I Almost Got Scammed
This is a true story and happened about 24 hours ago.
Never click on a link from @frick it will always be a SCAM!
I am a moron and click on the link, if not for @jongolson I would
have been completely scammed.
I go into detail in the video I even included a remedy just in
case you make the same mistake as I.
In the IT world, it is prudent to change your password once
every 90 days. Some places make this a mandatory rule
and will not allow login until the password is changed.
In today’s world of scammers, it may be prudent to change your
keys or not I really do not know.
Let’s discuss on Hive, is it a good idea to change your keys
regularly?
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Excellent video Chris. I hope this will save someone from the same mistake.
Me too, I am lucky enough to have the CTP, and CTP IC for support and questions but another person may not have that, so it is my hope this video can help someone.
Thanks for sharing this here, and through ListNerds. What a friggin minefield of scammers out there! Glad you dodged - and no surprise that @jongolson helped out, he seems like an awesome guy
@jongolson is a great guy I would never have found Hive without him 👍
when I read your post, that link seemed familiar to me, so I kind of freaked out a bit and tried to change all my keys and stuff. I totally messed that process up somehow, wrote over my master password and most of my keys. 5 days later I finally retrieved my keys, but still don't have master password for my Hive account. It has been a journey for sure! When I recover mentally I will write a post about what happened, where I think I went wrong, where I went for help and reassurance, and what finally got me to recover, at least partially. These keys and passwords are definitely not to be messed with lol! Anyway, thinks are ok now, but will miss out on some drip earnings from all the undelegations and unstakes I started when I was freaking out that I would lose access to my account.
I still very much appreciate your post - and now I appreciate even more how important these keys are, even for people who started off thinking they would not have much money in hive :)
!PIZZA
Sounds like you went through a horrible experience. Sorry I did not intend to spread panic.
Hey amigo, I totally did not want to give that impression! Sorry that I did, I appreciated what you shared. I just messed up the process and, well, you mess up your keys etc. in crypto and it gets stressful fast. :)
I can relate 👍
This is a good message to get out! That kind of stuff can certainly stress you out. People need to make sure they are doing their due diligence. Will reblogging for all the other hustlers
Thank you so much hopefully it will help others to avoid this scam and others like it. The high reputation really fooled me, I do feel foolish. 👍
Yeah, it can be misleading, or the person had their keys stolen and it was a bad actor.
That is what I thought.
Gotta have your wits about you thats for sure
Happened to me back in the Steem Days and I did loose, however a number of members in the CTP Community alerted me to some big withdrawels.
Glad you managed to avert the scam in the end
It was all because of @jongolson fast action in the telegram chat, otherwise, I would have lost.
Things like this always make me think about back when everyone was using Skype. It seemed there was a lot of things like this going around so I have learned to not click on anything I don't know exactly what the link is.
On Skype they were pretty slick, after they hacked someone you were on their contact list in Skype they would message you and say they were stuck somewhere and need to borrow some money to get back home. The other thing they would do is after hacking an account they would send a bunch of the contacts a link saying they just uploaded a bunch of new pictures telling you to check them out, once you click on the link they got your account info.
So many people out there trying to rip everyone off.
It is crazy all of the creative scams out there just waiting for us. I am usually a lot more careful I just got a little too comfortable on Hive lol
Ah Ah i've seen this scam too on some comments,
rather well done, a nice phishing 👀
The high reputation of the member is what really fooled me.
Ouch, these things suck! Glad you didn't lose anything!
It's good to share this stuff, I've seen the comments but usually they're hidden quite soon after they appear.
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Anyway, take care and thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for the tag info as I had no clue. I will start using them as I love Bee, and I have seen PIMP around but have not had a chance to check it out. 👍
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Thanks for the informmation. The cryptocurrency and internet world is very dynamic, new happenings and changes every moment, one needs to be constantly alert or get scammed.
That is very true buyer beware is outdated, everyone beware is more up to date 👍
Great that you changed your keys before you lost anything! Yep, that's a known scam from the comments. It is possible the account was once a legitimate one and it got hacked. It's bad when that happens, because people trust someone and click on links posted by such an account, before they realize it's a scam, especially if they had a prior relationship with the owner.
I did not even think of those that had a relationship with the legitimate owner they must have been hurt the worst.
Thanks for the heads up. I could easily have fallen for that myself.
I appreciate your kind words of support. 👍
Hey it happens. You're not a moron. Trust me I have fallen for a couple of real doozies when I was trying to get work at homes jobs. The first one got me good. The second one I figured it out before it was too late. I have mixed feelings about changing passwords on any regular schedule. I would think that people looking to hack us might be paying attention to that and try and catch before we change our passwords. And I'm lazy sometimes and don't want to be bothered.
I have a bad habit of overcomplicating something good because of security concerns.
It's good to be concerned about security. I have Roboform so I don't have to try and figure out new passwords on my own.
RoboForm is a great tool 👍
Yeah, I really like it! Trying to convince my husband to use it. He is being resistant to say the least. 😀
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So horrible, man. I just discovered this post, sorry for not upvoting it before. Let me tell you a story.
I have wrote about this in so many comments that I can't remember. I joined Splinterlands around July last year and I'm in HIVE since the Steemit times. So, like five years, but never tried Splinterlands before, even when it was SteemMonsters. I was playing normally and everyday and all of the sudden on August 3th I began seeing a weird movement in my account while I was playing. Thank God I was playing at that exact time, when I saw those weird movements. The thing is I began seeing how my HP was being delegated without having done anything. Pretty strange. As I began to undelegate, I saw how it began to get delegated again. At that moment, I was in Red Alert. Someone is trying to hack me, I thought. No... Not trying! They entered in my account!!!
As these lowlifes were doing that, I saw in my discord alert that I published a new article! Whaat!? How so!? The guys were mocking me in that post they published under my account saying to change my keys in the comments, and that is what happens when someone is dumb enough to publish their master keys publicly, like me. Now, I know I have done some stupid things, but I usually try to be very very careful with my passwords and such. Even I asked to themarkymark if I had done so, and how could I check that out. He checked it in the blockchain for me, and apparently, at least in the last year, I didn't do that. So, it was unlikely I published my master keys publicly. Long story short, they took a card from my Splinterlands account and sold it for some DEC, they took some tokens that I had laying around, because at that moment I wasn't aware they had some value. Thankfully, it wasn't much. I lost the card, but for some reason they didn't take the DEC. As I had my SPS stacked, because they were recently issued at the time and they promised a lot, they were safe. Same with my HIVE and HBD. I didn't have any liquid, all of it was as HP. I was lucky, man.
Months after that, I've read in reddit and here in HIVE with apparently same MO, how those script-kiddies stole thousands of dollars in cards from some players. None of us knew what hit us. This is the time that I can't pinpoint exactly what I did wrong, and every time I see a story like yours I think, "man, this surely how they stole my card!". I changed my keys here in HIVE and Steemit, I backed up everything off the grid, and thank God it didn't happen again. But I don't know if I will fall again for these scammers. Thank you so much for sharing this and keep us alert about these issues. So, sorry I can't upvote it.Please do not worry about the upvote as your story is worth so much more. It is crazy just clicking on the wrong link can cause utter mayhem. You and I were very lucky but some other Hive Members have lost large sums of crypto to these unfriendlies.
Thank you so much for you kind words about my story! Yes, we need to be very vigilant and can't let our guard down. Have some !PIZZA and !LUV, please!
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