Tech IndustryNov 12, 2021
SAPlevi0sa

Please help Instagram employees: how can I get my Instagram account back?

About a year ago, someone was stealing my photos and captions on Instagram. I reached out to them to ask them to please stop or at least tag me. They must have reported me because within a day, I started to be locked out of my account. Now, a year later, I can’t post to my story, access my DMs or post captions on my posts. I spent years growing this account for a side business and now, all that hard work seems to be for nothing. I’ve reached out to Instagram many times and I’ve heard nothing from them. I saw someone else was locked out of an account on blind and got help so I thought I’d give it a try. Can anyone here help me get my account back? Or at least give me an actual human to talk to? #tech #instagram #facebook #meta

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SAP levi0sa OP Nov 12, 2021

Thank you so much! Sending you a DM now

Amazon gYsj10 Apr 14, 2022

Also sent DM =)

DIRECTV spookyszn Nov 12, 2021

+1 on this — different circumstances but my partner’s been locked out too, with no avail from many attempts at reaching support

Iterable plznoban Nov 12, 2021

Dm me the details and I’ll see what I can do.

Amazon Orochimaru Nov 13, 2021

Shouldn't there be a better approach to this? I love how helpful FB folks are, but there should be a process to help genuine folks get their accounts back or disable fake accounts run on their/their businesses name. I know it is frustrating when someone starts copying your images and opens a shadow account with a similar name. It is very difficult to report the account - that workflow can be improved as well, and get that account closed. I see my friends requesting their followers to report the account - there should be a better solution to that as well.

Facebook howt Nov 13, 2021

Sure Amazon. Let’s fix our own houses before we throw rocks https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/11/11/with-30-packages-dumped-in-the-wrong-lobby-resident-tried-harder-to-correct-it-than-amazon/ I’m sure you understand the problems of scale, especially with bad actors pretending to be the people that got wrongfully banned.

Amazon gYsj10 Apr 14, 2022

haha @howt I love the roast. I also work for AWS and had my personal IG disabled. Going to DM you some details. :)