Recovering Squatted Instagram Accounts?

cougarclaws

cougarclaws

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Does anyone have any experience attempting to recover a squatted Instagram account or account/page/profile on other social media services?

The account has posted zero photos, and has no profile picture. It is following one user and has two followers.

I own the trademark for the name and it will soon be a registered 501c7 for which I am the president.
 


cougarclaws said:
Does anyone have any experience attempting to recover a squatted Instagram account or account/page/profile on other social media services?

The account has posted zero photos, and has no profile picture. It is following one user and has two followers.

I own the trademark for the name and it will soon be a registered 501c7 for which I am the president.
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Instagram is a PITA, because there is no internal messaging system and their support really doesn't give 2 shits, their username policy is verbatim to FB - first come, first serve....

I have been successful at the 2 reclaiming requests I have had so far for them so if you are serious and need some help fill out the form on my site and I will be happy to take a look and letcha know if it's even worth it.

cardine said:
Michael Streko (former owner of KnowEm) offers a social media username acquisition service. Otherwise, talk to an IP lawyer.
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Thank's for the recomendation... It's hard to get people to know I do this service because of the TOS of the sites...
 
Find some employees of Instagram on FB/Linkedin and befriend them.

Chat them up for a week or so and then hit them with your problem and say it would really help you out if you could get this account name blah blah.

tl;dr - Social engineering
 
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Find some employees of Instagram on FB/Linkedin and befriend them.

Chat them up for a week or so and then hit them with your problem and say it would really help you out if you could get this account name blah blah.

tl;dr - Social engineering
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If it was only that easy....

I had the trump card for FB/Instagram - I had the longest running employee besides Zuck's email and phone number until he cashed out about a year ago and retired. At like 27 or something sick like that. He was in the movie. He used to help me out all the time, now he lives on an island in the Caribbean... Going to SXSW each year has proven to pay off.
 
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