SCAM ALERT - Fake Steemit website try to steal your password!
7 years ago in #steemit by arcange (73)
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The scammers are getting craftier by the day. If these guys put as much effort into legitimate enterprises as the do towards scams, they would probably be much better off financially.
This a very profound and nasty scam.
If the scammers posts a blog here on Steemit, then users could unknowingly be redirected to the scam website. If the blog where to contain the maleficent URL.
Especially when the Steemit website has sometimes connection issues, so it's not a strange thing to have to log in again.
If you're already Logged in and and a Link asks you to RE-Log in, that's a Heads up !
Yes, it becomes a good time to open a new window; clear your history; and for sake of peace, log in only after requested to, in the new window.
I hope that makes sense!
Peace.
Problem is they don't necessarily care.
True, but scams take effort and time to setup. I guess they don't care about wasting their time.
You could say the same about banksters and advertising companies.
tnx
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we will see more of this kind of behaviour so we need to be careful
Thanks for the warning. Looks like they put a lot of time in to this one.
oh dear I'd better resteem this tomorrow
thank you for the info!
I'd say avoid using your active key and use the posting key always unless your trading :)))
thank you for the heads-up on this one
I tend to read fast, skipping over things, and I never would have noticed the 'cheetOh' versus the 'cheetAh' name
Dang it... I should have checked the link.
That costs the faker the knowledge and about half an hour.
A SSl certificate does not tell you you are on the right website, just that you are on the website the certificate is for.
Thank you for your effort in putting a stop to this and bringing awareness! Upvoted and followed!