{"id":250691,"date":"2024-08-02T21:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/hack-and-payback-instagram-scammer-gets-nabbed-after-bragging-about-it-on-a-podcast-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:16","slug":"hack-and-payback-instagram-scammer-gets-nabbed-after-bragging-about-it-on-a-podcast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/hack-and-payback-instagram-scammer-gets-nabbed-after-bragging-about-it-on-a-podcast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack and payback Instagram scammer gets nabbed after bragging about it on a podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A guest who appeared on <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mr71K-Hy-xU&amp;t=4s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the No Jumper podcast;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the <em>No Jumper<\/em> podcast<\/a> to boast about a hack and payback scheme involving his victims\u2019 social media accounts could face federal charges. Idriss Qibaa, also known as \u201cDani\u201d and \u201cUnlocked\u201d who authorities allege ran the social media hacking site Unlocked4Life.com, faces two criminal felony counts filed by the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in Nevada for allegedly violating interstate communications laws for threats he issued in text messages to two victims and members of their families, according to documents obtained by <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/unlocked4life-instagram-scam-no-jumper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:404 Media;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>404 Media<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators filed the sealed complaint against Qibaa on July 25 and issued a warrant the following Monday when also made his first initial appearance in court, according to federal court records.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal complaint states that the FBI received a tip about Qibaa\u2019s alleged extortion scheme on April 1 pointing to an appearance he made on the <em>No Jumper<\/em> podcast hosted by Adam22, also known as Adam Grandmaison, back in January under his pseudonym \u201cDani.\u201d Qibaa outlined a financial scheme using over 200 victims\u2019 social media accounts in which he would lock them out of their pages and charge them to regain access.<\/p>\n<p>He also boasted that he made about $600,000 a month from his activities and hired two security guards to follow him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re making $2 million a month off your Instagram and Telegraph,\u201d Qibaa says on the podcast. \u201cI come and I take it away and make you pay for it back and I make it public and I post it and I expose you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qibaa even said on the podcast episode that he pulled the scheme on celebrities who unknowingly kept paying him to get their social media back. He later noted \u201cI\u2019m very petty\u201d followed by a menacing laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to stars who have told me that they\u2019ve paid to get it back 20 times over and over and over they just have to keep paying to get it back,\u201d Qibaa says, \u201cand I\u2019m like you realize what\u2019s happening to you right like the same that\u2019s getting you it back is\u2026you\u2019re getting extorted.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"2a0f0531-675a-58ae-8cfd-e775ccb706e6\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mr71K-Hy-xU?si=8LtU0DbrJgQNTppx\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"UNLOCKED Exposes The Instagram Ban\/Unban Game &amp; Making Millions off D*** Dealers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mr71K-Hy-xU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The criminal complaint tells the story of eight victims\u2019 encounters with Qibaa and his services. One identified as \u201cJ.T.\u201d operated two Instagram accounts: a cannabis news aggregate account called <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theblacklistxyz\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201ctheblacklistxyz\u201d;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201ctheblacklistxyz\u201d<\/a> and a cannabis merchandising store under <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/caliplug\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201ccaliplug,\u201d;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201ccaliplug,\u201d<\/a> both of which are currently set to private. J.T. reached out to Qibaa asking if he could obtain a username. Qibaa quoted a price back between $4,000-$5,000. J.T. refused to take Qibaa up on the offer and Qibaa responded with threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQibba told J.T. that J.T. had wasted Qibaa\u2019s time, blocked J.T.\u2019s Instagram pages and demanded $10,000 to reinstate it,\u201d the complaint reads. \u201cJ.T. offered Qibaa $8,500 to reinstate the account, an offer Qibaa accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complaint asserts that Qibba reached out to J.T. two more times. The first time, Qibba asked if J.T. would promote his Instagram page under the username \u201cunlocked4life\u201d that\u2019s since been taken down. J.T. agreed but when he learned Qibaa had been threatening and extorting other victims, he confronted Qibaa and \u201cQibaa was irate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Qibaa apparently increased the scope of his threats to J.T. and members of his family. He sent threats to call the victim\u2019s ex-wife\u2019s lawyer and child protective services on his kids. Screenshots of the victims\u2019 phone show Qibaa allegedly identifying the address and phone number of the victim\u2019s sister. He texted another family member and introduced himself as \u201cThe guy that\u2019s gonna murder your drug dealer brother. Tell him Unlocked says hi though. We have your entire family\u2019s info.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another victim identified as a journalist and comedian with the initials \u201cE.H.\u201d learned they were a target of Qibaa\u2019s illegal services. Qibaa blocked their Instagram account, the name of which was redacted, at the request of a dentist in California who treated them. E.H. reached out to the Unlocked4Life account and received a reply that read, \u201cYo its Idriss.\u201d He then told E.H. to pull up the <em>No Jumper<\/em> podcast episode featuring his interview. Qibaa not only took the victim\u2019s Instagram account access away but also threatened to take their Social Security number and \u201cblast it out\u201d if they didn\u2019t pay him $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, not even restraining orders could make Qibaa leave his victims alone. One named \u201cR.B.\u201d received a restraining order from Los Angeles County Superior Court in July but \u201cUnblocked\u201d responded, \u201cCute restraining order..last I checked you\u2019re still gonna die.\u201d Then \u201cUNLOCKED UNCENSORED\u201d posted on Telegram, \u201c$50,000 reward for whoever sleeps BO this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most disturbing threats happened to several victims in which Qibaa claimed he\u2019d happily go to jail if payments weren\u2019t made to him. Screenshots of the text chains show a person named \u201cDani\u201d and \u201cDaniel\u201d telling his victims, \u201cI will come and shoot you myself,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to bury you for this shit\u201d and \u201cD., L., J., T., Children-Main Targets\u201d referring to the victims\u2019 children.<\/p>\n<p>Another text chain shows Qibaa allegedly threatening someone that he would \u201crather take a life sentence for murdering you then this,\u201d \u201cIdc if I have to shoot you my self [sic]\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll go to jail happily.\u201d He follows the text with the threat \u201cHere\u2019s the last guy that came to take photos \/ came near my home\u201d and sends three pictures of an unidentified bearded man, his car and a photo of his badly bruised and bloodied on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adam22 concluded his podcast interview with \u201cDani\u201d saying he was \u201cvery excited to see the fallout from this\u201d and \u201cI respect the hustle even though I can\u2019t justify it on a moral level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hack-and-payback-instagram-scammer-gets-nabbed-after-bragging-about-it-on-a-podcast-202509349.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A guest who appeared on the No Jumper podcast to boast about a hack and payback scheme involving his victims\u2019 social media accounts could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}