Beware of this new way of phishing attack

in #steemitabuse7 years ago (edited)

I just saw a niche way of phishing while seeing one of the posts in my feed. And I think, I must spread the word so that it can save someone.

The post I am talking is this one : https://steemit.com/dmania/@saimegh/this-is-how-users-are-spamming-supporters-to-get-dmania-upvote-zg1hbmlh-qhr7o

If you go there then you can see this comment :

So the very first impression of anyone will be to verify, if that is true or not. Because you believe, you are following someone who should not be doing this.

And then you click that link : It takes you to a page, which actually will let you feel that the claim of copying the content was true.

And then there will be a prompt to log in. Hold on, before you do anything else.

The look and feel are exact same as steemit, however, if you see the url then it starts with :

https://steeemit.(dot)ml/steemit/@felixjasper/.......

I have purposefully deleted part of this url and edited, so that no one falls into trap by mistake by clicking here.

If you go back to our original post I mentioned and just point your mouse to the link posted in that comment, then you can see there is a little text that pops up on mouse pointer saying This link will take you away from steemit.com

But often people just click the link, without even pointing and reading.

So be careful, and do not fall into traps. I thought, its my responsibility to convey this to the community.

@steemcleaners , @spaminator , please help in here to take care of the author.

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Always something to keep an eye out for. Thanks!

Thanks for the timely alert. @sanmi the hackers are trying to oversmart the smart steemians..👍

Such a good reminder to everyone to be aware of what you do. These scammers try to make use of people who are gullible and not as careful to earn. Take caution and READ.

I didn't checked in comments lol 🤣.... Looks like he already got downvote from steemcleaners 😊...

i see he has good rep and he had normal posts until few days ago, and he transfered 200 steem to bitrex so could it be that he was hacked?

Who knows !!!

great post and nice for you to share. i also updated on a spam that is going around. check my blog for it. upped

Nice work here @sanmi. Information is power. This can save

Thanks mate will resteem