Account Market Intelligence
Every verified open-source observation, newest first. Each entry feeds the platform pages, the price index and the research registry automatically — verifying an observation recalculates that platform's score and price percentiles.
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Federal prosecutors announced sentences for five people who created numerous fraudulent customer and driver accounts on a delivery platform to submit phantom orders, obtaining more than $2.5 million in fraudulent payouts.
View sourceMeta filed a US civil action alleging that an individual had sold Instagram usernames and offered unauthorised account reinstatement services since 2022, in breach of platform terms. Meta described it as its first US legal action of this kind against account-selling services.
View sourceUS prosecutors announced the court-authorised seizure of infrastructure behind an AI-assisted bot farm that created and operated close to 1,000 fake accounts impersonating Americans between 2022 and 2024. The platform suspended the remaining accounts.
View sourceGoogle's civil complaint alleges the defendants operated a botnet that harvested Google account login credentials at scale and monetised that access through paid criminal services, including the sale of access to machines loaded with stolen credentials. The filing is a court record of alleged account-market activity rather than a marketplace listing.
View sourceMarket activity is an external indicator of abuse incentives, not a measurement of fraudulent accounts on the underlying platform. Prices are never inferred — an observation without a published figure is recorded without one. See the methodology for scoring and confidence rules.