Beware of scammers pretending to be me (followers, please reSteem this post)
This was brought to my attention by @kamilkowalski:
This person I can confirm is not me. Anyone who is asking you to send money, or do anything which may be considered legally questionable, is not me. Do not send any money (sbd, btc) to anyone who claims to be @dana-edwards for any reason because it's not something I would do. If it does not come from my Steemit account, then it's probably not from me unless you can see evidence from multiple accounts known to be controlled by me (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc). This is not only happening to me, as I am in good company. Vitalik Buterin has been impersonated as well. There is even the possibility that these may be impersonator bots.
Something you have, something you know, someone you are
Identify verification online is a bit of a challenge. Ultimately if you have something others don't have, know something others don't know, or are someone others aren't, then you can verify yourself. In the example above the scammer pretending to be me did not have the private key to use my Steemit account and this is how they were found out. In this case it's something I know (the private key) which protects my identity from these scammers. In addition, I have passwords to multiple accounts, and smart phones, which means something I know and something I have for additional security as needed.
On the Internet anyone can try to impersonate anyone else. Some people will copy my posts on Steemit and post from their account to try to make a buck. Others will try to scam people under fake accounts to try to make a buck. Be careful.
@dana-edwards
It's good that you wrote about it.
I wish you all successes,
best regards from Poland :)
...this is very cheap...they are downing the reputation of other person also,,,
This must be shared so that no one can misuse your name.
Resteemed
I bet it's because I called Bitconnect an exit scam that now some people associated with it want to make me pay for it.
Scamming, lies, and impersonation is really really bad business. Please don't do that.
Oh thank you for informing us... there is alot of Scammers in every platform... Its good to aware us.. @Dana-edwards
Gosh, it sucks when scammers try to pretend to be someone else. Hopefully this won't happen again to you! I'm resteeming this post to bring the awareness about this :)
Obvious scam is obvious. Thankfully they weren't too clever going about it.
@dana-edwards Holy moly! I feel for you! I would be extremely angry if I were you!
Can't some people just get a life?
Jealousy. There are always haters in the world wanting to bring down anyone who is trying to be successful. They who are doing the scam do not seem to be focused on the money because why are they asking for such trivial amounts in SBD? Also where are they asking the SBD to be sent to and why?
It could be a way to try to damage my reputation but it would not be the first attempt to do that. In any case, it's not me and my readers need to know that. I am not likely to ever ask random people to send SBD to my account when I can simply post and earn upvotes.
The popularity and income generation of Steemit will bring more of these people. Spamming and Scamming will only increase, but your comment here about earning is easy enough that you need not ask should be the Steemit Mantra. Do not trust those begging funds.
God bless you for letting us know
I am a newbie
Thanks for letting us know.
I never stop surprising how mean some people are, I resteemed.