My 15 year old sister informed me last night that someone is pretending to be her on Instagram. The impersonator uses her photo as their profile picture and uploaded insta stories and photos of her with penises drawn on her face. This is probably the work of an teenager who dislikes her.
This person also contacts her friends through messaging service and harrasses them.
Instagram had declined her request to shut the account down on multiple occasions. I have tried to contact several grey hats online to locate and identify the impersonator but we’re finding out that such service isn’t cheap at all.
What should we do in this case? Thanks in advance.
Make a post informing her followers about her impersonator and then move on. Let the impersonator allow your sister live rent free in their head.
Unfortunately, teenagers are very easy to convince to groupthink, and an individual teenage bully can often be as smart as a conniving aristocrat when it comes to online drama.
This is absolutely something that could ruin the girl’s life, if only because teenagers and tween girls are disproportionately tribalist in their outlook.