Before I start this post
My deepest condolences to my dear friend and witness colleague @surpassinggoogle's as his mother has passed away after much suffer and struggle with cancer. I pray for your mama's soul, may she rest in peace. And I pray that the Almighty give you and your family the strength in these hard times. My friend, I am here for you, If you need anything. God Bless
Now I move to the Scam Part
surpassinggoogIe, A fake steemit chat handle asking SBD to his poloniex wallet by showing post of @surpassingoogIe.
When I researched. First, I got confused and thought there is a bug in steemit.Chat as I searched the name and found both accounts. See the pic
I found that the scammer is used capital Iinstead of small l, to scam people So smartly but he got caught.
He is using poloniex so he can do the scam in discretely.
Asking to transfer money thhrough this memo @poloniex
268db175fa78a5da
Today I got a message from him; He is asking me to transfer some SBD to his poloniex wallet for his mother. But when I saw, This post made by @surpassinggoogle I surprised cause, In best of my knowledge, @surpassinggoogle never ask SBD like this.
Be aware, Never Send money to his account.
He already fooled my friend @cloh76 and others as well. see his post How he got fooled here
I found 14 different transactions to the same poloniex wallet from different users. Here is a screenshot of that.
Now, We need to resteem this post, So the visibility of this post increases and we can reach to most of the user and can prevent them from being scammed.
Hope user having most followers like @acidyo, @sweetsssj and @teamsteem will resteem.
I suggest to all user to Please make sure you are only sending your funds to the actual account holders through Steem and not through a third party exchange. Because other similar scams are going on, please also be sure to check the spelling of the handle of the name you are sending your funds to.
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"I suggest to all user to Please make sure you are only sending your funds to the actual account holders through Steem and not through a third party exchange. Because other similar scams are going on, please also be sure to check the spelling of the handle of the name you are sending your funds to."
Nice post! What will happening, if someone resteem your post?
Welcome dear, we need resteem it so it will reached to maximum users and can prevent scammer to do so further.
Exactly.
This must be taken seriously.. otherwise it will fool the rest of the steemitians ..thanks for sharing..
Yes, Thats why I said Resteem will help us to reach maximum user.
Resteemed ...
Thanks, That's good.
Thanks .. they became more smarter than before.. I'm still new to steemit this help me to stay alert
Yeah, They are. Welcome
Great informative post buddy. Upvoted, resteemed and following u as always.
Regards Nainaz
#thealliance
Thanks a lot my best friend.
Thanks for the heads up. People need to be aware of scammers like this one. Not long after I joined steemit a friend almost got scammed through a fake account using this same approach only this time the scammer was impersonating @sweetsssj..
It's sad that people can still think of scamming others on a platform like steemit with so many legit opportunities available.
Yeah, I run a witness server, would you vote me?
Upvoted and resteemed for more visibility... We must encourage @surpassinggoogle
Yes, Correct. Thanks
Nice catch from a good eye. Resteemed
Thanks.
What a mazing information thank you so match i will fllowing you as always
Thanks for your kind words. Would you vote for my witness?
upvoted & resteemed because it is the right thing to do.
Yeah, Correct Mate. It is for greater good.
Using the grief of others to satisfy your own needs is a disgusting move .
ontop of the subject being a follower of the victim - and using his heart break to scam others ; but this could soil someones reputation . not just on steemit, but in day to day living if word gets spread around enough .
I hope justice will come down on who is responsible for such actions .
R.I.P.
Rest In Paradise .
Well said bro. Would you vote for my witness?
To be quite honest i am still fairly new to this platform, and im not too sure exactly what that entails, how how it helps in any way ; forgive my ignorance - i am still looking to learn from this platform .
But perhaps if i get a break down of what it means to vote for witness ; much less become a witness, then maybe i will .
Im just cautious with doing anything online currently with all of these stories about things like this ; no offence or anyhting .
But im always looking to learn !
This is my post about witness.
https://steemit.com/witness/@jatinhota/what-is-steem-witness-everything-you-need-to-know
Just read, I hope you tell get some idea @endymionoriax
Yes, it hurts that they use his name . More now. I think the bandits are not real followers of anyone. His real followers love him.
I think the scammers' strategy is to go around sniffing trends and big users.
while this is true ; they must have had to follow his story for a little bit in order to get the information they have currently .
This is why i have THREE rules when posting online ;
Good detective work J.
Thanks Mate. This my duty to do something for my comm. as a witness.
Thanks for the heads up, crazy how some people has no shame and scammers need to be stopped! Thank you for sharing.
Upvoted and Resteemed
Welcome mate. Yeah they need to stopped. But for that users have to smarter than scammer. Would you vote for my witness?
Sorry for the late response. You are so right scammer has gotten smarter and that way we need to be a step ahead to stop them.
Thank you for sharing this and Yes I have voted for you as a witness 😉 well deserved and welcome to #thealliance
Thanks for your vote.
👍👀👍
2k+ voted for your witness. Thank you for keeping us safe.
Thanks a lot my Freind. It is my duty for community as a witness. Thanks for your trust.
Good Work!!!
Thanks
thank you for ur warning & suggestion friend @jatinhota...........
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Thank you for telling everyone ....
For all steemit users to stay cautious ...
Who knows someday there will be another similar con artist.
Yes, But that time he had to be more smarter than this time.
Yups ... hopefully so @jatinhota ... 👮👍
Bad people trying to make money on someone else's circumstances.
Yes, There are alwauys some people try to make money without doing anything.
Hello Jatin, I am a developer and I have build apps on Steem. Is there any possibility of collaboration?
Yes, DM me. through discord or steemit.chat
@aneilpatel on steemchat
Spammers are everywhere. We need to be vigilant. Thank you for reminding us. Upvoted and resteemed.
Yes, Dear. This is my stake to save our community as a witness. Thanks. Would you vote me as witness?
Yes, I would be pleased to do so.
Thanks mate.
You are very welcome.
Thanks for the warning,Im also new in steem,trying to learn the platform. What is "vote for a witness". Ive seen that in other steemian post.
You are welcome mate. For witness you Read My Posts Here
Thank you
great post yeah i agree i too face some in the chat room
Thanks.
It's a shame that people use the grief of others for their own purposes.
Yeah, User needs to be cautious. Mate, Would you vote me as a witness?
So far, probably not. I do not know you well.
Ok bro as your wish
BAD PEOPLE...
Yeah, Every Where.
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STOPI believe bitcoin will one day prove to be the greatest 3D Ponzi ever unleashed on mankind . . . how many are there?!? Um. I know exactly how many stacks of bullion I'm sitting on lol
Maybe, but if we are being samrt enough then we can condemn their actions. Main thing is we have to cautious.
User was disabled on the chat, thanks to the admin :)
That's good.
Upvoted and resteemed. Yes this person did scam me as well but using another Whales account.
He uses the same memo each time: 268db175fa78a5da
Can we track him through the memo?
Thanks, Your resteem will help some users.
Thank you for the heads-up
I hate scammers since I was scammed too.
But this is inhuman, the person behind has no soul, in a event like this. I can't imagine how he actually fooled by using @surpassinggoogle's situation.
Welcome. In an emotional situation like he tried to steal people money.
that author is greedy bro.
He is not an author, He is a scammer. Brother @dante01, Would you vote for my witness?
So many scammers all over the market... Sometimes my only wish is to see this ppl face to face in the dark ally...
Yes, every where and in every market. Mate would you vote for my witness?
So many pitfalls to avoid. Wish there was some way to catch these culprits and provide punishment.
Thanks for the warning.
Welcome, We already banned him from steemit.chat. Would you vote for my witness?
I look into that regarding witness. I do not give my votes out that easily but when my heart I would vote for you. Let me get some time to review your blog before I can decide. Thanks.
Ok Sure.
Oh, terrible. My humble recommendation, verify by all means, before taking a step. Steemit moves values and is attractive for scammers come to cheat people using the name of other large users here.
Shared.
Yes @samic, I suggested the same. Would you vote for my witness?
Oh dear I'm sorry, you're nice and I like you,
but my proxy already won my beautiful Terry @surpassinggoogle. :)
Thanks for sharing!
Welcome mate.This is my move to save our community as a witness.Would you vote me as witness?
good post and ther is many scammer like this like @sndbox in stemit chat he told me to transfer 2 sbd to his poloniex memo to increase level 55
Never sent money to anyone ask in chat and also w
To Poloniex . Read my suggestion, what I wrote
thank you for sharing i always read your blog✌✌✌✌
Thanks for your kind words
most welcome for replying😒😒😒
Dear, I run a witness server would you vote for me ?
yes if you appreciate to me, i appreciate to you...@jatinhota
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