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 --- A GOPHER-LIKE INTERFACE FOR HIVE BLOCKCHAIN ---

WARNING: SCAM (Impersonator hacked me)

BY: @hallmann | CREATED: Feb. 12, 2026, 1:57 a.m. | VOTES: 273 | PAYOUT: $6.39 | [ VOTE ]

Yesterday, I tried to convert HBD to BTC via V4V. It didn't work. The transfer got stuck. I didn't get a refund.

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So I wrote on @magi.network Discord channel.

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Dr Brian of London created a thread and replied to me, sending a link to the website that stole my active key.

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A moment later, I realized that it wasn't a hacker who stole my key through Magi, but that Dr Brian of London's account had been hacked [EDIT: the account wasn't even hacked, it was just a fake account that wrote to me], and I had been talking to a scammer impersonating him.

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What now? Of course, I changed my passwords immediately.

My 298 HBD is still in the @wobe11 account...

TAGS: [ #hive ]

Replies

@azarmadr3 | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:02 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Good luck
I don't know anything about all these. I'll reblog it

@yecier | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:06 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

V4v.app it's under migration right now I believe don't send any sats until the new version official annouce

@dlmmqb | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:23 a.m. | Votes: 14 | [ VOTE ]

As u can see, it wasn't him. Someone impersonating him.

There were many red flags during the conversation

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@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:31 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

>There were many red flags during the conversation

I am a completely non-technical person. For me, there was only one: entering my private key somewhere. Unfortunately, I believed that it was actually him. It's a pity that the real Dr. Brian of London didn't reply as quickly as he did a few days ago. Then the fake one wouldn't have been able to impersonate him.

@ladyaryastark | Feb. 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Mmmm it's necessary to assume failures, even when are ours 😜, no one real person could help you quickly as a scammer will.

@alessandrawhite | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:23 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

OMG @hallmann. This is so not good!
A disaster, for sure.

Thank you for sharing…it’s nuts!

@brianoflondon | Feb. 12, 2026, 5:46 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I am Brianoflondon. I announced yesterday and the front ends for v4v.app were closed that the service is down.

I live in Israel. I'm asleep overnight.

I deliberately do not do support on Discord because it's so easy to impersonate and it was obviously a mistake to help you there two days ago. When I helped you that time you'll notice you just got money back without doing anything. I never want to get keys from anyone.

In sorry you got scammed.

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 9:27 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

>I am Brianoflondon. I announced yesterday and the front ends for v4v.app were closed that the service is down.

In such a situation, there should be a block on sending anything. The message said: it may take a “few hours”. The hacker was very well prepared for this situation, because he responded very quickly when I reported the error on Discord.

@brianoflondon | Feb. 12, 2026, 12:46 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

There was as much of a block as I can put on the front end but fundamentally all my website does is prepare a Hive transaction for you to send to me.

I am unable to make the web page refresh and so in that case your browser just sent me the transaction.

I have your funds for that transaction and will return them but I'm working like mad to make the new system work so will only do that when I'm done.

Please also confirm here 100% that you have control of this account and you've changed all the keys and that the thief doesn't have any control.

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 1:20 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

> Please also confirm here 100% that you have control of this account and you've changed all the keys and that the thief doesn't have any control.

I did it under your second comment.

@mynewlife | Feb. 12, 2026, 4:45 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

How is possible that scammer is able to make sub-topic on official Magi server ?

@brianoflondon | Feb. 12, 2026, 6:12 a.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

If you can confirm you're completely back in control of this account I can refund your original transaction, I'm sorry this happened, the site can't physically stop people sending Hive but the front end should not have worked, I suspect you had an old cached version. I can't get around this.

I'm now sorry I helped you on Discord the first time, I usually don't do that. Hive is the only place we can guarantee identity.

I will not provide anyone help via Discord ever and I'll make as big an announcement of that as I can. I will get @wobe11 put on a blacklist.

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 9:22 a.m. | Votes: 4 | [ VOTE ]

>If you can confirm you're completely back in control of this account I can refund your original transaction, (...)

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It's really me. I'm not generated by AI. I don't have six fingers. I changed my passwords as soon as I noticed the account had been hacked.

>I'm now sorry I helped you on Discord the first time

From the very beginning, V4V should have had a SUPPORT tab. It still doesn't have one. How are users supposed to contact support in case of errors?

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 1:23 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

@brianoflondon here 👆

@condeas | Feb. 12, 2026, 8:57 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

The account @wobi11 was created via @hallmann. Unfortunately, the fraudster is still unknown.

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@oflyhigh | Feb. 12, 2026, 11:23 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I’m really sorry to hear that.

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 6:40 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you!

@neithya | Feb. 12, 2026, 11:43 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

OMG😱😱😱😱

@steevc | Feb. 12, 2026, 12:10 p.m. | Votes: 3 | [ VOTE ]

There are a lot of scammers on Discord and I have encountered some. I think we should make more use of the messaging options in peakd and ecency as you can be more sure of who you are talking to.

@ph1102 | Feb. 12, 2026, 12:36 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

OMG, this sucks big time! So sorry to hear that you're being scammed... 😞

On the other side, thank you for sharing all this... It's important to share it with others and try to prevent more people from being scammed... Discord became a perfect place for scammers and impersonators...

I will share this with @Ourpick users for more exposure and to raise awareness about these things that can happen to anyone! Watchout people!

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@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 6:39 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you!

>On the other side, thank you for sharing all this...

Yeah, the more examples people know, the better they can prepare for it.

@melinda010100 | Feb. 12, 2026, 2:19 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I have been using Ecency chat as it gives me a quick way to click on the username and see their account.

I am so sorry this happened to you.

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 6:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

>I am so sorry this happened to you.

Thank you!

@brianoflondon | Feb. 12, 2026, 3:52 p.m. | Votes: 4 | [ VOTE ]

Once again I'm sorry for what happened, I've now returned your original transaction. I obviously didn't need your keys or any other detail from you to do that.

I'm still working to get v4v.app up and running.

@brianoflondon | Feb. 12, 2026, 3:53 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Return transfer:

https://hivehub.dev/tx/70c7e6a0bfaa69398f7af8fd5666f8a4a6c8e4e8

@hallmann | Feb. 12, 2026, 6:37 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you

@finpulse | Feb. 13, 2026, 5:04 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

OMG. There are many scammers around and we really need to be careful. I see that he also stated power down, have you cancelled that ?

@roswelborges | Feb. 13, 2026, 10:45 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Just two days ago, @hive-reward tried to scam my account. Be careful with anything from them!

@yecier | Feb. 13, 2026, 12:16 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

This kind of spam posts dosn't help you

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