This post describes a SCAM attack on Steemit.
On this opportunity I would like to share this post to warn you about some fake users on Steemit who intend to steal your password. I would like to clarify that this attack is perpetrated by a malicious user not the Steemit platform. This type of attack is very common on the Internet, however on Steemit it takes a special relevance because if the attacker takes control of your account, then you could lose all your funds. Remember the most important rule on Steemit: "Do not lose your password!”. It is not possible to recover your account if someone else steals your private information.
The attack works as follows:
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1.-The attacker publishes an attractive title on Steemit. Within the article it adds a link to an external web page. On the first image, the attacker incites the visitor to consult a link to read the full article.
2.-In this fake web page, the attacker tries to deceive the visitor by making him believe that this is a Web site that belongs to Steemit. As you can see in the image, the link of the site has a similar -but malicious- URL address: steemiit.00webhostapp.com. This web site is a fake, DO NOT TRUST THIS WEB PAGE! In the image you can also see that the site runs from a host server called: webhostapp.
3.-The third part of the attack consists on to make the visitor believe that its password is required to re-enter the system and read the article. Important: For no reason disclose your password on this site. Remember, the only valid domain is https://steemit.com
Fake profile picture:
Blockchain-based systems as Steemit are completely safe from the technological perspective. This does not prevent some people from wanting to take advantage of users who have limited technical knowledge or reveal their data by distraction.
I hope you can share this information and prevent other Steemit users from falling into this type of traps. Steemit is an extraordinary platform and it is up to all of us to detect and denounce users who misuse it.
Best regards!
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Nice catch
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Thank you a lot for warning us all @gcervera.
I will resteem this so more people get to know about this scam.
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Thank you! I'm following you now! Best regards!
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Nice find. Thanks. Resteeming too.
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I'm pretty sure I read a post a few days about about this user sending people private messages, and they were also on steemit.chat too.
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People need to read this... I would just resteem to make it reach more people
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Thank you @ttopswag, we all need to be aware.
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Thanks for the heads up!
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the post of ethereum is a scam it ask for the key of stemmit. Be carefull
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He has other similar posts, be careful!
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thank you for all these valuable informations;what reassures me is that I follow you on steemit .
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Thank you! I'm following you as well. Cheers!
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Thanks for warning us @gcervera.
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You welcome! I'm following you now!
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Wow thank you.
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Upvoted and resteemed. Good job and thank you for keeping your eyes open. God bless.
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Thank you for the important heads up. I would have easily fallen into that trap. I will be very careful and observant from now on :)
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Thanks a lot @gcervera, for informing in detail about security of account.
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Thank you very much sir!!!
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Thank you, this is some serious resteem material.
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Thank you for the post @gcervera.
It is important to warn others about what we uncover in terms of scams.
People should all be using their posting password and not their main key. At least they can recover their account by going this route.
I gave this a resteem because it is so important.
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Thank you! I totally agree with you. I follow you now, cheers!
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PLEASE READ THIS.
I am the victim of that. I just retrieved my account . This is account mention above. Here is my post regarding that. I am new here so I don't know that is Phishing website. My reputation gone down due to the number of flagged post. All of the post has been edited now. Now I am more careful on putting any information and now secured. Special thanks to @patrice, @cheetah and the steemit-abuse community. Thank you. Have a nice day!
Regarding this,
I changed my picture and username because that is my old username and display picture prior to the stealing of the account. So that's me already. But the "New Trap" is now edited and cleaned. If you can check my profile now, I there is no scam post anymore, Thank you :)
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Is there a way to get rid of people like that?
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Not sure. I guess we can only check the flag on to affect his reputation.
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Best regards!
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Post resteemed and upvoted. Nice post.
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