I was awake through the long tiring night till around 6:00 am
GMT/UTC +1 in the morning , I was joyfully surfing through brilliant steemitian's blogs, discord channels and doing more research on my own, contributing my ideas to communities like #esteem and #steemjet discord channels, I was beginning to feel at home in my newly found world, a world that was so blissful and everything felt heavenly.
I joined steemit and I was ready to express myself through my writing skills so wanted my post to reach a wider range of audience, I bought some few SBD AND STEEM, I started using bots after my second post because I was disappointed that my first two posts didn't reach a large audience, but little did I know I was getting more closer to getting #phished.
I have made quite a number of good friends, I was obsessed with reading @cryptopie post and would always comment on it, I had my #ginabot set so I can easily get access to my favorite blogs, thought I haven't spent more than a week on steemit, I felt like I have been doing it like forever.
The result of the bots were fruitful and my posts was reaching more audience and I felt in no time, I would make more friends and build a community where we can share creative ideas and contribute our own quota to steemit and to the world at large.
I know quite well about hacking, because of my drive to always learn more, phishing pages isn't strange to me but I wasn't aware that spammers were on rogue and lurking in every corner of steemit waiting for an innocent steemian to fall into their webs.
The perpetrator has sent this link about 3 days earlier to me before I got hacked and since I was trying bots out, I just did the usual and my naivety stopped me from scrutinizing the link, probably I told myself my beloved steemit was too perfect because of anxiousness to be a part of this great community . I let my guards down unreserved and followed the link which led me to a phishing page which is a replica of the supposed #steemconnect website , I gushed out my information unreluctantly and got a notification to wait for my post to be upvoted.
I still wasn't aware of the danger I have gotten myself into until I woke up to unending notifications from #ginabot which kept buzzing my phone, I knew it couldn't be as a result of the resteem bots I used, I knew something was wrong some where, so I decided to check the notificatons and to my dismay, I saw my compromised account spamming innocent steemains in their comment sections, I was shocked, confused and didn't know what to do, so I went straight off to my steemit account but I couldn't log in. Tried severally but it was abortive.....
Alas, I have been Hacked!!!
I tried the password reset with little faith, and yes he already changed my login information, so I did an account recovery and later sent a message via email to [email protected], I got a response faster than I thought, my spirit was elevated until I read it content which on anyway didn't state if my account was ever going to be recovered.
I got more worried and went into channels on discord to solicit for help, I was lucky to get more helpful suggestion, some newly met friend on discord had a mixed feeling about my complain, they were sceptical about my integrity, they wanted to know if I was the spammer so I asked them to check #steemd for to be able to visualize how it all happened, I was able to convince them and they offered suggestions which I truly appreciate.
I tried all suggestions but I am still left to wait for a response from steemit, I wouldn't know if I would get it back, the reputation I painstakingly built to roughly 41 all went down the drain, thanks to #steemcleaners, they told me I could restore my reputation back after I gain access back to my account.
I have learnt this the hard way and I hope no other person falls victim of this scam sweeping across steemit, please let us create more awareness in other to make steemit more secure for all steemians...
My special thanks goes to :
@pelvis
@horpey
@jlordc
@afolwalex
@einstie1
@mzajoke
@essence26
@honormaus
@eunireal1
@ewuoso
For their support and love, they motivated me in every little way, it really means a lot to me. Thanks and God bless you all.
To the creator of @steemjet, @dimimp, Sir you are truly a force that motivates all men irrespective of their kind and nature....
My hacked account is @goldbaba1
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