Alert! Very very sneaky phishing scam luring the charitable and the proud.!
The user @gtg.witnesses is a spoof scammer who tried to lure me into a phishing scam.
He gets to the ego part of the brain by posting on a thread that your work is plagiarized but the link he provides brings up a totally unrelated story, in steemit. Weird right? Oh then I am logged out for some reason. So it asks me to login again.
I looked up at the url in the browser and his link brought me to “steemil.com”. Which is an illegal spoof/ copy of steemit!!
Dangerous!
The worst part is he posted this on a heartfelt project of mine, one that has to do with helping others. This bozo is ruining it.
Check it out
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A proverb in my local language says "When smart guys die smart guys bury them." I wonder why some people wont try to work hard to earn a name. Glad you caught him at it @lorilikes.
I posted a summary version:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@freedomshift/steemit-security-keys-and-scam-alert-how-to-be-safe-from-scammers-condensed-summary-version
dang I would have clicked on that. Thanks for the warning.
Hey Lori, there are too many of these scams on steemit right now. I learnt something yesterday which is to use our posting key to login on steemit and not to use our master password. I never thought about it before but we don't really need to use that master password on a daily basis and our account is safer! I am attaching a link to @simplymike post about being hacked that I think will be good for all users to read. If you don't want to click the link because this post is about clicking dodgy links you can just go to his blog and read it there.
https://steemit.com/mapsters/@simplymike/the-most-important-thing-i-ve-learned-from-getting-hacked
Thank you Lucy this is very helpful. 🎀
That's weird, We should all start flagging this user @gtg.witnesses. As this user causing the problems on Steemit.
If the reputation of that user will go below 10 then I don't think that anyone will pay attention to the comment he (that user) will post.
So I suggest all of you to please visit the blog of that user & flag his/her comments specialy whales please! So that other users will not get into a problem.
And thanks @lorilikes for updating us!
Good catch. My feed is full of people falling (or not falling) for these fake sites. It seems to have taken off in the last week.
A good rule of thumb is only login to the site if you directly type into the URL and be very suspicious if you are "logged off suddenly"
yes! Perfect.
I had a similar thing posted on one of my posts today. It said I plagiarized as well. Nope, my stuff is all original or sourced. Glad you caught it and didn't give the account away!
They play into the psychological soft spots in all of us. Of course someone writing good content will defend their originality, so it’s almost an easy hook, line and sinker. But not me!! Not my smart friends! Tell the scammers to take a hike. Right? 🎀
I tried posting a response, but Busy lost it.
I was upset about it too. I saw that link and I really wanted to click it, but I decided that wouldn't be a good idea.
wow.. thanks for sharing this it is really a great help of yours to aware us about that.
Resteemed so other people on steemit can also know about that.
that's Weird, The worst part is he posted this on a heartfelt project of your,
Thanks for your call i hope people don't fall in traps like that. Regards