Protect Yourself- As Steemit Grows So Do the Scams

Our beloved community is growing so fast! It's amazing to be part of something so good and powerful and unlimited in its potential!

Unfortunately, when you have something so good you attract the bad, and as we grow we are seeing more and more phishing and scams. When unsavories see there is money to potentially be taken, they will use sneaky and unscrupulous tactics to part you with your hard earned STEEM and SBD.

The first rule of Steemit is never give your private keys to anyone. Keep three copies in three different places for your personal safety, but you are the only person who should ever know your private master password.

If you can remember your password it is not safe enough.

You shouldn't use your master password to log in and post on Steemit. Your active posting, or owner key is enough. Keep your master password put away, you do not need to use it on Steemit for most things.

There is a phishing scam we are seeing more and more of lately. A comment will be made on your post with a link to go check out their post. Look carefully at any link before you click on it! This scam is taking you to a third party website and will steal your keys in order to have full access to your Steemit account.

There are also members in chat who are pretending to be our well known whales asking for STEEM or SBD, saying they will upvote and resteem your posts to their followers. Whales will never ask you for $. They have bigger fish to fry ;) The silly thing about this scam is that they are using a similar name but adding or changing a letter. @charles1 just wrote an article about this particular scam. He was approached by @kingscrrown pretending to be @kingscrown. Note the double R's.

And check out any service, wallet, or new crypto thoroughly before you register. With the massive growth the crypto industry is seeing it is easy for a scam to slip on by with a professional looking website. Do your research!

And remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

If we all keep our eyes open and exercise common sense we will keep our community safe by standing against scammers! They will see we Steemians stand together and do not put up with this sort of nonsense and they will move on to easier targets with their broke tails between their legs.

Be safe my friends! And may the cryptos be ever in your favor :)

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