#hive

WARNING: SCAM (Impersonator hacked me)

Yesterday, I tried to convert HBD to BTC via V4V. It didn't work. The transfer got stuck. I didn't get a refund.

So I wrote on @magi.network Discord channel.

Dr Brian of London created a thread and replied to me, sending a link to the website that stole my active key.

A moment later, I realized that it wasn't a hacker who stole my key through Magi, but that Dr Brian of London's account had been hacked [EDIT: the account wasn't even hacked, it was just a fake account that wrote to me], and I had been talking to a scammer impersonating him.

What now? Of course, I changed my passwords immediately.

My 298 HBD is still in the @wobe11 account...

Comments · 14

@roswelborges(74)· 200d
Just two days ago, @hive-reward tried to scam my account. Be careful with anything from them!
@finpulse(77)· 200d
OMG. There are many scammers around and we really need to be careful. I see that he also stated power down, have you cancelled that ?
@brianoflondon(77)· 201d
Once again I'm sorry for what happened, I've now returned your original transaction. I obviously didn't need your keys or any other detail from you to do that.

I'm still working to get v4v.app up and running.
@melinda010100(80)· 201d
I have been using Ecency chat as it gives me a quick way to click on the username and see their account.

I am so sorry this happened to you.
@ph1102(79)· 201d
OMG, this sucks big time! So sorry to hear that you're being scammed... 😞

On the other side, thank you for sharing all this... It's important to share it with others and try to prevent more people from being scammed... Discord became a perfect place for scammers and impersonators...

I will share this with @Ourpick users for more exposure and to raise awareness about these things that can happen to anyone! Watchout people!

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@steevc(80)· 201d
There are a lot of scammers on Discord and I have encountered some. I think we should make more use of the messaging options in peakd and ecency as you can be more sure of who you are talking to.
@neithya(72)· 201d
OMG😱😱😱😱
@oflyhigh(86)· 201d
I’m really sorry to hear that.
@brianoflondon(77)· 201d
If you can confirm you're completely back in control of this account I can refund your original transaction, I'm sorry this happened, the site can't physically stop people sending Hive but the front end should not have worked, I suspect you had an old cached version. I can't get around this.

I'm now sorry I helped you on Discord the first time, I usually don't do that. Hive is the only place we can guarantee identity.

I will not provide anyone help via Discord ever and I'll make as big an announcement of that as I can. I will get @wobe11 put on a blacklist.
@brianoflondon(77)· 201d
I am Brianoflondon. I announced yesterday and the front ends for v4v.app were closed that the service is down.

I live in Israel. I'm asleep overnight.

I deliberately do not do support on Discord because it's so easy to impersonate and it was obviously a mistake to help you there two days ago. When I helped you that time you'll notice you just got money back without doing anything. I never want to get keys from anyone.

In sorry you got scammed.
@alessandrawhite(72)· 201d
OMG @hallmann. This is so not good! A disaster, for sure.

Thank you for sharing…it’s nuts!
@dlmmqb(75)· 201d
As u can see, it wasn't him. Someone impersonating him.

There were many red flags during the conversation
@yecier(70)· 201d
V4v.app it's under migration right now I believe don't send any sats until the new version official annouce
@azarmadr3(54)· 201d
Good luck I don't know anything about all these. I'll reblog it