OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram’s security gaps.
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Sun. Mar 19, 2023
OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram’s security gaps. He’s eluded Meta and law enforcement, but we followed his trail to Las Vegas.
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