This morning on steem.chat, I was approached by a scammer who's business plan is to get his victims to send him SBD on Bittrex in exchange of his $100 upvote on Steemit (of course you have to send him SBD first).
This person is using a username that is closely similar to a very reputable Steemian 
Hive account@gavvet in order to trick people into thinking it is him. The scammer is using (gavvit.) yes with a dot at the end on steem.chat and also the same profile picture being used by 
Hive account@gavvit on steemit.
A similar thing happened a while back also when some spamming troll 
Hive account@bilalhaider impersonated another reputable Steemian on chat and caused him trouble. He used a name close to 
Hive account@kafkanarchy84, which is the username of the well respected Steemian.
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Back to today's scammer/abuse/identity thief. Now I do not know if people fall for these cheap scammers on Steemit. But it is worth sharing, as it could help someone. And Hive account@gavvet deserves to be aware of the scammer planting scams while impersonating him.
"Prevention is better than Cure."
I will be posting screenshots of the conversation between the scammer and I below, I started to play around with him at the end after several failed attempts to get him reveal his Steemit username. It gets pretty funny.
I was trying to get his steemit username so we can expose him and flag him on this platform.
I failed at getting him to reveal his Steemit username so I started to mess with him a little.
I do not know what happened here but I guess he forgot that he was speaking to me for over half an hour.
We have to fight these sort of people taking advantage of other fellow Steemians, we need to expose them and spread the info so that we prevent them from operating here and tricking people around us. Please Resteem so that we can spread the word and get Hive account@gavvet aware that his identity is being stolen and used for nefarious purposes. I count on your help.
Thank you all for reading.
