So I just finished my first foray into creating a Steemgigs post about my service and had it posted and within seconds I receive two replies within seconds. One seems like an automated response that had a canned response and adding a tag to my name thus GINABOT immediately notified me.

Looking at the comment itself there was something off already and what further threw me off was a link to a "his" blog post. Supposedly it should be going to a TimTravels - Dubai: Fasten your Seatbelts, McLaren 570S post but further inspection I saw the notification after the link that it will take you out of Steemit.com. It is that small icon there that I have encircled in red in another comment he made.

I tip my hat to whoever made that small coding to notify people that if they click on the link it will go out of Steemit.

I hovered over the link and saw that the site was going to be redirected to an almost the same URL but with a slight difference. The phishing site was going to Sleemit .com I did not bother to check if it would place me in an exact log in page of Steemit.com and I would foolish enter my posting or active key.

When I called him out on the phishing attempt he immediately edited his comment and fixed it so that it would go to the blog post of @timsaid that goes to https://steemit.com/photography/@timsaid/timtravels-dubai-fasten-your-seatbelts-mclaren-570s

Hence in the 1st picture, you no longer see the small icon notifiying the reader that it will redirect to an outside website away from Steemit.

Person even had the gall to answer "I don't think..." Too late buddy I already reported your ass to Steemcleaners.

What really pisses me off with these people is they victimize people who really need it. This week alone I heard that 3 people were hacked and their hard earned SBD and Steem shipped off to an external wallet.

This mainly targets people using their mobile device as the small icon will not be that glaring on a small screen unlike when I saw it using my large screen of my gaming rig.

Imagine that situation, you just woke up and still groggy and you open your phone to the replies and you see a long comment like that and did not see the small notification icon and you clicked on the link because you wanted to reciprocate the gesture of leaving a comment.

Then it prompts you to enter your password. You think why didn't it go to steemconnect or automatically log in. Anyway you get your active key and log in and it doesn't let you. Then you go back to your previous browser and you upvote a comment and it just keeps circling.

You refresh your browser thinking it is just the normal slow internet in the country but when it loads you are logged out. You enter your password again but is unable to log in. Then it dawns on you that you got hacked. You start to cry, you reach out for help and people tell you that your wallet has been cleared out. What is worst is your account is now being used to leave comments containing the phishing link.

Steemcleaners find your account and you get downvoted to oblivion. All the while trying to retrieve your account. 1-3 days later you get your account back with 0 reputation and 0 SBD and Steem. You cry again.

This is a scenario that I saw the past couple of days. It really makes me mad when I see this kinds of attempts. To you @digitalp you deserve a high five with a steel chair on your face! Low life!

To everyone be vigilant of your account and never click on links like this.