Public Service Announcement (PSA) - FAKE SITE: STEEMIL - PHISHING ATTACK ! ! ! BEWARE ! ! !

in phishing •  7 years ago  (edited)

Public Service Announcement (PSA) - FAKE SITE: STEEMIL - PHISHING ATTACK ! ! ! BEWARE ! ! !

I have recieved the same type of phishing attack from 3 different accounts in the last 24 hours.

The Phishing Attack is a FAKE MESSAGE FROM GRUMPYCAT

The message looks to be from GrumpyCat, but it is not and you have not been flagged.
Do not click on the links - they go to a fake steem site and want you to enter keys.
There is a fake site / copy of steemit and it is steemil. That's an "L" not "T" at the end. Do not put your keys in that fake site.

PSA_Phishing20180307_I0.jpg

The Phishing Attack is a FAKE MESSAGE FROM GRUMPYCAT

This attack is focused on the emotion folks have against GrumpyCat, by being a fake message from GrumpyCat.
So, when someone reads the flag message, it appears with the same image and text from GrumpyCat.

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS

The Attack is coming from MANY COMPROMISED ACCOUNTS

I recieved the phishing attack from three different accounts: sek3, kilbride, mrs-yammy.
These accounts have been hacked / stolen and used in the phishing attacks. There are more.

Here is an image of the Phishing Attack from the FAKE GRUMPYCAT.
PSA_Phishing20180307_I1.jpg

ANOTHER FAKE MESSAGE / PHISHING ATTACK

PSA_Phishing20180307_I2.jpg

ANOTHER FAKE MESSAGE / PHISHING ATTACK

PSA_Phishing20180307_I4.jpg

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINKS

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Thank you for the heads up. I don’t follow any of the comment requests to pay for this or follow that...great post my friend👍🏼🍺🥓

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Thanks, I didn't want anybody to fall for this.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Yeah, I was already wondering why I had a steemil.com tab open, now I know where it came from. Noticed it straight away though, due to the fact that I wasn't logged in anymore.

I'm glad that you did not login / give your keys to the fake site.

Yeah, that's the benefit of using a secure password manager and seeing that the login didn't get autocompleted :)

Very good information and thanks for sharing.
Ok buddy

Thank you very much for the info. I have been receiving offers from several accounts: I send them .5 or 1 SBD and they will flood my articles with upvotes. Is this true ? Is it an ethical procedure ? Is it approved by steemit ?

Thank you so much @goldkey for sharing and altering all of us.

information is so good.thank you.

Thanks for sharing this information. One member of our #newbieresteemday had her account compromised yesterday from the phishing scam. I resteemed to help spread awareness to our newbie communities.

I hope nobody else falls for it. Thanks for the resteem

Me too. Shame that they brought phishing on to this platform but Steemit is a reflection of the real world. So no surprise there. np on RS. My thoughts, why re-write when someone expressed it perfectly already? 😉

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