What is the 'BAN contract service' that prevails on Instagram?
On August 5, 2021 We are active. ' Fraud groups can use Instagram systems to detect suicide, self-harm, spoofing, etc. to freeze or recover targeted accounts at will.
Scammers Will Ban Anyone From Instagram For $ 60
According to Motherboard, the underground internet forum OG Users said, 'I and my friends provide the best BAN service in the world. We have been a BAN professional since 2020 and have been working as BAN professionals. It has a top-class track record. ”The advertisement of the BAN contractor is posted.
War (a pseudonym), a BAN contractor who responded to the interview on condition of anonymity, commented to Motherboard that 'BAN is almost a full-time job (laughs).' He claims that by selling the BAN service on Instagram, he earns $ 60 for each account freeze and tens of thousands of dollars a month.
War said they were 'apparently individuals with money,' while not knowing why they used their services. 'Maybe he's the ex-boyfriend of Target, or he has a grudge against Target. Maybe he's ruining Instagrammer's business and getting money from another person.' War said.
Mr. War said that he has made false spoofing complaints on Instagram and has frozen the target user account. Regarding the method, Mr. War said, 'First, get an authenticated Instagram account and make the profile of that account look like a target. Then, if you spoof the target and report it, the other party will be deleted from Instagram. '.
Some BAN contractors use a different method than spoofing. Mr. flanvel, who has been damaged by the BAN service on Instagram, said that his account was frozen due to a false report about self-harm. Of the two screenshots submitted to Instagram as evidence of flanvel's self-harm, one was taken by the vendor and sent to flanvel, and the other was published on the vendor's own Instagram account. It was a thing.
'The vendors can regulate their accounts at will,' flanvel told Motherboard. According to him, these trick attacks use a method of making a large number of reports using scripts. For example, a script discovered by Motherboard in its own research had a function to automatically stop reporting after 40 times so as not to hit the upper limit of the number of reporting on Instagram. In addition, one freelance recruitment site has also posted a job advertisement for a bot developer who makes a large number of reports to Instagram accounts.
According to flanvel, victims of BAN attacks may receive a message asking them to recover their paid accounts. In addition, there were cases where a BAN contractor and an account recovery service provider followed each other on Instagram.
In response to Motherboard's inquiry, Instagram said, 'We are investigating sites that provide BAN services and are working to exclude people who violate these guidelines from Instagram. If in doubt, we're calling on users to report it, and if your account is frozen, we'll guide you to a support page to restore your account. '
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