The Copycat Files - Wish You Were Here IV - Map Card

 My friend and I have been spending far too much time creating new worlds in ARK, yes, far behind the times, I realize, and we decided we needed a little more analog in our lives. So, this evening we dug into another puzzle postcard by Enigma Emporium - one of a set of 5 standalone puzzles in their 'Copycat Files' set, a follow up to their three interwoven Wish You Were Here sets. Last time we did a wintery themed one, this time, we chose a map and telephone theme.

The card is in sepia tones, numbers connected by a line around a picture of Alexander Graham Bell (who I took to be Darwin until I looked at the numbers and realized that they are country codes). We expect the names of the countries to spell a message. On the reverse, we have two stamps with series of numbers, as well as four groups of numbers, and a line connecting a series of lighter boxes. The images themselves are of a lock and keys, and some sort of techno runner? 

We start with the numbers on the front, connecting country codes. Mongolia-Yemen-Nepal-Algeria-Montenegro-Egypt-India-Senegal-Morocco-Oman-Iran-Russia (or Kazakhstan)-Angola-Slovakia-Argentina-Ireland-Netherlands-Taiwan-Chad-Lesotho-Azerbaijan-Israel-Rwanda-Ethiopia. My name is Moira Saint-Claire. Hello, Moira.  

We turn to tackle the back of the card. My first idea is to treat them as a symbol, rather than a number. So, '8' becomes 1-8 or 18, 44 becomes 2-4 or 24, etc. There may need to be some math involved, as the largest number would be 47. With that idea, we get the first set as:

18 24 23 "33 22 34"  -    18 24 34 26 25 47    -   34 12 16 12 16 12 26

Gobbledygook, then I look at the stamps again. They're a simple A-01, and read SWIFT-KEY (ok, the techno runner is 'swift'). Which means that we're looking at that long ago system where you could type on your cell phone keypad. It's been a while. 8, therefore, isn't 1-8, but the first number that you'd get when you hit 8 - T. I feel old in that I used to know how to type really quickly that way. My partner solves the connected numbers/keys quickly: PORTLAND

The number sets in lines are the old style typing, not swift key, but fairly easy with an old visual reference

So, we get: THE "FBI" THINKS I AM A MAN. "COOPER" WAS THE NAME OF MY CAT. I HAD NEVER USED A "PARACHUTE" BEFORE. I NO LONGER FLY"BOEING". I didn't make the connection, but my puzzling partner got it - Moira is claiming to be DB Cooper, which, per Wikipedia, is the pseudonym of an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. He, or she if Moira is correct, parachuted out midflight. 

My partner then solved the more complicated Swift code at the top, using the same keyboard as above: The fingerprints on this card will match those found on the plane if you want to turn me in.

And thus we have it - another card solved. Moira Saint Claire of Portland, OR, claims that it was she who carried out the hijack, and her prints are on the card, probably messed up by our own as we poured over it, but alas...

Thanks, Enigma Emporium, for another lovely evening!