last update I received
It came to our notice few days ago that this has happened on steemit of resent and yet many users has gone offline including me writing this before now.
The amount of friends I had last year here drop rapidly at the end of last year when the price of steemit dropped.
Am using this great opportunity to inform you guys one of the least information I got as. I returned from my longest exist on steemit community and on the other hand informing you that I have resume fully now to get in touch with all my friends and followers.
Phishing has restarted on Steem
I got this information that hackers have produced hundreds of comments on steemit using over a dozen different stolen accounts since the owners of the so called account has left for a very long time.
The comments have malicious links and are written in a way to entice and trick steemit community users to click on them and collect people data on their database.
From the discussion on the post I discovered that when you click on the link it takes you out of steemit community or any other Steem front end. It will take you to a website that's made to look like a legitimate service. It is actually a fake website please take note of this Information.
The fake website is designed to trick you to put in your account name and password (or active key). When you do that, the hackers log into your account, steal all your hard work money on steemit and quickly change your password to a new one.
Then they use your account to spam other phishing comments with Flags/Downvotes
The @steemcleaners team of accounts (which includes @guard and @plentyofphish) will flag any malicious phishing comments a hacked account posts. We will try to flag it to negative reputation where possible.
If you restore your account, make sure to let us know right away. We will remove all the big flags we can to restore your reputation. In return, you will have to delete all the phishing comments the hackers posted through your account.
Warning: Please don't delete comments that have a large flag/downvote on them or we cannot remove it!
"No Free Money
The hackers want you to fall for their tricks. There is no free "30 STEEM". There never will be. They just know that you want to earn on Steem and are trying to trick you"
Report!
Report any phishing to us at https://discord.gg/STXSV4g or through our form at http://steemcleaners.com/reports/new. Phishing takes precedence over every other form of abuse. Even if you're on our blacklist, we will still help you. Our #1 goal is to stop phishing and support the Steem ecosystem.
Recover
Take a look at your account's Steemd.com profile.
Example:
Creation Service
Recovery account: @steemmonsters in this case. That's the Trustee Account that must be used to recover your password.
Last account recovery: The default date is 1970. If it says a different date that's the date the account was previously recovered (password reset).
In this case, the user will have to contact @steemmonsters (by going to their Discord and asking for help) to have their recovery process started.
Steemit Inc Account
Recovery account: @steem. This is the most common situation as most accounts were made by Steemit Inc for users.
To start your recovery process if your Trustee Account is @steem, go to https://steemit.com/recover_account_step_1
This is what the recovery form looks like
Put in your account name
Put in the last password you have for your account
Submit the form and you will see a form with more information
In the second form, make sure you put in the email you signed up with originally
Check your email often! Account recoveries take Steemit Inc approximately 24-48 hours.
Reference Guide
If you're not sure how to reach your Trustee Account, check out this contact list on the @plentyofphish GitHub repository: https://github.com/gryter/plentyofphish/blob/master/guides/account-recovery.md
We welcome users to translate this post in their own words and post their own phishing warnings!