Attentive discernment. This one has been identified as a phishing scheme by other users over the past couple of days. A few tell-tale signs exist but this may not "click" in your mind if you haven't encountered many of these oddities in the past. Last night Steemit crashed, or was overloaded. Once I connected, a user had posted that a service outside of steemit was being integrated (service not identified). The service crashed causing steemit to crash accd. to the post which explained that this information was sourced from a Discord channel. About 50 min. ago, @barrydutton posted that "The network was being spammed heavily with 70k transactions/second when I was last updated today by a Top 20 witness". I'm sure that we'll find more related posts . Here's a thought: Perceived authority slips through the gates of discernment quite easily. If it looks like, sounds like or "feels" like you have encountered an official authority figure, a person will not feel especially comfortable questioning legitimacy. Intentional deception may be subtle, but often it is quite bold and unexpected, thus disorienting so it's easy to overlook questionable details and hand over the keys to your actions when your fears and emotional "hot spots"are targeted.