Today I saw a comment promoting some contests here.
I just checked one of those links to see what was the contest about, and I was surprised that I wasn't logged in steemit. I loaded steemit on another window and I was logged in, but I reload the link of the user to check the contest and I wasn't logged in there... Imagine my surprise when I see it is a fake site!
This is how the comments look
I was CLOSE to put my password in there because I thought it was my browser that wasn't logging me in... but no, it is a fake site trying to steal people's passwords.
If they steal your posting password they will use it to keep making those comments over and over again. If they steal your owner password (which is the one used by a lot of people) they will steal everything.
Be careful with these new scam attempts! This is the first time I see something like this, and it worries me because the site is 100% identical to steemit, and it seems to be connecting with the steem blockchain to load real data. So these scammers are no amateurs.
I think could take legal action against this? They are pretending to be
...
Please protect your passwords and report them with or any other account that deals with these things.
Now that user has been taken care of, but there could be others promoting the same fake website.
UPDATE
Just discovered another user (who was probably hacked) doing the same https://steemit.com/@ana-maria/comments