⛔ S**T! I Got Scammed Into Making $289 on Steemit

I got scammed into making $289 on Steemit, and I want to warn as many other people about it as possible - post this on other social media sites to warn all your friends!

It started slowly at first so I didn't even notice the scam was happening, or really understand it. I didn't know anything about crypto currency. I knew people used it to buy drugs on the dark web. I heard about Steemit from a friend who told me I should share my art on here. I was frustrated with Facebook algorithms, so I set up an account. A few people started to follow me. I saw $ signs and started to see some pennies next to my posts - but I knew it was a scam so I didn't pay much attention to them.

Pretty soon I got a commission from a patron in the UK who found my art on here. That was pretty awesome! I still didn't understand the cryptocurrency thing though. Then a couple of people started to sign up to my mailing list on my website by finding my posts on Steemit - so I figured I might as well keep posting.

"Peace Lotus"- 6 x 6 inches, acrylic paint on canvas. My first custom painting done for a Steemian, commissioned by Hive account@redrica - thank you!!

Eventually some time at the end of 2017, I went and looked up "Steem" on Google, and found out about CoinMarketCap. I looked up SBD. That's when I was like "Wait a minute, these pennies are actually worth 7x as much as a USD?" - I got excited! But I soon found out I had to set up a wallet and use exchanges and pay fees and give dubious new companies a lot of my personal information to ever cash it out. I knew it - it's a scam!

But getting a commission wasn't, and neither were the people commenting on my art and signing up for my mailing list. So I kept posting.

Then my brother Hive account@qcfoodie told me he was into "the crypto thing". He even owned Steem in his portfolio - but he'd never heard of Steemit! He also told me that he knew how to turn crypto into cash. He told me I just had to set up a wallet on https://coinsquare.io/ SO I got excited again! I set up the external wallet I needed, and hooked my wallet up to my bank. About 10 days ago I was still doubting it all, but I initiated my first cash out. I transferred 56 SBD to blocktrades, exchanged it for 1.53 LTC, transfered the LTC to my Coinsquare wallet, then exchanged the LTC for $289 Canadian dollars, and transferred it to my bank - and waited. And waited. More than a week went by. I knew it - it's a scam!

Today the money was in my bank account.

Wait, what? This "crypto thing" is real? Steemit is real? I earned money just for sharing my art - even if people don't buy it? Yes. I hope this serves as a warning to you. If you're an artist, foodie blogger, YouTuber, photographer, Mom-blogger, musician, poet, fashion blogger, political analyst, video game reviewer, meme lord etc.. - be warned, you could easily get scammed into making money on Steemit too!

You won't get scammed into making money by signing up to my e-mail list - but you will get cool art and special offers in your inbox :) Visit https://www.NexusVisions.com/art -Adam