[turkishcandy]

I posted this in the forum lounge but couldn't get any response. My Instagram account auto-follows 2 or 3 spam pages every day, all in Turkish. Obviously they are buying mass followers via some apps and those apps somehow got a hold of my account and turned it into a whore.


Every day I have to check my instagram and unfollow a few embarrassing pages that sell women products or share cheesy quotes or some homo selfies. I'm not even posting anything on Instagram, I posted 9 photos in the last 4 years, I just use it to follow some Russian Instagram models, but this is getting annoying and I'm about to give up and close my account for good.

Has this happened to anybody else?

Before you say it, I already changed my password several times and I did not give any access to any apps (my app page on instagram.com is clean). I checked all the online solutions and people recommend these 2 solutions which didn't work for me. My account must have been compromised by something else. Any suggestions?

[britchard]

I sometimes seem to have followed people/accounts that I am sure I never intentionally followed. There's something dodgy going on that's for sure.

[xtr3m]

If changing the password doesn't help it must some malware that runs on your phone but most likely on your computer (do you have one?). Accounts can't really be compromised -- it's always the systems that access them.

[turkishcandy]

I recently bought a new pc but this has been going on long before that. It only got worse in the last few weeks. It might be my phone, but then again check the photos above, those 500k followers are mostly real users, which means this is happening to hundreds of thousands of people. Their phones can't all be compromised.

Looks like it's an epidemic in Turkey. I now googled it in Turkish and many people are complaining about the same problem and nothing seems to be working. I got 4 Turkish guys popped up in my following list since I opened this thread. It's rapidly getting worse because too many horny guys think buying 500 thousand followers is gonna get them laid.

I will post a status about it on facebook and get to the bottom of this. I will post the solution when I find.

[kaotic]

Delete your IG and start over, you're just following accounts anyways.

[redbeard]

Delete your IG and don't start over. Social media is a time suck.

[jamaicabound]

I'm not that familiar iwth instragram but have you ever used third party services that you give access to your account or login to via your account details? If so that could be it.

[aguasin]

You've got a keylogger of some sort on either your phone or your PC or you have an app installed that's been compromised. Every time you change your password, they are capturing the new password and the cycle continues or this compromised app is gaining access to your IG and following people who've paid for likes from bots.

Run Avast, MalwareBytes, etc, uninstall dodgy apps and then change your passwords (Email, etc)

[kerouac]

Log into instagram.com on your computer, click on edit profile (which is located right by your account name on the top right), click on manage applications, and delete all the applications listed (or the ones you suspect to be causing this).

[turkishcandy]

It seems I've solved the problem. I did 3 things in that order, one of them or a combination appears to be the solution.
- I deleted a Google Chrome extension.
- I changed my password again.
- I logged out of my profile on my computer.

No auto-follows for the past 48 hours. If it starts again, I know what will cause it.

Why bother with Instagram?
Like most things, Facebook and Instagram can be either an obstacle or a useful tool in your life. If you spend too much time stalking people, liking shit and obsessing about your selfies and follower count, it's only a waste of time and it turns you into an attention whore.

I, however, am not uploading photos, not following any friends, not wasting time on liking and commenting on shit. But I think, if you use the social media right, you can construct a powerful image of yourself that displays money, game and personal value in the dating market. Kind of like Bilzerian. I'm planning to move to a Russian populated town in Turkey in a few months and start working on this image.

I had a red-pill blog last year. I shared dating stories and game advice like Roosh did. I made it all fun though. Then 2 Ukrainian girls who I considered out of my league came to visit me in Istanbul (separately). They both had boyfriends. And they were both intrigued by the image of me that they had created in their minds reading my success stories. Of course, they dumped me eventually, but not before I got the bangs. That's when I decided that you can hate social media all you want, but in the end, exploiting it is more alpha. Now imagine a lawyer who posts photos in yachts, in golf fields, expensive cars and tailor-made suits. When you add a girl on FB and she is hit by such an image, it's impossible not to be impressed. You start the game 1-0 ahead. I'm not saying girls will be lining at my door, but it will raise my value from the start. Note that Turkey is not USA. You get the point.

I will open a data-sheet on Turkey as I move along with my plans. Until then.

[Sailor]

(05-17-2015 02:34 PM)turkishcandy Wrote:  

I will open a data-sheet on Turkey as I move along with my plans. Until then.

I know Turkish girls don't have the best reputation but i saw some damn fine ass Izmir girls in BA last year