Hello fellow Steemians!
For the sake of introducing myself the second time, I made this article. Hoping that in my own little ways could warn and possibly help my fellow SteemIt enthusiast especially the Newbies to be wary and cautious to every click they make.
I am Rosellier. Roughly one year and three months ago, my account was approved and finally had my very first article here in SteemIt but little did I know that was also my last access to the said account. Excited and eager to explore the vast possibilities within the SteemIt, I was busy checking my account every now and then. Busy giving comments and up voting fellow Steemians and then one time my attention got caught on a comment that told me about my article to be an illegal duplicate and talks about Plagiarism. Panic and worry engulfed me that very moment. Don’t know what to do and what are the steps that I should have taken back then. The last resort was to click on the provided link and investigated the linked article hoping that the link could give me answers. I was asked to log in to that fake SteemIt website and after clicking it, baam!, my account got hacked.
No less than ten to twenty times did I try to log in under SteemIt, in denial that it was just a mistake and would later go away. That it was just a minor typographical error and that I just missed a letter or two. Few hours passed and it finally sunk in. “My Account was hacked”.
For a while I let go on the idea that my Account was done for but it never left my mine. All the, what if’s and the cautions that I should have taken to prevent such intrusion.
Few days passed and I turned in to the web for the possible recovery of my Account. I exhausted all the results from Google and from every forum I could find within the wide reach of the net. Few minutes to hours, I would spend searching for possible ways to recover my account but to no avail.
Finally, I gave up the idea of recovering my Account. I gave in to the very thought that there is a possible way to recover it, there isn’t, at least on my end based on the hardships and restless nights doing my best to hold on to my hopeless dream of recovering my account.
Free from the regret about what happened, I move on with my life. Going to work day after day, doing what I do.
Taking photo shoots and pictorials for my company profile...
Attending company initiated events...
And spend time with my family...
Few months ago, I tried my luck and register a new account. Many failed attempts and then one day, I got an email confirmation about my successful registration. And now here I am, doing narrations of my thoughts and later on, could possibly write my aspirations, hopes and dreams as my mind wonders into the depths of my emotion.
Cautious in using any quotes and lines from others, I would want to end my article with “Good luck!" to us who are starting up here and “God Bless!" to each and every one of us here in SteemIt”.