RE: PSA: Really good phishing attempts ongoing, be extra careful where you enter your keys!
Dear @reggaemuffin and all dear Steemit users!
I firstly apologize for being so stupid to click on this post, but the title seemed interesting...
I gave my posting key, because the pop up window looked the same as if I was logged out of Steemit.
And then the nightmare started....
Someone posted the same viral post in my name three times and started making upvotes. I immediately wanted to warn others not to fall into the same trap and tried to post a comment under the original post, but this has been deleted.
Then I changed my password and tried to delete the spammer posts somehow, but I could not succeed. I could delete the content, but the first tag remained (bitcoin, cn etc.), I could not change it to "spam".
And I got receiving downvotes and all the bad replies on what a monster I am for posting such a shit.
I was really shocked, I felt embarrassed and puzzled, I really did not know what to do. I tried to post and ask for help, but @cheetah immediately commented on me and said I was a spammer, and ID-thief.
It was so miserable.
Finally I managed to get in touch with @patrice on steemit chat, and I received a wonderful assistance. Thanks again for it! I was cleared from the black list and finally the great darkness around me started to dissolve.
I would like to thank everybody in this community for helping me in the recovery. Now it seems that things are getting back to normal.
And I have learned a huge lesson: look at least twice before you type your key and click on anything suspicious.
BEWARE OF "WELL-SOUNDING" POST TITLES posted in popular tag categories.
PS: I hate people who use their creative energies to hurt others....
I am glad that you are safe now!
We had to flag your posts so other users don't fall into the trap. I gave this comment a big upvote, so your account should not have lost anything from the flags it received.
Pushing this to the top of this post so others can read as well :)
Thank you very much I really appreciate your help!
I learnt my lesson I think... Hope others will learn from my mistake too. :-)
Voted on you as a witness! :-)
Thank you for your support!
They're not worth your hate.
You are right :-)
These scamming attempts work because they make it look like the original site and only a moment of paying less attention is enough to get the nightmare started. :/ Thankfully you got everything fixed. If these phishing douches will do the same here they do everywhere else, then the next steps will be photoshopped positive comments glorifying the article and fake emails. "Enroll in the monthly Steem giveaway! Win up to 1000 Steem!" OR! Using someone's name+picture for an article to deceive their followers. Slightly changing the name, sometimes it's really difficult to see the difference.
Check this: ksoIymosi with a capitalized "i" as the 4th letter. and then the original, ksolymosi.
ksoIymosi vs ksolymosi.
OMG, that is almost impossible to notice...
I hope you won't be right, but I am afraid that these bastards won't stop here...
Capitalization doesn't work for names though.
Wow! That’s crazy!
my reputation is just a bit higher then yours but my upvote should not give much in the way of money but might give you just the little rep bump...
and you are right, it is sad that people use their creative energy for stuff like this...
You are very kind, thanks a lot!
The burnt hand teaches best... sadly. Glad to hear you are more wary now.
You are right! Thanks!
Good for you in your persistence and efforts. Good for us that you posted your work about getting back to the fold. Inspirational thank you. Good things can happen in very odd ways
Thanks a lot!
Changing passwords is something most people put on their need to do list ASAP, and before long, they’ve started perusing articles and it never gets done.
Others are wise and disciplined and change their passwords frequently.
I am 99.9% sure I ‘fell’ for one of these scams in the past week or so.
I’m probably just over paranoid after learning about this; but, without logging out, I got a requirement to log in on attempting to read a post.
In my ‘haste’ to read the article, I re-logged in.
Now, of course, this is probably my imagination. And wisdom, said then, and roars even louder now,
Change Password.
Thanks for being the patient example to the benefit of the rest of the community.
Peace.
Thanks for your support!
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