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Scam Secrets

Scam Secrets

The Instagram Takeover Scam

· 28 min

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An old friend is posting about how well his investments are doing - and he's offering you the chance to get involved too. Would you know what to do?
In this final episode of the series, the Scam Secrets team unpick a fraud which ripped through a group of close mates. One by one, their Instagram accounts were infiltrated as, believing they were chatting to a friend, they handed over their login details, hoping to join a crypto investment scheme. But that gave the criminals all they needed to take over the account and use it as a platform to try the same trick on all their followers.
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