Scammers are working on an online service that will allow you to pay them in exchange for the ban on anyone’s Instagram account.
According to scammers, accounts set up with up to 99,000 followers may be affected.
Underground services are highlighted in the new Motherboard report.
The publication spoke to some of these scammers involved in the practice and found that they were operating both blockchain services and an Instagram account recovery service account for users.
One of the fraudsters in the underground forums, whose name is War, told the Motherboard in a Telegram message that account bans take up all of their time per day.
The war costs $ 60 per block so it can do more than five calculations in less than a month.
The military didn’t really know why they had customers using their ban as a service.
Although they add that clients usually have a “throw” money and can be angry with the account they want to identify.
Account recovery service is compatible with blocking service. Fraudsters can contact the victim of the attack themselves, promising to get their account back for a whopping $ 3500 to $ 4000.
In order to do their job, job scammers appear to be abusing Instagram policies and ways to prevent suicide, self-harm and impersonation.
Many reports directed at the account for these reasons ultimately lead to the communication service taking action against the targeted account.
Impersonation, for example, is often used to block a single account. War uses this method to make a person blocked on Instagram.
It changes its verified Instagram account “to look exactly like the target bio, name, profile picture etc.” When you’re done, report the targeted fake account.
Instagram is therefore tricked into thinking that the reported account is not real, and automatically denies it.
Another way to block an Instagram account is to report it in bulk with multiple accounts.
With this, such scammers have come up with their own script that can make automatic reporting against the account. These program documents are available for free on the Internet.
Scripts actually bots continue to automatically report the targeted Instagram account up to about 40 reports, thus avoiding the Instagram limit.
Reporting an account in violation of any Instagram policies of suicide or self-harm may be fraudulent.
Both methods require a targeted account to have a person in the profile photo.
In a statement to the Motherboard, Instagram confirmed that it was aware of such sites that offer blockchain services and that they are investigating.
It also promised to block people from Instagram who repeatedly violated site guidelines for such activities.
