Be careful - New scam for phishing website uses fake comments with images

mantishands (58) · 6 years ago

Thanks for the warning! This is one of the most helpful posts I've read in awhile. These scams are very frustrating and I've learned that it's best to never click a link regardless of who it's from, even your friends. I'm really hoping that a DM function is incorporated into Steemit, to help mitigate this problem. If one already exists, please let me know.

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5 votes

arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Thank you for your support and for your witness vote @mantishands, really appreciated!

The only way you can "DM someone" is to write a comment under one of his/her posts or do a micro-transfer with your message in the memo.

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mantishands (58) · 6 years ago

You're very welcome @arcange. I've seen the micro transfers and some personlized messages that way. But I don't really see myself wanting to advertise my personal communications with another user for all to see. I understand that the blockchain is designed that way, but some of my words and ideas are for me and my friends only. Maybe someone who's smarter than me will build an app on top of Steemit that will provide a solution...

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

You may encrypt the memo content using your memo key. Then only the sender and the recipient will be able to read it. But that's not really an easy way to share messages with a group of friends.

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ourfreesociety (47) · 6 years ago

Yeh, that's one thing I do NOT like about Steemit.

Not user friendly at all, & yes you could move over to Discord, but not everyone uses Discord & why should we have to?

Thanks for your post btw.

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kimmysomelove42 (58) · 6 years ago

Wow, thanks for this, as I need readers and rarely use them, I might not have noticed... what a miserable state of consciousness to spend so much time scamming others....random question, can someone steal your steem without you noticing on the wallet/transaction info page?

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kawaiicrush (66) · 6 years ago

Thank you for keeping us well informed @arcange! I voted you for witness and I can't think of anyone who could do it better! =D

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Thanks for your support and your witness vote @kawaiicrush, really appreciated!

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beeyou (59) · 6 years ago

Appreciate you taking the time to share this new phishing scam with the community. Not everyone will diligently look at the site’s name and most will simply re-enter their password. The method of scamming is different but end result is the same. Will share with others so they are aware.

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4 votes

drakos (70) · 6 years ago

These scammers are getting pretty sophisticated.

indigoocean (67) · 6 years ago

That's exactly what I was thinking! Though I would never enter my credentials unless I was already trying to log into a site I intentionally navigated to, the rest of the scam would probably catch me without this warning. I saw a comment like this on my most recent article and actually did think it was from exyle.

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crowbarmama (60) · 6 years ago

I don't resteem often, but this needs to be shared. Thank you @arcange for all you do. I've seen your comments pop up on both my account as well as my daughter's. As a newbie, it could be easy to fall for something like this. I appreciate the work you're doing to help Steemians stay safe and protected.

arcange (73) · 6 years ago

I'm glad to read my comment was helpful. Thanks for your feedback @crowbarmama.

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headchange (51) · 6 years ago

Thanks so much for the warning. I truly appreciate that their are people spreading the word. I will resteem to help increase awareness.

arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Thank you for your support @headchange

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battleaxe (69) · 6 years ago

thank you for the heads up, pretty sure this is the same name that was doing this on a couple of my posts and we flagged cause of the link,,,thanks again for doing great work, you have my vote

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Thank you @battleaxe

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thales7 (63) · 6 years ago

You do a good work.

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gor671 (60) · 6 years ago

For three weeks in steemit has already encountered intrusive proposals to be a referral in doubtful minings. Advertising is necessary, but requires a reasonable restriction, spam is not allowed at all.

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Up to you to flag spammers to lower their reputation if they are too aggressive with their "advertising"

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funbobby51 (59) · 6 years ago

wow, that is some devious shit, thanks for the heads up and all of your hard work fighting these scamming turds.

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Thank you @funbobby51

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funbobby51 (59) · 6 years ago

it is my pleasure

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doelist (51) · 6 years ago

So many work))

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reverendrum (61) · 6 years ago

Great catch. Thanks for the warning, matey!

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toddrjohnson (54) · 6 years ago

Thanks for the warning. Upvoted and about to resteem.

Proud member of #steemitbloggers @steemitbloggers

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movingman (69) · 6 years ago

Thankyou! Gracias!

Great work - really! Saving alot of people from alot of stress :)

This scam is very intricate indeed, resteemed!

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apshamilton (64) · 6 years ago

Thanks for the warning.

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onnovocks (49) · 6 years ago

Resteem'd! Thank you!

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zerokun (52) · 6 years ago

hate this things thank for the tip !

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jerome-morales (56) · 6 years ago

Thanks for these useful and informative tips @arcange

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worwide (28) · 6 years ago

Thank you for the advice!

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tonygreene113 (59) · 6 years ago

Would you know if these fraudulent links are filtered out by using mobile apps outside if the steemit domain?

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

To be honest, it depends on which app you use.

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emekasegun (60) · 6 years ago

Nice one, weldon, would really be happy if all these fake and scam account are been, banned from usage....

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artisticscreech (62) · 6 years ago (edited)

Oh man, this is a sneeky one for sure. Thanks for the heads up I actually got a suspect looking link in my last post but that guy wasn't as smart of a scammer as whoever is doing this.

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itstime (60) · 6 years ago

Thank you for the alert , can we also report the domain somewhere ?

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juvyjabian (72) · 6 years ago

Thanks for the heads up sir.

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bifilarcoil (58) · 6 years ago

Yuck these are more nasty then i expected. Thanks for the info, some of these are hard to spot even when you are very careful. I wonder how many people have been tricked..

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brittandjosie (71) · 6 years ago

I always get scared When these sort off things happen! Thanks I have resteemed this nlog to My followers hope they follow up

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quochuy (72) · 6 years ago

They are getting more and more creative

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

I have always been impressed how creative "bad" people can be. It's just a pity they do not use their skills in a positive way.

quochuy (72) · 6 years ago

Chasing after them can teach you some interesting technical tricks sometimes. Like the way they manipulate the browser history when you land on their page so that even if you click on the Back button of the browser you are still on their website

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arcange (73) · 6 years ago

Nothing really extraordinary technically speaking. This is because there is an intermediate domain with a redirect. Two clicks "back", is you are back on the original comment on Steemit.

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quochuy (72) · 6 years ago (edited)

One of the sites I saw is pushing a lot of fake URLs in the history and even with ten clicks back you’re still on their site which will again change the history. They saturate the history by doing a pushState() in a loop at each page load.

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hlezama (67) · 6 years ago

Thanks for this amazing work.

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nieuscarin (70) · 6 years ago

Buenas noche amigo gracias con su información. Bendiciones para usted. Saludos desde Venezuela hasta luego

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teamgood (51) · 6 years ago

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balticbadger (66) · 6 years ago

That's really insane! Thanks for this much appreciated!

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smokinglems (59) · 6 years ago

Thank you very much for always giving us your undying support and advices. Steemit may have been very promising for its technology, but also very frustrating and discouraging for this kind of reasons and lack of support from other big players. We hope there will be more like you and the likes of @surpassinggoogle to make this platform a working system in the future and not a platform of politics and thugs.

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equinor (33) · 6 years ago

Exceptionally useful post. Thanks for the work you do. Resteemed.

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indigoocean (67) · 6 years ago

Thank you!

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donna-metcalfe (50) · 6 years ago

I am so sorry I missed this before I could add my vote!
I had no idea that this kind of hidden link was even possible. Thank you so much for letting us know!

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cendrinemedia (56) · 6 years ago (edited)

Thank you for this! I will be very careful!

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wrecktangle27 (58) · 6 years ago

Thanks for the heads up! This is good information that should be spread to all Steemians!

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the01crow (63) · 6 years ago

Go through the Discord channels of which I am part and report on its publication, everyone can contribute to the platform in some way;)

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philfreetotravel (59) · 6 years ago

Thanks a lot to let us know !!! I pay attention of that

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whatamidoing (69) · 6 years ago

This is the smartest scam I've seen on steemit so far. It's such a shame that this kind of talent is being used to fuck people over when the world has enoguh problems

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rahesi (66) · 6 years ago

Thanks for warning us @arcange your work is so good. Keep it up, please :D

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banditqueen (52) · 6 years ago

many thanks @arcange for the warning as no one else seemed to bother to let others know but you. very much appreciated

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