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# scam accounts

Last year

2022

Warning of scammers impersonating women on Instagram and posting links to pornography

“But when I saw that it followed my dad, my heart sank. And he was like ‘who did this?’ And obviously I didn’t know, I still don’t know.”

Three women tell their stories of how this happened to them

The harmful phenomenon is so under-researched that it doesn't have an official name, but it's been happening on Instagram for several years

"At the start I thought it was a joke, but then it started to follow my family members," one woman told Jamie McCarron

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Apr 19th 2022, 12:05 AM