Spreading Awareness: Hacker Tactics On Steemit & How To Avoid Being A Victim
Hello dear Steemians!
After my first account was hacked more than a week ago I decided to make this post so more Steemians specially the newbies will be more aware & not to be the next victim of these bandits!
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PHISHING LINK
Most of the hack reports I've read started with a link that you shouldn't click because it will lead you to a deceiving third party site that looks almost the same to Steemit.
Look at this animal, spamming other new prospect victims using my account, acting like as if he/she's the anti-plagiarism bot @cheetah. Right @cheetah?😉
Another example.
A steemit user leave his user name which you think is a normal spam, and then if you click the user name it will leads to the user's profile, BUT! and again, in a deceiving website that LOOKS ALMOST THE SAME to Steemit.
Note: @purpleandgold user is not the hacker. Source here.
PHISHING WEBSITES
Here are some of the phishing or fake websites Hidden on those links.
As you can see, the fake name site that I've boxed in red is "Sleemit" and not Steemit. Pretty close huh!👇
Another one is "Steemil"
Just like the other one, the letter "t" is replace with "l". 👇
and "Steemit.com" where you might think that the white dot under the letter S is just somekind of a white tiny dirt on your phone or laptop screen but take a closer look again! On the left side, it says is a very clear word: "not secure". 👇
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HOW TO AVOID BEING A VICTIM
Like I wrote on my re-introduce post, lesson learned:
Be more "Attention to detail" and Think not just twice but thrice before clicking unfamiliar or malicious link/sites! Better be safe than sorry.
ONLY use POSTING key to post and comment to prevent the hackers to steal your account.
And the most important thing,
Always Keep your ACTIVE and OWNER keys safe at all time and consider it your bank account password.
Helpful Steemians Where You Can Report This Matter:
@guiltyparties or @steemitcleaners
Contact on discord
Hope you find my first post worth reading!
Have a JOYful day Steemian!
This is such a good post to have everybody aware :) RESTEEMED this
I actually had an experience of someone commenting on my post as if i used a picture which is not mine but was totally mine. Good thing minnowsupporter resteemed this and i saw this ... UPVOTED
Yah, they can be deceiving sometimes. Next time if you find a malicious one better report to steemcleaners & they will investigate it.
Thanks!
So bad to see how your account was hacked @joyrobinson and that's why your post is so valuable.
This is a time where our dear community and platform has been targeted in order to get easy become by hacking us.
Thank you @minnowsupporter for bringing this post to us and of course, resteemed for all my followers to read and be aware of scamming people!
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