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Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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I’m glad no one knows me and I’m just floating around in the background like an extra. Nobody gonna try to impersonate me.
I dated a girl once back in the MySpace days and she had a couple scammers out there using her likeness to catfish people. Fortunately, MySpace would take them down when alerted. It took a minute though.