Be Aware Of This Viral Instagram Scam That Is Affecting Many Instagrammers

Amid boredom in times of coronavirus, people have sought to funny ways to pass their time. And this Instagram scam, started by Instagrammers themselves, is one of those.

If you have been using Instagram lately, you must have had bumped into people and profiles with unique, odd, funny and rather creative usernames. While if wondering what is that all about, then let me tell you, it’s a Name Change Prank that has hooked netizens.

The idea is to prompt someone to change their name on Instagram. And those who fell for the prank are not aware that once an Instagram name is changed, you can’t change it for the next two weeks.

So if you get your friends to change the name to something weird, the embarrassment for 14 days will be on them. To what I have seen till now, several users are now stuck with user names such as Lasagne, Chicken Biryani, valentine mirchi, and ever tatti meri pyari tatti.

How about you all fix this dumb name change prank by letting us change our name more than twice every 14 days because mine now says “nut sack” and it will stay like that for 2 weeks. I have professional relationships on Instagram.

— Pierce Bombard (@BombardPierce) May 22, 2020

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One of the prank messages that is being circulated states, “Hey! I’m making a video and I want you to be in it. Please set your name (name, not user name) on Insta as your favourite dish in lower caps for example ‘pani puri’ then change it to ‘PANI PURI’ in upper caps and take screenshot and send it to me. Send a screenshot of both upper case and lower case. I am not going to post it or something so don’t worry. It’s going to be damn hilarious so please do it.”

Instagram name change prank, is THE WORST prank I've ever fallen for. That shit hurt my feelings bruh.

— Dhananjay Pokhare (@pokhareD) May 22, 2020

We humana don't have enough patience !
Lord Ram went to vanvas for 14Years but people these day can't stick to name for 14Days #Namechangeprank

— abeyyy_amuuulll (@AmulKatpara) May 24, 2020

My Condolences For those people whose Instagram name also got quarantined (14days) .#instagramprank #Namechangeprank

— Peri Peri (@kingoflamejokes) May 24, 2020

https://twitter.com/mandrek_2112/status/1265381536108408832

https://twitter.com/Variable_puns/status/1263812204756783104

can instagram revert the dm name update? like who tf is 16|??

— mclovin (@piqazuzu) May 20, 2020

This IG name change prank has Yogi Adityanath written all over it

— Sparsh (@sparshw21) May 27, 2020

This is how notification from people who got pranked on Instagram looks like #instagramprank #HeraPheri #Namechangeprank pic.twitter.com/WyiBnsJfch

— gochii_gang (@gochii_gang) May 23, 2020

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#Namechangeprank
Me after knowing this : pic.twitter.com/aUmzqMGOtP

— Briju (@brijastic) May 23, 2020

#Namechangeprank #instagramprank
My Instagram for another 12 days gonna be like: pic.twitter.com/7KwGtTJ77T

— Sourav Choudhary (@sour9v) May 26, 2020

Ik 2020 is going down, but still had some hope until Chicken Roll, Panipuri, Biryani, Samosa etc.. started texting me.#instagramprank #namechangeprank

— Sourav Choudhary (@sour9v) May 27, 2020

To all those who are doing #namechangeprank may you get your Briyani full of Elaichi!#memes #memes2020

— Sourav Choudhary (@sour9v) May 26, 2020

Burger sent you a post#french fries liked ur post ??‍♀️notification bar hai ya hotel ka menu? #Namechangeprank

— aparna (@aparna_128) May 27, 2020

Previously my Instagram stories were viewed by People.
Now it's viewed by NUTELA, BIRIYANI…. etc.#instagram#Namechangeprank

— Summy Mahato (@summy_mahato) May 26, 2020

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So savdhan rahe, satark rahe.