us and sent voice messages which most of you have heard by now. We still wanted all three to come on Skype in order to prove they were different people. We haven't heard anything else from Sofia, but Ryan messaged us and said he was upset and was quitting as well. As a result, all three have been IP banned.
We have a good idea who was behind all three of these accounts, as well as some additional evidence, but until this suspect has been confronted in private, I'll refrain from pointing the finger. Stay tuned!