Meta sues user for the theft of IG profiles
The company accused Ekrem Ates of having stolen 350,000 IG accounts, in addition to having cloned them
Meta sued the owner of the cloned website called MyStalk, Ekrem Ates, for creating fraudulently obtaining information from more than 350,000 Instagram accounts using automated software.
A cloned web page is a page created by a third party that duplicates, partially or completely, the content of an existing site, as Meta explains in a statement published on its website.
These sites can be used to post fraudulently extracted personal data without users’ consent, as well as to scam users or damage the credibility of the original site.
To collect this information, cloned sites often use pages and apps that offer likes, followers, or other rewards to users in exchange for their Facebook or Instagram credentials.
With the aim of eradicating these fraudulent practices, Meta launched a tracking program that it has applied to more than 100 cloned Instagram websites and with which it managed to reduce this type of website by, approximately, 90 %.
Despite the efforts of the platform, these cloned websites persist and continue to be present on the Internet. Specifically, the company accuses him of having used unauthorized automation software to illegally access and collect Instagram user profiles.
K. Tovar
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