Well, I've as well had my own fair share of experiences with these scammers and in this writeup I will be talking about two, both happened this year and believe me it is not a kind of experience anyone would want to have, even I don't pray I fall for that kind of a thing again. And what made it very painful for me is that both involves money and I wasn't able to recover anything from it too.
The first happened just sometimes ago, and what made me believe this was because it was introduced to me by a very close friend of mine. I trusted him especially because he said he's been able to get money from it too, so I decided to give it a trial. To add to it, I was very broke as at then, I had to withdraw some funds here on hive to be able to fund it. To me, it is a good decision, I still I would still make some money off it, aside from that the friend who introduced me is someone I trust, so why not. Unfortunately for me, things didn't go as I thought it would and my money was gone, I couldn't access it, the site crashed and everything went down the drain.
I was even more pained because of where I had to withdraw money from to fund it. I've worked hard to have that amount on my wallet here only to withdraw it and put into something that didn't yield and didn't give me a return of what I invested in it. Ever since then, I have been very cautious, no matter who you're, I won't just believe you easily especially on things that concerns money. Money is not easy to make, so why would I always risk things.
Image of when I got scammed on hive.
Now, the second experience I had happened in February this year, it was just a week and some days to my birthday and I had kept checking my hive to see what it amounts to do I can remove some and celebrate the me who has been working all day of the year. I also have some HBDs keft too, so I've nade plans around it. Only for me to come on hive and saw some comments on my post and I began to respond it. In one of the comments I saw a link, and the write-up attached to the link said something about a reward for some of us who have never powered down on hive.
That was how I went to click on the link, I felt somehow about it so I took a screenshot and sent it to someone, but since I wasn't getting a response fast, some hours later I went back to it and clicked on the link. Lo and behold it opened a page that looked like hive blog or hive vote馃様, I can't really recall, it asked for one of the passwords and because of it's resemblance with either hive vote/hive blog, I pasted the password and that was it. My hive and the little HBD I had disappeared. The comment looked so convincing and the frontend it popped up to looked just so real that I didn't bother to recheck.
That was how my account was compromised and the little fund I had there was taken. The money I was looking forward to spending and using for something meaningful was taken away. The person even clicked on my HP to start unlocking it. Immediately I reached out to my bro and I was able to stop it and he also helped me changed my keys. Sadly, I wasn't able to recover anything.
Those two experiences had taught me a very great lesson, and that is to be very careful online and beware of links. All these scam links and all don't always look suspicious. They just look promising and you just feel, don't let me lose out on this opportunity. So, since then, I take my time before taking such steps. No matter how convincing, and promising it looks, I ask questions and make research about it. Recently I still saw a comment like that with a kink on in of my post, just some weeks ago, I just hissed.
I'm also sharing this in hope that someone else will learn from it and be able to avoid the mistake that I made.
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