Hello friends,
There is a scamming ring (1k+ accounts) posting comments in my name promising 300 HIVE if you vote for me as a Hive witness. I NEVER EVER offered money for votes and never will.
The comments contain a phishing link, so DO NOT CLICK IT. It's common sense by now to never click any suspicious links, and to never believe posts/comments that promise a reward for anything. Please be vigilant and be safe.
A few examples of the phishing accounts:
https://hive.blog/@optama/comments
https://hive.blog/@thomaslknapp/comments
https://hive.blog/@bob-dray/comments
And an example of the message:
Thanks to @guiltyparties, @networkallstar and @ganjafarmer for bringing this to my attention.
easy solution makes clicks unclickable after downvote ( for frontends).
Would be massive noob protection and use "proof of brain".
legit links could get hurt too, but for that, there could be a "do you trust that author" kind of massage.
That's a good idea, I'll relay it to the developers team.
Good news, the developers are actively discussing the idea and looking forward to implementing it.
Hehe, not bad! :)
That's sucks that they using your name, hope people wise up a bit because the there is so many scams out there
Absolutely no problem and I saw this and immediately thought what is going on because you'd never do this.
Looks like we have to educate all of the smaller accounts as quite a few of these small accounts keep getting hit with this scam.
We definitely need to figure out a way to deal with these individuals.
It's too bad we couldn't scam the scammers into coming and visiting me and having a long conversation about this in person.
Thank you very much for posting this up!
Also add @bob-dray to phishing scam list @drakos
From what @guiltyparties told me, it's a ring of more than a thousand accounts!
That is ridiculous!😳
It used to be LeoFinance for witness as bait. Now it's you. I guess that is some kind of compliment...
Indeed, I remember that being mentioned in the chats.
I received this mensage
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