Users of social media What Instagram Y OnlyFans They should be especially careful these days, since in the last hours a high number of accounts and personal profiles that have been impersonated have been detected, with the aim of contacting the followers of said affected accounts for, with different strategies of deception and social engineering carry out some type of fraud with economic damage towards the victim.
The Internet User Security Office (OSI) has launched a security alert due to the reactivation of this criminal phenomenon and that in the specific case of OnlyFans has greater repercussions, because through it there are bank account numbers and therefore the users’ money.
To people affected by this scam, experts in cybersecurity recommend blocking the account that has impersonated them. On Instagram you can do entering the profile and in the 3 points located in the upper right corner select the option “To block”. The next step is report that account, an action that all social networks allow to carry out, as well as to announce to all our followers that we are being the object of a usurpation of our profile.
It is advisable to document the entire impersonation process with screenshots to be able to demonstrate the impersonation if necessary, and if it is not, make the account private at least during the days when our profile is compromised. Apparently, it affects more public profiles on Instagram, although it could also occur on other platforms such as Twitter or TikTok.
OSI emphasizes that “if you have received a message from a false profile and you have accessed the link and provided your credit card details or made any type of payment, contact your bank as soon as possible to inform them of what happened.”
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