Hi everyone!
Well fudge.
This is a bit different than my normal blog. A month ago my Instagram was hacked from an extremely convincing email sent to me about breaking instagram rules. It looked extremely legit and I had just finished hearing about tattoo shops that had been fined over copyright laws, so I was quick to reply back and log in through a link. You can imagine the egg on my face when this happened!
This was for distortion of course, to make me pay these people money on the ‘promise’ they would return my account which I found out from emails a few minutes afterwards. At this point I did everything to try and get my account back, but in attempting this made them deleted the account. The two-factor authentication had somehow been turned off (I got an email about it shortly afterwards) and there was no way to recover the account. I had tried everything but unless you have the blue tick - you can’t get ahold of real people at Meta, with only one option that I never got a response back from.
And, with the Wellington tattoo convention just around the corner - after waiting for the three-four days recommended when Meta ‘would’ get back to me - I couldn’t wait any longer and started my account from scratch.
https://www.instagram.com/leegutztattoos/