Over the last 24 hours a major phishing attack was initiated on Steemit. Numerous individuals had their accounts stolen. Here is what the scam looked like yesterday.

Stay safe by following these steps:

• If Steemit looks like it's randomly asking you to log in, DON'T DO IT.
• Only log into your account using your WIF, not your master password.
• Mouseover all links to make sure you know where they go.
• Don't save images off Steemit, take a screenshot of them instead.
• If your account was compromised, recover it immediately here.

Help stop the spread:

• Flag any infected posts that you may find to hide them.
• Hiding posts helps reduce victims.
• Report infected accounts to Steemit.chat here.
• Be careful of what you upvote to ensure you don't accidentally support an infected post.

Mouse over all links in Steemit posts.

Touch each link with your mouse pointer and see where it goes. If it's a short link like bit.ly or a link to a site with aba.ae in URL, do not click.

If you speak another language outside of English, please either write a post or communicate this warning to other speakers of your language.

Knowledge is the key to resilience.

Resteem or copy/paste this post to spread awareness.

All payouts from these scam warning posts go towards the military veterans project.

The following accounts are known vectors:

@theflu
@bokser1991
@ehrmannii
@shawdisy

If you own one of these, recover immediately if possible.

While flagging the infected posts may damage the accounts' reputation, it's necessary to stop the proliferation of the malicious links.

The originating account for all this appears to be @felix.jasper which has since been flagged into oblivion.

Edit: Good news!

User @birjudanak recovered his account and deleted the phishing posts. Great job, buddy!

@rolf.bakker and @sallybeth23 got their accounts back as well. @rolf.bakker finished account cleanup and @sallybeth23 is still working on hers.

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