Love Hate Inu CEO Carl Dawkins, a well-known crypto personality, is outraged that social media giant Instagram won’t give him a verification blue tick – and as a result hundreds of people are being scammed.
Instagram is owned by Meta, the parent company of Facebook.
Both social media platforms have a strict policy governing the adverts they will run from crypto companies, but are much less vigilant, it seems, when it comes to protecting their users from fraudsters.
Dawkins, who is an adviser to the UK Crypto and Digital Assets All Party Parliamentary Group, is not requesting a blue tick for his own self-aggrandizement. All he wants to do is protect people from scammers, and of course to protect his own good name.
Although the Love Hate Inu CEO has a modest 1,212 followers on his @carldawkinz Instagram account, he has nearly 10,000 on Twitter (@CarlDawkinz), where he has a legacy blue tick.
He freely admits to having been the victim of scammers in his various roles as a crypto executive. Before he took on the role of CEO of Love Hate Inu, he was the head of growth at another crypto project, Tamadoge.
Unfortunately it is par for the course in the crypto industry to have to deal with scammers, but the task is made harder still when met by indifference from huge platforms such as Instagram, with 2.35 billion monthly users.
Dawkins presents Instagram with 140 documented cases of fraud
And it is not as if Dawkins hasn’t provided enough damning evidence to justify his concerns and request for account verification.
In fact he has forwarded documentary evidence of 140 instances of theft perpetrated by fraudsters impersonating him on the social media platform.
Maybe Instagram thinks Carl Dawkins is beneath their public-figure threshold that warrants a blue tick because he is not famous enough?
But Dawkins has a public persona dating back to 2006, numerous TV appearances and has worked in prominent positions with the likes of legendary rock bands Metallica and Guns and Roses, so it’s not that he’s just some random ‘crypto guy’.
None of this is enough for Instagram. Even when hacktivist group Anonymous tipped Love Hate Inu (memo to Instagram: Carl is the CEO) as a coin that could emulate the achievements of Shiba Inu, a top cryptocurrency, it still did nothing:
Anonymous posted to its 11.8 million followers on Facebook:
Did you know?
A crypto investor bought about $8,000 worth of shiba inu coins in August 2020. Just over a year later, the $8,000 trade has morphed into a value of about $5.7 billion.
Could #LoveHateInu be the next big thing?
