Fighting Against FAKE/SCAM Hive Facebook Pages

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Hive has been getting a lot of attention in the last few days. This brings a lot of positive things but also gets the attention of some bad actors who want to take advantage of the hype. About a week a ago we noticed that a fake Huobi account was leaving comments on a post where the Hive Facebook community page had been tagged. At first sight it is hard to realize that the page is fake, they cloned the real page, have the same name, profile picture and cover page. We reported the page, left comments and made a post to warn Hivers of these scammers. We were able to take some screenshots.

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This screenshot was taken on April 21, now Huobi has deleted the "spam", but more than spam is fraud, in my perception:

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We made a first post about it, trying to warn people. Thanks to @belemo for taking the first action!

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We thought that everything was cool and we had defeated the scammers... but guess what? Now this account appears:

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Now they want to impersonate Hive... They even have fake accounts to make it look real...

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Same, profile image, same cover image. But they write Hive, like Hìve hehehe. And of course they do not have any likes or posts.

I decided to leave them a bad review:

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And made another post informing of these scammers:

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They also started sharing profile pictures of the people that have liked the page or interacted with it. And the copy/pasted the same message.

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Because they have the same profile picture I thought that it would be a great idea to change the profile picture of the page...

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...I was wrong.

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They created another Fake profile and put the same profile image. And they did the same thing:

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They shared the profile picture of Hive community member @zord189.

So we decided to warn everyone again.

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The fight is not over yet, these scammers are still doing their things. In the Huobi account they are still leaving messages, this was a couple of hours ago. And today I erased three comments from the Hive Facebook page.

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That's why I decided to make this post and to pin a post on Facebook so everyone knows about this.

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Please help us report these fake pages:

https://www.facebook.com/H%C3%ACve-106385034393128/

https://www.facebook.com/H%C3%ACve-112326783795128/

I think there was at least a third one but I can't find it, it might have already been deleted. But more fake accounts may pop up, I hope that by time we all have the necessary information.

And one more thing before I go. Today it is exactly one months since the Facebook Page was created. Not a lot of progress has been made, it started slow but it's getting some traction little by little.

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You can click on the image and zoom in to see the stats with more details.

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The cover video is amazing, it was created by: @zaxan.

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Man these fakes really piss me off.

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I know! I hate them... one of them even sent me DM and told me they were not fake... This was after I left them the second bad review on the page that had the red profile image.

But they have deleted that Facebook.

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