Instagram offers three elements scammers thrive on: scale, trust and plausible deniability. Threat actors can create or hijack accounts in volume. Once they do, they can start luring victims with ...

A scammer who stole $500 by hijacking an Instagram account may have thought he'd pulled off an easy con—until his victim's sister turned the tables with a relentless spam campaign that ultimately ...

A mom has been left homeless after handing over $344,000 to Instagram scammers posing as Hollywood hunks and pop stars who ...

A mum has been left homeless after falling victim to Instagram scammers posing as celebrities. Jennifer Barton, 44, handed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past week, emails from “Instagram” keep bugging me about someone seeking to reset my password — but the problem is that ...

Social media is both a frequent vehicle and target for scammers, who use it for everything from impersonating banks offering fake investment advice to spreading malware through AI-generated videos. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It appears someone is trying to scam Instagram users hoping that a recent Powerball winner wants to spread his newfound wealth. Over the weekend, someone was posting to ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is under fire after a major report revealed that thousands of fraudulent ads have been allowed to run on its platforms. According to the Wall Street ...

For the past week, emails from “Instagram” keep bugging me about someone seeking to reset my password — but the problem is that these messages aren’t actually from the social media giant at all. I ...