Yes, SCREW YOU!! People like you deserve the wrath of karma that will eventually make its way to you!
I am beyond peeved!!!
Despite all the ups and downs of this platform my mom @lizziesworld, much like me - has remained loyal for the two years that she has been here. At the age of 70, every day, she diligently writes and shares her gardening knowledge and tips with her followers and the rest of Steem and she did not deserve this!
This morning I received a message of panic from her, only to discover that not only had she been robbed of 120 Steem and 40 SBD - which was literally her ENTIRE WALLET, the fncking scum bag even had the bloody nerve to start a powerdown... you know, rob her slowly as a cherry on the cake!
Naturally, the very first thing I did was change her password and cancel the powerdown, and will now make contact with @steemcleaners - but there is nothing I can do to "undo" the way she must be feeling right now! If there is one way to make a person lose faith, it is to rob them of the rewards afforded through their efforts. I know this may not be worth a lot to some, but it was TWO YEARS of saving and was EVERYTHING to my mom!
I have DRUMMED it into my moms head from the start that she is not to click on links in comments etc. and whilst we cannot state anything as "matter of fact", what we do know - is that the only thing "out of the ordinary" that she has done of late was to click on a link in her wallet memos...
I wish I could offer some kind of "quick fix" for her, but we all know the likelihood of that... but I CAN however, try my best to appeal to those around me to help generate and replace at least a little bit of what was robbed... so,
All the earnings from this post will be given to my mom. If you are willing and/able to help me do this in whatever way you can, even if it is just a resteem... I would be eternally grateful and I know that it would help to ease the blow for my mom too...
❤ THANKS PEEPS ❤
Until next time...
Much Love from Cape Town, South Africa xxx
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I will give her some upvotes. She has some cool post.
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Thank you so much! I appreciate that very much and yes, she does!!! :)
@jaynie & @lizziesworld,
There's always someone, isn't there?
Someone who targets the old and the young, the weak and the meek. Degenerates lacking the moral fortitude to fight for anything larger than themselves. They are the cockroaches of our species, scurrying about in dark corners and stealing with guile what others have earned with gravitas and grit.
No behavior is too low, no undertaking too abominable. "Honor" is not only a foreign concept, the word, and the ideal it is meant to invoke, is one they hold in contempt.
To quote a great poet (me):
Lizzie, the loss of your money, the meager result of two years of effort, is regrettable. But it is an amount sufficiently small to be written off as ... tuition. The far greater thing that risks being taken from you is the ability of one human being to believe in the goodness of another.
Take a look at the comments on this post. Look at the number of people willing to forfeit a piece of their own meager earnings so as to symbolically share in your misfortune. The trick in life is not "learning lessons." The trick is not learning the wrong ones.
Following this comment, I am going to compose a post: A Poetic Curse, for the cockroach who stole your purse. Curses are like engines ... they need gas to run. So, I will ask readers to fill up the tank with upvotes and donations. I suspect the Power House Creatives (lead by your indefatigable daughter who possesses as much soldier in her soul as do I) will ensure the post's wide distribution. Hopefully, we'll be able to get you back to where you started.
Quill
You live and breathe?
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Is...is... That Quillington? 😮
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Resteemed, also sent your mum 10 steem to help out! It's a little, but it all matters. :)
It ALL counts and thank you!!!!
All good and I understand it as a mate of mine lost some stuff last year, when he was on Steemit.
yeah it really blows!
I have some sbi you can give to her, will send it to you
Really appreciate that @wales, thank you xx And I see it did arrive.
I stop by her posts almost daily (because she has such a great green thumb) and I love her gardening posts.... and this!!!
Just terrible!
People spend more of their time trying to steal from others, manipulate and be hoodlums than they do trying to actually earn a living!
Yip... got to love the human race :/
That is horrible! What a lowlife to do something like this to anyone. My vote isn't worth much but I have resteemed as well <3
It is indeed! and thank you for the help x
@Jaynie and @Lizziesworld... I'm sorry to hear this. That kind of behavior is disgusting, to say the least. The only good thing I can do is to give her a 100% upvote and I sent her 10 SBI. I know it won't cover much, but, I hope it helps a little.
My heart goes out to her. A lot of work was put into those rewards. That is hard earned cash. And to be blindly robbed. Well, unnerving.
PS... Make sure that she is logging out after she is done.
!tip
You are such a gem @dswigle MWAH!!!!! Lots of love!
XOXO
Fuckers.
I sent 10SBI to @lizziesworld to help with future post payouts for the long run.
Use the savings account if you need quicker access to funds with a 3 day security period or just power it all up. I'm sure you've already taken safety measures now
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Thank you boot boy! MWAH! This horrible experience has actually shown a very positive turn for my mom in the long run and hopefully, more people will also take the time to read what she writes... because she is not connected to any discord servers.
And I'll be sure to comment more on her posts seeing as I don't get online harassment from that part of your family 😛
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HAHAHAHAHHAA!!!!! - I will have to train my mom lol
No, no you will do no such thing 😁
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Advice to only use steemit.com where posting key is use and keep the active key secure.
Use the active key if you want to withdrawal.
In this way, you minimize risk of losing your hard earned steem.
Send my regards to your mom. Not all steemian are bad, just a few rotten tomatoes.
Unfortunate about those rotten tomatoes... and as for the password, she was using her posting key... so not sure what happened :(
The bad actor got the active key that’s for sure.
Bad experience happens to all of us and As children helping to bring up her mood.
Cheers to you.
many thanks
I read what you're writing, but how come these past few days, with this keychain and steemconnect in one form is seems to be confusing where it get to a point that it literally ask you to put in a posting and then says it's incorrect that you need to put in your active key. It appears like your posting and active keys are being gathered, just saying cause it's what been happening this past few days, but before it wasn't like that.
saw this post on @pypt #pypt
and sending your mom some Steem!
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Thanks for engaging with posts presented on PYPT
This is the Blockchain. Everything is recorded ... so I am pretty sure they can find the criminal and exact justice.
I certainly hope so!
Some people! I'm sorry you're both dealing with this ... you're a good daughter @jaynie :)
Terrible news @jaynie but we will contribute all a bit so that she will soon forget this bad experience and get back to her routine. Screw that asshole and all of his kind
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Thank you!!!
That truly sucks.
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True Story! :/
Puah what an asshole. Sorry about that :/
yeah indeed! My mom is devastated :(
I imagine. I had a brush with a scammer in my early days on Steem and I remember I was terrified :(
It's a horrible feeling and even worse when you lose everything!
It's a horrible
Feeling and even worse when
You lose everything!
- jaynie
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
This is why staying powered up is always the safest bet!
I'm very sorry to hear that... but how could they get in? Your mom must have logged in at that link, afterwards, no? Just clicking a link doesn't give the hacker access to the Active Key, does it?
I'd like to understand how it happened so I learn what to avoid...
I would love to understand too! I can only assume that it must have had something to do with that memo link, yes. Unfortunately, being of the older generation, and doing her best... she is not quite as tech savvy as the rest of us... :(
I will do all and I will send you a dm too 🧐
MWAH!
sorry but only few amount my full upvote, but I resteemed it.
I don't understand people, other people working hard while others doing nothing. What's worst is that they never choose who to victimised. The money or earnings might be earn back but the emotions of being robbed is not. They just wasted their skill in doing stupid thing's.
I feel sorry to your mom, but I'm sorry this is only I can do.
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Thank you so very much!
Yeah, I have stopped trying to understand minds that do things like this - especially to those who have so little to begin with!!!!!
You got a 50.00% upvote from @brupvoter courtesy of @abitcoinskeptic!
Thank you @abitcoinskeptic xxx
I am so sorry this happened to her - I am so scared of this because we do not get a lot so every cent counts and then this. It is like somebody used my game account in one or other way and racked up R5000 of debt. I do not understand humans.....how do you sleep at night? So if it get stolen it is gone? No way to get it back?
yeah the human race never ceases to make me shake my head in despair. Well, apparently we should be able to trace it, so am looking into that right now.
Unbelievable, I am so sorry for your mom! I hope you are able to find out who the horrible person was!!!
thank you xxx and yes, I certainly hope so too!!!
Cant stand dishonesty!!! Bloody scums of the earth are a cancer to this world....to put in the effort(that could easily be used in a good manner) to take what is not theirs.
I too hope they find many a difficulty in their life!
Sterkte
Thank you @towjam! And yes, I hope they trip and fall on a really tiny pavement... or stand on a piece of lego lol
I knew there had to be a gif for that... 🤣
To the hackers...
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I can't even... your poor mom.
Haven't done this in a while, so not sure if it's going to work properly, but I've bought a vote for this post and your mother's latest, from SmartSteem. I'm hoping it will help get more attention on both.
I'm also sending a little bit of Steem to her wallet - I wish it were more, but hopefully all the little bits of support combined from the Steem community and the #PowerHouseCreatives family will help ease the sting.
Fingers crossed this gets sorted as quickly as possible.
Thank you love xxxx You have all been SO amazing!!!
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I'm so sorry this happened to your mamma @jaynie 🙏
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yeah - NOT cool! :(
Like my sister In-law in her first account she was hacked by users. Why they are doing like that. And all her earnings are withdraw transfer to his account I forgot the user but he really a bad person.
I hope we can find out who this piece of trash is!
Yes! we I well help you to find that bastard..
Thank you!
@jaynie and @lizziesworld
I am so sorry that this has happened. I know how it feels: such an invasion and one feels so helpless. And any sensibility one might have had, flies out of the window.
I remember how I was supported by wonderful people like @zord189, @simplymike, and @guiltyparties when I was hacked and needed to recover my account.
This kind of conduct is unfathomable. I am always left asking, "Why?"
Upvoted (100%) and resteemed. Let me know if there's anything else...happy to chip in....
MWAH!!! Thank you!
I feel terrible for your mom, sorry some people suck! This is a reminder to me though that I should probably move my liquid steem into a safer place rather than leaving it open in my steem wallet. :0(
Some people really DO suck!!!! Yeah it was a good reminder for me too... to start making use of the savings in my wallet too.
I feel bad for that, but I know justice will always prevail l.
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I hope you are right! And thank you!
I hope that the responsible of this end out of Steem. These kind of behaviours should be erased from this blockchain, I bet though that people will support this post gladly.
They certainly have already - just another reason why I love the Steem community! thank you!
UGH! :-( Assholes.
And that's putting it politely.... I had to restrain the four letter words on this one.... grrrrrrr
Yes - these people deserve four letter words :-(
...an endless supply....
That’s awful!!
I will swing by her posts for a bit.
thank you sweetie xxx
The little I can do
Let me know when your mum's account is secure and I'll send over some Steem x
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I am sorry to hear that. This is so awful. I did not know your mom, but I will help with what I can.
🎁 Hi @jaynie! You have received 0.1 SBD tip from @dswigle!
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This certainly represents the lowest of humanity; on the positive side, however, there are more good people in the world than bad (I really do believe that) and as the replies and reactions from your post show, community is stronger than assholes when acting as a cohesive unit. I know it's small consolation, but we can at least take some solace from that.
I've got a little steem that I can send your way. Hope it goes at least some way to helping make things better.
I concur!!No need re. the steem. So many people have come forward already! Thank you xxxx MWAH!
I'll try to go upvote her posts to help her recover. I just signed up for Jerry Banfield's email newsletters and got a nice upvote from him - that might help her recover too. @jerrybanfield. Should we all be changing our passwords regularly? I'm like your mom - I have little idea what I would do if this were to happen to me. I'm sorry she and you are going through this.
Thank you @owasco she will really appreciate your support xxx
That is terrible. People like that make Steem not so much fun...
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Thank you @hans001 xxxx
Well you have a 20steem upvote by @tipu from me to help making this post trending. I hope others will do the same too. Don't click on links no nothing. Okok YouTube something like that but others no.
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This is terrible. Nothing is sacred anymore. U & R your post. I will send her 10 steem.
Motherfuckers always trying to fuck around. Don't worry, those kind of people end up getting what they deserve, eventually.
oh yes they will!
People suck.
upvoted and resteemed
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#Truestory! and thank you xxx
Mean people suck. I am so sorry.
I have said to myself before that I should either power up my steem or take it out. I have not lately been doing this. This is a harsh reminder.
I understand your mother's upset and despair when she discovered that there are such people among us. Sorry! Besides my small vote, I will try to do something more ...
This is really a sad news to hear.
This is a shit thing to happen. I've read your mum's blogs and they're insightful and full of knowledge, pass on my sympathies to her.
100% upvote from me + resteem.
As to the thieving asshole who did this, scumbags like that usually have pretty empty lives but that doesn't help the people they rob 🤬
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It's something that unleashes the anger and anger of anyone, all the work done so that another idiot comes to steal it, this type of people deserve the worst of punishments, I still find it hard to understand why there are such people, why not earn the money the best way. You have my vote that is worth practically nothing, and a resteem for many more people to see it and especially to be attentive to what happens.
That's just horrible.
On the plus side it shows the benefits of layered security if yer powered up and keep an eye on your account!
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Twats. The only good that comes of this is proving once again how giving and wonderful the community is when one of our own needs a boost!