SCAM ALERT!! Twitter account @certianassets masquerding as Ned Scott (@certainassets)

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Twitter Account @certianassets Giving Half-off Steem for Survey SCAM

I was followed by who I thought was Ned Scott, on Twitter, so I immediately followed back thinking "I could've sworn I was already following him." The twitter account @certianassets then private messaged me asking if I wanted to take a survey for a half-off deal on steem and I obliged saying:

"Probably won't be trading any more of my bitcoins for Steem, at least for now, but I will take the survey to help out the platform."

The survey was super quick and easy only asking about 10 questions, most of them being Yes/No. After, finishing the survey I found it suspicious that "Ned" was now asking me if I will be redeeming the half-off on steem deal. People usually don't coerce you to redeem a gift after you've done the survey they wanted you to do.

Detective hat is put on

I now started to look at this scammer's twitter page and it has the picture of Ned Scott but with only a few Steemit retweets. I also saw that the account was established on September, 2016. I knew for a fact that Ned's account was older than that so I searched Twitter for Ned Scott's real account and saw that I was indeed following him already and that it's been up since 2015. I alerted Ned of the scam via twitter hopefully exposing this scammer before he deceives any Steemians/Bitcoiners.

Here is my tweet to the real Ned Scott: https://twitter.com/SaltMashPotatoe/status/772493100543598596

Moral of the story

Be careful out there Steemians/Bitcoiners! People want your precious bitcoins!!!!!

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Can we make a page for the steemit domain where you can verify and sign messages signed with say the memo key?

SaltMashPotatoe SaltyMashedPotatoes tweeted @ 04 Sep 2016 - 17:54 UTC

@certainassets Just a heads up. This guy (@certianassets) is masquerading as you giving surveys for half-off steem https://t.co/ZNs0p61PQR

Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.

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