The app InstaAgent promises people to display a list of users who look most often to their Instagram profile. With unlock in-app purchases of between 2 and 10 euros to this list.
To create the list shown to be logged in with an Instagram account. In the login screen shows the user only “basic access” to the app, which InstaAgent in theory can view the profile, but no photographs can post. However, a NU.nl test shows that there is indeed an image spam is placed.
The app has already been downloaded globally between 100,000 and 500,000 times on Android, according to figures from Google. According to App Annie, the app at number seventeen on the list of most downloaded Android apps in the Netherlands.
On iOS are no download figures known, but according to Apple was InstaAgent in the last week the most popular free iPhone app from The Netherlands. According to App Annie is the app in another eighteen countries in the top ten most downloaded iOS apps
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Reviews
Both Google Play and the App Store put dozens of Dutch already negative reviews about the app, which they say that their account has been hijacked. It is striking that appear especially on iOS too many positive reviews about the app.
However, many people argue that their timeline unwanted pictures appear, the app to commend their followers. The app is available from October, but complaints seemed since November 6 to pour in.
It is unclear whether all users of the app are affected, or only a portion. NU.nl, Google and Apple asked for comment. A message to the email address used by the developer of InstaAgent in Google Play could not be delivered because the address does not exist. The developer has made no other apps
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