05/10/2023
Rishika Ghosh here.
Sorry for the late post but due to exams i couldn't post right away. So on 4th September my personal Instagram account got hacked by a bitcoin scammer. They hacked another artists account and send me a DM from her account saying if i could promote their products on my Instagram story. Their products were that of oriflame and they offered to pay 500 rupees per day for the promotion. Then they said me to add a gmail id to my contact information and said i can change it as soon as they make me join the company team. After doing so this hacker took over my account, changed my user id, unfollowed people, fought with my followers, promoted their bitcoin strategy using my photo, changed my avatar, deleted my selfies from my account and added their new email id and Phone number and also changed the settings of my account from private to public and turning on no one can tag option. I tried to revive back the account many times but was not successful.
After that we contacted Kolkata Police and the cyber department there did a splendid job in recovering my account. Thanks to them we also got the information of the hacker. Thank you so much Mr Chaki from the cyber department of Kolkata police in helping me recovering my account 🙏