Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video

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New: in an ongoing Instagram scam, a hacker is forcing people to make videos saying their scam is legit. The hacker then sends that video to the victim's contacts to try and scam more people. Victim is still locked out of their account

Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
The video was part of a fairly elaborate scam to trick people into sending the hacker Bitcoin.
vice.com
8:38 AM · Oct 28, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vzzx/instagram-scam-video-bitcoin

A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back. But instead of giving victims their cash back, the hacker then uses those videos to convince further victims that their scams are legitimate investments, according to a victim who shared the video and other material with Motherboard.

“I invested $500 and got $10,000 back. It is real and legit,” Yeri Henfield, a victim of the scam said in a video he said he was told to make by the hackers.

Henfield told Motherboard “These people are the definition of sin. It makes me so sick thinking who else they scammed. My [Instagram] page is also a shrine to my girlfriend who passed away almost 6 years ago. The page is now a disgrace.”

The scam started when Henfield spoke to an old roommate on Instagram, he said. From there, Henfield then started speaking to an account called “jaineverything,” which was advertising the tantalizing deal of investing $500 in bitcoins and getting much more money in return. Henfield sent Motherboard screenshots of what he said was him sending hundreds of dollars of BTC to jaineverything’s address.

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