SCAM ALERT - Fake Steemit website try to steal your password!

techwizardry (65) · 7 years ago

The scammers are getting craftier by the day. If these guys put as much effort into legitimate enterprises as the do towards scams, they would probably be much better off financially.

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fechaugger (48) · 7 years ago

This a very profound and nasty scam.

If the scammers posts a blog here on Steemit, then users could unknowingly be redirected to the scam website. If the blog where to contain the maleficent URL.

Especially when the Steemit website has sometimes connection issues, so it's not a strange thing to have to log in again.

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woodywood143 (63) · 7 years ago (edited)

If you're already Logged in and and a Link asks you to RE-Log in, that's a Heads up !

spiritualmatters (55) · 7 years ago

Yes, it becomes a good time to open a new window; clear your history; and for sake of peace, log in only after requested to, in the new window.

I hope that makes sense!

Peace.

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the-ego-is-you (59) · 7 years ago

Problem is they don't necessarily care.

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techwizardry (65) · 7 years ago

True, but scams take effort and time to setup. I guess they don't care about wasting their time.

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lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

You could say the same about banksters and advertising companies.

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cyrus.pasargad (17) · 7 years ago

tnx

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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husamia (45) · 7 years ago

we will see more of this kind of behaviour so we need to be careful

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wix (55) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the warning. Looks like they put a lot of time in to this one.

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englishtchrivy (72) · 7 years ago

oh dear I'd better resteem this tomorrow
thank you for the info!

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applelex (57) · 7 years ago

I'd say avoid using your active key and use the posting key always unless your trading :)))

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goldendawne (69) · 7 years ago

thank you for the heads-up on this one
I tend to read fast, skipping over things, and I never would have noticed the 'cheetOh' versus the 'cheetAh' name

patrice (65) · 7 years ago

Dang it... I should have checked the link.

lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

Notice the target website is not secured with an SSL certificate

That costs the faker the knowledge and about half an hour.

A SSl certificate does not tell you you are on the right website, just that you are on the website the certificate is for.

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bitopia (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thank you for your effort in putting a stop to this and bringing awareness! Upvoted and followed!

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dwarrilow2002 (65) · 7 years ago

Could I suggest to the steemit people and the busy people to add a menu options "Scam" alert that could allow us to quickly pick up on news to be aware of!!!

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bluerocktalk (68) · 7 years ago

Great idea!
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sobiakanwal (58) · 7 years ago

Oh my GOD it's really dangerous,
Thanks dear @arcange
For this helpful information

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karensuestudios (71) · 7 years ago

Yes I was suspicious when they asked me to enter my password! Luckily I didn't fall for it! Thanks for the warning post.

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bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

Upvoted, for the warning and the help you are providing to the users. Resteemed because I want the people that follow me to be aware of the scam. I knew those Cheetohs were bad for you.

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arcange (73) · 7 years ago

Thank you for your suppport!

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ashikbiswas01 (58) · 7 years ago

Wow nice alert

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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stokjockey (70) · 7 years ago

@arcange Everyone must be vigilant at all times and I thank you for being on top of these SCAMMERS..............

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fechaugger (48) · 7 years ago

When using the Steem blockchain, you should only use websites that use encrypted traffic ( with image like this).

Because without this security measure, your keys could be leaked by WIFI sniffing.

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hannaju (58) · 7 years ago

Thanks, useful information!

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doelist (51) · 7 years ago

@cheetoh doesn't like this post. ))

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arcange (73) · 7 years ago

Sure it won't xD

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woodywood143 (63) · 7 years ago

I caught this and made a post about it yesterday, But you have a bigger audience and I'm glad you posted this. Thanks for getting the word out Arcange !!

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gkumar (47) · 7 years ago

fantastic , you are the one- who destroyed the bad plans of stealers.
and create awareness among people through steemit.com
:)
upvoted and resteem

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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everythingiscool (25) · 7 years ago

Now I know what to look out for

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godfatherofsalsa (45) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the warning.I have seen that scam post today. UPVOTED YOU...PLEASE UPVOTE ME

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sweet.colours (61) · 7 years ago

Wawooo its great great 😱information
Some one use fake steemit. Last litter chane like(steemif)
If any body cant see carefully he loss account.
Great job
👏 clap 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

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sweet.colours (61) · 7 years ago

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

thanks for this post.

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h2kgraphy (53) · 7 years ago

Gracias por esta información tan importante, hay que estar pendiente de como son los ataques para saber evitarlos y dar alerta.

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basicstoliving (58) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the heads up!

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cikxaijen (59) · 7 years ago

Ohhhh great! Now we have a chetoh robot! I hate it when oppoturnist people playing with attention!

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jossylink (51) · 7 years ago

thanks buddy

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the-vile-maxim (52) · 7 years ago

Thank you

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lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

Notice the target website is not secured with an SSL certificate

That costs the faker the knowledge and about half an hour.

A SSl certificate does not tell you you are on the right website, just that you are on the website the certificate is for.

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skyleap (67) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thank you very much!
I ignored it as I thought it was doubtful.
I have no problem.
Thank you again.
Resteemed

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lennstar (66) · 7 years ago

Notice the target website is not secured with an SSL certificate

That costs the faker the knowledge and about half an hour.

A SSl certificate does not tell you you are on the right website, just that you are on the website the certificate is for.

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c0ff33a (72) · 7 years ago

It's really frustrating seeing these sort of scams pop up, and of course it's even easier for them right when steemit.com itself is having sporadic outages and downtime and we keep getting posts saying - use this domain as alternative, of course quite often they are legit but it's so easy again for someone to drop a clone site url that's going to absorb your account details. Personally I'm sticking with steemit.com - last pass knows my far too secure to remember password for it so autofills it - any other site it won't auto fill for and I won't manually enter it.

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leap8 (54) · 7 years ago

wow thanks for the heads up and for setting up your alets to let people know!

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princeshady5 (50) · 7 years ago

Thanks for letting us know

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c0ff33a (72) · 7 years ago

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katteasis (63) · 7 years ago

Very nice to see advice in time. I'll be more alert now, though I don't have that much to worry to lose.

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everittdmickey (73) · 7 years ago

'bots are evil.

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arcange (73) · 7 years ago

This has nothing to do with bots. And as you see, a warning bot can be useful.

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everittdmickey (73) · 7 years ago

destroy all bots..

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fury123 (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the warning!

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joe.nobel (55) · 7 years ago

Thanks again for the heads up. So far I have not fallen victim to a scam like this. Best advice is to double check the url when clicking through to anything. If even a small part of your brain wants to hesitate or is uncomfortable with following some internet advice or call to action, you'd better listen to it.

~Joe
@joe.nobel

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greatvideos (59) · 7 years ago

Thank you very much for letting us know
I will gladly resteem your post to let more people know about it
Have a lovely time Steeming

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techglimps (29) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the alert! we all should stay aware of scams like this one.

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kaminchan (70) · 7 years ago

Thank you very much! We are very grateful to your excellent work!

Cheers.

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evildido (61) · 7 years ago

Oh boy !

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kaliju (65) · 7 years ago

stay vigilant folks!

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rohansrahman (25) · 7 years ago

Fantastic!!!

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weetreebonsai (54) · 7 years ago

Sharing to others! Thank You!

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ritzzard (53) · 7 years ago

thanks for the warning!

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successforall (58) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the alert and helping to protect steemeans. Following, upvoted and resteemed. Have a nice day.

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reinhard-schmid (65) · 7 years ago

Cordial thanks for the warning!

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apricoet (41) · 7 years ago

Had problems with the login and my passwords that day acctually. It was error after error and in few minutes my account did not exist . I find it very strange. Did some of you have the similar problems with your account?

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crypto3em3 (45) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the heads up

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farhanfarooqi (33) · 7 years ago

Informative article be aware scams as they totally waste your productivity

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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arthuradamson (66) · 7 years ago

Scary stuff.
Psychopaths are everywhere.

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bloghound (63) · 7 years ago

Thank you so much for the heads up!

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aaliyahholt (68) · 7 years ago

I never click on links from bots/spam accounts for this reason. All it takes you to is malware, adware etc

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mariannewest (71) · 7 years ago

Thanks for watching out for us!!

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guiltyparties (70) · 7 years ago

The site has been taken down. Here is how.

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libertyteeth (60) · 7 years ago

Thanks. Reading this on busy.org; your link took me back to steemit.com -- I can report that the site issues are still present, got an error upvoting and my comment "didn't post" but then when I refreshed the page, my comment was both posted, and also in draft...

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leveuf (67) · 7 years ago

I just realize the importance of don't being quick to click, and most of all to check the user and reputation!! :O

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mudcat36 (62) · 7 years ago

I found another account to add to your list and before I found this post had posted a write up covering this exact topic. Definitely glad you caught it and are getting the word out. Upvoted and certainly resteemed sir. The account I found was @twinkledrops. The hacker was still active up to 10 hours ago but moved on. They were communicating with other users putting poisoned links in the in comments inviting other users to engage it. Caution is the watch word.

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mudcat36 (62) · 7 years ago

I found another name of a 61 compromised account and did a write up on it before finding your write up. You have my upvote and resteem and thank you for spreading the word. The account to add to the list is @twinkledrop. Hopefully the rightful owner and their hard earned credibility are restored soon. Thank you again and Steem on.

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afterglow (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing

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kalemandra (74) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the warning, I'm careful!

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long888 (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you for the warning, I'm sure will fall into this trap had I received a comment from the scammer.

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bjthapa (0) · 7 years ago

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anneke (69) · 7 years ago

Thank you for this information - I just cannot understand that there are always people that want to harm other people.

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jaalig (51) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the heads up on this threat.

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gurmanjot (22) · 7 years ago

This a very profound and nasty scam.

If the scammers posts a blog here on Steemit, then users could unknowingly be redirected to the scam website. If the blog where to contain the maleficent URL.

Especially when the Steemit website has sometimes connection issues, so it's not a strange thing to have to log in again

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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venku898 (14) · 7 years ago

Thank you very much for useful information
So not open such links

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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anne2322 (21) · 7 years ago

supper bro.....your post is always the best.....

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stillwater (61) · 7 years ago

Great heads up and thanks for listing previous scams...........

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taimoorahmad (58) · 7 years ago

Yeah. My password was also stolen. Thank God now it's recovered...

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theabsolute (63) · 7 years ago

I hate people that do this kind of garbage. Thank you for letting everyone know of this phishing scam.

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tusharvasave (52) · 7 years ago

Your profile picture is not uploaded. If you want to upload profile picture then see my post https://steemit.com/steemit/@tusharvasave/how-to-set-and-upload-profile-picture-and-cover-image-on-steemit

resteem this post and follow, upvote me to reach more people to this post. This post is helpful for new steemit member. Thanks.

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angelicagarcia (52) · 7 years ago

This is very helpful since I'm new in steemit. Noted @arcange, and thanks!

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gezzazoom (44) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the info, regards Gez.

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swisssteembeat (51) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the warning!

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sc0ut (40) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. As a n00b, I might have fallen for it.

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mildinsultman (25) · 7 years ago

cheetohs get taht yumy orenge powder on my fingrs, mmhmmm.

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kid4life (68) · 7 years ago

Bossman thanks... I am in recharge mode... So I promoted :)

Stay awesome!

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kid4life (68) · 7 years ago

Bossman thanks... I am in recharge mode... So I promoted :)

Stay awesome!

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kid4life (68) · 7 years ago

Bossman thanks... I am in recharge mode... So I promoted and gave my witness vote:)

Stay awesome!

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arbokinvestments (43) · 7 years ago

Don't fall for scams, invest in scams and actually make money with @arbokinvestments:-)

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sabbirr (53) · 7 years ago

good post.it is very helpful for our all steemit users.thans for share with us .good luck .

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sabbirr (53) · 7 years ago

good post.it is very helpful for our all steemit users.thans for share with us .good luck .

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kingmotan (51) · 7 years ago

ffs it's so easy to fall for this when you're tired etc.

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amiramnoam (70) · 7 years ago

the website is down as i see right now

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redeauxtech (38) · 7 years ago

Uthanks for the heads up.

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improv (67) · 7 years ago

Holy smokes!

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krazypoet (68) · 7 years ago

Well done and always good looking out bro. Be well..

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phustyles (25) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. These scammers are every where these days.

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smiloart (41) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the warning, I will be on guard!!👊🏽😋

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geneticmemory (37) · 7 years ago

Everyone should go there and use the password "GetALife" give him a little DOS action.
Thanks for the heads up.

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foxkoit (70) · 7 years ago

Good info....I want more this info posts .

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bluerocktalk (68) · 7 years ago

Oh no, I hope i didn't fall for that. Being new to this, I may have. I must check, but what do I look for? What if I did? @arcange @mudcat36

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elew (56) · 7 years ago

Eesh, thanks for the heads up!!!

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elew (56) · 7 years ago

Eesh, thanks for the heads up!!!

Do you know why comments are either taking for-ever to load, or sometimes glitching out and not posting?

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