I just wanted to create a short blog to warn you about scammers on Discord.
A lot of you that have been active in different Hive related Discord servers probably have experienced bots from scammers reacting on questions posed in the Discord servers.
But today I experienced something different which I'd like to warn you for. I received a friend request from an unknown user. I work in the IT security field, so I'm quite distrustful. I think that鈥檚 professional deformation. But it comes in handy sometimes.
This morning I received a friend request from a certain Jordan.
I didn't recognize the name as a hiver, but curious as I am, I accepted the request.
Jordan, with ADMIN in his avatar asked me if I had any issues and if I needed some assistance... .how nice!
I played stupid to see what the next
When I told him I was fine, he immediately told me I needed to migrate my wallet to 'the system portal'? to avoid any further issues (Despite the fact that I had just told him I had no issues).
I played stupid and asked how I would do that and within a minute I received a link I had to click with a procedure to follow.
If I would have followed it, my account would probably be hacked.
Be aware!
Since this guy was in the Official Hive Discord I reported it and he was banned.
But then, tonight I received another friend request. I must be very popular. This it was someone with the Hive logo as avatar and the name of the account was Hive Support.
Ans if you ask yourself; is there an official Hive Support account 馃槀
There isn't!!!!
I haven't received a reply from the account yet, but this confident_starfish does smell phishy!
I think a lot of you are quite aware of the scammer that are out for your Hive keys to witdraw all the funds from your wallet, but every now and then I see a cry for help in the Hive Discord Server of somebody that has fallen victim to these scammer, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to make this blog to create some more awareness.
Spread the word!
