Think Twice Before Submitting Your Keys
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It had been 8 months since I last saw a suspicious comment in this type. I wouldn't notice this unless @ac-cheetah notified me to mute this. Thanks for it.
My favorite work is going through these links and finding out what is really happening.
Please find my early adventures which I ended up with same destination.
- What Happen If You Click a Fake Airdrop Link?
- Check the URL First, Before Submit Your Data
- The Latest Way of Stealing Your Keys
Let's see what we have today!
The concept is similar as the last time, you are asked to vote to a witness and then you'll receive 100 STEEM.
Open Your Eyes
If you are a smart person, you must first check the profile of the witness mentioned in the comment. Let's have a look at who is @Lyon89
This account is abundant for 7 months and even he has shared a post about these scam links. If you checked his profile you could see this warning :). Is he a witness?
He is not even a witness. He is just an innocent person who was just baited.
Hence read before click!
What happens if you click the link?
Don't click it for your safety. The hyperlink directs you to the following URL. I have modified it to avoid you clicking it mistakenly.
https://saxxx11xxx.monster/8ey25
This should take you to a website that asks for your username and master key. But I am too late to this review as the domain is already removed. :( Basically, this is not a Virus it is a Phishing link. But be careful about these links, because sometimes it will download unnecessary files during the click. But this one is just a Phishing attack that provides you with a fake website to input your keys.
Oops website is removed
If you want to really know what happened here after, please checkout this post.
If You Noticed Someone Else is Using Your Account,
Please change your master password.
To do this you must have your master password.
1.Click on this icon in your steemit profile
2.Then click on Change Account Password
3.Fill the form and put the two tick marks and then click on Update Password. Please save the new password that you receive once clicking on the Click to Generate Password button in a secure place.
After this, you have to re-login to wallet and then re-login to steemit.com using the new posting key.
To day I saw like this comment in my post.bt I didn't click it..Now it has been muted.
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good information and lesson how to update password after being caught in a trap. I hope we all are very careful, it's better to go far than to get 100steem as a scam. you take care of us to avoid thank you dr?
Better to update everyone situations like this. Especially newcomers should know these things. Keys are everything and those should be private.
Should be careful of links. Thank you for giving updates. Newcomers should read and be aware of these kind of situations.
Seems like simple facts, but these are the most valuable facts we should know. Thanks @randulakoralage for acknowledging this.