Artist Sadi Tekin, who had a conversation with a scammer who tried to steal his account on Instagram, shared his speech on Twitter. In conversations, the scammer told how they stole accounts on Instagram and sold them for money, she told.
social media, especially scams on Instagram the number has increased considerably. People’s accounts are ‘stolen’ with various tricks and either used for fraud or sold for money.
A similar scenario happened to successful artist Sadi Tekin. However, the end of Tekin’s story is quite funny. Explaining a ‘hacking case’ that happened to him with a post he made on Twitter, Tekin said that he was trying to take over his account. Turkish emergence of the ‘hacker’ He shared his speeches that took place afterwards.
They were stealing accounts and then selling them back to the owner:
In the screenshots shared by Tekin, after the artist’s Turkish speech ‘Are you Turkish??’ In the conversation, which suddenly ‘deepened’ with his question, the person who tried to take over the account explained how they defrauded people by stealing their accounts.
They usually steal the accounts of people from abroad, and then average these accounts. for $300 describing that they were selling the fraudster, Sadi Tekin’s ‘what were you going to do by stealing my account?’ to the question ‘i would sell it back to you‘ he replied.
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Fraudsters steal accounts after clicking on the links they forwarded, and according to what Sadi Tekin said after the speeches, this fraudulent person has a ‘ga extension’, that is, a African country extension He was sending a link. However, the person deleted the links he sent to Tekin after the speeches.
How can you protect Instagram account from scams?
Obviously, everyone is lucky like Tekin, and after a short chat with his scammer, he can’t continue without losing his account. But it’s actually not that hard. Responsible for almost all of the fraud cases we encounter on the Internet links from sources we do not know.
If you ignore message requests and links from sources that you do not know to your account on Instagram, you will protect yourself to a large extent. But of course the most important step is to keep your account with a strong password and two factor authentication protect with.
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