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Thanks, Bitcoin, for creating cash incentive for most of the worst behavior on the internet. Crypto lockers, pump-and-dump schemes, scams, hacking processing power for mining, burning fuels to power even the most legitimate uses. Cryptocurrency will go down in history as the most regrettable invention since leaded gas.
Thanks, Bitcoin, for creating cash incentive for most of the worst behavior on the internet. Crypto lockers, pump-and-dump schemes, scams, hacking processing power for mining, burning fuels to power even the most legitimate uses. Cryptocurrency will go down in history as the most regrettable invention since leaded gas.
This happened to my wife too and her IG profile was used to create a deepfake on onlyfans
I've had my account hacked, too. I used to own: https://www.instagram.com/kaler/ Have owned it since Instagram launched and it was connected to my Facebook account which I've had since 2005 or so. There is no hope with contacting Instagram/Facebook support.
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This is a good tack, though the key is the gmail account. Presumably, the perp has multiple scams based on the content of the account. Presuming much of the media creation is automated, they could also have run the process once the gmail account was owned. Testing auth from unexpected locations in advance seems like an easy way to get noticed.
I'm not reading that they hacked/stole a gmail account. My understanding is that by taking over the account, they updated the associated email address used for contact within Insta. It just so happened that the email used by the attacker was a gmail account. >Testing auth from unexpected locations in advance seems like an easy way to get noticed. How many times we've received emails from online accounts notifying abo…
The same thing happened to someone I know, but they were basically forced to post the requested videos as ransom.
It also happened to a skateboarder, and many people claimed deep fake when it wasn’t. [0]
Not saying it’s not, just raising the question.
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I've been on voice chat with her throughout the day trying to help her fix the problem. So I've seen it happen in real time, from the suspicious login in Nigeria to the deep-fake video that happened later.
It's so very hard to believe that it would be the notoriously unsophisticated Nigerians¹ pulling off high-end deepfakes. These guys weren't smart enough to use a proxy, but were supposedly smart enough to produce a good deepfake. If this really happened, there must be some easy to use public tool they used. I'd really love to see the video. ¹ There's no way anyone else would log into a stolen account from a Nigerian…
This way, the only replies they get are from people who are extremely gullible and/or desperate. It allows the scammers to avoid wasting time on targets that have a low probability of success.
That said, there are certainly plenty of stories about Nigerian scammers who are themselves not very bright or perceptive (is the 401Eater website still up and running?).
Facebook doesn't seem to care about deepfakes on Instagram since they promote "engagement". I can't say I have too much advice other than to always use strong passwords, don't share passwords across sites, use VPNs on public routers, and stay away from posting videos of yourself on cancerous engagement metric-driven social media.
I have another, stop using those websites completely. Delete your accounts.