Scam or not?

[Nick123451]

I was taking part in a giveaway on instagram and "won". The user asked me to give my paypal address, which I did. She then proceeded to ask me to change my mail address in the instagram settings to a mail address that she gave me, due to some verification process. She also sent me the following picture:

"Note: receiver have to link email on his/her instagram account for payment to receiver:"

When I expressed my concerns about losing my instagram account, she explained:

"It's the verification email, it's just for 5 minutes I'll be done confirming it then you'll receive your cash immediately then remove it.

I'm sending you money from my trading account. That's why it's requires verification process."

Is that even a thing? Why would PayPal ever ask for an instagram verification? Surely this must be a scam?

[Nick123451]

bump

[peri0d]

Obvious scam is obvious, throw the link in https://app.any.run and put in fake credentials look where it posts to, if it's not paypal's servers it's probably a scam.  That's like gonna be obvious phishing or malware, they're not going to move you on to a third party platform quit wasting people's time and close this ticket.

It's a phish

[Nick123451]

" throw the link in" lol you obviously didn't even read the message. F*** off and stop wasting my time.

[peri0d]

You're an idiot, I'm a security engineer, i meant the link from the email.  I'm not the one that got an account ganked lol.

[Nick123451 · Accepted solution]

Instagram account hacked. Scam confirmed.