If you see this comment in your own or other peoples blog posts DO NOT click on the light green this link - when you do it opens a Steem connect page that is auto filled with the original blog creators account name and exactly the amount of steem power they own - and it delegates all of that Steem Power to the account @steemitag - not only is this a scam for them to claim Steem Power delegation - but the way it is doing it by using exactly the amount of steem power the blog poster has - it means if they click the continue button - see below
which for many might be the only obvious way to get rid of the page - they delegate all of their Steem Power and then will not be able to perform any actions on Steemit - because you need some Steem Power to do anything on here.
I was contacted today on discord by one of my followers, he had clicked this link in his own post and accidentally handed all of his Steem Power to this bogus service. Fortunately someone had already helped him reverse the transaction - but when you delegate Steem Power it leaves immediately. Reversing the delegation takes 7 Days! So effectively my follower now had a useless steemit account because he could do nothing without his Steem Power. Fortunately I was in a position to delegate some of my own Steem Power to him so he can continue to post and comment. Obviously his upvote is reduced with his Steem Power taken away - and this will also hurt his curation rewards - but other users might not be so lucky as to have someone to hand who is willing and able to help them out.
The worst part about this is that link - which I can only presume is auto generated by a bot along with the reply - could be clicked by anyone reading the blog post comments - and if they then press continue - bang they just took away all the original blog posters Steem Power. That to me is a massive security issue that Steemit needs to look into - while the transaction can be reversed - the fact it takes 7 days and this rogue account is draining all the Steem Power from users means right now many people could be sat with an non functioning Steemit Account. Even worse some may not realise even what happened or might not know how to reverse it.
These comments seem to actually be getting posted in short bursts of time which suggests rather then a bot someone is manually pasting the comment information including the relevant users information. But taking all of an accounts Steem Power is just ridiculous - for reference if you ever delegate Steem Power on purpose you should always leave at least 50 Steem Power in your account so it can still function.
As Steem value grows I expect more and more scams and scammers will look to find ways to extract what they can from users here on Steemit. Be vigilant and wary - never transfer funds to unknown sources and double check the account names you enter - if something sounds too good to be true it most likely is so ignore people on discord who offer you big upvote rewards for sending funds to an account name or Bittrex or Polonex address's. If in doubt double check with people you trust on Steemit before doing anything.
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What about the password? If the password is not on the auto save mode, it should be safer.
Another reason, why you shouldn't put your passwords on auto save and change them frequently as well.
This is true, I did not continue past the continue button so you are most likely right it would need a password afterwards to authorise the transaction - but it's still an easy mistake to make and something that shouldn't be allowed to happen - it's obviously been done that way deliberately to scam Steem Power delegations off people.
Thanks for your advice..
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Does @ned know about this? i sure there is a way to remove that user.? cheers for the info dude.
That is good advice, I was trying to work out where to report it but was struggling to find answers.
upvoted & resteemed to spread the word. thank you for the heads up! I am going to their blog now and MUTING them so I NEVER even see one of their comments :)
Cheers!!!!
Thank you for taking a look and leaving a comment, that is good advice as well Muting the account will stop you seeing those spam replies.
Thank you :)
Thank you for this... I'm resteeming immediately! This is just a ghastly deed.
Thank you for taking a looking and resteeming, it's very annoying that something like this can be put into comments - and it is so obviously designed to mislead - and take away precious Steem Power from the new users that need it the most!
Its happen to me 01/01/2018 😢
About 392SP delegated
I'm waiting it to finish 7 days
Really I miss my Steem power
I don't know why they do that, they are scammers 😡
Really, I don't know how a human being can be so callous and hurtful to another. This is horrible. So sorry it happened to you :(
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That’s too bad :( The good thing is you can get it all back. It seems a little like losing a weeks worth of wages!
It's very annoying my friend, an easy mistake to make the whole reply it designed to make you want to click into it. At least you found out how to reclaim your Steem Power back.
i love your post
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thanku to your time for post like that..@coff33a
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Thanks for this alert
You may already have fraud by this link on our friend @askmee
Thanks for taking a look, it's an annoying abuse of the systems.
Thank you for warning us ,,, everyone should be careful
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Thank you very much for warning us! It very important post!
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your good samaritan deed of the day has been accomplished! There should be good samaritan bot that gives rewards for people that flag truly dangerous scams / bots / content.
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I think I was more annoyed one of my followers had been put in a situation where he could not post or do anything on Steemit.
Thank you very much for sharing my dear friend
It's a terrible abuse of systems which are there to help people, and shocking really that something can take away people's ability to post on Steemit at all just by accidentally clicking a few buttons.
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Yes! We need to stop scammers! Thank you so much for the information in this post, it will prevent a lot of people! Thank you so much foe doing what you do and making already this community a lot better!
I was very annoyed when I found out what had happened to one of my followers, at least they were lucky and I could help them out.
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Thank you very much dear friend for the alert
Thank you for taking a look, it's shocking really that for someone accidentally clicking a few times they could give away all their Steem power and be totally unable to post.
I think a lot of people have fallen into at least one fraud here,
People turn to users - pretending to be something else,
Asking for money for SP or any other already.
You have to check yourself a few times before doing something.
Thanks for the warning, I resteemed.
Thanks for taking a look, it's a shady way to run a supposed service for people.
Thanks for the warning. What’s up with all the bots on the comment section? Do you call them yourself?
Thank you for taking a look and leaving a comment. I follow this UpVote Bot Tracker https://s3.amazonaws.com/yabapmatt/bottracker/bottracker.html#bid<< and when an upvote bot looks like it will provide a good value upvote value I send funds to it and get an upvote in return which normally is a bit higher then the amount I send.
thank's for you favorable advice....
@follow back and upvote back @rezqiwahyudi
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Thanks for the information. Very useful, I have also explained in my post some time ago.
https://steemit.com/indonesia/@amriadits/things-that-are-prohibited-in-steemit
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I would report it to @steemcleaners
https://steemcleaners.org/abuse-report/
Paul, as usual you have all the answers. I was trying desperately to work out where to report it to - and that was exactly what I was thinking but I could not remember them and could not figure out to how to look it up. Will do that now thank you.
Hopefully they will nuke it to low rep so it wont be seen.