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PSA: Phishing Scam Alert
Hello friends,
There is a scamming ring (1k+ accounts) posting comments in my name promising 300 HIVE if you vote for me as a Hive witness. I NEVER EVER offered money for votes and never will.
The comments contain a phishing link, so DO NOT CLICK IT. It's common sense by now to never click any suspicious links, and to never believe posts/comments that promise a reward for anything. Please be vigilant and be safe.
A few examples of the phishing accounts:
https://hive.blog/@optama/comments
https://hive.blog/@thomaslknapp/comments
https://hive.blog/@bob-dray/comments
And an example of the message:
Thanks to @guiltyparties, @networkallstar and @ganjafarmer for bringing this to my attention.
Replies (21)
I received this mensage
It used to be LeoFinance for witness as bait. Now it's you. I guess that is some kind of compliment...
easy solution makes clicks unclickable after downvote ( for frontends).
Would be massive noob protection and use "proof of brain".
legit links could get hurt too, but for that, there could be a "do you trust that author" kind of massage.
You're welcome mate!👍🌞
@tipu curate
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 45/55) Liquid rewards.
Also add @bob-dray to phishing scam list @drakos
That's a good idea, I'll relay it to the developers team.
From what @guiltyparties told me, it's a ring of more than a thousand accounts!
Indeed, I remember that being mentioned in the chats.
That is ridiculous!😳
Absolutely no problem and I saw this and immediately thought what is going on because you'd never do this.
Looks like we have to educate all of the smaller accounts as quite a few of these small accounts keep getting hit with this scam.
We definitely need to figure out a way to deal with these individuals.
It's too bad we couldn't scam the scammers into coming and visiting me and having a long conversation about this in person.
Thank you very much for posting this up!
Good news, the developers are actively discussing the idea and looking forward to implementing it.
That's sucks that they using your name, hope people wise up a bit because the there is so many scams out there
Hehe, not bad! :)
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