Hi my dear friend @preye2,

I hope you are fine and enjoying your life to full with friends and family.

Same like always you put your full efforts in creating the content by doing proper research and sharing knowledge you already have.

I feel sorry for your loss which your close friend did to you. It is really dishearting to see that our best friends are also not loyal with us if they see some money in our pocket. They wanted to do legpulling if we started making good earning source. I hope you had learned a lesson from this and will secure your account even more.

Dubious links are very harmful because we don't know where it will take us if we have no knowledge about link creation.

You have shared some recommendations including never share your keys, use VPN (which I don't know before), keeping our computer secure, and stay away from phishing links like dubious links.

Then you mentioned some of the reasons why account got hacked on Steemit. And I personally think that it is our own fault that we are careless and irresponsible even for our own accounts. We must take full responsibility and be active on the platform and must regularly check our wallet.

In last, you have given steps on what will you do if your account ever get hacked in the future. The recovery of account is very carefully taken step which you explained with screenshot and I appreciate it.

Generally, you have shared quality content with us for which I give you thanks and I wish you success in this and all future contests :)