While social media provides the convenience of providing users with new and normally inaccessible information; Unfortunately, it also brings together fraudsters who want to exploit people's moral feelings as well as financially.
Instagram fraud, which has reached a very large audience today, has become the biggest nightmare of its users who are deceived by fancy images and cheap prices.
“I don't want to be defrauded” or “What should I do to avoid being defrauded?” If so, let's look for answers to your questions together. But first of all, I would like to inform you a little about the subject.
Social media platforms, which enable people from all over the world to interact, are used to provide services in many areas. However, unfortunately, scammers who appear before users with fake or imitation profiles and lead people into trouble have become a nightmare for social media lovers.
1-Support messages received as message requests via Instagram DM: You woke up one morning and received a message request under the title of Instagram application in your DM box, stating that you have copyrighted the image you used in your account and if you do not enter your account information in the link, your account will be blocked within 24 hours. It is worth noting that if you encounter a message saying that you should not panic and reject the message request immediately. Because if there is such a violation, an application will never notify you of this situation with a simple message request!
2-Coupon and congratulatory messages: When you are faced with a suggestion from a close friend such as "... Dear, I won a coupon for the following amount from company A, do these and you will win too...", please do not trust immediately and do not share your personal information with that person. If you are close enough to be reached, contact that person immediately. And inform about the situation. Remember, everything has its price and no one will give you a large amount of money just because you share your personal information.
3-Signature campaigns: Do not examine the signature campaigns sent to you under the name of condemning violence against women, children, elderly people or animals, or do not share anything about this issue without doing detailed research. Because each campaign you mentioned first goes through a legal investigation and is put into service accordingly. We are talking about an initiative that will include a long-term research, as each event that closely concerns society and the consequences of these events will affect the state authorities and will also affect human psychology spiritually.
4-Image imitation: If the image you shared belongs to you is imitated and the image belonging to you is used under the name of another person and a defrauding method is used under this heading, this situation constitutes a violation of rights and gives rise to the right to initiate a legal process. If you have encountered such a situation or learned that someone close to you has had their rights usurped in this way, I would like to point out that you should definitely inform them about the issue. If the photos of the person whose account was stolen are used in another social media account, the crime of VIOLATION OF PRIVATE LIFE is considered to have been committed.
We witness day by day that many people are victimized by these and many similar examples. Stealing a social media account is a cybercrime. Although all acts such as stealing, changing or using someone else's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Mail accounts are prohibited by our law, failure to comply with this prohibition will be considered a crime.
As can be understood from the article I mentioned above, sharing videos or pictures against the person whose social media account has been stolen without his knowledge or leaking someone else's information from a fake account constitutes the crime of violating the privacy of private life via the internet. This crime is also regulated in Article 134 of the Turkish Penal Code. According to this article of law; Disclosing images or sounds of other people via the internet constitutes an aggravated crime of violation of privacy, and the person who commits this crime is sentenced to 2 - 5 years in prison.
In the Turkish Penal Code;
In Article 243 titled "Entering the information system"; Anyone who unlawfully enters or remains in the whole or part of an information system; will be sentenced to imprisonment for up to one year or a judicial fine,
And if the data contained in the system is destroyed or changed due to this action; may be sentenced to imprisonment from six months to two years,
According to Article 244, titled Blocking, disrupting the system, destroying or changing data, the person who prevents or disrupts the functioning of an information system; can be punished with a prison sentence of one to five years, and any person who corrupts, destroys, changes or makes inaccessible the data in an information system,
