Help guys Please.
Someone messaged me on steemchat that he will do $30 upvote on my post after I send 4 sbd to him.
I told my bad situation to him, but he didn't wanna try to understand.
He repeatedly trying me send him 4 sbd on his bittrex account. But I told him that I have to pay my house rent and if i don't, the landlady will throw me out from rented house. But after that he told me 'he will help me after i send 4 sbd and will me 4 sbd return in next day.
After i rejected, He told me that I was toyed him and he will gonna flag me. I don't know what to do in this situation. I was trying to give him another option but after all this he again told me to send sbd.
Following are the Screenshots of chat on steemchat:
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THANKS
I am sure that this is not the real rok-sivante.
There are LOTS of scammers, who make names similar to real whales/dolphins on chat. Do not worry. The real poster will not flag you, as then you would know who the real scammer is.
Thank you so much ma'am for your help and support.
It means alot when well reputed and lovely member like you and all other helping newbie like me.
Thank you so much. Now i don't have any worries.
He’s full of crap. Ignore him. Don’t you see that he would simply Upvote himself if he was wanting the money or If he really had some huge steem balance. He lies. He exploits people who don’t know better. Do not give him anything - and share screen shots with someone bigger and badder than me. Wonder if @lextenebris has advice for you. Or @carlgnash . Guys? What’s up with Bull like this? Help my friend here with some solid advice? Thanks
I thought it was obvious that this guy was going to be a total scammer.
Of course, this is exactly the sort of value blackmailing scheme I've been expecting to see proliferating on the steem blockchain for a bit now. It's the kind of scam of the architecture was born for. There is, after all, no way to validate either ability to fulfill the promise or fulfill the threat. If anything, it reminds me of the very popular "your Windows box is infected with malware" pop-up scam, where engaging with them is the first step in being suckered by them.
Don't be a sucker.
Of course, I can't let anything go so easily. I like a little bit of investigation. I like interrogation. I like going into people's public knowledge and public data, so I did a little checking.
https://steemworld.org/@rok-sivante
This is the account which is purported to be the guy who's blackmailing you. He does, in fact, have a lot of SP.
No, really, he has a lot of SP. And he sitting on a fat stack of steem as well.
In fact, he sitting on way too much SP and steem to be someone who is involved in a shitty little scam for 4 SBD. If he was involved in scamming, it would be something more on the scale of 400 SBD for him to even notice the value on his bottom line.
So I took the next step. I actually looked at the kind of posts and kind of content that he creates. I looked at his word choice. I looked at his spelling. I looked at the operations that he is involved in.
The guy that message you on Steemit chat is not the holder of this account. His writing style is entirely different. The things he talks about are entirely different. The way he expresses himself is entirely different.
So it's a double scam. Whoever spoke to you on Steemit.chat was masquerading as a high SP member of the community. He will end up making this other poor musician ("poor" being relative) look bad while trying to scam other people as well, I'm sure.
The best response to someone trying to blackmail you is laughing in their face. Seriously. If they had any power to do something to you, they wouldn't have to be trying to scam you. It wouldn't have to be trying to blackmail you. They would just do it. They only have the power that we provide them.
My power is laughter.
Well, this teach me alot. Thank you so much sir for this knowledge. Even, when i checked his account i thought that why he want just 4 sbd when he have lots of SP. But then i felt for sometime that if they get angry they can do whatever to fish like me.
Thank you so much for your support.
Oh, no mistake, the high-SP members of the community can largely do whatever they like to folk of our scale. That's the way the system's built.
It's just not worth it to them without a real personal vendetta. It's not even worth the time it'd take to crush us.
Being tiny has its own strange kind of protection.
Yeah, i agree. Thanks
Thank you so much @lorilikes
Thanks for your support and this is the most horrible thing i have experienced since i joined on steemit.
I am frightened right now. I'm checking my reputation more and more after that, if he had flagged me.
How someone with this much reputation have to do this.
A truly horrific story of someone with "power" trying to use it in a bad way
Yeah buddy. I don't know what to do.
He is high reputed member
Please help me guys. This is the most horrible issue.
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STOPcan you block him? Please dont be afraid because the more you answer to him, the more he will abuse you. Just mute him on steemit and somehow block him on discord. Please also do not entertain such messages. I hope some one will do to stop such scams. Just today I got a msg from a copier on discord msg. Such things are common. Also do not click links on wallet page from people who send 0.001 for follow, upvote etc.
Take care
Yeah, sure thing. I blocked him after the last msg.
Thanks for your support and help.