RE: Announcing AutoSteem - An automation tool for voting, curating and browsing Steemit! by omitaylor

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steemit · @omitaylor · May 13 '18

$0.04

My plugins are detecting this is scam/dangerous site. I'm using Steemed Phish by @quochuy and also @steem-plus by @adsactly.  A friend of mine @amico asked me about your site if they think they should use it but I get this alert. 
![scammer.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX6NcA15AvwcbDcJnKjZG4X5FCuGJuJJSqDWjkWmWDMLx/scammer.jpg)

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@amico · May 13 '18 (edited)

Dear @unipsycho,

I'm playing a game on maximizing curation: this is why I was trying to use your autosteem.

These votes below, left without my will in your favor, break the purpose of the game I'm participating in... 


[![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbioNrQz2Hiefqd9ph7PRyoYC1NExFsuErYuoHDueyvYW/image.png)](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbioNrQz2Hiefqd9ph7PRyoYC1NExFsuErYuoHDueyvYW/image.png)


It makes me laugh to say it for 4 cents, but **I find this fact very unfair**.

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@arcange · May 16 '18 (edited)

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@amico · May 13 '18 (edited)

Hey @arcange, take a look at what is saying your bot: I'm the victim, not the aggressor! ;)

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@arcange · May 16 '18

Hello @amico, please apologize for the late reply. I have been travelling a lot last days and  often AFK.
This was a false-positive. Unfortunately, many "auto steem" (had to put a space to avoid triggering my own bot) domain name variants have been registered by scammers to build phishing sites.

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1 reply

@quochuy · May 13 '18

@omitaylor, I have not confirmed this website, it's using a domain name that follows the same name pattern as another scam site which is why it is detected as scam.

However, because it is asking you for your Posting Key instead of using SteemConnect to request for a token instead, I would personally not trust my Key to it. I'm checking this site out and ask for an opinion from @steemcleaners

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@quochuy · May 13 '18

@omitaylor, apart from asking for the Key directly, I don't see any apparent reason for considering this tool as scam so I've tweaked the blacklist to allow it through

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@amico · May 13 '18 (edited)

Dear @quochuy,
it seems that autosteem is "*stealing*" upvotes in favor of his creator (@unipsycho), as you can see on his received voting list.

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10 replies

@unipsycho · May 18 '18

hi people, not sure why this stuff creates such a reaction.  Autosteem was built before steemconnect existed and I've never upgraded it yet to use that instead of putting your posting key in directly.  As the docs say, the posting key is only used in YOUR browser, as NO info is ever sent anywhere in autosteem, it is only in your browser, so its completely safe to use your posting key since it is still completely private.  I've had many users happy to see that Autosteem DOESN'T require steemconnect, because there you ARE sharing your posting key with another service.  its up to you.

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@quochuy · May 19 '18

Thanks for commenting here.
I think it’s all about the current issues with phishing etc... people are now more careful with which website they give their keys to. At least I know and use steemconnect daily. 

Steemconnect since v2 does not store your keys either, they set a proxy account in your Steem account to get the permission to post in your behalf. That’s why when you give the permission you can see in steemd.com that it has created a transaction with an authorisation data in it.

The doc can always say anything you like, it’s not a guaranty. Phishing websites are very convincing too. 

But as I said earlier, I’m not accusing you, I checked the website and found it seems genuine. The “issue” with imputing key is only me. It’s just up to each one whether or not they feel comfortable imputing their keys in a tool they just discovered.

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