Verify Accounts With Good Reputation

Newbies are easy targets because they don't know how to check a verified account or perhaps they jump instantly to the offer especially when they're told to send a small amount of SBD/Steem in exchange for a huge upvote. I once received an offer over at Steemit Chat claiming to be Hive account@appreciator with a username Hive account@appreciiator to send 1 SBD for a 100% upvote, and although I didn't know about Hive account@appreciator yet, vote-buying doesn't sit well in my system so I politely declined their offer.

Being scammed is such a bad experience and we don't want newcomers to be scared away, so why don't we solve this problem by verifying accounts? Especially accounts with good reputations who do business, personal or as a community, over at Steemit. Those big accounts are targetted as well by scammers by using their usernames and good status, so I believe it's a win-win for everyone.

_{MY WITNESSES: Hive account@aggroed | Hive account@ausbitbank | Hive account@blocktrades | Hive account@cloh76.witness | Hive account@curie | Hive account@pfunk | Hive account@precise | Hive account@smooth.witness | Hive account@someguy123 | Hive account@steemgigs | Hive account@timcliff | Hive account@utopian-io}