Hello dear steemians!!!
While most of us are busy trying to create good and original content to the steem blockchain and get it curated by other users who liked the article, its so painful to find out that some others users are parading around trying to scam other innocent steemit users.
Just some minuetes after publishing an article of mine (Looking up to the sky.....) i found an article from Created tab which really caught my attension. The title is "Finally 😲 i found glitch in steemit"
Glitch: sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment.
I immediatly opened and here is what saw:
i quickly went ahead to click on the link and immediatly, a Sign in page poped up:
Now look at the web address of the url box changed and it reads "Not secure" which simply means this user is trying to make it look like you signed out of your account and you have to sign in again by inputing your login detail, once thats done, your steemit account would be compromised and once compromised, this user will start using your account to resteem and spreed it more. In the other hand, you dont have control over your account anymore.
This person is a great threat to the community. currently, the user is now spamming same post to the blockchain with an interval of about 5 minuetes.
I would like to recommend to all steemian that you should never use your master key in any website that is less secure. There are lots of phishing website created just to scam other innocent users. Their is a big difference between HTTP:// and HTTPS://, The "S" stands for secure. I am not trying to say that any website with the Https:// is a safe place for you to drop your WIF but i am just giving the difference. but if you must use any key in anyother website aside https://steemit.com, i strongly recommend that you use just your posting key and not your Master key.
You may want to resteem this article to create more awarness to other users and help spread the scam news
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