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Naj Ahmed
Highly experienced in digital and content marketing. Working with SaaS businesses to grow their digital footprint and gauge the performance of their content across several media.
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Has your Instagram account been cloned? Worrying rise in scams
Instagram users are being warned of a worrying rise in scam artists stealing photos so they can create duplicate, fake versions of a profile page.
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The biggest risk of having your social media accounts cloned is that it can potentially lead to an identity crisis. I’ve seen friends or family members not knowing that they were talking to a 'cloned' account, and often end up sending photos that could potentially lead to a privacy situation.
Not only that, but many malicious actors who clone social media accounts often start asking the victim’s close friends for monetary benefits, and there have been many cases where unsuspecting individuals have ended up sending large amounts thinking that they were helping a friend, but were instead just transferring money to someone else altogether.
