😨⚠⚠ 😨WARNING FRIENDS 😨⚠⚠😨
PLEASE READ THIS TO PROTECT YOUR ACCOUNT MY FRIENDS!!!
Please be aware my good friends, that like in the real world, there are also a few bad apples in our great Community here at Steemit.
One such group of people are doing something called "phishing."
I'm going to keep this real simple for all our friends who are new in the community. I do not want to overwhelm them.
Definition courtesy of dictionary.com
SIMPLY PUT...PHISHING MEANS SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO GIVING YOUR INFORMATION TO THEM SO THEY CAN HURT YOU IN SOME WAY
This is an example of what an attempt may look like courtesy of @simplymike
Below are some tips to help you prevent being taken advantage of.
- Do not use your master password or owner or private keys to log into any sites. *INCLUDING YOUR STEEMIT ACCOUNT!
- Do not click on links in your comments or in your wallet unless you 100% trust that person. *They can lead to phishing links that can harm/steal or account or infect your computer.
- Never give your credentials (passwords, keys, or account information) to third party(external) websites unless you are 100% sure you can trust them.
IF YOU SUSPECT ANYTHING OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR FURTHER CONCERNS MY DEAR FRIENDS CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY AND WE WILL GET YOU ANY ASSISTANCE WE CAN.
Feel free to resteem this to raise awareness! This is an attempt to protect our community!
Special thanks to @simplymike, she made me aware of this threat to yous, my friends, and our whole community.
Below is a link to her place where you can find even more information.
https://steemit.com/contest/@simplymike/20sbd-contest-protect-people-from-the-ongoing-phishing-scam
Thank you my dear friend, very informative post.
Yes sir. I hope it helps. If it saves one person's account it's worth it. It's just hard to believe that there's people out there that are that scandalous. If you have any questions just let me know. Sending you all of my love until we meet again.
2018 even worse
That's a lot of people. I can't imagine spending my life trying to take advantage of people. I just don't get it. But thanks for stopping by brother. I hope you have an awesome day.
working on resteem adding new features, and trying new algorithm that checks if users are spam,bot, or human and then it calculates and gives your rating on resteem quality and how profitable to use it
Well that sounds like a really great idea. I hope you get that one figured out quickly. You have my support brother.
Thanks @johndoer123, for spreading the word!!
Thank you, being new to all this stuff online, I was unaware that there was such an issue. Now I am aware and I can help protect people. So thank you so much.
I need to thank you for helping me to get the word out! :0)
Thanks for the warning!
You are welcome dear friend. If you have any other questions concerning this or your account or anything to do with steemit please let me know. And we'll get you an answer.
Maybe you have a clue how to bypass the whims of D. Tube?)) Neither I nor my brother can download the video. An "Unknown error" comes out. Tags are only in lowercase, short, in English. One time there was a problem, but periodically, and now any video refuses to publish.
It has been a minute since I published anything on YouTube. But I am really sure unless something's changed that your tags need to look like this.
photography, dogs, cats, kids
All lower case
Either 4 or 5 tags maximum (I think it's 5 but I'm not sure)
And as it is above it has to be "your tag and the a comma and then a space. Then your next tag then a comma tnen a space.(I know I had problems remembering to do it this way and I got errors too.)
comma after the tag? it will be read, as a tag?
I always had to use commas. I will try getting you help today.
No, there tags are prescribed, as when posting a post in busy.org
Is the video you're trying to upload bigger than 20 MB? I look at your bandwidth allocation and it set at 20 MB. I don't know if that could be causing the problem or not.
Thank you! Of course! My files are much larger. I'm still poorly versed in these figures. Questions asked, the post wrote with a question, but received no answer. Thanks again! What does the bandwidth depend on, what is necessary for its growth? I used to download files a lot more than 20 Mb
Okay. Then this is probably not the problem. I am just trying to troubleshoot. The bandwidth is based on your reputation and it gets bigger as you are here longer. I will try to find more information for you. Can you send a screenshot or the error you are receiving?
We really have to check, double check and triple check and check again the links that we are clicking. I cannot be helped though that you will be engrossed in steeming that you will forget about that.
Isn't that the truth. Of course I have been hurt more than a few times by my own family and some pretty severe ways. So I'm always leery of going new places on the internet anyway. And I also know that when something sounds too good to be true... Well it normally is. When somebody offers you something for nothing you should always proceed with caution. After learning that this was going on, which I just did, my first thought was,"How horrible would it be if one of my friends became a victim and I hadn't done anything to make them aware?"how guilty would I feel? It would have bothered me so bad.
That too. Good thing you have come across this warning as early as now. Whatever we do online we should be careful. We should be made aware of these things and be on guard and thus do something about keeping our accounts safe. Sometimes the only action we are in control are our own. We may have informed our friends but then human nature as it is there will always be those who will fail because of reasons we may not know.
Very wise my friend...very wise.
Thanks for alerting Steemians and spreading the word.
If we are to police ourselves as a community, then we need to police ourselves as a community. That means we have to protect people who may not know that there are dangers out there and educate them about those dangers. Since I'm here for the new guys I feel as part of my job to make them aware. Thank you for the comment I hope you have a great day.
Already I have been victim.😢☺
Bittrex has removed verification system recently. So this type of activities are done.
Were you able to save your account? I hope they didn't get any of your money. How long ago did this happen? I'm sorry to hear that it happened to you. This is why I say we have to spread the word. I hope that you have a great day.
Now I am some better now.
My officemate just got scammed and lost all his sbd good that he only have few but still its his hard earned money.
Yeah it seems like anybody who's been around for a minute has either had it happen to them or know somebody who has had it happen. I know that there may be other people that you should do things about it or maybe people who would be able to do more. But I feel like I need to do my part. Especially for the new guys who may be like me and know nothing about it. Hope you had a great day brother. Sending you my love.