Hi Troy. All I can see is the following which you might know already.
Below shows your funds going to gtg.witnesses
The funds are in their account and then went into blocktrades.
Here's their steemit account: https://steemit.com/@gtg.witnesses/transfers
I would go to steemit.chat and ask them what you should do. I think the room is #steemitabuse Make sure you are logging into your account with your posting key and not your master/password or active key/password. Also never give these keys to anyone. Once logged into your account with your posting key you can use your private active key for more important stuff linked to your steemit financial requirements. After reading what happened to you I spent hours reading up how to make my account more secure and understanding the use for the different keys. Here is a useful post on the keys: https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@pfunk/how-to-login-with-your-posting-key-and-why-this-is-important Also never post your keys in the memo section when doing transfers etc. Firstly however I would get hold of #steemitabuse on steemit.chat if you haven't already.
This is a message they were spamming bloggers with.
Good luck and I hope things work out for the best soon.
Thank you my friend. Yes I am working with a friend of a friend via phone and email who is trying to help me. Together we have contacted Steemit.chat /abuse and He also contacted blocktrades. I will be writing blog of my experience with this. You can see from my wallet that they took 663.843 in SBD and 22.641 in steem tokens. From now on I doubt if I will leave any in SBD lying around. Yes there are different key and before I knew this but did not understand it. Now I know. WHY MUST PEOPLE BE SO EVIL? Thanks for caring. - Troy
Hi Troy sounds like you are doing all you can. Hopefully they can retrieve your funds fast. Those accounts need to be shut down fast. Good luck and looking forward to your post regarding your experience and hopefully with a positive outcome.
It speaking with a witness on Steemit.chat they thought I would be out the SBD so it is in God's hands. That is over $2,000 in fiat money. Again thanks. Will keep you informed.
Hi Troy thanks for the update. Have you read here on what to do re hacked accounts, what's recoverable and what's not as well as how you can limit the amounts stolen etc. There's stuff I was unaware of and everyone should know. https://steemit.com/faq.html#Table_of_Contents_Security I'm trying to learn from what happened to you to protect my account asap. How did they get your key? Did they trick you into sending it to them? Your answer will help me to understand how it happened and to protect myself. Steemit needs to do more to protect our accounts. $2.000 it must be very frustrating. I will send you something soon once the dust has settled. My thoughts are with you.
Thank you for your kind donation and friendship through all of this. I posted a blog tonight about the scam for everyone to read and may do several followups. I have been through all sort of emotions since this happened. It will take a long time to get back where I was but I truly appreciate you @readallaboutit