![]() If you have added a phone number to your Instagram account, you can use it to reset your password. Method #2: Reset Password via Phone Number Check your email inbox for a message from Instagram and follow the instructions to reset your password.Enter your username or email address and click on the “ Send email” button.Open the Instagram app or website and click on the “ Forgot password?” link.So scrapers and scumbags can’t get to them.īut! Instagram does provide a way to limit the login emails. Why? Because email addresses and phone numbers are private. ![]() This would stop 99% of Instagram “forgot password” spam immediately. Remove the option to reset passwords based on username only. The solution would be for Instagram to require ONLY email address or phone number for users to reset their password. The solution? The problem is that collecting existing usernames is trivial to do, so any random idiot can scrape up hundreds or thousands of usernames and use them to spam users. Probably has something to do with competition and money, imho. Why would anyone do this? Well, that’s a good question. So they can spam Instagram users with endless “password reset” emails, just by entering the username. It enables bad actors to scrape usernames and then hit that form with their kiddie script. Notice in the form where it asks for your “Email, phone, or username”. Screenshot of Instagram “Forgot Password” page Apparently there are bots/scripts out there just hammering the Instagram “Forgot Password” form: So yeah, that makes sense and seems to be the reason why people are getting so many password-reset emails from Instagram. It has nothing to do with the email you are using or instagram spamming you. Someone wants your username and hits the recover password to see what happens or if more info is displayed. Thanks to a reader who sent the following information: The case of the Instagram spam (Instaspam?) has been solved. So I never see the endless flow of Instagram password email spam. request to reset your Instagram passwordĪny email that matches either of those strings is sent automatically to the Trash and marked as read.we’ve made it easy to get back on Instagram. ![]() Any email that contains either of the following: So yeah, how I ended up dealing with the endless Instagram spam is to just add a simple rule in my email filtering list. Do you have any idea of how I can get around this?!? It’s driving me insane!” It gives me the option of limit the reset emails, however is automatically flicks to another page saying ‘you’ll now get all log in help emails’. “I’m getting reset password emails every 15 minutes since half 12 last night. People continue asking how I ended up dealing with the Instagram email spam. ![]() Again, will report back either way with the results. Or user, if I happen to be the only one, lol.Īnyway that’s the idea. If I continue to receive “password reset” spam after changing my email address to something impossible to “guess”, then it will be proven that Instagram is spamming its own users. Something like: it’s like a strong password that can’t be guessed by some automated script. Whatever the algorithm is, I am going to test it by using a completely random, complex string for my next Instagram email address. It could be some clever script/bot that is “guessing” email addresses, like anything “instagram” (or variation) followed by numbers, etc. So it seems obvious after over a year playing this game, that Instagram is spamming its own users.
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