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RE: Warning!!! Scammers on Steemit are getting smarter: Phishing links, Steem clones et al
WARNING! The comment below by @katekor11 leads to a known phishing site that could steal your account.
Do not open links from users you do not trust. Do not provide your private keys to any third party websites.
Please read the post asap and act accordingly ...it is a post about spam...remove your flag and do a good job with your bot, you and @mack-bot...this post is to warn the community about scam
Please read point #1 here: https://steemit.com/steemcleaners/@anyx/introducing-guard-a-proactive-measure-to-limit-phishing-on-steemit
It's important to avoid accidents by avoiding using the phishing link itself!
The flags are removed, but please understand it's impossible to determine if you're warning or trying to phish, if you're using the link itself.
Thanks!
Thanks for the clarification....
What?! This guy @charles1 has been around this platform for quite a long time now and never posted anything wrong. I think Guard @guard needs to be calibrated. @anyx
Good point....thanks for your comment
@guard and the others also dowbvoted my post where I reported spam yesterday. I think the problem is instead of using .com, edit the site to (dot) com
More so, some bots will even collect ur money and will not upvote saying it's scam. Quite funny.
Funny it is. But the quite annoying kind of funny. Have you raised this issue?
@bikerkiddo
I did and was refunded. You can check it out in my blog.
Issue is you can't filter out high rated members as hacked accounts posting links will become a very serious threat as time moves along. Think about how facebook spam gets sent around once an account is hacked. If a "trusted" account isn't flagged from directing towards a knows spam link then a hacked account increases in value.
I guess the main problem here is not the hacking of accounts, but anti-spam and anti-phishing bots don't exempt links, words and accounts even if they are totally safe. Anything that goes under their radar, whether the content is safe or not, as long as it contains 'words' or content that they deem pose a threat, they mark it as spam.
But...is it still the same thing now? I hope @guard and other bots have been calibrated. Been away from the Steemit world for over a week.
I fixed the flags. The bot works as it was designed. In a previous out break we had reports of at least 2 accounts stolen when someone accidentally opened a clickable link in a post warning others. Some browsers, particularly mobile browsers, and browser extensions make domain names without the "http://" clickable links.
In my opinion, right now it is more important to stop the spread even if a few users get accidentally flagged. These phishers have been changing tactics frequently to avoid being flagged. Buying domains costs them money. Adding sub-domains like abc.badlink.com doesn't and I won't be surprised if that is the next step. Specifying
https://www.badlink.comorhttps://badlink.comwould make the bot ineffective.Thanks for your explanation and understanding...I wish you success my dear @patrice the spam/scam slayer ...more success to you
Good explanation. I hope you do the needful on my own posts too. @patrice
Mine was also flagged yesterday
There is a scam i posted about, earnings are off please help stop these guys. @patrice @charles1 its not phishing but its criminal.
how ironic :( given the title of this post
You are correct...that is the issue we have here...they should read post 1st before commenting or flagging
he didn't read your post obviously. Appreciate it instead make a stupid accusations. He's trying to help all of us :)
Good point, they just flag without reading posts
Yeah seems ...special