Video blogger, writer, and founder of the volunteer initiative «How Not to Become a Vegetable» Oksana Moroz shared how scammers began hacking Instagram accounts using hate in the comments.
Video blogger, writer, and founder of the volunteer initiative «How Not to Become a Vegetable» Oksana Moroz shared how scammers began hacking Instagram accounts using hate in the comments.
«A new-old story that ends with a break or other damage,» Oksana Moroz wrote on Facebook.
According to her, the scheme works as follows:
«Please do not click on such comments/accounts/links,» urges Oksana Moroz.
In the comments to the writer’s post, many other users confirmed that they had encountered or seen similar cases.
Referring to a separate comment by Oksana Moroz, the Institute of Mass Information writes that the goals of hacking accounts can be different: now the account is being hacked using a link, and then they can change it to collect information.
Blogger Maya Tulchynska told about a case where she herself encountered a similar situation. According to her, scammers send bots to people’s pages with the task of writing nasty things about the author of the page, even without political messages or a link to the topic of a specific post.
To protect yourself, Maya advises: if you are not engaged in any public activity on social networks, if you do not have a professional need for comments to be open, limit them to friends only. If someone does reach out to you with a nasty comment that goes to a person, make sure it is not a bot.
