Security News > 2022 > April > Instagram beyond pics: Sexual harassers, crypto crooks, ID thieves
A platform for everyone to seamlessly share their best moments online, Instagram is slowly turning into a mecca for the undesirables-from sexual harassers to crypto "Investors" helping you "Get rich fast."
Whenever Shibby120 is approached by an Instagram scammer, he decides to "Have fun with them" over DMs:. Two days ago, Carrington J. Tatum, a reporter with MLK50 announced his Instagram account getting hacked to promote crypto scams.
Crypto enthusiast FEYI warns that such projects, especially NFTs promoted on Instagram are most certainly 'rug pulls.
Another upwards trend on Instagram these days is that of blank profiles or nearly empty profiles used for promoting adult content.
I have repeatedly come across cases where photos of my friends were lifted off their Instagram profiles and reused by scammers to create fake Instagram personas promoting sexual content and services.
As such we are not sure how efficient or effective reporting suspicious profiles to Instagram is.