Restarting from scratch after being busted by Meta - Opinions?

Pat Swayze

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Yes, I messed up—I was careless, and the inevitable happened. I had around 10 Instagram accounts logged into the same device, some of them even using the same email address. Four days ago, all of them were suspended, and the only one I managed to recover was my personal account, through a video selfie and ID verification. This actually leads me to believe that, contrary to what some people here said, Meta does compare the video selfie with the photos posted on the account.

Having learned my lesson about contingency, I’m going to restart everything from scratch in the following way, and I’d like to hear what my seasoned fellow hustlers think about this approach:

– new phones (cheap used Android devices, maybe LG K51-likes)
– 5G connection only, with new and separate SIM cards for each device
– new email accounts, created and used individually for each account
– only one account per device

One question that’s been on my mind is whether it becomes almost unfeasible to maintain persona-based accounts—for example, the guys who manage profiles of AI models or anything that isn’t a real personal profile. I do have a real person I could rely on for photos and ID verification, but would I need a different person for each account? Obviously, that’s impractical. So how do phone farmers manage hundreds or even thousands of accounts without drawing Instagram’s attention? After all, it’s obvious they don’t have thousands of real people available for video or ID verification.
 
That's also what I want to know because if I knew, I could do the same as them. It's a trade secret.
 
That setup sounds a lot better than having 10 accounts on one device. For the last part, nobody really knows exactly how Meta links accounts. But if an account needs a selfie or ID check, having a real person behind it definitely helps.
 
New phones and SIMs help but pattern management matters more. Assume any account can be lost at any time and build your operation around redundancy. The real mistake wasn't the devices it was leaving a footprint that connected everything together.
 
You do not need a different real person per account, but that is also why Instagram relies on other ways to detect fake networks.
 
New phones and separate SIMs are only the clean-up step, not the strategy. If the operation still looks like one network of accounts with the same habits and posting rhythm, Meta will usually find the pattern again sooner or later.
If the accounts matter, build it like individual properties with real ownership and a backup plan, not like a farm you’re trying to hide.
 
New phones and SIMs help but pattern management matters more. Assume any account can be lost at any time and build your operation around redundancy. The real mistake wasn't the devices it was leaving a footprint that connected everything together.
New phones and separate SIMs are only the clean-up step, not the strategy. If the operation still looks like one network of accounts with the same habits and posting rhythm, Meta will usually find the pattern again sooner or later.
If the accounts matter, build it like individual properties with real ownership and a backup plan, not like a farm you’re trying to hide.
The only thing I did that might be considered outside normal user behavior was liking a long sequence of comments from other people (to draw their attention to my profile). I also heard that putting a telegram link in stories is risky, as well as boosting posts from profiles that only have an avatar picture.

I ran several of these profiles for years using this amateur setup. I’m hoping the new approach will give me much more stability.
 
Yes, I messed up—I was careless, and the inevitable happened. I had around 10 Instagram accounts logged into the same device, some of them even using the same email address. Four days ago, all of them were suspended, and the only one I managed to recover was my personal account, through a video selfie and ID verification. This actually leads me to believe that, contrary to what some people here said, Meta does compare the video selfie with the photos posted on the account.

Having learned my lesson about contingency, I’m going to restart everything from scratch in the following way, and I’d like to hear what my seasoned fellow hustlers think about this approach:

– new phones (cheap used Android devices, maybe LG K51-likes)
– 5G connection only, with new and separate SIM cards for each device
– new email accounts, created and used individually for each account
– only one account per device

One question that’s been on my mind is whether it becomes almost unfeasible to maintain persona-based accounts—for example, the guys who manage profiles of AI models or anything that isn’t a real personal profile. I do have a real person I could rely on for photos and ID verification, but would I need a different person for each account? Obviously, that’s impractical. So how do phone farmers manage hundreds or even thousands of accounts without drawing Instagram’s attention? After all, it’s obvious they don’t have thousands of real people available for video or ID verification.

You can easily manage even 10 accounts on 1 phone. I have people managing even 50 accounts on 1 phone without any issues. The problem just might be how you're handling them. Did you just log in all those 10 accounts in 1 IG app?
 
Did you just log in all those 10 accounts in 1 IG app?
Yes...all of them. But now I’ve got some used Galaxy S10s, and I guess they can handle a few emulator instances. Also, maybe what you said about emulators will save me a few hundred bucks on physical devices, 'cause I’ve been kinda skeptical about them till now.
 
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