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RE: A Terrific Tree Tuesday!
Well this is just like your real life community. There are many fine folk and a few bad apples. Some seem to find it a game to try to trick people to enter their passwords in and steal their funds. So be vary cautious. Take some time to learn the difference between your posting key and your active key. A good practice is to only use the posting key for normal posting. That way even if you are tricked, they cannot move your funds.
It is a wonderful community and can be very addictive in a good way :)
Is there any reason I should ever give anyone any of my passwords? I don't get why I would do that? Is there something I'm missing or haven't come across that's a normal part of Steemit where I would give someone even my posting key? Thank you so much though for the words of caution. Just please help me understand better.
No never, but they have links that take you to a page like "stemit" (spelled wrong but made to look close) and ask for your login and steal your money.
Here is a post about it.
https://steemit.com/scam/@denmarkguy/scam-warning-watch-out-for-comments-by-steem-reporter-phishing-alert
Wow. That's definitely some good information. The links people go to just to take advantage of another person. It's not surprising I guess, I just don't get it. But I do truly appreciate you looking out for me brother.