BLACK'98DSM
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- Feb 9, 2019
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Just wanted to take a second and raise awareness of the scams that happen every single day on Instagram. Here is the account that tried me today.
He started off messaging me telling me some sob story about how he can't pay his phone bill so he needed to use my phone number or something. I already knew right off the bat he wanted my number to try and get into my account. I went and made a fake account with my work phone number and then gave him that number. Minutes later I got an email saying the fake account had been logged into.
You guys need to look out for this guy specifically, and others like him. The internet in today's world has more scammers than ever. Stay strong and stay smart and hopefully you won't fall for any of their traps. If I had given him the information for my primary account he would have locked me out and claimed it as his own. I don't think this guy wants to scam people out of money, I think he wanted access to my account for the fact I had twice his followers so he could use it for advertising. I really don't know, the fact is I'm really tired of losers like this trying to harm innocent people with the bullshit.
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He started off messaging me telling me some sob story about how he can't pay his phone bill so he needed to use my phone number or something. I already knew right off the bat he wanted my number to try and get into my account. I went and made a fake account with my work phone number and then gave him that number. Minutes later I got an email saying the fake account had been logged into.
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You guys need to look out for this guy specifically, and others like him. The internet in today's world has more scammers than ever. Stay strong and stay smart and hopefully you won't fall for any of their traps. If I had given him the information for my primary account he would have locked me out and claimed it as his own. I don't think this guy wants to scam people out of money, I think he wanted access to my account for the fact I had twice his followers so he could use it for advertising. I really don't know, the fact is I'm really tired of losers like this trying to harm innocent people with the bullshit.