[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.

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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.

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[Link] Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video

Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the morning of August 26, 2015, television journalist Alison Parker was in Monela, Virginia reporting for a CBS affiliate station.

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[Link] Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep

Read: 8/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au

Facebook users struggling to get back into their hacked accounts are buying the company’s $US300 ($AU405) VR headset and returning them unopened just so they can reactivate their profiles, according to an NPR report.

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