179 responses so far ↓

• 1 Popocorn // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  That blows. I hope you get it back!

• 2 Abjure // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:40 pm

  You should contact steam support, I’m sure they’ll be able to help you get your account back.

• 3 Gryphon // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:41 pm

  That sucks so much. I really hope you get your account back. I’m sure many of us would donate money to re-purchase your games (if you end up getting a new account).

• 4 CitrusFreak // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:44 pm

  I doubt very much that the retrieval of your account will be anything but speedy, Gordon. You’ve got connections!

• 5 Miniman // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  I recently got sent a link to a site that looked exactly like the Steam Community site, luckily Firefox detected it as Web Forgery.

• 6 Starveling // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm

  Noooo don’t go live in a cave!
  The best thing about you was that you were out in the open and available to talk to and not like some social recluse!

• 7 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:54 pm

  *turns away and talks into a cellphone quietly* code 3, roll in strike package bravo authenticate tango whiskey foxtrot x-ray. i want snipers on the roofs and a tight perimeter up. Silenced weapons. I want this done quietly. *turns back* dont worry, Chris, im sure you will get it back…..somehow….hehehehe………

• 8 TheLinx // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:56 pm

  I’d report that website to that webhost “BlackAppleHost” but you can’t access the Privacy policy, terms of usage, or the “contact us” page.

  Double bogus?

• 9 Sinoda // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:56 pm

  Dude..That sucks. I wish there was something we could do.. If you lost the account, I’d try to donate so you could get new games…But lack a paypal account. I doubt there is, but post/email me (or whatever) if there IS something we can do! Anyways, I really hope you get the account back.

• 10 Alexander // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:57 pm

  Woah. I actually stopped breathing for half a second there. I thought it was going to be something about stopping the blog or something. Sheesh.

  Like CitrusFreak said, you got friends in high places, the worst they’ll do is spam your friends with stuff, and if they really care, they ought to know it’s not you (and/or will check your blog about it)

• 11 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  tthere is something you can do. do you have a gun?

• 12 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:59 pm

  i want to give you money, chris! money!

• 13 Stranger // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:00 pm

  That sux — I hope you nail him.

  I also wish I’d seen this a little sooner — I was a member of the “Gordon Frohman Fanclub” for about 5 minutes.

• 14 Draco_2k // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  You can contact Steam Support for that stuff.

  https://support.steampowered.com/

• 15 Gemmy // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:07 pm

  I just reported the fake steam site as a phishing site to every blacklist I know, so hopefully that will help others at least.

  I think the whole of blackapplehost.com is a trap, to be honest. The Whois for blackapplehost.com is some random guy in Malaysia, with a gmail account, not a real business. It’s also a domain registered through “namecheap.com”, which doesn’t inspire confidence…

• 16 Cynicalcheeto // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  I’m so sorry, Chris. Here, take my credit card and have fun.

• 17 Nate // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:13 pm

  If the grunts at Steam support don’t help, I’m sure you could call up Gabe and he’d personally go over to the guys house with his crowbar.

• 18 Icarus Tyler // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:13 pm

  This sounds like it’s time to unleash the collective wrath of the internet.

  People of Team Fortress 2, find this person and tell him that you don’t like his actions. Tell him to relinquish the stolen data and leave before this gets out of hand.

  Do this as often as possible, and viytory will be ours!

  /add
  You can of course just plainly annoy the crap out of him. Either way victory is ours!

• 19 HEY HEY HEY HEY // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  Hey, let’s clog his database with false data!

  http://www.steamcommunityonline.blackapplehost.com/next.php?action=doLogin&goto=&steamAccoun
  tName=fuckyou&steamPassword=godie&x=65&y=1

  ^^

• 20 CitrusFreak // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GIVE FROHMAN MONEY EVEN THOUGH EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL ALREADY (ROBIN WALKER ALERTED THE PROPER PEOPLE AND THEY ARE ON IT, OR SO I HEAR): you know he has a paypal donate button at the bottom of Concerned, right?
  http://www.hlcomic.com/
  DONATE MONIES.

• 21 Da Gamer // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  You do realize that some douches who read this blog are all gonna change their Steam name to [MeFi] Frohman, thus making the search harder.

• 22 Da Gamer // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  Crap! sry for the double-post. This is the reason I have “Standards” for adding friends, i only add them if:
  1. They can voicechat
  2. I played with them and deemed them worthy of my “frienditudeship”
  otherwise, no dice.

• 23 Nyarlathotep // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:22 pm

  Chis! Don’t defriend me D:

• 24 Plaz // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  …Well fuck!

• 25 Cynicalcheeto // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:25 pm

  https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?s=95427e1413664cbcd8beb374d3dcef31&ref=2347-QDFN-4366

  This might help

• 26 Chris // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  Wow, what a dick. If there’s one thing that sucks, its being betrayed like that. But as they say, what goes around comes around. I’m sure that prick will get what he deserves.

• 27 Nyarlathotep // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  oh by the way you should join my new friends group http://www.steampowered.phish.com

• 28 cliff // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  Nyarl - Love that band.

• 29 Plaz // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:37 pm

  Hmmph, I found the punk’s account, ranked 0. He didn’t even change the name.
  http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998410145
  Yep, right there under friends, “Gordon Frohman”. Along with a ton of people all rated 10. NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL

• 30 friccish // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  Noooooooooooooo!

  I love seeing Frohman in my friends list. How do we get into this exclusive “anyone you know personally” club?

• 31 Nyarlathotep // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:46 pm

  I know Chris personally.

  He joined a server I was playing on once. I said “Are you the guy who does the comic?” and I don’t think he read it because he didn’t respond. Then a little while later he disconnected from the server.

  It was still really cool though.

• 32 Assassinador // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  That’s one of the reasons for me to only have 2 friends in my list, one of them being my cousin :D
  Another reason is that I’m just anti-social.

• 33 Stranger // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:55 pm

  Don’t defriend me, dude!!!

• 34 PsychoDuck // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:56 pm

  “When I get my account back I’m defriending anyone I don’t know personally, and then I’m moving into a cave.”

  NOOOOOO!!! But… I just added you a week or so ago! Don’t defriend PsychoDuck21! I’m cool!

  Anyways, it seems like Valve is working on this pretty hard. I wouldn’t worry too much about not getting it back. Still, pain in the ass that this happened.

  The Duck Has Spoken.

• 35 CitrusFreak // Jul 31, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  I suddenly feel like a celebrity by proxy now. Thanks Gordon!

• 36 PsychoDuck // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  I just took a quick look, and… It doesn’t seem like he did much, if anything to your account. All the links are there, and he isn’t even online. What was the point of all that?

  Or, maybe Valve has restored it to last default or something, and you’re about to get the message of truth! That’d be awesome, but somewhat unlikely. Oh well.

  The Duck Has Spoken.

• 37 Frosty // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  Well that sucks. Repay valve by making that 1fort comic

• 38 Phil // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:19 pm

  Chris.. I’ve got to add you at some point, mate!

• 39 Bob Saget // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:20 pm

  Ooh, I can hook you up with a pretty good sized group of people that would love to beat the shit outta this guy. The only problem is that we need to find enough pianos…

  But seriously dude, that really really sucks. I just hope Valve fixes this soon and you can resume kickin’ ass in TF2. =D

• 40 Prospero // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  My condolences, good luck getting it back, and painful vengeance to the one who hijacked it.

• 41 S-Guy // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:41 pm

  Aww, don’t live in a cave! There are so many downsides, like the smell, the lack of light, the bears…besides, at least Valve knows you from Concerned. Most of us don’t have that kind of
  luck.

  And a quick request: when you get around to hitting him with that splintery piano leg, hit him once for every person that comments here!

• 42 Tiler // Jul 31, 2008 at 7:48 pm

  I used to tell popular people to ’suck up’ when they complained about being a celebrity.

  But thanks to seeing stuff like this, and having a few run in with some rather annoying/creepy people, I’ve pretty much changed my mind on the subject.

  Considering Valve steals your ideas to ruin their games, I’m sure they’ll get your account back soon. Good luck on that cave business, though.

• 43 LM // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  So lemme get this straight. You accept a friend request from someone you apparently don’t know at all in any capacity, online or offline (A). They immediately send you a single badly-spelled missive (B) that spectacularly fails to indicate that they know you in any capacity (C), followed by logging off without waiting for a response (D). Said missive includes a link (E), its destination completely un-obscured and handily bolded for extra readability, which you proceed to click on, its text apparently failing to register in your visual field. Despite already being logged into Steam, the destination web site presents the appearance that you are in fact logged out (F). Undeterred by the half-dozen suspicious cues you have encountered thus far, and not bothering to perform a cursory inspection to discover the perfectly legible text “Free Hosting by BlackAppleHost.com” at the bottom of the page (G), you attempt to log in and (predictably, at this point) get your password snarfed.

  While I should mention that no personal disrespect towards you is intended and I have the utmost respect for your work, I think you need to take a close look at what happened here. Any two or three of the above-marked items, in combination, should have been enough to arouse your suspicions. Here we are dealing with *seven* different indicators that some shenanigans may be going on, and this rather inept scammer still scored a hit off you. Be happy this wake-up call was something as inconsequential as your Steam account… and not, say, your bank account, in which case the consequences would have been more far-reaching and less immediately obvious.

• 44 J3553 // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:06 pm

  :-(
  Don’t un-friend me.

• 45 Baggie // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  Jeeze mate, bad luck with that. Also I’m not sure what kind of internet works well in caves, I’d go with wireless because cabling that thing would be a bitch.

• 46 Newt Pulsifer // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  fvck, there is even a community for that phishing host!

  http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Blackapllehost

• 47 superflykiller // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:11 pm

  can i help you beat him into a pile of blood?
  my weapon of choice is chainsaw-whip-gun
  noone messes with the creator of frohman!!!

• 48 Christopher // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  LM:

  I get friend requests all the time from people who know me through the comic. I get invited to groups all the time by people who know me through the comic. These people are strangers, but they know me from my websites, and I friend them because they are fans and I always check out the groups they’ve started to see if I might want to join.

  These invitations are often “badly-spelled”. Poor spelling is not an indicator of anything but being on the internet.

  These items do not raise alarms for me after a couple years.

  No shit. I was dumb. I didn’t really look at the page I was logging in to. Obviously, I’m a fucking idiot. But thanks for pointing out how much of a fucking idiot I am.

• 49 Gryphon // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Jeez Chris, even when you’re mad, you still make me laugh…

• 50 Azzen // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:19 pm

  Well, fear not of losing but of not learning from the loss, they say.
  It’s happened, but now you’re one wiser and you know it’ll never happen again, Chris.

• 51 Christopher // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  IT’S BECAUSE I CAN’T PLAY MY GAMES AND I HAVE TO READ A FREAKIN BOOK OR SOMETHING INSTEAD RAAAARGGGGGHFART

• 52 trapped // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  Yeah seriously, who ever thought books were cool?

  You must be bored, you’re actually commenting back on your blog. :P

  And can I be on your exclusive list? :D

• 53 Aenir // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  Aenir=rogue981
  Don’t defriend me! :(

  Also good luck with that splintery piano leg.
  S-Guy: “And a quick request: when you get around to hitting him with that splintery piano leg, hit him once for every person that comments here!”
  I second this, and want to add another hit with that splintery piano leg. And another crowbar from Gabe Newell, and another POW from the Heavy Weapons Guy.

• 54 Terin // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:33 pm

  Ah, yeah. The same thing happened to me just before the pyro update. Except it was one of my friend’s who had their account hijacked. Getting in contact with Valve immediately is the best thing to do. It should be resolved pretty quickly. It sucks, but hey, now you’ll be more the wiser about it all.

• 55 Nyarlathotep // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:34 pm

  Christopher-chan is so cute when he’s angry :3

• 56 Boojangels // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:50 pm

  I doubt superjazeroo himself sent you that fake link. I bet his account got hacked and he’s sending it to everyone on his friend’s list. I had a buddy on my friend’s list for a long time and he sent me a link like that. I noticed that the link ended in .tk so I didn’t put my stuff in.

  You’ll get your account back, trust me. Don’t sweat it.

• 57 LM // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  Please feel free to remove my earlier comment if you thought it was out of line. I myself was uncertain whether or not to post it, but I felt that in the end it would be more informative than inflammatory, and would hopefully aid you in avoiding similar situations in the future. I tend to be extremely blunt, even unforgiving, on matters of information security, but if I come across as harsh, it’s only because I’ve seen the damage that can be caused by even the simplest social engineering tactics.

• 58 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  i can just see the black helicoopters and vans zooming away from the Valves headquarters, 50. cal, rockets, banning……..the guy doesnt even know who hes messing with.

• 59 AlphaHawk // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  got any other games to play that just steam?

• 60 zealot_guy // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  Hehee….
  Seems that endorsing a company has its up side. Good thing, too. They must like you. Good, cuz lots of us do.

• 61 Dreimar // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:10 pm

  Well, long as your reading, George Carlin’s books are always good. Plus, I can guarantee there’s no way you’re as pissed off as he was, so in a way it can be relaxing…?

  (I know you were being sarcastic, I just wanted to be useful)

• 62 AlphaHawk // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  “I know you were being sarcastic, I just wanted to be useful”

  No I think Chris was quite serious about the firehose and pointy piano leg. :/

• 63 Al // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:19 pm

  What a jerk. Hopefully he didn’t try to cheat as well.

• 64 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  i blame mudcrabs.

• 65 ciberspy // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:34 pm

  Why use piano legs?
  It is obvious that a laser guided rocket propeled Chainsaw would be worse luanche it then make it cut off the feet first then simply dismmember him slowly untuil you run out of rocket fule

  Rocket Propeled Chainsaws R DA 1337nes

• 66 Christopher // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  LM: You weren’t out of line. I’m just in a foul mood.

  Ciber: Good idea. The post has been updated.

  Everyone else: Thanks for the support. I appreciate it.

• 67 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:37 pm

  but the piano leg gives Chris the satisfaction he deserves by smashing the guys face into the pavement.

• 68 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  oh. my god. he posted just before me…. i feel honoured!! *prayers*

• 69 rammingspeed42 // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:39 pm

  Yah, I was one of the friends who joined that bogus fan club. Sorry about that; thought it was you at first. I’ve left it now.

  And, hey, you’ll prolly defriend me, but I won’t mind. It was fun being the steam friend of Chris Livingston for a while.

  Hopefully the splintery bits of the piano leg are poison-tipped.

  : ]

• 70 rammingspeed42 // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  Or the chainsaw…. that works too….

• 71 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:44 pm

  maybe a poisen tipped rocket powered piano chainsaw?

• 72 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:45 pm

  yeah…… the PTRPPC. the perfect weapon for jackasses.

• 73 rammingspeed42 // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  In the words of Mr. Henderson, “TO THE LAB!!!!!”

• 74 Koslov // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  I call for a community flogging of this tard when they find him.

• 75 AlphaHawk // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  Chainsaw…nice. I second the flogging.

  Why not the pyro’s new axe? Barbedwire on an axe would be most painful for dismemberment and bleeding to death.

• 76 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  nice one rammingspeed. and i second that motion koslov

• 77 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  we can use the pyros new axe for the flogging, and the PTRPPC for his death. sounds like a plan to me!

• 78 b4dboyz- // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  I like something simple. Take a butchers knife, chop off his manhood and make him eat it.

• 79 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  i dont suppose any of you know where my xbox 360 repair box is? i sent the 360 away and paid for it to be fixed, and it wasn’t fixed. so i need to send it back but i need this box, because it had all the foam with it. use google earth and look through my window if you need to. any help would be much obliged.

• 80 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:14 pm

  we will use your iddea badboyz just before the flogging, to warm up the crouds

• 81 Dan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  Suggested course of action:

  1) E-mail jieming85@gmail.com and inform him of the phishing page he is hosting and ask him to take it down.

  2) If he does not respond or is not cooperative, go one level up to support@NameCheap.com and complain that the owner of blackapplehost.com is knowingly and willingly supporting phishing operations. Unfortunately since they’re just the domain registrar it’s a weak chance at best.

• 82 Dan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  Oh and here’s his profile page: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998410145

• 83 GRAND MASTER // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:21 pm

  LOL NOOB

• 84 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  ok then.
  1. do what dan said.
  2. do what badboyz said.
  3. do what alphahawk said.
  4. use the PTRPPC on him.
  5. Happy Hacker Day!

• 85 AlphaHawk // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  Don’t fret boyo, I’LL BE GENTLE

  Hope that make you atleast chuckle, champ :)

• 86 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:23 pm

  im really confused at grand master. i just dont get whos a noob and what hes laughing at.

• 87 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  today will be a wonderful day.

• 88 Christopher // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:26 pm

  he’s laughing at me as I was pwned

• 89 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:32 pm

  ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh……hhhhhhhhhhhh……..hhhhhhhoooooooohhhhhhhhh……

• 90 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:32 pm

  and that, my friends is what happens when you take your reply too far.

• 91 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  i post too much.

• 92 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  so much free time, i guess.

• 93 nadroj // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:34 pm

  yes, you do.

• 94 god // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  yes, you do

• 95 jesus // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  yeah, way too much

• 96 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  i hate you guys

• 97 Itrade // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  It could’ve been worse. He could’ve stoled the website. That would’ve sucked.

  Also I hope he doesn’t screw up your kill/death ratio!

• 98 Pulviriza // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  You’re going to defriend me?

• 99 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  he has to defriend everyone. also, whats chris steam page?

• 100 Steam // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  accts are getting hijacked massively often these days.

  I know like 10 people who have had their accounts stolen in the last 2 weeks.

• 101 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  wow

• 102 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  good thing my computers so bad i can barely play any games

• 103 Dell Dude // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:43 pm

  The best thing everyone can do is report it via firefox as a bad site :). Mass reports will get the site flagged.

• 104 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 10:45 pm

  this is my 28th comment! new personal best!

• 105 macho // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  Hey Chris, chill man :) And I don’t know why would you want to join any groups? I for myself am in one with a couple of friends and that’s it.

• 106 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:16 pm

  same

• 107 MeFi // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:27 pm

  Oh great, I get back from holiday and not only has my account been hijacked and used to spam my friends with hijack links, but now hundreds of people want to string me up!

• 108 Nophysicalbody // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  Let this be a lesson to us all, but tough luck man. It’ll get sorted out, by valve themselves!

• 109 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  life is great.

• 110 jordan // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  my xbox is DEAD. waaaaaaaaa

• 111 Bootsie_B // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:36 pm

  Wow. Sucks to be you.

  Yeah, you really should remember to check the url.

• 112 Ninja // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:50 pm

  Depressing. I would not fall for a trap like this (phishing). But then, I’m a ninja.

  Yes, that host seems to be tied to some malicious activity based on past phishes originating from there.

• 113 Ninja // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:54 pm

  Also, you weren’t the only one hit:
  http://steamcommunity.com/id/darkripper

• 114 Ninja // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:55 pm

  Wait, maybe this guy wasn’t hit.

• 115 Blaze // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:00 am

  I’ve had my Steam account hijacked at least four or five times by now and I didn’t even have to click any suspicious links.

• 116 Joe // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:14 am

  Yeah, he was pestering me the other day to join his group. He caught me while I was working though, and I kindof ignored him. It also struck me as wierd that he was messaging me to join his group as opposed to just inviting.

  I do have some info though, so I may deal with him tomorrow.

• 117 Jackrabbit // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:15 am

  “Yeah seriously, who ever thought books were cool?”

  ME!

  *sob*

  anyway if this man is ever stupid enough to give out his location i will beat him to death with a whip soaked in that stingy liquid that burns in wounds.

  also i spammed there group

• 118 There is no Spoon // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:36 am

  NO CHRIS!!
  DONT DEFRIEND ME!!
  I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU!!!
  PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAZE

• 119 Damone // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:36 am

  Ouch man. I usually lurk around on this blog, silent and creepy.

  Like the guy behind you.

  But i feel the need to show sympathy. I reccomend rocket lawn chairs though. Always a hit at parties. I hope you get your steam account back soon.

  ~El Damone

• 120 Brad Jensen // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:39 am

  If you read all the way down here, you must be in need of some sympathy. I have some to give.

  My brother’s account was hijacked (I don’t know how, he didn’t even know the password!). When he had recovered it, he had already been vac banned on CS. It can always be worse.

  I guess this means you won’t be accepting my friend request? Dang. I wanted you to join my group! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

• 121 Aenir // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:52 am

  USE THE SHOVEL! AND SOME EXPLOSIVE BARRELS! AND THE CLAW!

• 122 Aenir // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:53 am

  AND A HUGE ASSORTMENT OF RANDOM TRAPS INVOLVING DROPPED CARS, HUGE ROTATING BLADES, AND FLAMES!

• 123 Brad Jensen // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:59 am

  Oh, and, make sure you change your password on EVERY WEBSITE. Just a friendly reminder.

• 124 Aftershock // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:18 am

  Well, it appears that you can’t access that site any longer, as it directs you straight to the real steam community site. At least that’s a step in the right direction.

  Hope things turn out well for you.

  I hope he buys some games for your account before you get it back…

  But you’d still have to turn him into rocket fuel with your chainsaw so you can shoot his dismembered bits into the sun.

• 125 Crowbar // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:35 am

  Ya’ don’t mess with the Frohman.

  My weapon of choice is the projectile knife. You flick the switch, and the blade shoots out. Surprise, hacker.

• 126 VladH // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:41 am

  Wow, that sucks.
  I’m sure Valve will do SOMETHING.
  Anyway, hope it turns out alright.

• 127 Erased.. // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:48 am

  You can either

  Cut of his genitals and feed them to him.
  Throw his head through a television
  Beat him to death inside a toilet
  Decapitate him
  Give him a present, with a bomb inside
  Hide a razor blade in a plate of Spegetti
  Kill his family and friends
  Drive him to suicide.

  As you can see, i’ve got alot of free time

• 128 Azbec // Aug 1, 2008 at 1:54 am

  Shit…That little bastard.
  Have you ever considered using a Rocket-Propelled Ornate Axe?

• 129 Disposable // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:02 am

  Let’s find this guy and break every joint in his body - this is easy to do. Simply apply enough force in the direction the joint is not meant to go. To break the elbow, for example, simply straighten his arm, palm up. Hold his wrist with your left hand and hold his elbow in the crook of your right arm. Tighten your right arm and push down with your left hand.

  Rinse and repeat for the other joints.

  Our thoughts go out to you on this day, Chris. It’s never nice to be reminded that the internet is filled with arse holes as well as genuinely nice chaps.

• 130 Duke // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:08 am

  Dell Dude,

  Actually that url is already marked enough times - it’s producing fraud-warning in opera.

• 131 Bootsie_B // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:12 am

  Uhh… Disposable… WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR DAMAGE?!

• 132 Erased.. // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:14 am

  Christ disposable, that was an interesting lesson in excruciating pain 101.

• 133 jordan // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:15 am

  this is the biggest plot moment in this blog so far! lets read on…..

• 134 TheCrazyInventor // Aug 1, 2008 at 3:38 am

  Here is some whois information about that domain name:

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  Registrant Contact:
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  Fax: +1.5555555555
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  Status: Locked

  Name Servers:
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  Creation date: 24 Nov 2007 11:00:26
  Expiration date: 24 Nov 2008 11:00:26

• 135 PFC Skinner // Aug 1, 2008 at 3:41 am

  I’ve got Chris on my friends list to but i swear IT WASN’T ME.

  I may not know him but i did finish concerned and tell all of my friends and read his blog and stuff so can i stay plz kthxbai.

• 136 jordan // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:07 am

  i wish i had chris on my friend list. infact i just want to see his profile name.

• 137 Slade // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:07 am

  Meh, I hope you will get your account back and cut these bastards to shreds !

• 138 Freaky Mutant Man // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:12 am

  Surprising to see that the account used in the hijacking was itself hijacked, and that the real owner ended up posting here. In fact, I bet that the hijacker has no idea at all who he hijacked. If somebody actually goes through with the whole beating-the-utter-crap-out-of-him thing, he’d probably have no idea why the assailant(s) are saying things like “1fort”, “concerned”, and “YOU RUINED OUR CHANCE TO SEE A NEW COMIC BEFORE 2009, JERK”. Not to mention the utter confusion of being beaten with splintery piano legs/rocket chainsaws out of nowhere, but that’s to be expected in that sort of situation.

• 139 lazerus // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:28 am

  that sucks if hes in australia let me know ill kill him with a rocket propelled chainsaw

• 140 Disposable // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:47 am

  I should probably point out that I am not, in fact, a murdering psychopath, I just happened to go to private school so I take a rather dim view of people behaving like shits to other people.

  I also know some Ju Jitsu, hence the interesting anatomical lecture. A rocket propelled chainsaw would be more spectacular though, I admit. It’d be over too quickly though- The joy of breaking every joint one by one is he’s in excruciating pain throughout the whole thing, especially if you wake him up every time he faints.

  I work in an office, I have a lot of time to think about these things.

• 141 n00bie51 // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:36 am

  I was given some messages to join a group that didn’t exist on Steam. It was quite obvious when more than one friend gave me the exact same copy+pasted message.

  Seriously people, be cautious when you’re using the Internets.

• 142 Lenny17 // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:41 am

  I’m just glad that Valve is working on it - hopefully this guy can get banned back into the Stone Age and get you your information back. People like that really piss me off.

• 143 ZomBuster // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:45 am

  That wasn’t very smart of you D:

• 144 rammingspeed42 // Aug 1, 2008 at 6:45 am

  Something tells me that there is gonna be a monumentous number of comments on this post now. There is definitely gonna be a public outcry over this.

• 145 DumbDog // Aug 1, 2008 at 6:54 am

  You just have to hope that whoever has your account doesn’t use any hacks. VAC bans are permanent. Of course, Valve does seem to like you. Maybe they’ll be more inclined to help if you start 1fort. ;p

• 146 deedeedee // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:09 am

  whazap?

• 147 jaesmes lol // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:36 am

  you’pre sexy cjhrsit i swear

• 148 J3553 // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:46 am

  J3553=J3553.

  Don’t un-friend me.

• 149 HoW Monty // Aug 1, 2008 at 7:48 am

  At least this gives you time to work on livinginoblvion. I can’t wait to see if Nondrick is visited by the Dark Brotherhood.

• 150 mr. Brit // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:10 am

  wow, Jordan! 33 comments! Very impressive!

• 151 Gothic // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:11 am

  Why not just use a splintery piano?

• 152 RC-1290'Dreadnought' // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:24 am

  Use the weapon that shoots shuriken and lightning.

• 153 Dell Dude // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:39 am

  Ok the offending page is now blacklisted in firefox :)… but what other browsers use that blacklist?

• 154 Ricotez // Aug 1, 2008 at 8:56 am

  Are there any other browsers than Firefox? O.o

• 155 J3553 // Aug 1, 2008 at 9:02 am

  @Ricotez: There’s that glitchy PC one, I don’t know what it’s called.

• 156 Brad Jensen // Aug 1, 2008 at 9:42 am

  I hope you decide not to remove all non-real-life friends, I want to tell you how much I love your comic/essays/blog(s)! I JUST discovered your steam id!

• 157 [@] Chronos[Ha-G] // Aug 1, 2008 at 9:59 am

  When I first read what happened, before looking at the picture provided on the post, my heart sank. Earlier on, I sent Chris a link to that Gordon Frohman fan club - not an in-steam link, but an actual web address link, since I couldn’t figure out how to send a Steam address link to him. Essentially, I thought that *I* had somehow accidentally done this to him.

  …then I saw the picture, and breathed a sigh of relief. Hope you get your account back soon, man.

  (Damn, guess I’m going off the friends list, now)

• 158 Itszutak // Aug 1, 2008 at 10:05 am

  layers within layers of hijacking going on here. Wow

• 159 ZomBuster // Aug 1, 2008 at 10:20 am

  Blackapplehost has removed the page now.

  good

• 160 Selek // Aug 1, 2008 at 10:28 am

  A similiar thing happened to me on Paypal, the pirate site looked exactly like the original, but Firefox had the site flagged and I was warned. Firefox ftw.
  Anyway, I hope you’ll get it back soon, and I can understand it if you remove me.

• 161 Pentadact // Aug 1, 2008 at 10:29 am

  Suuucks.

  Is my position on the affair.

• 162 Cpt. Falcon // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  OMGWTFBBQ i clicked that link to that fan club!!!!
  i thought only legit people would ask for my SS number!!

  ha jk but really, is that fan club thing bad?

• 163 Christopher // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  I don’t know anything about the fan club except they invited all my friends to join. Not saying it’s bad, not saying it’s good, I genuinely don’t know anything about them.

• 164 Bob Saget // Aug 1, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  Yeah, I joined the Fan Club (only because I thought you had some part in it.) It’s legit and all. It just happened to fall innocently into this huge chain of events.

• 165 Cmdt_Carpenter // Aug 1, 2008 at 2:21 pm

  Awww, I missed all the drama. And I got defriended.

  Dammit.

  (I have had my steam account hijacked too, but I didn’t have contacts at Valve so it took about 5 days till I could play TF2 again. You thought you had it bad)

• 166 Mistakes // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  Well then if your not playing tf2 or another excellent steam game why not work on living in oblivion maybe that’ll cheer you up… it’ll cheer me up

• 167 jordan // Aug 1, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  31st post! i am totally holding the record! i was on BLOG RAMPAGE last night! wooooohhooooo!!
  fear me!!! FEAR ME!!!
  lololololololololollolollloollololoolololololol

• 168 Killingspree // Aug 2, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  Well that sucks. Hackers and other sh**heads are just retarded. Trying to steal others stuff and make it their own… Hope you get your account back :)

• 169 CSC // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:27 pm

  Hey Chris.

  What’s next? Will you create a new account and buy all games from scratch?

  If so, can I have your account username? I’d really like you as a friend.

• 170 CSC // Aug 2, 2008 at 9:34 pm

  Ok, I didn’t take the time to read up. Apparently you got your account back. Can be your friend? My username is c00LCS1337. Those “o”s in “cool” are zeros. For some reason, they’re displayed on this site the same as “o”s. Hope that made sense. Uh… Maybe you can just give me your username.

• 171 Ninja // Aug 2, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  There are several phishy websites like this. I’ve got most of them submitted to an anti-phish company I used to work for (We made a phishing filter for Firefox before there was one built in).

• 172 himmelstoss // Aug 3, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  The fact that you fell for that is really quite pathetic. Shame on you, and don’t gripe, because you have no one to blame but yourself.

• 173 jordan // Aug 3, 2008 at 5:31 pm

  thats pretty mean for a so called ‘fan’ himmelstoss.

• 174 S-Guy // Aug 3, 2008 at 11:52 pm

  Now I think it’s funny when people make fun of other people for falling for stuff like this and put them down, and then, big surprise, they fall for the exact same thing. Hilarious. Cliche, but hilarious.

• 175 himmelstoss // Aug 6, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE’S A PHISHING FILTER on any good browser (ahem, Firefox).

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• 177 FUUUCCCKKK!!!! I HATE THOSE PIG!!!! // Aug 23, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  My account got Hijacked just the same way he said i could get Free games. I was so stupid and i believed him.

• 178 legacy // Sep 1, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  hi have you got your ACCOUNT BACK YET?? mine was stolen keylogger how long should it take to get it back????

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