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[solved] AM I A VICTIM OF VOTE STEALING? - perhaps your account has been also abused and you don't even know it ...

111.jpg Try to imagine my surprise when I opened an email early this morning.just to read a message from a dear friend @devann, warning me that I may be a victim of "vote stealing".

He brought an example of his own case, where some posts were published by an unknown author would receive his upvotes (even while he was off-line).

INTRODUCTION

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He pointed out that I upvoted content created by @dlease writen in Italian language. And on top of that I used my 17k SP FULL voting power (which I really never do). And it seems that this abuse of my account by @dlease has been happening for quite some time already.

I remember signing weeks ago to their site https://dlease.io/ and I had given my trust to this project by linking it with my account via SteemConnect (which I consider safe). During that process however, I wasn't informed that my account will be used to "upvote" their content and I never accepted unauthorized usage of received access to my account (posting key).

FULLY ALARMED

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I was alarmed right away and one of my first steps was to check steemworld.org/@user (or steemd.com/@user) and have a look at my latest activity. On top of unautorized upvotes for @dlease, I also realized that @steemsports are receiving my upvotes on similar basis. With full voting power, without my approval.

In this case I do not even recognize seeing that account in my entire life and I cannot figure out how they got into possessing my posting key.

It made me realize that the scale of this problem could be potentially bigger than I could expect at that time. So, it's time to build some awareness to avoid such an abuse of our accounts!

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

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My intentions are not to "spit" or offend the team behind dlease or steemsports as I do believe that they are putting much effort into their work. I'm only sharing my own concern and impression that my STEEMit accout (which is my property) has been used against my will. I hope to clarify this problem and build awareness so others would pay more attention to this issue.

I can only hope that this publication will not upset anyone and will serve others, as I strongly believe that most of us never even considered that our upvotes can be "stolen".

SHARE YOUR OPINION

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I really would like to know what other people think about this situation. I'm sure many of you dear readers have been exposed to similar abuse of your own Steemit accounts. Perhaps many of you don't even know about it (as I did not til @devann contacted me in the first place).

I obviously removed my account from dlease.io and my trust towards this tool is forever gone. I can only wonder if this will be enough to stop them from gaining access to my account or will they continue. Unfortunately only time will tell.

Please share with me if you ever had similar experience. The best way we can fight with these unwanted situations like the one describe above is by building awareness and warning other users. So I would really appreciate each comment (and resteem, which would help reach and bring awareness to more unsuspecting people).

@reggaemuffin explained in comment section the reasons why @dlease has been upvoted from my account, for which I'm very grateful.

Taking into consideration excellent communication and mature response, I would still consider @dlease as a trustworthy project.

I would also like to underline that main goal I wanted to achieve is simple: to build awareness and encourage people to monitor their account activity.

Yours, Piotr

Comments · 79

  • @marifa(59)· 2622d

    I was a victim, too. It's more than a year since it happened to me. After signing up to a community that had promised to help me. The problem began. I used to love this platform but politics is here as well. And worst of all, greed is rampant.

  • @victorbz(73)· 2630d

    Very interesting but sad experience. never happened to me but my account is not much attractive for this try so i'm relaxed. about the "compensation for the service" explain. It depends on the service cost and how they got from your 100% vote that impossible to compare for my 100% vote for example. If they invited you to their site, made the script to use your vote without any NOTICE - your vote is still stollen, just in a very charming way. Thank you for this post and for the explain.

  • @isgledysduarte(72)· 2650d

    Hello! Reading your post I realized that there are things that still linger in the dark for me, for example I did not know that through steemconnect gives permission to the user to fully access our account, that is, if we do not use things responsibly even more serious can occur. I think as you are a way to prevent and encourage users to better monitor our accounts and ocn who perform operations with steemconnect. Thanks for sharing.

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2653d

    Congratulations @crypto.piotr! You raised your level and are now a Dolphin!

    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
  • @marvyinnovation(56)· 2655d

    @crypto.piotr,

    Thanks for the memo and also for giving me a chance to comment on this enlightening publication.

    First of all, let us all thank @devann for bringing out this hidden agenda into light.

    Whatever maybe the case, they should have informed you beforehand, but it is not at all fair to throw the blame on you by saying that you didn't read their rules and regulations before registering at steemvoter.com.

    If they would have informed you beforehand, they would have AT LEAST earned your trust, but because of this incident, they did lose your trust permanently!

    The important thing we have learnt from this incident is that we must keenly read all the rules and regulations very carefully before registering!

    Let's be doubly sure in this regard.

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  • @marvyinnovation(56)· 2655d

    Hi @crypto.piotr,

    When I saw this publication of yours, I was taken aback!

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  • @steemitboard(66)· 2656d

    @crypto.piotr, sorry to see you have less Steem Power. Your level lowered and you are now a Minnow!

    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
  • @julianhorack(76)· 2657d

    Thanks for the info @crypto.piotr, and the opportunity to learn more about Steemit from your experiences. You are probably here almost every day, like me, yet still there is so much to be aware of with all the Dapps.

  • @meedo(46)· 2657d

    try this app

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  • @thetimetravelerz(72)· 2657d

    Dear @crypto.piotr I am glad the issue got resolved . However I must admit that every time I log into steemconnect to access a 3rd party service this has been an overhanging fear. Luckily this time it got resolved but thinking what if we give access to our accounts which later on turns rogue or is in some way compromised points to a situation which could be a real threat to a user account.

    This is a realistic overhang of giving access to a third party through a trusted intermediary What are your views about this ?

  • @peacefulpatriot(48)· 2658d

    It's all about security in this day and age, my friend. It seems a thief can get more from a cyber attack than from invading your home, and with less risk! And in my experience when I forget about security, or when I think I am doing everything necessary, THAT is when something seems to happen. I do hope that you avoid instances like this in the future.

  • @sacra97(77)· 2659d

    Thanks for this publication so many people can clarify their doubts about it. @crypto.piotr

  • @praditya(67)· 2659d

    That's weird! I didn't knew about it until now. It had surely made me aware of such malice acts happening in this platform. Thanks for awakening us about such subject.

  • @modern-trojan(61)· 2659d

    I think this is a good example that all users can get their keys messed up, not just the newbies. Everyone should check the permissions given to steemconnect at least once a month to prevent such happenings. Also I personally used @steemauto for autovoting since I came to steemit and I never had a single vote stolen.

  • @flaxz(75)· 2660d

    Thanks for sharing this valuable info @crypto.piotr, and I also checked out the comments explaining how it happened, I will not be using Steemvoter in the future, I had thought of checking them out but with this info I will not.

  • @jeanlucsr(69)· 2660d

    This is what happens because we no linger read the fine print. I don't either. Glad you found out about this, so it makes us a little bit more aware about it.

    One thing I do want to know. The full upvotes, when did they occur. Straight after posting, 15 minutes after of 30 minutes after posting?

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  • @alokkumar121(82)· 2660d

    Hi @crypto.piotr

    This is alarming and a matter of concern. My account is my own property and no one is authorised to use it and take the benefits in any way. Though I never used steemvoter.com and dlease which is backed by minnowbooster but surely I will be highly vigilant and careful if I use ever in future.

    Good that @devann informed about this unusual upvotes else it would have been continued for long. I have gone through the discussion with @reggaemuffin and I appreciate that he explained whole scenario nicely and politely.

    As you already mentioned that you're not pointing out on anyone's mistake rather you're sharing awareness with the community and That's great work done by you. Many people are not at all aware of such technical things but they should know and this article will surely help them so I resteemed this.

    Thanks for sharing useful information with the community. Have a great weekend.

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  • @chireerocks(75)· 2661d

    @crypto.piotr, Never used both of these platforms. But good to go through from your concerned post and definitely what you've faced it can take anyone by surprise. But at the end good know that you've got the right sense. Have a great time ahead.

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  • @mllg(70)· 2661d

    Hi! dear @crypto.piotr. Thanks for the advise. I almost never review my votes. And thanks for the update explanation too. Have a nice day!

  • @arcange(79)· 2661d

    Congratulations @crypto.piotr! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:

    • Comments - Ranked 3 with 139 comments
  • @guruvaj(67)· 2661d

    Luckily, with this kind of technology, we can be sure know are using our account for unauthorized upvotes, using steemworld, will be very fast.

    Hope some expert on the blockchain itself can explain, if an account delegated a portion of a steem power, can really use the account delegatee of the total voting power.

    Does it mean, that when we entrust our posting key to an app, that steem dapps can make use of our account up to 100% in terms of voting power without our consent?

    Let us be aware of that fact, and be quick to remove them to the dapps we allowed our keys.

    We need more information about these issue.

  • @mcnestler(56)· 2661d

    Hey, @crypto.piotr first of all thank you for your memo and the interesting post. I just scrolled through the comment section and wow you hit a topic which can be considered HOT.

    I had to laugh because I saw some drama tokens provided to you. I think you did a good job presenting the issue to the community. I can feel you that it is shit when you see that someone is using your built account to upvote something which you are not aware of.

    I think it would make me angry too. Probably you reacted a bit to hard on the topic but I appreciate that you made an update to the post, relaxing on the front!

    Keep up the good work my friend, it is always a pleasure to talk to you.

  • @jenina619(74)· 2661d

    Great that at the end things were clarified in good terms👍

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  • @pauli0606(62)· 2662d

    Hello Piotr, I hope you are well, reading your article scares me a little, because it made me remember the person who entered this world, he was a writer of beautiful poetry and sonnets, and always had good votes and obviously many steem and sbd , but one day, when he came to publish what he had done the night before, he realized that all his steem had been stolen, and his voting power was on the ground.

    He could not recover what was lost, neither his account nor his reputation at all.

    I do not know what prevention we can take in these cases.

    Greetings from Caracas.

  • @thecryptodrive(70)· 2662d

    @crypto.piotr I have just noticed a memo you have been sending out as per screenshot below, both my accounts received it and haven't investigated how many of these memos you have sent out. We have been very amicable and helped you with your technical support issue and instructed you how to remove your account from Steemvoter which you signed up form on the terms that we can use one vote per day on any of our projects.

    You have followed our instruction and have now disabled your Steemvoter account, our replies were timeous and we were co-operative so I see no reason why you would need to spread FUD widely via memo.

    To me, it looks like drama being created to get some votes on your post, the post itself was unnecessary and so was the memo, they are bordline defamatory and at the very least very inflammatory.

  • @lanzjoseg(78)· 2662d

    Hi friend, @crypto.piotr

    I regret that this morning 5:30am Venezuela time I could not answer this message, just a few minutes after reading and sending a message by telegram to a friend, the electric power service was cut off.

    Approximately three months ago I realized what was happening with my votes, immediately investigate what happened with my votes because they were used in this way, so speak personally with one of the @buildteam team's CEO to be more accurate. with @thecryptodrive he answered my questions and was an extremely polite person just like you are my dear @crypto.piotr friend.

    If you are very right when your votes are used without knowing how an account is using them. I see that @reggaemuffin who is also part of the team has already explained very well how our votes are shaped.

    After talking to @thecryptodrive I read one of his publications which I thought was very important for the community that speaks Spanish, and asked for his authorization to translate that post that I liked, he agreed to that request. He invited me to do the translations into Spanish in future publications.

    I think it's a good job they do, I also regret not reading the small letters and not going to the frequent questions but my doubts were clarified.

    Thanks for this publication so many people can clarify their doubts about it.

    Friend. @crypto.piotr

    I send you a big hug very fraternal.

  • @bartosz546(58)· 2662d

    @steemsports I know this account gets upvotes if you've used in past: https://steemvoter.com/

    I know this one.

  • @awfunn(39)· 2662d

    Dear @crypto.piotr, that theft of votes may be possible in some cases but since you registered on steemvoter.com no problem is simple as it says @reggaemuffin you have to disable the account, that is the solution.

    As steemvoter.com belongs to @buildteam that has several similar projects like the ones you mention from @dlease or @steemsports, so you gave him the authority to do it, so there's no problem.

    It seemed strange to me, but when investigating and reviewing my last activities and I don't found nothing suspecious, I suppose it would be what @reggaemuffin says and that's it, I also think that @devann should share his experience of vote-stealing since he was not registered on steemvoter.com and that is very strange.

    Thank you for reading!

  • @anitacarolina(66)· 2662d

    Actually I'm also very worried, especially I don't really understand everything and to ask questions takes a long time, I often use steemconnect for certain applications but the problem is danger or not I also don't know, just follow it🤗

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  • @nachomolina(72)· 2662d

    I would like to know if my account may be going through a similar case?

    If so, I would like to know how to avoid it?

    I think that more of the user who commits the abuse, it is also the task of the witnesses and moderators of Steemit to put an end to this situation.

    I think that since the platform was invented, scams and deceptive tricks were also invented!

    @crypto.piotr is very alarming this case of abuse!

    I invite everyone to be aware of their accounts and timely report this type of action...

    I would like to be convinced that this does not happen again, I really do not wish it to anyone!

    RESTEEMED!

  • @cubapl(62)· 2662d

    On the beginning I just thought that you configured incorectly your account on the steemauto.com but ater @reggaemuffin's explanation about this tiny detail written with the small letters on the steemvoter.com it seems to be somehow excused and legit. it's their rule and as long as we are going to use their services we suppose to obey their rules.

  • @travoved(68)· 2662d

    I'm glad that all now clear but I think it will suprise if you don't know about this vote functions of Steemvoter.

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  • @mattockfs(61)· 2662d

    The real problem is that SteemConnect lacks granularity, and as a result, it is hard for users to grasp what kind of a contract they enrole themselves in when they sign up for a service.

    It's not the fault of the service, it's the fundamental usability and security issues that arise from course grained TTP usage.

    I wrote this post on the need to rid ourselves of all TTPs in the STEEM ecosystems. The post includes a link to a proposal for facet contracts that could serve both the users and service providers to communicate in terms of fine grained non ambiguous least authority service contracts. I really hope Steemit Inc or a funded user initiative will soon pick up this issue and help send SteemConnect and other newer TTP initiatives where all TTPs in a blockchain based eco system belong: in the past.

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2662d

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  • @redpossum(48)· 2662d

    This is a prime example of why I am so vigilant/paranoid about any service on Steemit. Now, unlike @crypto.piotr, I do not have enough SP to be worth hijacking, but the principle is the same. I also keep a close eye on https://steemd.com/@redpossum although that can be a bit flaky/laggy in reporting my activity.

    In general, I am very relucant to give any of my keys to anyone or anything. In part, I suppose this is because of my background as a network admin, but I do strongly believe that in matters of security, a little paranoia is a good thing. Better to be too suspicious than not suspicious enough.

  • @jadams2k18(66)· 2662d

    your POSTING KEY??? How? Why???

    Can they do the same with any account?

    Change your Steemit password immediately, all of them!

    Just in case!

  • @intellihandling(64)· 2662d

    Dear Piotr, i am using steemvotes.io and vote club from steem-bounty as upvoting service, but of course my account is not so powerful to see some abuse on it, i just enjoy to see my post getting upvotes and perhaps more visibity... Before i was using minnowbooster, but after they downvoted my comment to @drugwars, i stop to use them and i am happy like this...

  • @jacuzzi(75)· 2662d

    In reading this article it got me thinking.

    Is there a way to see all of the apps you have connected with ( using steam connect) and what rights you have given?

    I know there are ways to see delegation but not sure if there is ways to see who you have connected with and what rights you have given them to your account.

    I think if there was a service or a way to do the above, a easier method to track down and remove permissions for various apps, a lot of issues like this could be resolved in a timely manner.

    I read the rest your post and it looks like you've got it sorted out now. Good luck!!

  • @dramatoken(62)· 2662d

    You have DRAMA!

    To view or trade DRAMA go to steem-engine.com.

  • @grey580(62)· 2662d

    !dramatoken

  • @reggaemuffin(66)· 2662d

    Just to clarify again what happened here:

    @crypto.piotr signed up to steemvoter.com as a free user, which gives @buildteam the authority to use one of his votes a day as compensation for the service. Since @dlease is a @buildteam project, its posts get voted, as disclosed in the footer:

    Signing up to dlease itself does not give us the authority to use anyones vote and that is not what we are doing. Technically inclined people can even check which key signed these votes :)

    If @crypto.piotr wants to stop these upvotes from happening, he can go to steemvoter.com and disable his account or upgrade it to a premium account. Again, this has nothing to do with dlease itself and deauthorizing dlease will not stop steemvoter upvotes.

    upvoted for visibility

  • @adenijiadeshina(66)· 2662d

    Well I haven't thought of that much

  • @dramatoken(62)· 2662d

    You have DRAMA!

    To view or trade DRAMA go to steem-engine.com.

  • @whatsup(76)· 2662d

    !dramatoken

    You likely authorized a voting site to use one of your votes a day.

  • @belkisa758(76)· 2662d

    Hi @ripto.Piotr, I have not been affected with a similar situation however, I have no doubt the unscrupulous people running around committing abuses and fraud. These days we mentioned among friends to buy votes, an action that is not 100% safe but may attract negative votes granted to other accounts which are used (I do not know if with the authorization or not) to provide benefits. With this content remains for me even more doubt. Greetings, attentive to your comment.

  • @akdx(70)· 2662d

    This is a matter of concern for us all. My account is my property and no body has a right to do things in my behalf which I have not authorized to do.

  • @maclevis(57)· 2662d

    Thanks @crypto.piotr ,this article have prompted me that I should always read and understood any project or platform modus of operandi before registering especially when it involves registering with SteemConnect.

  • @cloudblade(65)· 2662d

    You may give permission without knowing it. Because of many steemit apps they have say if you sign-up, They would have your voting rights So most apps, I have not to registered them. some are after registered, after clicking on some actions, it is equivalent to authorizing the website to use your ticket to vote for some authors. Because the translation is too difficult to understand, most of those sites I didn’t register. Because I won’t be used them.

  • @philipkavan(57)· 2662d

    Same thing happened to me when I was using steemvoter or a auto voting tools from buildteam.I can't remember the exact name of the service I was using.But things like that are supposed to happen when you use some tool for voting or use auto voting system to vote content for you.

    The best is not to use that kind of service if it bothers you.It is not vote stealing exactly as you have given them the permission to upvote on behalf of you.

  • @chrisrice(68)· 2662d

    I read this and Resteemed it.

    I am pretty sure the people behind @dlease include @thecryptodrive since it may be a @buildteam project.

    I am not 100% sure but I think it is there project. I am using their project @tokenbb to build my own Steem-based website and I enjoy their work.

    Let's see if they, or someone else, can create a tool for discovering stolen upvoting easily 👍

  • @diogosantos(62)· 2662d

    If this is a reality something needs to be done to fix it. This is a new world, but stealing is not yet acceptable, doesn't matter how much technology evolves.

  • @doifeellucky(65)· 2662d

    Dear Piotr,

    I didn't have this type of issue so far!

    I use https://steemrewarding.com/ for SBI upvotes and https://steemauto.com/ for automatic upvotes of the curation trail @curie.

    Haven't seen any irregular voting from either service!

    Cheers!

  • @melip(61)· 2662d

    I’m wondering, what did they do to gain your trust the way they did. I’v never succumbed to any strange offer since I signed up to Steemit.

  • @paulcesna(53)· 2662d

    Hi @crypto.piotr, thanks for such post. It's a good alarm for us beginners so we won't just simply enter and sign up any invites we receive. Thanks a lot! Mabuhay from the Philippines!

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  • @teenagecrypto(65)· 2662d

    I have never heard of this happening before on steemit and I don’t have any opinions about it

  • @nurseanne84(69)· 2662d

    Dear Piotr,

    This is very serious. This should be thoroughly investigated. I will be re steeming this so others could read it too.

  • @bluerobo(70)· 2662d

    That doesn't sound good. Maybe @themarkymark has a point and we do need voting keys after all. Didn't expect to see an example so soon after I heard the idea for the first time.

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  • @fucho80(69)· 2662d

    Hello @crypto.piotr, thanks for sharing this information.

    It is something very serious what you describe and an abusive attitude of someone to whom you give your trust and take advantage of it to make profits without your consent.

    Particularly I have no knowledge that something like this has happened to me but I'm going to take a look to see what there is, although I think that they are not interested in an account with a low voting power.

    Thanks friend. Pr EV

  • @devann(61)· 2662d

    Hi Steemians,

    I found steemify app very useful in monitoring my own upvotes as the app sends out notifications of the upvotes in real time. If you are not using steemify, then the other option is to check through steemworld.org. Remember to upvote @steemchiller's posts to support him in maintaining steemworld.org.

  • @botefarm(70)· 2662d

    Nothing to worry about, you see, I've noticed we humans sometimes to read the rules and regulations when entering a new chart. You might have signed that along with your steemconnect. Who knows.

    I also experienced this a lot too. Am even thinking of changing my posting keys.

  • @willspatrick(64)· 2662d

    @cryto.piotr, thanks for sharing this information. I wasn't aware of such a thing. Be sure you do the necessary thing to get your account back to your control fully.

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  • @andykarma(59)· 2662d

    Thanks

  • @jeoleena(42)· 2662d

    @crypto.piotr True appreciations for your valuable concern.

    Thanks for warning everyone about the dangers of using these auto voting mechanisms. Hope, no one ever, gets victimize by these tactics, again.. Thanks for the alert.

    jeoleena :)

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  • @chesatochi(73)· 2662d

    Someone already provided the information on the comments section. ;)

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  • @slwzl(77)· 2662d

    Importante información para estar pendiente y considerar antes de otorgar permisos extraños. Gracias por compartir para que estemos prevenidos.

  • @davidke20(80)· 2662d

    Calm down buddy, no big deal here. That's because you're using buildteam auto upvote facility. One of their criteria is to make use of some of your votes to compensate their promotional post including steemsports and dlease, which is their subsidiary. All these has been spell out in the terms and condition of steemvoter. In order to fully remove yourself from the said "abuse", you may follow below:

    https://app.steemconnect.com/revoke/@buildteam

    And you'll be fully revoking all your authority from the said services. Meanwhile, I'd like you to review your posting authority in steemd. You may wanna consider to delete a few that you don't use anymore. Have fun.

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  • @akomoajong(66)· 2662d

    @achim03 has already pointed out the reason behind the situation you are facing. I will advice you unauthorize steemvoter and start using steemauto for your automated votes. It's completely free and open source.

  • @oivas(71)· 2662d

    I am aware that groups to which you subscribe can request you to follow their voting trail, meaning when the account which you are following upvotes a post, your account also upvotes automatically. But the difference is that you knowingly sign into it and you can set your voting power for such upvotes.

    Without your consent and knowledge using your votes is plain naughty on their part.

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  • @juanmolina(70)· 2662d

    Hello my very dear friend @crypto.piotr.

    Thank you very much for this valuable and informative post. Immediately I did Resteem.

    I do not know if I'll be a victim of vote-stealing. I will try to find out in some way.

    I remember having signed a few weeks ago on your site https://dlease.io/ and I had given my confidence to this project when linking it to my account through SteemConnect (which I consider safe).

    Related to the use of Steemconnect. I have always thought that this tool is very safe. I always use it to register in all those Dapps that unite over the blockchain STEEM. Each time we log in, these applications are registered in our history:

    I've always wondered, how can I eliminate them from there? Many of these applications I only used once out of curiosity.

  • @skramatters(67)· 2662d

    I've never heard of such a thing until now. I doubt I'm at risk as my voting power is quite small but it is concerning you seem to have been conned into this. That's the best case scenario, the worst is that your account has been compromised without you having mistakenly given permission..

    Also alarming is the news of a bug that is not allowing accounts to use the RCs that they have. They get a message saying that they need rc to comment or post etc. when in fact they have sufficient rc...

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  • @maxwellmarcusart(80)· 2662d

    That's so strange and absurd. Even though they wont inform you, at least they would have written it as part of their policy.

  • @andyjem(55)· 2662d

    This is unbelievable or is it? These auto voting bots are probably not a good Idea then. I know it will take more effort to vote manually but if we think about it that is what steemit should be about. Searching for our favourite posters' reading evaluating and voting on the ones we find worthy. Sorry this happened to a well meaning person such as you Piotr. Life is all about learning from our mistakes I guess. Just be pleased that you didn't lose physical money no real harm has been done to your account. Time to rethink your tactics and move on with the great support you give us all. Have a great day my friend 😎

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  • @mrnightmare89(74)· 2662d

    In my case, I never experience that but if it will be in my case I will get mad. Our votes should ve used for those deserving steemians I think.

    Maybe you should check it again to avoid being used your votes in a wrong hands.

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  • @gasaeightyfive(55)· 2662d

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  • @nathen007(73)· 2662d

    this is very worrying mate. I will follow the outcome of this with great interest. I have never heard of steemsports also but will be checking my posting permissions and removing as necessary. Thanks and I hope we can get to the bottom of this.

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  • @achim03(74)· 2662d

    Hi Piotr, I think that this is related to you using steemvoter. Here a capture from FAQ of Steemvoter:

    Since dlease is also powered by Buildteam, I think that explains the reason of the upvotes.

    Best regards, Achim

  • @rmsbodybuilding(68)· 2662d

    Thanks for the info

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  • @wilhb81(73)· 2662d

    Omg, that's very horrible and terrify @crypto.piotr bro :O

    Hopefully, we won't be the victims for this unfortunate event~