RE: Dear Steem Inc, @ned, etc all, you have erroneously recovered the account @kibria365
From Steemit FAQ. Note without your consent. It is now incumbent upon steemit to return rightful ownership to neoxian. Steemit failed to determine (which would have taken all of two minutes to look at the wallet at the most), to see if he had consented to giving away of his password.Had they looked and then looked at his reteem there is no doubt about the fact the password was given over voluntarily.
How does the stolen account recovery process work?
If your password has been changed without your consent, then the account designated as your recovery account can generate a new owner key for the account. The account recovery must be completed within 30 days of the password being changed, and you must supply a recent owner key that was valid within the last 30 days.Steemit Inc. owns the default recovery account (@steem) for all users who sign up using steemit.com. Steemit can only identify users by their original email, Facebook, or Reddit logins that were used to signup via steemit.com.
If you don't have the master password or owner key that was valid the past 30 days, or are unable to prove that you are the original owner of the account, then your account will be unrecoverable.
The stolen account recovery process can only restore ownership of the account. It is not possible to recover funds that were stolen.
Source:https://steemit.com/faq.html#How_can_I_keep_my_Steem_account_secure
That's a great point about the consent aspect.
I agree, that is a quite significant find, according to those terms it seems like steemit should return the account to you.
Have you tried using the account recovery process to recover it? :-)
Yes I tried that. They honored the scammers account recovery request, but couldn't be bothered to do the five minutes research to honor my legitimate account recovery request.
I dropped back in to see if you had an update. That really sucks that Steemit would do that. Did they even look into it, or did they just honor the request without even investigating? Did they say on what grounds they were rejecting your request?
Given the speed in which they replied, I'm sure they didn't look into it. Too much trouble for them. They replied with a generic and thoughtless corporate email (you can read it in my next post).
This is why I don't trust companies (and most people for that matter).