RE: SCAM ALERT and WHITE HAT COUNTER-STRIKE
Thank you for solving this @arcange. I am @samstonehill and for the moment have been forced to another account. Was not aware they were using my account for this purpose now.
Your solution is perfect and exactly what I suggested when I explained this situation yesterday: https://steemit.com/steemit/@samstonehilltube/samstonehill-has-been-hacked-and-cannot-be-re-accessed-how-did-this-happen-and-what-are-the-solutions
Had I seen a message like this in my wallet next to the scammers message, clearly I wound't have made this mistake.
Thank you for highlighting these issues and spreading the word.
Am still keeping my fingers crossed that I will be able to confirm my identity directly with Steemit and regain control of my account.
The hackers are currently flagging me from my own account on everything I write in the new account. Not sure what they have against me?
I've just voted for you as Witness. And if I get my main account back I will do it from there too :)
Thank you for your great work.
Hey @samstonehilltube, sad to read you got hacked and had to restart from scratch.
Hard learned lessons are sometimes the best.
He is doing the same on me, but as he is a noob and burned all his voting power, not really hurting.
Unfortunately for your ego, I think he absolutely doesn't care about you.
He just want to express his frustration being thwarted ;)
Thanks a lot for your witness support!
I wish you all the best!
Many thanks for putting my ego in place. My missus has to regularly :)
He must be a rather sad individual. Still, you have done a great thing here and I intend to write a post on this subject. The community reaction to this situation has been amazing. @timcliff has already changed the wording for the registration process so that others don't make the mistake I made.
In my new account I have received so many donations today from awesome generous people.
And going through all the comments to my latest post, it is so encouraging to feel the passion of this platform.
Thank you for playing your part!
In general, I don't like bots. But today I want to thank you @arcange for giving me this great example how bots can be used for good. Counter-attack is a great tool in addition to a general advice to newbiess how to keep themselves secure.
Today I wrote a separate post advising my 1400+ followers what dangers they maybe facing here, and how to avoid em.
Together we are stronger than those scammers (sorry, but my coding skills are next to zero, so I can not make any bot like yours)
@samstonehilltube I will keep my eye on your new acct , will try to help recovering on this new acct as much as I can
Just for the record, I was going to change it but when I went to make the change, the wording in the screen shot was already there.
I want to take this opportunity to personally thank you and @arcange, for your assistance to @samstonehill in recovering his account. I am proud that I selected you as a witness and @arcange. You are both what I think one part of the witness program is all about, helping and supporting the users during crisis situations such as this and all the hard work you both did during the ddos attack. Thank you for your support of the Steemit community. both of you.
WE need to get 2fa added for added security as well .
Damn the inconvenience. You know what is inconvenient. Losing all your STEEM and loyal followers.
I am not aware of a way 2fa can be implemented at the blockchain level.
If it's possible to have 1 factor authentication, it's possible to have 2 factors. We already have this in a limited form via posting keys vs master keys.
Someone smarter than me will need to explain how it is possible with the blockchain technology. I am not sure how it could be done.
I want to thank you and @timcliff for all the assistance you both provided @samstonehilltube in recovering his original account @samstonehill. He was trying to bring a little bit of light to the evacuees in Bali because of the volcanic activity there when this happened. It is nice to see that things worked out for him thanks to you two.