I have just received the following message in my wallet:
NOTICE! We have detected unusual or unauthorized activity in your account. Your account may have been hacked or otherwise compromised. As a precautionary measure we have secured your funds. We have frozen all funds in your account for your protection. There has been a breach of Steemit Security and several accounts have been blocked. No further transactions will be permitted in this account pending further investigation. Your funds are safe and secure and will be held in our trust account for 30 days pending return of these funds to you. In the event of any loss your account balances are guaranteed and secured by Steemit. We will notify you when we have completed our investigation. Please provide us with your email address and contact us regarding verification of your account. You will be required to provide certified copies of Government Identification Documents for account verification when claiming the return of your funds. Our email address is: secureteam616@REDACTED Thank you for your patience. Please contact Account Security at: http://REDACTED
THIS IS CLEARLY A PHISHING ATTEMPT IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK NEVER ENTER YOUR STEEMIT PASSWORD ANYWHERE OTHER THAN STEEMIT. ONLY USE YOUR POSTING KEY FOR 3RD PARTY APPS
Rule Number One - Keep your password safe and do not lose!
Rule Number Two- Keep your password safe and do not lose!
Rule Number Three- ONLY USE YOUR ACTIVE KEY OR MAIN PASSWORD ON STEEMIT AND NOWHERE ELSE!
This blog has been declared an NBZ (No Bullshit Zone)
Stay safe, and keep Steemin!
Please resteem, let's look after each other's backs, together we can beat the scammers.
Steem on!
This happened to me ! I did a post about this scam as well 3 hours ago !! The more people know abut the better !! Heres my link :
https://steemit.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/steemit-scam-alert-from-accounttransfers
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Cool, thanks Karen, I missed that...
Cg
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Awesome im just glad more people will find out about it hopefully before they fall prey to this nonsense !! 👍✌💕
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Thanks for the info!
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It is genuinely looking a 'phishing attack'. People need to know about these kinds of attacks specially minnows don't have enough information apart from posting articles, so mostly they could be mugged by these attempts.
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Exactly, those of us that have been here for a while understand, however it would be a real shame if as soon as a minnow makes some nice money they are hacked because of this crude phishing attempt.
Cg
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Thank you
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Welcome!
Cg
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Great post man! Thanks for informations
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No problem, stay safe!
Cg
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Upvoted & RESTEEMED!
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Thank you; stay safe!
Cg
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Yup, I'm .001 richer
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Lolz, good for something I guess :-)
Cg
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😎 Hah
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common they can do better that this!
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Exactly, although sometimes you may be tired or just not on the ball, and before you know it, you've been phished.
Stay safe :-)
Cg
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Yes, even if the email looks real the security team don’t need your personal info, they already know it.
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Not even the security team know your personal details, which is why it is so important to NEVER lose your password.
Cg
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Correct I was thinking about the general case with bank account not about steemit. My mistake.
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Thanks for the warning @cryptogee shared since some might not be aware of scammers.
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Thank you Joan, it is best we snuff out these scams as quickly as they pop up!
Cg
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Great awareness! Thanks for warning us, @
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Thank you for the warning!
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Resteemed as the more people that see it the better. There are quite a few less tech savvy people here and such a shame when they are unwittingly caught by this pond scum.
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For security's sake, please edit out the link? There's no reason to spread it.
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Good point; will do
Cg
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@jondoe user already alerted about this same phishing attempt.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jondoe/is-this-message-a-scam#@jondoe/re-megusta-re-jondoe-is-this-message-a-scam-20171005t135947867z
Thanks for sharing @cryptogee
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Thank you so much for the important information. I will share this with my team.
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You're most welcome, together we're strong!
#beatthescammers
Cg
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Together - we are force))))
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