Instagram now hides likes all over the world -

Geeko

You have most likely been the victim of this spam in the past two months.

By going to your messaging on Instagram, a blue message at the top right of your screen tells you that you have received X requests.

Hundreds of fake accounts, gathered in groups, send a mysterious link to click on.

Of course, there is no need to explain to you that these are phishing and hacking attempts, and that the accounts in question are absolutely not real.

Sometimes devoid of photos on their news feed and subscribers, these accounts only aspire to disturb users and if possible to extirpate some of their data.

The problem seems to affect millions of Instagram users, who do not hesitate to directly challenge the social network on Twitter.

The main parties have also stated that they are actively working on the problem by looking for the perpetrators.

How to end group invite spam on Instagram - geeko

Thousands of users appear to be affected by the problem.

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Instagram has not yet proposed a solution to put an end to the matter.

Many Internet users then offer some semblance of a solution on Twitter, without however succeeding in eradicating the problem.

One manipulation, however, seems to work, at least on Android.

Indeed, iPhone users can also set it up, but its effectiveness seems compromised.

So, if you are using an Android phone, go to Instagram settings then press "Privacy".

Then press the "Messages" tab, then change the message invitation permissions.

By default, groups and new message invitations are set to “Everyone”.

Put "People you follow only".

How to end group invite spam on Instagram - geeko

On the other hand, if you are using Instagram on an iOS phone, there is no viable solution yet.

However, it seems that by going to the settings of "Notification" then in "Direct messages", and that by choosing "No" to Invitations to groups, it alleviates the problem.

However, we will have to wait for an official solution proposed by Instagram to get rid of this scourge once and for all.

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