I never thought I would be writing this post or telling this story. I am sad, depressed, in tears and angry ... and even raped ...all in the same moment and here is why.
MY STORY
My account was compromised March 2, 2018 at about 9.15 AM . Good-kama took 22.641 of my steem tokens and gtg.witnesses took a whopping 663.843 of my SBD. I was able to save my steem power before they got to that. I also got a new master key for my account. By redirecting me to steewitt.com rather than steemitcom, they were able to take my funds. In the process they delegate all my crypto to power their bots. I believe they are trading the money on blocktrades. Sadly I have always used my master key rather than my posting key. I did not even know there was a posting key.
Here is a link to a post that has some screen shots and explains the hack/phishing info.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@arunava/phishing-scam-warning
I would add that they spammed a number of comments and used my account. I contacted @guiltyparties on the #steemitabuse channel of steemitchat was gracious to help me out. I was able to delete most of them with the exception of four comment of which are still flagged and my reputation was compromised slightly. I am still a 59.
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IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME RETRIEVE MY SBD FROM THESE CRIMINALS I WOULD BE GRATEFUL.
I am at a loss of how to proceed. We have contacted support@blocktrades. us. I do not know what else I can do. Any suggestions?
PLEASE NOTE
Never be logged in with your master key unless you absolutely need to.
Use your posting key for comments and writing post.
Use your active key for wallet transactions.
You will find them in your wallet section of your Steemit account.
Make triple sure that the web address is Steemit before you click.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about in the above statements do a search and get to know what they mean, or ask a friendly minnow/dolphin/whale to point you in the right direction. Don’t put this off.
A NOTE OF THANKS
I want to take a moment to thank @guiltyparties in steemitchat for his help. I also want to thank @sighmanjestah for all his selfless help. I so appreciate you Rick. Also a word of thanks to @nonameslefttouse
ONE FINAL NOTE
Please resteem this post I want to let my followers know about this. Also let @familyprotection and @canadian-coconut know of this happening.
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I feel sorry for you. And i also wanted to give you thanks for making us concern about this fishing.
Thank you so much @sajib7. I feel we need to speak out about this. i wrote an update blog as a post today. It seems they are from Romania. You can read it if you wish. But please spread the word to be careful before you click. - Blessing s- Troy.
I just cant believe some assholes would be so fucking cruel that they would steal your hard earned steem and SBD. Pure scum. Where ever these bastards are right now I send out serious waves of justice, may they be scammed in return and have horrible luck untill they make ammends to the universe for this thoughtless selfish deed.
Thank you SO much for your love and kindness. I so appreciated the resteem and SBD gift. I have experienced so many emotions tears, anger depression, and gratitude for folks like you. I will be writing more about my experience as I can. I appreciate the true LOVE you have offered me. I do not have any upvote power currently as my upvote was trashed for 7 days at least. But I offer my gratitude and love Bonnie @soundlegion. - Blessings. - Troy
Your rigth its very hard to earn SBD @soundlegion
Do true. I have gone through so many emotions. I have blogged a second post as an update on this last night. It seems they are from Romania. Feel free to read it if you wish - Blessings - Troy.
That is rough man! What a hard lesson to learn. Honestly, I used to just use the master key for everything too.
Thank you @papa-pepper for responding. Yes it is a hard expensive lesson. We need to get the word out to educate Steemians of these potential scams and hazzards. Again thanks. - Blessings - Troy.
Aww..this is something very serious.. good that you are making us aware of it.
Resteemed.
Thanks for the kind resteem and support. I appreciate it.
So sorry for your lost, many wrote a post within the out gone week about www.steewit.com and their evil activities.
I did not know about it until now. I learned a hard lesson and wish these bastards could be confronted and denied access to this site. Justice needs to happen.
Oh No!!
Yes one must watch out and be careful or else you are taken advantage of. Thanks.
Those criminals must be put to jail, we are trying very hard to earn our sbd and sp here and I dont know why are these people doing this.. Its just not right..
It is not right. But they are an advanced operation and can channel money across several countries. As steemit is decentralized they can get by with it and they smell money. They have no conscience or morals. Thanks my friend.
@enjoywithtroy
U said good-karma stolen ur steems
Iam using esteem app i think its made by good-karma
Is it safe?
Or u got scam bcz u login mistakly to phsing link..
Plz reply
not good-karma but good-kama. Different spelling as is steemit and steewit. Thanks.
Oh, my mistake lolol, sorry good karma😟
Yes @reddust there is a big difference between good karma and good-kama. I did an updated post on the scam last night in my blogs . You can check out if you wish. It seems they are from Romania. Regardless we need to get the word out to protect each other. - Blessings - Troy
Thank god I read this comment, I was like WTF @good-karma is a witness!! LOL well, whoever goog-kama is, I hope they get theirs. SOrry to hear you were stolen from, I know the feeling, I had between 12-$15,000 stolen from me in Hawai'i a few years ago. Amount is estimated because not all of it was cash, a lot of it was electronics and solar equipment.
Yes the name is good-kama rather than good karma. The 'r' is missing in the scammer thanks for sharing. You understand the emotion you go through. Blessings.
Ohh.. Need to read twice - thrice before click on any link... Thnx for sharing... Will b alert
Indeed we need to be careful and read and reread. I did an update to the scam in my blogs today. Blessings - Troy
great one
Sorry for the lost , and thank you for sharing this post is very Helpul
Thank you for taking the time to read, Blessings.
Hope somehow your losses will be made up dear Troy! Thank you for writing this post. I resteemed it also!
Thank you for your kindness and selfless love. I do not understand why folks are this way. I will be doing a few more posts/updates on this event soon. The SBD was traded on Blocktrades nd traced to Romania, Switzerland and Amsterdam. They are high tech and I will share this in a future post as I want to keep this subject alive. It will take many months to make up the losses. Please continue to keep me in your prayers. Again thanks. Blessings. - Troy
Hi Troy the donation is a pleasure. I blame steemit for what happened to you. Having our wallets available for all to see is a gift to hacker's. We don't need to see one another's wallets, maybe just SP. I'll be changing the way I operate from now on which unfortunately going to cost me. I lost 8 STEEM from overnight trading already. I just checked all the steemit tag list and no tags for "scams" & "hacking" - how convenient. Maybe consider checking https://steemit.com/created/hacked periodically to see current threats. From now on I will send any funds directly to my savings account where at least they will have some protection. I went to the phishing website and I see they are linked directly to all live steemit posting etc. I wonder if this is a major blockchain flaw. Here are 2 images I took:
Don't worry I didn't log in LOL but I have to do some investigation. Maybe consider changing one of you tags to "hacked" so as to get more attention.
I agree with you. Having our wallets in plain view is not good. We would not do that if we were in public. Great point. I will use that in my next blog about the scam.
Hi Troy here is a new must read post about who is behind it https://steemit.com/phishing/@guiltyparties/ilovewww-phishing-attack-on-steem ND!! always check links before clicking :)
Thanks my kind friend. i am going to share this with others who are helping me spread the word.
Hi Troy my reason for not resteeming is because I want to keep my emoji catalogues and anxiety cure at the top. Also I only have a few active followers however you have my support apart from that.
Thank yo my friend. You always have my support as well. This has been a hard lesson and I will probably blog two more times. One will be as an editorial and one poetically. Again thank You. Blessings.
So sorry my friend! Thanks for letting everyone know!
This post was upvoted and resteemed by #thethreehugs. Thank you for your support of @familyprotection. #thethreehugs is currently donating 40% of "ALL" post payouts to @familyprotection.
Thank you. I appreciate the resteem. Blessings.
You are welcome my friend!! Many blessings to you!
Hi @thethreehugs. I did a new post on the scam as an update. Feel free to resteem it if you choose. It is in my blogs. - Blessings - Troy
I am both outraged and tempted. $2000 is $2000.
please do not be tempted. It is our bread and butter and many of us rely on this to help us financially. Blessings.
You are fully right its our bread & butter thanks for informing us about this scam as I have also seen some activiting in my account
Thanks
Amjad siddiqui
@maujmasti
Please be careful and cautious. before your click. I did an updated Scam alert post 2 last night and may do a few more. We need to get the word out to be careful and educate steemians. Thanks. - Troy
This is disheartening. I never thought this could be done here. I hope there is a better way to secure our accounts.
I do not know of a way. Unfortunately our wallets are public rather than private. And many of us rely on this for our livelihood. Thanks.
Sad to heard there are some dicks recking our community! Karma will greet them. Hope you get something back 💯🐒
I am sad also that this is here infesting our community. Because it is decentralized and global I do not have recourse to getting any thing back.. Did get a few donations though. Thanks. Blessings.
I just resteemed your post and gave you my very little upvote...I just transfered most of my Steem and SBD to my savings. It takes 3 days to withdraw but I will feel better now. Transfer to savings is on your sbd and steem tabs. Everyone be careful! I can't believe what happened, I am going to check and make sure these bad actors are not on my witness list. I don't think they are but I am going to check and make sure.
They are a misspelling and a misrepresentation of the good ones whose names are similar. Thanks so much for the the resteem. I will be doing several blogs on this and hope to gain awareness. Again thanks.
Sorry, Troy. That's a big hit, mate.
When you were on the fake site and the box popped up, did your browser auto populate your password, or did you have to type/ paste it in?
I'm really really sorry, dear Troy!!! It's really sad that some bastards (sorry for the bad word, but these persons are really bad) steal your maney. You always work hard here writing good content and enjoying the community, I'm so sorry :(
Thank you Silvia. I will be doing several posts on my experience and want to raise awareness. I will not get my SBD back. It will take many months and upvotes to get there. But I hope to bring this into the limelight.
Sorry to hear this man. Stay vigilante out there!
Thank you my fiend.
Hello @enjoywithtroy, so many people care about your loss dear! Such a beautiful blessing for Rick and I to see. We hope that more people share this horrible story, and we pray that these criminals are caught. May God bless you immensely friend.
Thank you my dear fiend. You and Rick have been most supportive and I truly appreciate it. Blessings.
Where do you find the other keys for posting etc? Im not sure about them
Under 'permissions' in your wallet tab.
Ignore the ones you see, they're gibberish.
Click the reveal box to the right to see the different keys.
oh okay, then how do you use it? Just use that as the password?
Logging in with the posting key will allow you to post and upvote, but not move money around.
Logging in with the active key will let you move money around.
Logging in with the owner key will do everything, including changing the other keys.
That is correct. Thanks @mattclarke thanks for explaining that to @nossy and the rest of us. I did a new update post to the scam in my blogs. Feel free to read if you choose. - Blessings - Troy.
this is horrible! a friend of mine just got scammed by the same people.
I gave you my upvote however small it may be. Good luck friend!
Thank you so much my friend . I am so sorry to hear of your friend. We need to be very careful before we click on anything. I did a new post as an update in my blogs. It seem they are from Romania. You can check it out if you wish. These folks need to be held accountable. - Blessings - Troy
I am so sorry that happened to you. I just hope that those bad people would get what they deserve. It's just frustrating when we have tried our best to earn something and then some bad guys just want it the easy way and steal money from us.
So true. It was my bread and butter and now it is gone. I wrote an updated post today in my blogs. You can read it if you choose. It seems they are from Romania. Eventually they will mess up and get caught. Blessings - Troy
I am so sorry you had to go through this!!!
Thanks No one should have to no though this. I hope we can keep scammers at bay.
Alas this is just the beginning as scamming cryptos is far easier than fiat. As always Buyer beware...but thank you for the notice... it is vital for us to know they exist and are actively seeking victims.
This is shocking - I do not know how people can do this and sleep at night - I hope there is a way to get it back
Sorry to hear that happened, but thank you for warning others. I hope karma is swift with them.
@enjoywithtroy - Thank you for this very important post and alert!
I have looked into the issue and found out a few things in more detail and with a use case:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@freedomshift/steemit-security-keys-and-scam-alert-how-to-be-safe-from-scammers
Hope it helps.
All the best!