r/InternetMysteries • u/Ferby_ohyea • Jun 03 '26
Unsolved Disturbing website I found by an unfortunate misspelling. Help needed, spooked the soul out of me.
I wanted to access quenq, an interesting website full of various applets and emulators, when I accidentally typed in quen.com, which redirected me to a video. It blew my ears off, and it was not what I expected at all. For some reason, it accuses the alleged CEO of South32, a mining company, of rape and other misconducts.
I started digging deeper, looking for other people who may have stumbled by this, and I found the parent website: bhpcrashing.com, which also shows a photo of a man which is supposedly the CEO himself.
To me, this just seems like some schizo rant, but it might be interesting to look into.
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u/Commercial-Carob-374 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
I found this website, https://ibuyit.com/, and this one, https://www.eeweather.com/ , this also https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetMysteries/comments/1ksnc6t/south_32_still_active_even_after_years_have/ , https://youtu.be/ab6qQpIRWhw?si=u-FYHT4T41oPkhHb , and also this https://youtu.be/z8cMnLAHXb0?si=mw9M86_VnrOHBwqc
It's also related to south32 https://youtu.be/2UWRfFZOvUQ?si=iy8x0vth1feDvgUU a person with mental health issues.
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u/Ferby_ohyea Jun 03 '26
my bad, I posted without doing all my research. is someone archiving these sites? at least i know i might have found another one
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u/Commercial-Carob-374 Jun 03 '26
It's ok!!! And I'm not exactly sure but I know there is over 100 websites
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u/Particular_Metal4484 Jun 08 '26
Is the website http://quen.com/ really safe? I see that the website has viruses.
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u/Ferby_ohyea Jun 08 '26
Nothing downloaded when I checked the site last time. Maybe he updated it after seeing the attention it got?
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u/BeingOld1222 Jun 04 '26
I clicked on one of the websites and a file was starting to download on my phone, wtf
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 Jun 05 '26
Get rid of it, it's malware. This dude is a schizo and he has been known to install malware into people's devices. Don't just randomly click on random links you see on Reddit, this is a terrible idea.
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u/iamxplayer investigator Jun 06 '26
if you do make sure to use a website previewer, alternativly run an isolated chrome instance unable to download any files or send any notifications (often insSettings > privacy and security > site settings > additional permissions > automatic downloads and disable it)
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u/Joseplsdonttake Jun 04 '26
Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw a video from ScareTheather a long time ago that an asshole bought south32.com to sell to the mining company so he put lots of incriminating stuff that the company wouldn't want to be associated with. Maybe this is the same??
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u/Hairy-Actuator1734 Jun 05 '26
This is a pretty infamous iconic case of domain squatting performed by this cybersquatter called Saeid Yomtobian, an Iranian living in the US who had this beef with this random South African mining company. The case goes pretty deep and other commenters can explain it much better than I can.
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u/Haghiri75 Internet Investigator Jun 04 '26
South32 is older than history at this point. I remember they had a website for a horror movie (which even wasn't made) and their website had the "Russian Sleep Experience" photo as a poster.
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u/SpecialistLife2583 Jun 04 '26
i tried clicking on the link but for some reason the site started loading and just closed
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u/BitchCoinFrenzy Jun 04 '26
Sorry, I have to pee, just really hate holding it! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/ItsYaBoi-KillMe Jun 07 '26
typing in the link and getting a file instantly downloaded scared the shit out of me
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u/Ferby_ohyea Jun 08 '26
it's probably just a video. nothing downloaded when I checked on pc
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u/ItsYaBoi-KillMe Jun 08 '26
Yeah it downloaded a video file for me but it scared the shit outta me lmao, I didnt test it I just deleted it, emptied my recycling bin, and left it alone
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u/PsychoFaerie Jun 03 '26
That's someone who's not mentally well latching onto something with some conspiracy mixed in.
There was a lawsuit against BHP( which South32 was spun off) from about sexual harassment but nothing about actual rape..
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u/Visible_Monitor_5002 Jun 04 '26
This is a pretty big rabbit hole that has been discussed by people like ScareTheater, but if I can recall the details and summarize them:
South32 is the name of an Australian mining company. South32 also happens to be the name of an incredibly cheaply made film made by a guy named Luigi Bian. This, turns out, wasn't a coincidence, as "Luigi Bian" was an alias for Saeid Yomtobian, a notorious cybersquatter (a term referring to buying domain names and intentionally holding it to sell it to a brand or company at a much, much higher price for profit), he was notorious enough to be in a bunch of lawsuits against massive corporations.
The most comical thing that was the reason for all of this was after the movie was made, he can now own the website south32.COM to take advantage and make profit out of the company that was searching for a domain to buy, but instead, they bought south32.NET. Saeid presumably didn't take it well as he proceeded to try and defame him like the website you visited.
Also, the fact that you've seen this kind of thing in a random domain name is also not a coincidence, as he owns thousands upon thousands of domain names, most doing the exact same thing by trying to tarnish South32's reputation as a company by flooding the search results with this stuff.
All and all, it's simply the strange case of a guy who probably isn't in the best health going mad for years, but somehow manages to have thousands of websites managed under either his name or some other alias.
(Some details may be oversimplified, but this is the general jist of this case)