Pornographic messages are increasing on Instagram for several days. As reported Le Figaro, many users have reportedly received invitations from anonymous accounts to join groups. However, the latter would offer links to pornographic sites that may contain viruses.
“Only fake accounts […], between 20 and 25 requests per day. I block systematically. What the hell this thing “, in particular tweeted a user whose words are repeated by the daily. Attractive photos, few subscribers and almost no posts. So far, that’s all we know about these fake accounts.
“One million checks per second”
Instagram, which is currently investigating this spam, recalled that the social network allowed “Discussions of a sexual nature” more “Not content that facilitates, encourages or coordinates sexual encounters between adults”. He also specified that his teams of humans and robots “Performed a million checks per second to detect and remove unwanted content and affiliate accounts”.
In the meantime, to stop receiving these messages, users of the social network can try to change their settings. By going to its settings, it is possible to refuse invitations by message or to groups. It was reminded that subscribers can report such spam and block the authors of spam messages.
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