Unfortunately new users on HIVE and SteemIt need to create accounts on both platforms to avoid name squatters and potential identity theft.
You probably should contact @hivewatchers #hivewatchers . They might have resources to help dv the bad account. STEEMD says that this has been going on for 19 moons:
https://steemd.com/@creativemary
Hiveblocks says your HIVE accounts is 23 moons old
Hi! I have created my account on Hive only, I never was on the old Steem site. So whoever has been doing this saw my account on Hive and decided I am a great content supplier in order for them to copy paste. It is sad. I also saw that people interact with this scammer and that they are pretty successful on Steemit. Sad. I hope someone closes that account.
thank you for your help and support!
I began on Steemit, and have since moved to Hive via Peakd as my dApp, but both of my accounts are "linked" where my former Steemit posts are also seen below all of my Hive content(that's all I use now). Are you saying I need to make a separate Hive account as well to avoid something like this?
You joined SteemIt before the hard fork. The hard fork was a copy of the SteemIt database.
PeakD shows posts from the HIVE blockchain. All of your PeakD posts are on hive.blog.
A huge portion of the install base has accounts on both platforms.
The problem is that people who join SteemIt or HIVE after the hard fork don't have accounts on both platforms. So, if you created a good HIVE account, an imposter could claim the STEEM account and trade on your reputation ... and visa versa.
If you have not changed the password on your account since the hardfork, you probably should. You should also change the recovery account on your HIVE account.
BTW, you have an account on the Blurt hard fork.
https://blurtwallet.com/@ds-tech/transfers
The password to your blurt wallet is the password that you had at steemit at the time of the hard fork
!beer
Okay thank you for clearing that up for me.
I honestly didn't even know about Blurt until just now when you mentioned it.
I'll have to check it out.
When you say change my password since the hard fork do you mean for Hive or Steemit?
Also, are you talking about assigning new keys or like a shorthand password?