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Jamie Duncan (”The Hack”) & Caroline Hamilton (”Caz”)

May 29, 2008 · 82 Comments

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“The Hack” and “Caz” (aka “Geraldine Himmler”), formerly of The Spin Starts Here, and now posting at a blog called The Hangover, are two gutless, morose cowards and internet standover merchants who have spent the past four or five years tormenting and harassing numerous other people they’ve never met, purely out of spite and jealousy, from behind the shield of their own closely guarded anonymity; a point they love to gloat about. They have published people’s names. They have published candid, never-before-published photographs forwarded to them by anonymous adulators. They have repeatedly tried to sabotage other people’s livelihoods and careers

Now, at last, their own names can be revealed: “The Hack” is James Roddy Duncan, reporter for AAP (despite his claims, he has never worked for the Herald Sun), and “Caz” is Caroline “Not A Journalist” Hamilton. These details have been confirmed with several of the pair’s confidants, through other external sources, and now in the comments section of their own website.

The magical wonderland of satellite technology gives us the opportunity to finally show Jamie and Caroline just what it’s like when someone publishes a Google Earth image of your house on their blog, with creepy MS Paint markings to emphasise just where it is. Look, it’s “Caz” and “Hack’s” house! Hooray!

This is very similar to the photo Jamie Duncan and Caroline Hamilton published of a blogger’s house, only we’ll show their Mountain Lair instead. (It’s on google, as they have argued when it’s been other people in their sights.)
Update: This is Jamie’s/Hack’s justification for posting a picture of the young blogger’s house. The first part of Jamie’s/Hack’s quote is responding to criticism of Caz’s post where she makes her own caption (putting words in someone else’s mouth) for a photo of the young, bullied blogger:
“SO I MUTILATED HIS FUCKING FACE THE SAME WAY I’LL MUTILATE HIS FUCKING BODY – DNA AND DENTAL RECORDS WILL BE REQUIRED TO IDENTIFY IT!”
Who knows how terrified the boy in question was after he read this?
And Jamie/Hack’s justification:
It’s a pisstake referring to John’s less-than-impressive photo-editing skillz, dickhead. Don’t understand the word pisstake? Look it up. As for the house photo, it was an unidentifiable picture of a featureless Canberra neighbourhood. It, like all the other material about Sam, is freely available on the Internet to anyone who cares to spend five seconds googling for it. Even a techno-spaz like me can do it.

[Jamie Duncan]

So it’s OK for Jamie and Caroline to publish a Google Earth photo of someone’s house? Further, it’s OK to make hilarious captions or ‘piss-takes’ as they call it of the said blogger’s photo? Does having a Google Earth image of your house on a website change your mind about what you did to that poor kid, Jamie and Caroline?

And Jamie goes to the police about this website and takes an intervention order out on an innocent man? I mean, c’mon. We can see you shaking your heads too readers.

Bio – James (Jamie) Roddy Duncan – “The Hack”

From Jamie Duncan’s Facebook profile.

We’d love his real picture if someone would care to send it

Jamie is a mid-level journalist at AAP. He has never worked at News Ltd as far as we can tell. Colleagues there are becoming increasingly concerned about the quality of his work and think his blogging-from-the-office may be to blame. We don’t know if they’re right, but he does seem to appear online during hours when he’s supposedly at work. We certainly hope that these rumours are untrue.

Jamie tries to deal with his pent-up feelings of failure and mediocrity by taking them out on other bloggers, suggesting that they kill themselves.

Because they deleted The Hangover, here is the screen shot instead of the dud link.

Maybe he should just have a lie down for a while.

Caroline is Jamie’s present partner-in-crime, after he left his first wife (and the mother of his first three kids), whom he now occasionally smears across the internet. Caroline adopts as many of Jamie’s views as possible in the hope that he’ll be less likely to one day do the same to her and their two kids.

Yes, his middle name seriously is Roddy. We’ve double-checked it – sounds like a gag, right? – but it’s true. We are not making that up. No wonder he’s such an angry fellow.

Bio – Caroline Hamilton – “Caz”, “Geraldine Himmler”

Caroline is of English/Scottish heritage and moved to Melbourne from Canberra. At one stage Caroline claimed to be a freelance writer and journalist. The liar. She once wrote a 50-word blurb in The Big Issue about how News Ltd awarded itself awards, which is the only evidence anyone can find online of her claim. On that definition, the letters pages of newspapers across the country discover hundreds of new “journalists” every day.

Caroline now works for Parks Victoria as the Media Relations Officer.

Internet History

The Spin Starts Here was started by Caroline ‘Caz’ Hamilton as a blogspot blog back in 2003 (with the word “darl” appended), as an avenue for snarkily taking the piss out of celebrities, “famewhores” and shit TV shows etc. Ms Hamilton then moved to Melbourne from Canberra. Caroline then upgraded her blog to a more professional hosting service, removed the word “darl”, and her site became one of the larger Australian internet blogs of that time.

Sadly, once Caroline’s new partner Jamie got involved and started projecting his sociopathic approach to life to the site, it quickly degenerated into a high school-like forum used to attack other bloggers in the nastiest, most personal ways imaginable: defaming all and sundry from behind the coward’s cloak of anonymity.

Not content with simply arguing against or taking the piss about what others wrote on their sites, Caroline and Jamie (and a few try hards desperate for their approval) would unleash every tool they could imagine to try to drive that person from the internet they apparently thought belonged to them. They loved to (and still do) use bloggers’ personal and work details as a weapon against them.

you should be aware that I know who you are. I know where you live. I know your phone number.

Caroline Hamilton

If one of their former allies crossed them in any way, they were promptly shunned and beaten from the group, becoming targets themselves. In this way was a childish “in group” herd mentality was established and maintained, with Caroline and Jamie revelling in the sense of self-importance they enjoyed as the biggest fish in their own small pond.

Then, after someone they’d attacked came close to identifying them in 2006, Caroline and James suddenly and dramatically withdrew from TSSH, turning it over to Caroline’s brother Michael Hamilton (known online as “Hambo”). The archives were deleted. There was a brief period where TSSH was a closed forum rather than a blog and then it, too, was deleted. TSSH remains today only in the pandora archive and the wayback machine at archive.org.

Note that the flighty and apparently unhinged Caroline actually made a few dramatic, and highly dubious, exits from her site before this.

It was hard for some to let go. A few TSSH hangers-on tried to keep it going. “Skeletor” (better known as Crikey “journalist” Bernard Keane) created a blog named “Skeletal Remains” that also went after the old TSSH targets, until one day it mysteriously disappeared. Caroline wrote a post or two at another dismal failure called “The Mother Load.” Like Jamie Oliver’s stay-at-home-wife, Caroline thinks because she had two kids, she can write about “reality parenting”.

Sadly, the story does not end there. In August 2007, TSSH regular “Atari” started a blogspot blog called The Hangover. She was joined, after a short period, by Jamie, still calling himself “The Hack”, who was still going after his old targets. And there he continues to this day (posting privileges have been removed by Atari), keeping alive the TSSH legacy of childish spite and stalking with his old TSSH collaborators, including Caroline, who posts there as both “Caroline” (when posting from home) and “Geraldine Himmler” (when posting from work).

And that’s the state of things on the day this site is uploaded. We expect there’ll be some hurried changes once they realise the jig is up.

Typical Bullying Techniques

Punch first, then act the victim when your target retaliates

To justify his vicious attacks on other bloggers, Jamie often uses the defense that they have also attacked him. Yes, bloggers have attacked him; however, it is always a reaction to an attack from Jamie. For example, Jamie will call someone a fucking stupid, gormless, ugly, chinless maggot who should kill themselves. If he has any personal information about them, he will make light of that as well. The blogger will then respond with something like, why don’t you fuck off you pathetic journalist. Later down the track when Jamie writes another post about that blogger, attacking an aspect of their personal life, when the blogger defends themselves, Jamie will say that the blogger told him to, “fuck off you pathetic journo.” Thereby justifying his post. And so as usual, Jamie’s flawed logic is apparent to all. Yes, he is a moron.

Jamie will undoubtedly have many suspects in mind as to who wrote this site, and we wouldn’t be surprised if he viciously grilled everyone he could think of to try to “prove” they were involved.Yes, Bastow wrote this article and so did Hardy. With some help from The Tooth Fairy. Jamie is paranoid and will believe anything. Hey Jamie, we started the $1000 bounty on your identity — it had nothing to do with Wally Sear. You took the bait too and blamed old Wal for supporting it. Oh and he wrote this article too. So did Imelda and your ex-wife. Skeletor, Napoleon and Tea also contributed. By the way Jamie, one of your Facebook friends will be getting a cheque in the mail. Luckily they gave us other details about you and Caroline for no extra cost!

Love and Kisses,

Team Lulz

How ironic that Jamie and Caroline were caught by the very people trying to catch them.

*Who would like to take the piss out of how Jamie looks? Send us more pics. Check the contact page for details.

Update

UPDATE: Strange things are afoot at Jamie and Caroline’s website of choice, “The Hangover”.It was deleted this morning. However, like Jesus, it was resurrected; but without Jamie and Caroline and anything they’ve ever written, this afternoon. That’s OK. Team Lulz has the screenshots of their handiwork and we will add them in where the hyperlinks were in due course.Initial reports indicate that the site’s webmaster, Atari, jack of being involved with vitriol and hate, pushed the button. Fair enough, she tried to make a clean break months ago. We have not verified this with her yet. Does this mean their friends who’ve tolerated them for so long are finally sick of their nonsense and don’t want to be implicated with their real names too? Or does it mean that Caroline and Jamie are so terrified of anything they’ve written being linked to their real names that they’ve arranged for it all to be taken down. Given what they did with TSSH when someone got close to their identities a few years ago, we suspect both reasons.All we know is that it’s all going down at Chez Cunt. Jamie is sweating bullets and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He is looking for someone to blame for selling him out. Maybe he should have a look in the mirror and see the cause of all his woe.To sum up: everything they’ve written on the internet as “Hack” and “Caz” has now been deleted (except for what remains in the pandora archive and cache). They’re only big and brave when people don’t know who they are. They certainly don’t want their years of bullshit associated with their real names. Who would?*UPDATE: Atari has verified that she deleted The Hangover.

Update #2

The hangeron retards are trying to start a new blog:

http://thesiteformallyknowas.blogspot.com/
. But in classic hangeron style, they spelled the URL wrong when registering. Desperate measures for desperate people. Lulz x 10.

And no, Jamie has not yet had the guts to take responsibility for his words and actions. Gutless isn’t he?

Do you remember that game, “whack a mole?” Except we’ve changed it to, “whack a rat.”

Laterz lulzers.

*It could be a front to hide their ‘real’ blog. But who really gives a shit. Snorez.

Update #3

It seems Jamie Duncan, being the paranoid coward he is, has been accusing his associates of ratting him out and authoring this page. He has made all sorts of bizarre threats, as usual digging personal details up and threatening people with them. It’s a climate of fear at Chez Cunt. News flash, Jamie:

You don’t get to find out who we are just by running around throwing the blame stick. You can accuse all the innocent people you like – we’re not the French resistance, your not the fucking Nazis, and the Internet isn’t a peasant village you get to go around burning until we give you what you want. No dice.

Spread the lulz,

Team Lulz.

Update #4

Team Lulz has been asked to give ourselves up to try to save one poor associate of Jamie’s he’s now taking to court. Yes, Jamie has gone and made false claims to a court to get what’s called an ‘interim intervention order’ against this innocent man, and has had the police show up at his door as a way of menacing him and his wife. All on the basis of a website that has nothing to do with him! We look forward to hearing what happens next.

Here is an excerpt of a gmail conversation we had with the innocent man in question, pleading with us to identify ourselves or take the site down as the only way of getting Jamie off his back. The conversation was on the 26th of May 2008: We also have screen shots:

billyjoebob:…
jamie and caroline are CONVINCED that you’re me.
09:44 team lulz: there’s not much I can do about that
billyjoebob: … short of saying who you are
09:45 team luz: um…
no
billyjoebob
: well – why not?
do you get that this is very frustrating for me?
09:46 team lulz: you’re innocent
billyjoebob: not that you should use how frustrated i am as a basis for making your decisions
but, like, i’m going to take all the heat for what you’ve done.
team lulz: there is no proof
jamie isn’t just going to blame you, he’s going to aim his blame at a lot of people
09:49 you’re simply the latest in a long line of people who he has a problem with
Sorry mate, we are sympathetic to your plight, but as we said above this isn’t a peasant village and Jamie isn’t the Nazis and we won’t give in to terrorism….. no matter how many innocents he attacks. But Team Lulz shares your outrage.
Jamie might want to think about making false allegations about people.

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