In the modern digital era, scams are pretty common. One expeirence I’ve had with a scammer was on Instagram. Someone made a account similar to mine, using a similar profile picture and username. This fake user went through my social media following and follwed everybody that follwed my real account. They then messaged all my follwers pretending to be me, asking for a favor, which was to send the scammer money. Eventually enough people realized that I don’t speak like how the scammer did and checked the scammers fake account, seeing that the account doesn’t have any of the posts my real account had. Multiple people contacted me to let me know someone was impersonating me, so I was quickly able to let everyone know that the account was not me and report it. The account got banned soon after, but they almost scammed some of my older family members who where less skeptical of the fake account.
Honestly…. that’s pretty true
Very true
I was a victim of something like this too expect it was on Facebook, they tried to get my grandma. Good thing we were able to prevent anything from happening
Yeah they almost got my grandma with the fake account
Someone has tried to get me with this scam before impersonating someone I knew good thing I checked and reached out to the person they were impersonating to make sure it was real
I think this happens pretty often on instagram
This has happened to me before too on Instagram. Good thing you were able to report the account
Yeah seems like everyones had this type of scam