HI Bill,
Thanks for your answer on that, that will help a lot of people to understand, I think you should do a post though, I started a #scamalert and I think something like this should be put there.
There are a lot of crypto noobs joining Steem and a lot of people are starting Bittrex accounts, so a warning is really valid. Coming from the non-crypto world, people don't understand exactly how they can get scammed.
Once again, apologies for my noob mistake, I imagine there was lots of face palming going on at the Bittrex offices, when you received my email :-).
CG