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On December 17 2014 19:15 Jealous wrote:

Ninazerg, online stalking and identity theft are very real things. Your initial investigative work has brought the issue to my attention, and after a little snooping around I have found irrefutable evidence that we are dealing with professionals here. However, I fear you may be a co-conspirator, because one of the Pharaphobias showed romantic interest in you (I can dig up the post if necessary but I decided to give you both some privacy and respect), so I have to make my findings public.

@PharaphobiaSC2: Here are the reasons why I am certain your internet security and anonymity have been compromised:

1. The perpetrators/imitators did not come after you. They came BEFORE you.
This is perhaps the most disturbing and incriminating fact I have managed to uncover. It is one thing to imitate someone in a public outlet where they have already made their presence known. That is easy. You simply have to study their posting style and reproduce it.

These criminals, however, managed to not only replicate your posting style before it became publicly known to this community, they had planned it nearly 9 months in advance. Please refer to the timeline below:



The pattern of their activity is also indicative of intense personal knowledge of not just your posting mannerisms, but of your very intentions; things that have not yet come to pass. Seemingly knowing that you would one day be tempted by the forum that is TeamLiquid, they lay in waiting for you to express interest in joining. They were clearly tipped off at some point prior to 23/10/2013. However, they waited until 17/07/2014 to start posting. Why?

Very simple: the time wasn't right. They put the time under their belt, so that if it came to you vs. them, they would win being that they have tenure. If you were to confront "Pharaphobia" directly, they would claim that YOU are the imitator, and have the dates to prove it. Unfortunately, this never came to pass. They were banned on 09/10/2014; you joined on 25/11/2014. Doesn't that seem a little odd?

To me, this reads as an obvious clue. The perpetrator(s) is(are) likely cowardly. They cannot admit when they have made a mistake, told or lived a lie, said things just to put on a false image, and they will deny that they are in denial.They did not have the stones to handle the confrontation between the real "Pharaphobia" (PharaphobiaSC2) and the fake that they put forward. Thus, they began making increasingly offensive posts in order to get permanently banned and make a clean getaway, tarnishing your reputation in the process.

Please review who you have been talking to between July and November 2014. Someone must have known that you were planning to make your account on TeamLiquid soon, otherwise such a perfect exit would not have been possible, and confrontation would have been inevitable. Everyone you have mentioned this information to is suspect.

2. They were privy to your posting style before you made your appearance here.
This has been mentioned above by my fellow sleuth Ninazerg, but it is worth repeating with added weight. The real issue here is that this must be someone who followed you closely enough from July (probably) or at least October, either in person or electronically.

Posts of "Pharaphobia":
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Posts of "PharaphobiaSC2":
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The repeated use of "" at the end of a line, sometimes followed by punctuation, is statistically significant given the low post count of both "Pharaphobia" and the real "PharaphobiaSC2". Because this is something that can only be replicated through mutual online experience, this is a major clue to finding out who has been tarnishing your name. It has to be someone who has seen you post extensively before the aforementioned months, with intent that reaches back into late 2013. That should limit the list of people this fake "Pharaphobia" could be down to a handful, right? Your input is necessary for further investigation at this point. Please feel free to PM me.

3. They have assimilated your interests and your questions, misled your viewerbase. Nothing is safe.
TeamLiquid user "Pharaphobia" set their website to "twitch.tv/Pharaphobia" which contains a lot of information, likely about you. If this is your Twitch channel, then they are simply using it as a method of authenticating their disguise. If that personal information is about you, that means that they know too much about you. In fact, the name is connected to you on multiple sites. Here is a brief list that Google provided, some of them containing the same personal information that can be found on the Twitch stream:

http://e-sports.gg/streams/pharaphobia
https://osu.ppy.sh/u/1673645
http://www.anook.com/pharaphobia
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/4676728/1/Pharaphobia/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pharaphobia92/
http://www.playzone.cz/uzivatel/pharaphobia

If any of these are NOT profiles you have created, please contact the hosting site immediately!!! Identity theft only gets easier with mass proliferation such as this. The age on at least the last one matches the one on Twitch, which corresponds to the Blizzard account "Pharaphobia" for SC2, and it has a photo of you(?). If I were you, and that photo was indeed of me, I would be very scared. However, it brings us just 1 step closer to finding out who this faker is. They have access to your photos. It must be someone you have shared the photos with.

By the way, "Pharaphobia" is not a real word. According to Google, there is no definition for this word. I'm injecting this here to let you know that there is no mistaking that any imitation is purely intentional - there is such a slim chance that two separate people could come up with the same fake phobia. I am guessing you were already aware of this, as you have many haters who are out to get you, but I just wanted to eliminate any doubt you may have still had.

Anyway, my final piece of evidence is their mimicry of your interests. Look at your posting history:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=&t=c&f=-1&u=PharaphobiaSC2&gb=date

vs.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=&t=c&f=-1&u=Pharaphobia&gb=date

Do you notice anything suspicious? You are a Destiny follower - posting on subjects pertaining to him. Likewise, Paraphobia posted about Destiny multiple times as well. I know that this is not a large clue, as Destiny surely has many followers, but this simply adds another constraint to the list of possible thieves. Likewise, you are both (or at least they can pretend to be) into SC2 AND BW. Which, again, does not diminish the list greatly, but I'm sure it helps.

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Summary

Review all of this information carefully and without prejudice. Even someone as close as a brother or parental figure might be responsible for this mischief. Best of luck to you, and may your unique name never be sullied by pretenders and thieves!

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