Insta-scam: how online con artists have adapted for the Instagram era

Photographers and ‘influencers’ are the latest to suffer an elaborate internet rip-off – but some Instagrammers are themselves pulling a fast oneThere was a time when an online scam was easy to spot: there would be a Nigerian prince, and the promise of a fortune, and an email address that was just a long string of numbers. Now, though, things have got a little more sophisticated.One such scam that recently made the news targeted travel photographers and Instagram influencers. T