Scammer Alert!!!!
This message was in my wallet a few hours ago. I see s/he is still spamming the same message to more accounts. Please be very cautious and alert!
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accounttransfers transfer 0.001 SBD to onceuponatime
"NOTICE! We have detected unusual or unauthorized activity in your account. Your account may have been hacked or otherwise compromised. As a precautionary measure we have secured your funds. We have frozen all funds in your account for your protection. There has been a breach of Steemit Security and several accounts have been blocked. No further transactions will be permitted in this account pending further investigation. Your funds are safe and secure and will be held in our trust account for 30 days pending return of these funds to you. In the event of any loss your account balances are guaranteed and secured by Steemit. We will notify you when we have completed our investigation. Please provide us with your email address and contact us regarding verification of your account. You will be required to provide certified copies of Government Identification Documents for account verification when claiming the return of your funds. Our email address is: secureteam616@gmail.com. Thank you for your patience. Please contact Account Security at:
htp://lsteemit.com/account-security-breach"
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You really should censor that link or at least make it unclickable by removing the http.
I clicked the link myself to see what it did. The warning stands out enough I think.
Masquerading as "Bittrex" even, I see. Rep is already down to -2 so stuff will be hidden... I just hope some innocent doesn't get taken in by this, anyway.
Thanks for the heads-up; resteemed.
Edited to add: At least they had the stupidity to spam the Steemit "richlist." Going down their wallet list reads like a "who's who" of senior Steemians.
Yes, the first thing I did was go and flag with full power his posts to get his reputation down as much as possible.
You are a Guardian Angel @onceupontime.Keep watching and protecting!
Good work!
Hadn't seen this approach before... we should probably keep a vigilant eye out for copycats. Sad... but true.
Thanks for informing the community. I reported him for fraud. He will most likely be in a blacklist soon.
Well done!!
Thanks for warning
Thanks for this! Even as s newbie it's comforting knowing there are people out there working together to beat them!
Thanks for the warnings.
Like a phisherman trying to hook a big one!
This scammer sent the message to over 130 accounts including many high profile Steemit users!
Congratulations @onceuponatime!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:
One drawback of being an agnostic is that I have no evidence to support the belief that there is an especially nasty part of hell reserved for scammers.
Doesn't that fuel a belief that preventing, stopping and punishing scammers is a job for us in the here and now?
Also, Newtonian thinking suggests that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thermodynamics is a B*%@h, baby!
Thanks for the alert. I'm wary of giving out any info on social media.
Thats great that more and more are is getting attention to this. Those people should not be here
https://steemit.com/steemit/@xoni/beware-warning-for-some-frauders-here-on-steemit
Thanx for bringing this into light. We all really need this type of stealers to be flagged and shut down. You did a great job buddy.
haha, great meme
Hopefully people are smart enough to see the big 'ol red flag when they get to the GMAIL account..LOL 😆 seems legit
Hopefully, someone sent a lovely virus masked as the file that f*cker asked. ^^
Haha well that would be 'a taste of their own shit' wouldn't it?
It would be and I think it would work. :P Based on that message, this little hacker doesn't seem to be so bright.
That's what I thought as well. Gmail addresses with sketchy names are a big red flag. Another big red flag would be that they send you documents containing personal information for verification. Normally this would be the other way around. The outsider proving to be the identified account.