Friday, February 28, 2014

Instagram Scams Fool Hundreds of Thousands

It sounds hard to believe but an estimated 100,000 people have willingly given away their usernames and passwords in an Instagram scam.

Instagram is one of the big players in the latest craze for image-sharing social networking sites.

It's owned by Facebook and has more than 150 million members, many of whom use it to legitimately share family, fun and friendship photos.

It's also used legitimately by many celebrities and businesses to visually promote themselves.
Often, Instagram photos are cross-shared via other networks, like Facebook and Twitter.

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