Instagram Harassment?
An anonymous Instagram profile you don’t recognise is harassing you and your family, even revealing personal information such as mobile numbers. An anonymous Instagram account falsely claims that you have been cheating on your wife. A fake Instagram account in your boyfriend’s name is uploading nasty things about you and sending threatening messages.
With their distressing impact on reputations and relationships, all these scenarios present us with the crucial challenge of how to find out who is behind a fake or anonymous Instagram account. While we explored social media harassment in general and on Facebook in previous blogs, it is worth focusing particularly on Instagram.
The nicest place on the Internet. Or is it?
For a long time, Instagram had the reputation of being ‘the nicest place on the internet’. Millions of users certainly agree, using it as a platform to share photos and thoughts, promote products and express themselves. While there is lots of thoughtfully curated, feel-good content, negative trends have also taken hold. For one, research demonstrates that frequent Instagram use in teens can lead to bad mental health outcomes.
With our feeds constantly bombarding us with images of the perfect, it is hard not to feel boring, inadequate, or deficient. Furthermore, Instagram harassment and bullying is rife across the platform. This is closely related to another area of particular concern: the proliferation of fake or anonymous Instagram accounts.
Fake Instagram accounts – How to tell if an Instagram account is fake
Instagram estimates that more than one in ten of its accounts, or 95 million, are actually fakes or bots. As a consequence, the company is uncovering and removing millions of fake accounts annually. Over recent years, Instagram has had to hire significant numbers of staff to trawl the service for that very purpose. However, they are often after big offenders or bots and rarely catch individual fake accounts motivated by jealousy or revenge. Furthermore, even if Instagram does act to close down or disable a profile, harassers will often simply set up another fake account. A game of whack-a-mole ensues but the key task remains unfinished. You still don’t know how to find out who is behind a fake Instagram account.
How to find out who is behind an Instagram account?
So, you figured that a cyberbully is harassing or defaming you from the comfort of a fake or anonymous Instagram account? You might even have a hunch who it could be: a resentful former friend, a spiteful ex-lover, or a jealous competitor. But how do you find out for sure who is behind a fake account, and importantly, make them stop?
If you report it to Instagram, they might shut down the account, but they won’t release information about who is behind it to you. Plus, the perpetrator can just open a new account. The police can only assist with Instagram harassment from a criminal investigation perspective, but they usually require an IP address or other evidence to act upon. Finally, your lawyer can only help if they know who to actually send a cease-and-desist letter to! Luckily, you have come to the right place: Cybertrace can help you find out who is behind a fake or anonymous Instagram account.
What does Cybertrace have that others don’t?
Cybertrace uses a combination of technical investigative techniques in order to find out who is behind a fake Instagram account. This includes comparing published content and writing styles used by the fake profile to any individuals identified as potential suspects.
Cybertrace has also developed its own highly specialised tools with the capability to deploy through Instagram to extract user information, such as an IP address. These tools are not used by any other investigators and remain one of Cybertrace’s leading tools to find out who is behind a fake Instagram profile.
Over the past few years, we have been able to successfully reveal numerous harassers’ personal information and IP addresses. Our clients have taken this information to their lawyers, the police, and the courts to get justice. Find out who is behind the fake Instagram account that is stirring up trouble. Contact us today to stop cyber bullies and reclaim your reputation, sanity, and peace of mind.
We have had someone spreading false and damaging rumours on Instagram and we would like to find out who this person is. Can you help with that?
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Someone has made an annoying insta account of me causing me stress and anxiety by uploading embrassing photos and pretending to be me please help.
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Someone made a instagram page about me I want to know who’s behind it
This account is created in my name and some screenshots of photos from my real account have been taken and uploaded on the fake account and money is being demanded from people through this account.
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Someone is using a fake account and saying my husband is a cheater. Now they have tried to add me
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Someone made a instagram page about me I want to know who’s behind it
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Hello, i want to find who is behind fake ig account that sends to my girlfriend that i am cheating on her. Can you help?
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Somoene is saying horrible things about my teenage daughter and other high school girls on instagram. How do I get hold of this persons IP or email adres or any other info.
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There are 3 accounts threatening me and my friends, I have no money to pay but I need someone to trace the accounts and find out for me who it is
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Please help me find out whose make an instagram account that made my daughter in trouble at school.
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Help me know who’s behind a fake account. I want their main.
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Hi, a fake account was created to post horrible lies about my close friend in attempts to ruin her reputation. Can you trace who created the account
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Posting me and texting after i asked them
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Hello, I am Lubaba Maha from Bangladesh. I don’t have dollars to pay…but a humble request to you….a man who knows me is sending me vulgar message on instagram. I need to know that person otherwise i will be in danger…Please can you tell me the real name or Email Address of that person. This is the insta id – smartt1011. Please help me
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I am a student nd someone had made up a confession account and he’s abusing other children’s
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someone is creating fake ids and defaming my brother I want to know the no and email it was created with
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I’m being stalked by a brother, than I got locked put of phone, and I am certain he’s using my Gmail account, with a fake name.
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there is a Instagram account name @niki.ta89783 who had been using my photos in their account and I cannot find who is the real person behind it can anything be done to fix this issue i’m quite in tensed I hope you can take any actions regard that
there is a Instagram account name @niki.ta89783 who had been using my photos in their account and I cannot find who is the real person behind it can anything be done to fix this issue i’m quite in tensed
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Hi. I believe there is a fake instagram account that has made up lies and casting dispersion on a friend of mine. They have also aimed certain things at myself and I need to find out who it is. Can you help?
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Someone made my brother’s fake account and defaming him through various content
Please help me to locate that account
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Fake accounts were created by someone who was pretending to fall in love with me in an attempt to get money out of me.
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Hi I’ve had someone bullying me on my Instagram and it’s someone I know I just want to be able to figure out who it is so I can block them.
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Help me from this fake account 🙏🙏
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There is a account talking about me on Instagram can we trace and reveal who is behind this
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Buenos dias, Somos una empresa de ciberseguridad y fuimos contactados ya que tenemos una clienta que esta sufriendo bullying y abusos por instagram. Quisiera revisar el propietario de la IP o si hay posibilidad de vincularlo con quien creemos es el propietario para enviar la documnetacion a las autoridades pertinentes
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Someone made fake account and messaging my friends and family wrong about me . i want to know who is this person .
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Recenly been defamed online through a fake account. What costs would be invocled for brief investigation to gather information about the creator and a 2nd public account.
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Hi, someone had been harassing me. However, the instagram account has disappeared and no harrasment have happened. Can the person still be traced?
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i need to find out who is behind on fake instagram account beacause hi is making crimes and i need to make a notification
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Fake profile cyber bullying from account _Nadiyyah_ please help check who this account belongs to
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someone has been harassing me and cyber bullying me for almost 3 years.
When I was with my ex 2021, there was one girl saw the post he posted on his Instagram and start to harass me by creating tons of fake sexual ins account with my pics she stole from my Instagram. This person I have never met in life, what my ex told me was someone he met in Paris before, then after we broke up I found out he actually had sexual relationship with that girl several years ago and dumped her, which made her get crazy and start to harass everyone he dates.
Even I broke up with that guy, but seems that HKnese girl doesn’t let me live in peace, she still creates fake sexual accounts on instagram by using my name. To be honest, I don’t know if it’s really she who is now still doing this or it’s my ex bf who is doing this.
The most important thing is, this is making me feel bad, coz I am married I have my family, I saw that she/he also use my husband name and my sister in law ´s name to create fake account. Also create a new fake sexual insta account by using my name. And I was about to create my brand with my name, this is deeply influencing my life and my business. I need help to find out this person and delete all the fake accounts she/he created.
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someone made an account on my name and now abusing my relatives
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i have had this once strange instagram account that has just been stalking my account and viewing my posts and it has no posts no followings and the username is just user with numbers at the end of it
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There is this person who is harrasing my sister with several fake accounts on instagram. Are you able to find out who that person is?
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I have someone who’s been harassing me saying my boyfriend is cheating on me
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I have a page that has been watching and stalking me for months now . I really need to find out who this is .
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Someone created a fake instagram and over 4 years has attempted to destroy my marriage. This person spreads false information about me via other people’s accounts. Please contact me so I can explain this more.
Thank you.
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Someone hacked my instagram id and change my email id and use it as a scam
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Help me with imposter account
Instagram account was hacked but it won’t show me the full email adress when I go to sign in. I want to know who did this
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This acc has sent me messages as it seems to be my ex but I’m not sure he is
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Me and some relatives are being harassed by an account and it is a cyberbullying group.
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Can we find out the name of the user information like Name. As the instagram user id is deactivated or deleted.
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This guy is texting me from different different fake account and using my known name to harass me .
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One account used my ip address and mobile number for fake Instagram account. Help me to resolve this
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Need help discovering who is behind a fraudulent instagram account
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I have someone that says I used to know them contacting me through instagram. I think I know who it is, and I would like to know so hopefully I can make a report to police about supposed persons
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Good morning, I started a business and I have a fake user on instagram commenting on all my pictures and making messaging me nasty stuff I’m wondering if I can find who it is
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there is a fake account that pretends to be my ex-boyfriend but then starts harassing me by abusing me and my family. I tried to fool him by acting like I was under his influence. this person has followed almost all of my close friends and has also shared his nudes with me when I started acting up.
he called me and abused me as well. I personally tried to track this account but I was not able to find out who it was.
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Somebody is creating fake insta accounts and harrasing me
can you help to find a fake instagram account location at malaysia?
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I need to find the people behind an instagram account
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Someone is using my name and post the false news on Instagram. Can you please guide me further? I wanna know his/her name
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hello, there is an Instagram account commenting on the death of a 15 year old girl, she rejected flowers from a man, and he stabbed her to death for it, this fake user account is telling everyone she deserved it and it’s honestly breaking my heart that people get away with such vile behaviour, I really need your help exposing this sick little freak tormenting a dead child and blaming her for being murdered for telling man “no”. Please help.
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I need ur help someone is making different account on Instagram and harrassing me sending different messages and sending message to my friend as well.
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Started in September from a insta request message threatening abusive stuff to me and to my sister who they named. I blocked & reported to which they moved onto messenger where every week I received further abusive messages to me mentioning the area I was living in at the time and then mentioned the road name I lived on threatening to turn up and hurt me. I blocked and reported again and today they messaged me from a new insta account being abusive. I have screenshots of all the Instagram usernames/profiles he’s been using with all the messages. I reported to the police but they can’t do anything.
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Please reply who’s the person behind this ID
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So someone have created a fake instagram account using my full name and a picture of me from another app. I want to find who is behind this account because the account have posted stories and told my friends that are following that my real account have been hacked (which it has not been) and that thats a new account but it is just a fake account of me! plz help me. Thanks!!!
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someone on Instagram has created a fake account in my name and has posted my pictures it is affecting my privacy. help me out
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Someone has made a fake account to insult me and also messaging me in bad language I don’t like this kind of behaviour that person is trying to make me feel embarassed in front of everyone please help me out
Someone has opened a fake instagram id. With my pic and name. Can u help me
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getting abuse and harassed from multiple instagram accounts. texting me insullting me, telling me to committ sucide, insulting my family and bosses.
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I’m being harrased by numerous fake accounts and I’m certain it’s the same person.
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Instagram fake account avaridho telusu kovadam ala
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Hi I have a fake account that been harassing and bullying me i blocked it and that person create an other fake account to slander me .can we trace and reveal that person please I’m begging because that becomes out of control
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I am trying to track down the sender of harassing messages to my daughter. The account has been disabled, but the message and bullying from certain individual has continued. I want to confirm if this person sent the message and ensure corrective action is taken through the appropriate channels. Police are not willing to it is very low priority for them.
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I have a fake account harassing me and defaming my character which is hurting me professional and personally. They are sending stuff to people I follow, following all my friends and posting things to their story
I need help to find a person who sent me daughter harassing message son instagram and then disappeared.
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Hi, a fake account has been harassing my best friend and I. We would like to find out who it is, i am a digital creator thus i would like to keep my account public, however we have blocked and reported the account. Do you have any advice on how to find out who is behind the account?
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Hii, there is an unknow person that send me a direct message and I want to know from which phone this account is opened
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I have been receiving hateful comments, DMs, and harrassment on my instagram page from multiple accounts but it seems to be the same person. I’ve blocked them, restricted, but because I am under a digital creator account, I would like to keep my account public. Do you have any suggestions on how to track this person?
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I have a fake account harassing me and defaming my character which is hurting me professional and personally. They are sending stuff to people I follow, following all my friends and posting things to their story
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We received some messages from an Instagram account on April 16 2024, now that I’d is not showing in Instagram, we need his contact number linked with that account as he made fake account and sent messages.
If you can help let me know.
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I’m on instagram and i’ve been getting harassed by an account that idk who is behind it. It’s caused so much drama in my family and i want to know who’s behind it.
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Hello. Two instagram accounts are sending messages to friends of mine.
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I am a television personality. I have a jealous co worker, that has made up an account that has slandered me, can we trace and reveal him?
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A fake account has been made by someone that person is defaming my image and there is so many chaos that person wrote so many bad things in bio and trying to put my image down I want to know who is behind that account I want all details I paste profile url
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Hi, so someone has made a fake Instagram profile by name and profile picture and i need to know who it is
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A fake account has been made by someone keeping my image in there profile and putting badly bio in his account, and sending bad words to me, I want to know the person who is that and his details
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