BEWARE OF PHISHING ACCOUNTS: I LEARNED THE HARD WAY

I originally intended to let this slide and not write about it mostly due to the fact that I was careless but then, I have to do this for the overall benefit of the community.

Formerly Hive account@kingabesh, now Hive account@kingabesh1. All I do is try to improve the blockchain by posting quality contents which isn’t what we usually see around here.

I spend a great deal of time reading posts I find interesting here too and I try as much as possible to leave honest comments and also upvote the quality ones. That was actually the cause of my downfall today but I won’t stop doing the right thing (commenting on and upcoming quality contents) anyway.

I was a bit unfortunate today or maybe careless I’ll say but definitely not stupid. I basically tried to invite a newbie to a discord channel owned by Hive account@steemstem of which I’m a proud member and all we do is aim at promoting quality contents in science, technology, engineering and maths.

This is not the first time I’m doing this as I like to look out for promising writers and give them meaningful tips as regards to producing quality contents. Unfortunately, I had copied my master key and though I highlighted the discord link, it just occurred to me that I didn’t properly copy it. So basically, I ended up hyperlinking my master key thinking it was the discord link.

Literally 5 seconds later, my account was stolen. By Hive account@chumah. I was careless. I take full responsibility but I’ll use this post to enlighten users on why you should never use your master key online.

Your private posting key is used to log in and upvote as well as comment. Your active key is used to carry out wallet transactions. Your public posting key is used to join voting trails. Don’t give out your posting and active keys at any instance. Your master key should be written down or printed and saved on paper and doesn’t necessarily have to used for safety purposes. You can’t even trust your email not to be hacked. To get these keys. Simply go to “wallet” and then “permission” and you’ll see all these keys.

It’s really difficult for me to come at Hive account@chumah as it’s my fault but beware of this fraud. He sends all the stolen SBDs and steem to @MrJulz777 whose wallet transactions are questionable.

The images below will give you an insight into his fraudulent activities.

I’m not the first to fall victim to these rentboys but hopefully, I’ll be the last.

Please resteem and upvote to give this a lot of visibility. Bring these frauds to justice.

Thanks to @MathsOwl, Hive account@dexterdev, Hive account@samminator, Hive account@katerinaramm, Hive account@steepup, Hive account@saho, @JustTryMe90 and the steemstem community for the moral support shown during these difficult times.

Together we stand !