Lesson 5 About Potential Theft: Avoid Clicking on Spam or Similar Links.

Technological developments continue to grow unstoppably, this is an important illustration of the development of human civilization from time to time, many conveniences can be obtained from the positive side of technological developments, humans can be more effective in carrying out their duties and functions, thus impacting on improving their economy due to time efficiency and cost.

I remember the condition of my country in 2001, where the people in the neighbourhood where they lived worked as farmers only using human labour in farming, for example, rice farmers, started hoeing the land manually, cutting rice involving human labour, imagine how much it costs and time needed. Certainly very large compared to the current technology that has been adopted.

Furthermore, computerization is still rare, when I was still a semester 1 student at the Faculty of Health, with many assignments to complete, I had to visit many libraries to find references and then typed using a typewriter. Currently, computerized and information technology has integrated into every community's life, everything is more practical and everything can be done very easily.

Steemit as a product of technological developments that adheres to a decentralized system with blockchain technology has provided space for every user to be creative actively, they get rewards from every content written, and content creators will get Steem, Steem Power and even TRX as long as Steem and Tron are integrated.

As content creators, steemit should not be used as a platform to profit from content alone, but it is hoped that users will continue to be involved in maintaining the stability of steem and the steem ecosystem on the exchange, Power Up and looking for investors are important foundations to continue to implement for the sustainability of steem with value promising.

At present the negative impact of technological developments is actually used brutally by asset thieves, they make various efforts to deceive users. You may be no stranger to Ponzi schemes, users are expected to invest a number of assets by offering very lucrative profit sharing. NewAge Bank is one of the fraudulent investments that have reaped a lot of benefits from its users.
Initially, investors will be given benefits according to the promised tang, but when investors double their investment, they close access to withdrawals and even delete the site.

For this reason, be careful in choosing investment media, get to know the website's reputation well and study the site map so that users don't get caught up in their scenario.

^{Spam: View from steemworld.org}

When you have tried to become an active user and choose to invest steem into steem power, there is a new mode that can hack your account. Today I have found many accounts that offer large amounts of prizes, perpetrators insert certain links into the comments column, it is really regrettable if a platform user tries to access these links.

In principle, the hacker link is deliberately raised so that the target is affected by the value of the prize that is obtained, what happens is not get the prize as intended, instead, it copies all activity history in the browser.

I'm sure many users want instant, non-refilling private posting keys or Private Active Keys to make transactions such as transfers, power-ups or internal market trading

Passwords stored in the browser will be easily used by hackers and empty all existing assets, even in some cases, hackers recover a new copy of the pdf. This happens due to our negligence as users.

What to do?

To anticipate unwanted events, please ensure the following important points:

1. Don't save the Active Private Key in the internet browser, use the password as needed, and ignore it if the system asks for your approval to save it on Google.
2. Save the PDF Copy in a safe place.
3. Avoid opening websites that provide software or applications that have been activated by third parties, downloading this software will pose a risk to the security of your computer or mobile device.
4. Use legal software or applications
5. Do not press any links either on the steemit platform homepage, or other webs if you are not familiar with them.
6. Create Double Security by adding authentication.
7. Be a wise user, think logically and carefully.
8. Change Password periodically

Device and account security is in your hands, all you need to do is stay alert, it's self-awareness that will save you from account thieves' attacks

Thus I wrote this short article as a reference for me and other users in general, reminding each other is an important element to anticipate all aspects that are detrimental.

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