Whale Impersonators - SCAMMING WATCH OUT!
The Strike
Yesterday I was enjoying my chat with a few fellow Steemians in the STEEM chat when all of a sudden I get a message from a person with the name of Sweeetsssj, and I thought it was @Sweetsssj the famous food and travel blogger! Immediately I jumped to reply to the message, and I see it is a link to Sweetsssj's new blog in Turkey. Seeing it lead me to her real profile I began to assume it was her!
Once I started to believe it was her, the fake scammer began to praise my posts says that they have improved a lot and they look great. After buttering me up nicely, the fake began to offer me a resteem for any post, but with a big price tag!
The scammer began to claim they are prepared to give me a resteem of any one of my articles, but only for 5000 SBD! I know, I know, you have got to be crazy to pay that much for a resteem, although when you get desperate anything sounds reasonable haha!
5000 SBD For a Resteem
The conversation continued, and then the fake scammer began to offer me an upvote for 7 SBD because I did not have 5000 SBD for the "resteem." Boy oh, boy did things get confusing from there! They kept pushing me to send the SBD to Bittrex and not to the Sweetsssj steemit account; this started to get fishy. They would not even send me an account number; they were stupid you can't send fund with out the wallets ACCT number.
The next hour went towards trying to figure out how the hell to send 7 SBD to them. I tried transferring, block trades and bittrex. It becomes apparent they purposely did not give a wallet number to send SBD. They wanted to ensure it won't send so they can ask for my password to help me "send it" quickly.
The scammer asked me for my password, I knew right away it was not the real deal! There after I purposely spent the next hour messing around with the scammer to give them a head ache from frustration trying to get my password.
I am writing this to show you that there are scammers out there, be careful! Never give away your password, even if @Dan the man who started Steemit asks for it, don't give it! Never send money to anyone for a "Resteem" unless it is a bot.
There are many more users who the scammer had also messaged in the pictures below.
Thanks to @Sweetsssj she contacted STEEM support, and that account had been removed.
Even though that account was removed, it does not mean that there are no more scammers out there, preying on helpless hard working steemians.
Glad you posted and share with us
Your welcome! I felt if i was almost tricked, many other could be tricked also.
Holy Shit, Resteemed!
That's what I said @hilarski LOL I'm honestly curious if somebody would see 5K for a resteem as a good call... Unbelievable 😂
Hahaha, desperate times call for desperate measures lmao.
HAHHAHAHAHAHA such an awesome GIF!
Dirty phishing act. Amazing how scammers always get so creative in stilling. If this energy was used to real good creation it would have been better. I think the scam itself (which I am totally condeming) fell because of the greedyness. Thanks for the info.
Exactly, its so creative and cunning, if they put that energy towards writing something they could at least sum up to something rather than being a scammer.
Good work exposing these scammers.
Thanks you very much, it's is scary and people really need to know and protect them selves :).
First red flag, a whale contacting you...disgusting
Hahah I know right, which whale is going to sit in the steem chat and talk to random people for an hour!
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We're likely to see more scams here. There's money to be made and that attracts the bad people. Let's be careful
Yes, and they use these familiar faces to lure us in and it's scary because some newer steemers would never know and maybe give away their passwords too.
You would hope people know how silly it is to give away a password. It's so easy to check if a Steemit account is legitimate by checking the history, but chat accounts can be faked. We need to be generally aware on-line.
That is terrible!
It's very sad too, taking advantage of other people and some are vulnerable and not knowing!