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What Grinds Our Gears: Bitcoin Instagram scammers

By: Tracey Ho, SFU student I’ve been hacked on Instagram. After nine years of using the account to showcase art, post photos of some exhibition or cool scenery, and of course, show off neat photos of myself — my account’s been turned into a platform for Internet bros’ latest go-to scam.  That’s right; my beloved Instagram account has been turned into a Bitcoin scam account. This March, I got a message on the ‘gram that tricked me into giving over my account information. Within moments, I lost all access to my account of nine years.  I was forced to see…

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