No matter how much we try, assholes find a way to scam on Steemit. One such scam is happening right now. The guy tried to scam me too and after some basic check, I was able to determine that it was a scam. Then, I was able to locate the culprit as well. I love when stupid people try to scam. Everything they do screams the word scam.
It all started with Minnow Booster. I was involved too. Don't get me wrong. Let me share with you what happened.
My messages to about
paying 5 times more than required. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of loss to Minnow Booster and
I had requested SP lease from MinnowBooster market four days ago. In total four separate requests. One was filled. Three were not. I got the sent Steem back for the three unfulfilled requests. But I received 5x more than I had sent. Roughly 350 Steem for free.
Each transfer done five times, four times not required.
I don't know how my followers feel about me but I am person with principles, especially when it comes to financial stuff. I immediately sent the above shown messages to , one of the minds behind the amazing services and intiatives like
. He is yet to see my messages. Unfortunately so.
Meanwhile, a smartass created an account today with the name of Minnow Booster Beta (same as 's) but with username pse. He thought of this sitaution as a good opportunity to scam people and get some Steem. How did I know? Because he sent me this!
You can see my response to him too.
The idiot is sending 0.001 Steem to everyone who got extra Steem with the memo which reads like this, except the amounts.
Minnowbooster Team : we have transfered you 65 steem in 5 transactions by mistake. It was a bot malfunction. we have detected your actual refund is 13 steem. please refund 52 steem @ pse
Upon further inspection, I found the real account behind this scam. It was very simple. He needed Steem to send 0.001 to everyone so he sent 0.100 from his original account. Memo is interesting.
First ever transaction in the wallet of a brand new account cannot be a refund. Such an idiot!
Nice job . Now get fucked forever.
Not smart enough to scam
Resteem to let people know about this scam in particular and Steemit based scams in general!