Instagram scammers are ‘charging hack victims thousands to restore their accounts’

Some charge as much as $4,000 (Picture: Getty/Metro)Hackers may be mass-reporting Instagram accounts and charging users thousands to restore them.Dozens of people have claimed this month on X and Meta’s help forum that their Instagram or Facebook profiles have been banned ’for no reason’, often blaming Meta’s AI-powered moderation.But suspended users have told Metro that their inboxes have since been flooded with so-called ‘digital asset recovery experts’ cha