Change the keys!
So it seems that @saltyreptile had shared his keys to the @psybergolem account, and this person was not trustworthy and took around $5000 dollars from him, the money for this month's rent.
Here is the transaction, notice the new binance code:
So this person will likely not even need to admit fault, it was a new code, it wasn't me. There was some question that its not that easy to make a new binance account, but actually it is. With Mandala, the no-KYC binance clone that uses the same deposit accounts.
I'm not actually sure if they have transitioned to bdhivesteem account, but last I logged in they were alerting to the transition.
This is the new world we live in. Centralized exchanges are good for somethings, but there is always a work around. We don't know we don't know, yet, about this case especially. It has been reported to binance, we will see what happens over time I suppose.
Apparently the account has been frozen by binance, although about three hours after the actual transaction, its unlikely but not impossible the funds are still there. Honestly, no one really knows what happens next if they are....
Which brings me to my point, no matter what happens, make sure to change the keys!
Changing the keys is easy if you have the owner key (which is contained within the master key. Just log into peakd, navigate to your blog, click on account actions and then 'keys and permissions' in the drop down menu that appears.
From here navigate to the 'change password' sub menu and you will be presented with this screen:
There is a reason that HIVE KEYCHAIN does not save your master password or your owner key. You should have one of these somewhere special, that only you have access to. This is used to change the keys in case of someone gaining access to your account.
If you have just the Master Password, peakd also links to their secure tool to pull out the owner key. Paste it in there, download and save the new keys, and sign the transaction.
This is one of the most important things anyone can learn.
Buying new accounts
If you buy an account from someone else, you will want to do this process. Something else to note, is you should also change the recovery account - the fourth sub menu on peakd's keys and permissions page.
Especially if the recovery account is Ecency, a crafty person could sell you the account and then recover it back to them. Don't believe it? It happened to me!
Yes that's right, I 'bought' the account @demo.com from scammer @udbdjfj - and I changed the keys and everything. What I didn't know is that they went right ahead and recovered the account through @ecency. I got the notification one day in my keychain that 'my keys for demo.com were incorrect'.
Live and Learn! And Change your keys!
These are important lessons in crypto, luckily HIVE has many options, which while appearing obtuse for new users, actually give us much more control and security, thus saftely, once we know what we are doing. After 6 years I learned something new - and it only cost me $50 - change the recovery account too!
5000$ is a huge amount of money, HOpefully this will be reverted.
We can hope!
never share your keys
You might share keys with an alt account for a dedicated purpose, but never put any more funds on there than have to be!
Wow 5000$ right now is a whole lot of money we all have to be careful out there ....I was ranting this morning howwwI was scammed of 147 usdt and someone just lost 5k its well.
gotta be careful with those hoe's 😅
I met to write how and not hoes 😃
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currently who owns demo. com ?
I assume its this guy again @udbdjfj
Thanks for the advice man. I will need look into updating my recovery account too.
My heart goes out to those who get scammed; especially by those they think they can trust. That sting is particularly painful.
Even though we should avoid sharing our keys as much as possible, we should still be able to trust our friends and peers not to steal from us.
Even in trustless systems we should still have friends and family we can depend on....this is very unfortunate and I hope he can rebuild in time to pay his rent in some capacity.
I don't really know the joy some individual derive from theft and fraud. How do they sleep at night?
I'm with you, I guess it was how I was raised
5000 dollars, that is quite alot and that too at current hive price. We can imagine that this could be worth 50k dollars when bull run arrives.
Thanks for a educational and awareness blog. This is something really important for each and everyone of us.
By the way I don't understand why changing the recovery account cost $50 ? I mean is there a reason behind that price.
Anyways, thanks for this blog.
Reblogged!
It doesnt cost this to change the recovery account (its free), but I paid 50 dollars for the account, and because I didn't change the recovery account, they were able to recover it and change the keys. So I lost that 50 dollars.
Wow! How sad there are still people who would respond to a request for their keys!? There are references all over everywhere warning against taking that step!
A very expensive lesson! 😔
P.S. If anyone reading this would benefit from a more extensive step-by-step post on changing their keys, here is a link to one which received favorable coverage (among others ...) from PeakD ...
Moral of the story: change the passwords of the accounts you buy, you will never know who the scammer of the moment is.
Moraleja cambien las contraseñas de las cuentas que compras nunce sabe el estafador de turno que uno se encuentra
Damn, thats some silicon valley level of rent.
I think that's where he lives.
5k $. ....! THAT'S A HUGE AMOUNT.
I have got 2 important information from this post. First is that there can be multiple Binance accounts.
Second, more important, ia that the recovery account should be chosen carefully. I will look into my account settings for what I can do for it.
Thanks for sharing
Wow, that sucks to hear. I also didn't realize that the recovery account would be set to the creator of the account. I guess you learn things every single day.
Yeah, I noticed his messages in discord. But once you share your private keys you expose yourself to risk, especially when funds with real value are involved.
If it was absolutely necessary to share the use of the account with someone else, both should have accounts on Hive and the shared accounts should use multisig, and for financial transactions both signatures should be required.
Buscando estrategia para ganar dinero??'
Siempre!
This is very wrong, we pray that this money is also too much to return.
Count me in ^^ @subidu
Never share your keys. Not your keys not your crypto. !PIMP
You must be killin' it out here!
@cryptoniusrex just slapped you with 1.000 PIMP, @ecoinstant.
You earned 1.000 PIMP for the strong hand.
They're getting a workout and slapped 1/1 possible people today.
Read about some PIMP Shit or Look for the PIMP District
No recent news on this? I hope they have refunded the money, what a problem.