We grow IG accounts. Have been doing this for nearly 3 years. I just got this email from a client about a notification she received from IG: “I should have screen shot it but it was something a little different stating that “it appears you are conducting business with a company that produces follows for you” or something along those lines. “Change your password or your account will be taken down””…Anyone familiar with this? Thanks…We are only performing f/uf on here account. She just signed up, so the actions were very conservative.
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https://mpsocial.com/t/lvl2-megathread-reducing-inauthentic-activity-on-instagram-2018-11-19/53963
And more if you search. Ask her to include a screenshot or anyone else who gets them. People freak out and exaggerate what they received from IG.
Even regular people are getting that message so there’s a good chance it’s just a BS notice. She could have used Hootsuite or planoly or something along those lines in the past. Anyone can get that message honestly.
Thanks. I thought she got he typical notifications that IG has been sending out, but that’s when she sent me the message I pasted above. I will check other thread more and see what’s being said. Thanks again.
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I’ve not received the message nor have any of my clients. But there appears to be 2 different ones.
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We received all the head aches that came with recent notifications, but this one is very concerning. This is the only client out of 1200ish that said they received this notification, and she just received it within the last 2 hours. This client works on ppls faces and only has this one IG account(to our knowledge). It appears I’m still crawling in here, so that link you sent me is not allowing me to view it. Appreciate you connecting with me.
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Search keywords for inauthentic activity, remove followers etc. There are several.
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Thank you, asked about this in another thread, exactly the answer I needed 
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Yes, we had 20-30 clients receive that notification, and that’s what I thought the client today was experiencing, but when I asked her if that was the message she received she said no and then sent us the message I copied and pasted above about working with a company that produces follows for her, and she said that the notification said to change password or her account would be taken down. Now 99% of clients lie to us all the time, but that message concerned me and it came at a time when IG is flipping the script on us.
As for the inauthentic activity notification, some clients changed their password but some didn’t and so far so good with no issues.
Gotcha. Thanks for the info
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Start with what @ian recommended, after a days rest. I think thats the real issue more than anything.
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I never thought about it like that and now that you’ve worded it out that definitely makes a lot sense. I really appreciate the advice Ian
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But I’m using an extention to block WebRTC leak when creating accounts, that shouldn’t lower trust score right?
Majority of people that report problems to me on fresh accounts, made them themself. Not saying that is the issue in this case, but might poke a thought process.
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This is debatable and everyone will tell you something different. If IG knows you are blocking data they want, you can have a lowered trust score. By default, since you made it with browser instead of the app, your account will have a lower trust score (in theory).
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API follow blocks everywhere yesterday and today, an ongoing issue.
Some accounts being fed followers from scrape accounts, some searching directly.
some DC proxies, some real residential proxy
some with rest timers, some without
some with night mode, some 24hrs operation
some older accounts some new.
Some using heavy filtering, some very light.
Some accounts business, some not.
Some accounts used regularly on a mobile phone, some not.
Some using likes (very small) and some not at all.
All are growing accounts <1000 followers
All are F/U at the same time
There is a pattern with blocks that they frequently kick in first thing, so the first follow that day gets blocked. This leads me to believe that the blocking is done non-real time, probably calculated and implemented at midnight by IG, based on trust and recent activity.
Bigger accounts (same age) have no issues at all and have never seen a single API block.
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interesting that it’s only happening for accounts under 1000 followers for you.
are you using mobile proxies at all and if so, no API blocks on these?
how many actions per hour on the effected accounts?
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I had the same thing with new accounts, while aged accounts didn’t see a single API Block.
I used the EB and after a while this issue disappeared for new accounts by itself.
Really seemed as those new accounts are allowed a lower number of API calls and that this number raises after automating for a while.
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No mobile proxies, will upgrade when I get to level 2 
Actions vary from <100 to >400 per day, growing very slowly.
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do you know what the range in actions per hour, not actions per day, is for the effected accounts?
also, how are you not at level 2 with your current forum stats?
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Actions per hour vary from 20 to 50 total F/U, always using max per hour settings.
I really spread the actions out over the full time to see if that helps but sadly not.
I don’t talk enough! Which is funny because in person I talk too much. Need more post replies.
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