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Instagram

has become the scene of a series of

on-demand attacks

by which, in exchange for a payment

, certain user accounts

can be

disabled,

a type of clandestine business that takes advantage of the platform's protection mechanisms to profit .

A new type of scam haunts Instagram users.

From clandestine forums, the work to disable particular accounts of the social network is advertised, a business that is often linked to the opposite process: the restoration of accounts that have been disabled by the platform itself.

On-demand services to disable accounts

take advantage of Instagram's protection systems,

as reported on Motherboard.

Thus, and once the action is contracted, the scammer can create an account on the platform and once it is verified, modify the profile information and the image to

impersonate the identity of the victim.

Reporting the latter for impersonation is enough to remove it from the social network.

Another method is

the fraudulent report that activates

the platform's

suicide or self

-

harm policy protocol

.

On the Internet you can find 'scripts' to make massive complaints of accounts in an automated way, as one of the victims has reported.

The service offers to disable accounts are affordable.

According to Motherboard, one of the consulted ads charges

between $ 5 and $ 30

, depending on the number of followers it has, while another charges

$ 60 for each account deleted.

On the other side are

the services that offer the opposite process: restoring an account deleted

by Instagram.

In fact, and according to one of the victims, both businesses are linked, since as soon as they are the target of a fraudulent disqualification, a message may arrive offering to recover it in exchange for a price, which is usually between 3,500 and 4,000 dollars.

Instagram has assured the aforementioned medium that it

is investigating this type of activity

, as well as the forums where these services are offered.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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