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INTRODUCTION

Greetings to steemians all over the world, hope you guys are doing great, and a big shout out to my fellow steem promoters, you guys are working every hard to push steem to the next level, may jehovah rewards each and every one of us, It's a great thing of joy that our community @steemalive was selected on the top 5 November support communities, am really excited about that, and also a big thanks to the steemit team for coming up with the #club5050 project, the #club5050 us one of the biggest projects in the steemit platform currently, we all know that this project will help for the growth of steem at large, that's why we should put our heads together to executive this plan, because it will benefit all, ![2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVxEy78QdVuHRGi9UbZdciQKi64Qkc23ttLWEh2jtdhD5/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif) ###

What you need to know about scammers and some of their formats,

![2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVxEy78QdVuHRGi9UbZdciQKi64Qkc23ttLWEh2jtdhD5/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif) ![Screenshot_20211101_153651.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaP1MQKDA3rvaEcvqKfsRBfaeMto4LoERFfLSbzwVzgMm/Screenshot_20211101_153651.jpg) [Image Source]( https://images.app.goo.gl/enAAfRijTp2bzQuj6) This scammers are young guys and ladies that defraud unsuspecting victims for a living, due to the unlimited usage of the Internet, the scam activities has skyrocketed in the world, even the arrest made by the FBI, EFCC, POLICE, don't seem to face the activity of this fraudsters, I will be discussing with you some of the formats or strategies used by this criminals in scamming unsuspecting victims, *** This scammers continually developed tactics that no one can easily suspect, and one's this scheme has been exposed by security agencies, the scammers will quickly develop another formats or strategies because ultimately they are just out for the money, The first formats or strategies users by this criminals is called the 《 phishing or impersonation strategy 》 *** ![Screenshot_20211101_153100.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUGQ9c2rypom4s3BRni6RTbtbwrpsXma3a44j4s8tKPZ1/Screenshot_20211101_153100.jpg) [Image Source]( https://images.app.goo.gl/upkurfFpbS73xSj88) **Phishing** or **Impersonation** strategy is a process whereby the internet fraudsters create a duplicate website that is similar with a targeted original website, with the superpose of scamming people, the striking difference between the original website and the fake website might just be an alphabet, For example we have 《cnn.com》as an original website, but the phishing website might come as 《cnnn.com》 you can see that there was an inclusion af an N alphabet, This is one the things this criminals do on a regular, *** This scammers are everywhere, even here in steemit, using this exact format to scam people on steemit, our boss the founder if @steemalive community has also made a post about it last month, phishing is one of the easiest scam ever, they scammers will just send a phishing link under your comment they will ask to join this free steem giver way by clicking on the like and sign in with you active key, Unlike other social media platforms, like Facebook, when you click a real phishing link, Without you putting you accounts details, Just by clicking the link only your account is gone, But it's not like that on steemit due to the blockchain interface, but you will put your active key before the scammers will gett access to your cryptos, *** ![2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVxEy78QdVuHRGi9UbZdciQKi64Qkc23ttLWEh2jtdhD5/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvSuhrZtqokQwHALLEXomu7LyE7Pkra9oQ1jz2iQYxJWfVEzrjzH3MDppgkC5qPNQ47QBWaBYDbjxMyAm.gif) ###

How to avoid all sorts of scams

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