During my time on steemit, I have seen A LOT of spam that has just gotten under my skin. This SPAM I found today just makes me want to VOMIT......
I recently lost my dear friend Laura Lemons. I made a loving tribute post to her. The Steemit community lost her too. She was well known here. I made it VERY clear in the post and comments that I plan to donate some of the proceeds to an organization that helps those with mental illness:
My friend pointed out to me today that someone was spamming the post. So, I checked it out. Sure as can be, we have a clear case of a spammer trying to capitalize off my deceased friend. In my post I made it clear my relationship with Laura.
clearly did not know her, especially considering they've only been on steemit since August. This individual pulls a drawing from Laura last post calling it her "last portrait." When in fact it was one of her older pieces!!
I screenshotted each of the 12 spam comments from in my original post:
Here is post:
https://steemit.com/art/@asmaasema/last-sharing-of-lauralemons-8-days-ago-peace-be-upon-her
There is a lot of begging for resteems. I made my post because I loved Laura and had a personal relationship with her for about 18 months. Laura was a great friend of mine and this news has been devastaring, to say the least. Laura was not fortunate enough to get quality healthcare soon enough. So I made it clear, I WILL BE DONATING. And I will provide proof too. Both made clear in my post, full of also proof that I knew and loved Laura.
You're not fooling me or anyone else . Trying to capitalize off a deceased individual you DID NOT KNOW is not what steemit is all about. Dropping 12 comments in my post begging for resteems on your inaccurate post about Laura is about as low as it gets.
I'm just so upset someone would try to actually capitalize off this. The words coming to mind right now would kill the "professionality" of this post. So I am going to leave this in the hands of the steemit community with special thanks to for pointing this out to me.