When the markets go up, watch out even more for scammers

It is about a year ago now since I got scammed and had a more than 4000 HIVE taken from me in the click of heartbeat. I think about this moment quite often whenever I am making new transactions.

This post is to warn you guys than when these markets are so hyped up, the scammers also seen to pop up out of no where. And remember don't think tha this will never happen to you, because most likely it will and it is (almost) always preventable

The reminder

This was the comment on how I was scammed. In case you are a new user here, about 1.5 year ago HIVE forked from Steem. This meant that in that time the keys to both chains were the same and also the funds were duplicated.

I clicked on this Airdrop announcement because 'hey, who doesn't like free money?' And since I always use Hivesigner and keychain what can go wrong. It was early in the morning or late in the evening (one of the two) but at least I was paying half attention and not on my A-game. A pop up came up which needed my active key and I didn't really attention to it.

5 minutes later 4400 HIVE was withdrawn from my account and not by me. This is the reminder to not fill in your active key anywhere but just use the damn HIvesigner and the Keychain. Because those are the tool that will keep you safe.

I have heard about more scams going around with other extensions as well. People were approached for airdrops where they had to log in with their meta mask (ethereum). Apparently the logging in with metamask set a chain of events in range where you gave the permission to withdraw funds from your metamask. It just happens even though the extensions are built to keep you safe.

When something looks fishy or suspicious, just don't click on it and surely do NOT ever ever give in your keys. When you receive some kind of airdrop from somewhere, take a minute to verify if somewhere if it is legit. There are plenty of info stream where you can find this, and surely some other people have gone through this process already before you.

Wait a second to find this info. Check HIVE, check discord, check telegram if it is legit. Do something useful before being too greedy as I was.

Why am I writing this now specifically?

Well because of BTC and crypto in general is going bezerk there is an influx to a lot of new people who are not that familiar how blockchains and keys work. Even though I was around quite some time before this I myself even got scammed, let alone when you are just new and think someone is trying to help you or to give you something for free.

In normal life already the battle for stealing data and funds is on the max, let alone here in the blockchain world with no police and no back ups.

A friend of mine was called the other week by an unknown person from a second party to see if she wanted to buy some crypto and this party wanted to 'help her' with that. Now the platform she was buying it from was legit just not the person in between in there. All of a sudden she saw the arrow on her screen moving by itself and this person was asking that she needed to deposit more funds for verification. Alarm bells everywhere!

That is someone taking over your computer right there.

The bottom line is to watch out more than ever with what you are doing. My HIVE funds are gone still because the account who took them is sending them to everywhere as you can see in his wallet (did you click the link without checking it? Yes, this is the dudes wallet but who knows where I have guided you to)

These funds would have been a nice multi month of rent paying amount of money and that is why I am warning you guys...Just be smart and dont click what you don't know. Stay safe