Community Moderator mich40 2,364 Posted March 4, 2020 Author Community Moderator Share Posted March 4, 2020 Thought it might be important to add this here, as people have mentioned in the past not knowing how some of these fake accounts end up finding them/messaging them. Just a short while ago the official U2 Instagram made a post about the new RSD release. I commented on it and within moments I received this: So please be aware that these people are scrolling through comments that you may make on the social media platforms. Fortunately, I have my account private, so that’s as far as they could get with me. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Madfl3a 554 Posted March 20, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted March 20, 2020 New one on twitter. Prob an harmless bot. Not reaching out to anyone I think but still.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Community Moderator Max Tsukino 2,572 Posted March 20, 2020 Community Moderator Share Posted March 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Madfl3a said: New one on twitter. Prob an harmless bot. Not reaching out to anyone I think but still.... In social media, there's no such thing as a harmless bot... Thanks for the tip... the advice here is, as usual, report and block... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Madfl3a 554 Posted April 3, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted April 3, 2020 New (?) one on IG. Sending DMs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Community Moderator mich40 2,364 Posted April 3, 2020 Author Community Moderator Share Posted April 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Madfl3a said: New (?) one on IG. Sending DMs Please report it; and since Bono doesn’t actually have an account, on the question where it asks who are they pretending to be, I’d put the official U2 one. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Madfl3a 554 Posted May 12, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 12, 2020 Yet another glorious fake account. Reported and blocked obvs. Just FYI. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Madfl3a 554 Posted May 12, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted May 12, 2020 Two of them actually... 2 fake Bono's in 3 days. Lucky me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Madfl3a 554 Posted June 29, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted June 29, 2020 If anyone can report this account. I did but instagram didn't accept my report for some reason 😒 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subscriber Vertigo3333 64 Posted July 5, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted July 5, 2020 I've been contacted by two more of these accounts over the last few days, after commenting on U2's most recent post. I deleted them right away so I don't remember their exact names but I did report them. But as usual Instagram does not remove them because they don't find anything wrong with it. Two accounts pretending to be the entire band also requested to follow me, one was deleted after I reported them but the other was not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Community Moderator mich40 2,364 Posted July 5, 2020 Author Community Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Vertigo3333 said: I've been contacted by two more of these accounts over the last few days, after commenting on U2's most recent post. I deleted them right away so I don't remember their exact names but I did report them. But as usual Instagram does not remove them because they don't find anything wrong with it. Two accounts pretending to be the entire band also requested to follow me, one was deleted after I reported them but the other was not. It’s important to keep being vigilant and wise and keep reporting them, even if it seems sometimes that Instagram isn’t doing anything. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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