Today I received this message along with .001 SBD...
optimisticguy Double your money on Steemit. We will Up/Vote your posts for you. For $1 Steem Dollar we will Up/Vote your post by $2.00 in return. So you double your money. If you send us $2 SBD we will Up/Vote your post by $5.00. Send us $10 SBD and you get $30.00 in Up/Votes. For $50 SBD you get $300.00 in Up/Votes and for $100 SBD you get $750 in Up/Votes. We are a group of 250 loyal Steemians who believe you should be paid more for your work on Steemit. Now you can really get paid for your efforts. To get our Up/Votes send Steem Dollars to @optimisticguy and enter your link to your post in the memo section. Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed. Thank You
When I checked his blog page I found all resteems except for one article which had been flagged out, by cheetah. This is what Cheetah had to say...
[-]cheetah71 · yesterday
Warning! This user is on my black list, likely as a known plagiarist, spammer or ID thief. Please be cautious with this post!
To get off this list, please chat with us in the #steemitabuse-appeals channel in steemit.chat.
What happened after that, I can't say. Maybe this is legit, maybe not (I tend to suspect not Cheetah is usually right on) What I can say is that I'm not willing to gamble any of my hard earned cash to find out... you decide for yourself. If this is in fact 250 loyal Steemians, I'd be interested to find out who they are. I checked his wallet which contained about $53.00. Once again, you decide!
GIF by @papa-pepper
Thats why im struggling hard to make it through the ranks on my own, well im not into those, thank God. Nice post
You'll do fine! If you run across something you're not sure about, ask someone. There's a lot of really good people on here- just look at their reputation number, that way you can tell.
Thank you then, i surely did not want to be jagged
Buncha memos with this on them there now
I saw that... Don't you hate it when you get robbed for your hard stolen money lol!!!
"loyal"?
I'm still trying to figure out how a guy with 26SP can provide a $100 upvote???
math is hard
Any sign that anyone is falling for this? The problem with transfer spam is the inability to flag it or add replies
I went to his wallet and found 3 or 4 people who had sent in SBD (no more than $2.00 though). I'm going to monitor it and I'll let you know or do an update.
By the way, my friend, you're a guitar guy... check this out-
Made by Arda in Italy... I went to their page but it's all Italian to me! I don't know what they go for, but I'm pretty sure it's out of my range!!!
There's not that much we can do about these scams apart from warn people.
That's a lovely looking guitar. I like something a bit different
I've been dying to get my hands on something with EMG's. My friend Billy in San Francisco has a metal band and he picked up an ESP (The model that looks like an SG) with them and it sounds incredible!
I had a guitar made by Steve Benford. He's surprisingly affordable.
I'm afraid I'll be playing my old SG until they bury it with me lol!
He's still at it (optimisticguy) Some idiot sent him $10! He's been getting a lot of replied asking for their money back... This is great- Some girl ripped him off for $14 and he's threatening to turn her in to authorities!!!
I went to his blog page and he had written one article (everything else was resteems) It was flagged, but like you say, the messages you can't flag. I haven't heard from anyone so far that has. One look at his wallet should do the trick. I forget the exact amount but he had something like 26 SP... How you can get a $100 upvote is something I'd like to see!
I got the same thing, SCAM is what I say. Mine said the same. Bad thing is someone will send him 100SBD
The first thing I did was go to his blog page and check his wallet... when I saw what he actually had, I knew! The reason I wrote this is hopefully it may save somebody the $100- but like the old saying goes, "A fool and his money..."
...is soon partying
Rock on!
Somebody sent him $10.
Somebody sent him $10.
Thats crazy!!!! Well you called it "a fool and his money"
Here's another good one (you should go check out his wallet page) that might amuse you... some woman lovelygirl I think her name is ripped him off for $14 and he's threatening to turn her in!!!
Hahaha... I told you! This just keeps getting better and better!!!
I like the fact she said " do you own the legal rights to this documemt" haha
Get outa here!!! I am checking it out now.
At now, he has 0 steem power + 27 delegated steem power, he can just upvote for 0.0001 $. Looks a fraud!
Just as I figured! Pretty hard to get a $100 upvote out of 27 SP!!!
Also, @sherlockholmes might want to add this to his backlog
It's scammers, I think. I also receive such messages, but I try not to even visit such blogs.
I went and checked his wallet to see what he was up to... He's hit a bunch of people! Then he got robbed by some girl so he threatened to turn her in to authorities
yes good think i like you mind mr torem
good luk
Lol, just another fecking scammer. The name is slightly familiar too. But I cant place it
You know, I thought the same thing!
I wonder if its a good egg gone bad? When I saw the name I genuinely thought it was someone that was alright for some reason
He joined this month and he's hit a few suckers already... his wallet is up about $10.00 Here's his wallet...
https://steemit.com/@optimisticguy/transfers
I see it. Thankfully it looks as if people are onto him, I see all his comments greyed out. Top notch
Yeah, thanks... One down ??? to go!
Yeah me too... I think I'll go back to his page and look at some more stuff (like when he joined)
Good idea!
I do not like that kind of scheming hustling everyone's SBD's for fraudulent offer.
By now everybody should know to check this stuff out before sending money! It took me all of 2 minutes to figure it out!
Cheetah's usually spot-on. Also, behind every act of supposed altruism is an act of greed.
Agreed... Plus he has 27 SP!
Haha yeah.
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@zathras · 8 days ago
!cheetah ban
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[-]@cheetah · 8 days ago
Okay, I have banned @yash0108.
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Hey buddy, I message you on discord, check out the message...let me know
Yes, you are right. It's scam !!
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Why did you cancel rewards for this post?
I did it to warn people not to make money
steemit community needs to get rid of cheetah!