Hey guys Luke here and today, I'm gonna be showing you how to get an inactive taken Instagram username in 2018
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So you know what it's like you've just thought of a super cool Instagram name
You go and have a little search on Instagram to see if it's taken or if it's available
And you have a look and you see it's taken by some inactive account that hasn't posted any Instagram posts in years
And it's so unbelievably annoying so in this video
I'm gonna be showing you how you can get an inactive Instagram name
So this first method you're probably going to end up having a little less success with and that's to send a private message
To the person who has your Instagram name
Offering to take their account off them you can either
Just ask them straight off the bat and ask them if they'd give it to you for free or you could offer them some sort of
monetary value in order to take that one off them. There's a few popular examples out there of people that have actually done this and
Retrieved a username for themselves, so you could go about this route, but it's probably not the best route
Especially if the account is actually inactive, then you're probably not going to receive a reply anyway
So I'd recommend going with the second option, which is contacting Instagram directly, so if you click on the first link in the description
That's going to take you to the Instagram support page and on there you'll get the Instagram Help Center
It says what can I do if someone is impersonating me on Instagram it says Instagram takes safety very seriously
if someone created an Instagram account
pretending to be you, you can report it to us and make sure to provide all the requested info, including a photo of your
Government-issued ID. it says you can either report this to us within the app or by filling out the form
I'd recommend filling out the form because it's the quickest and easiest way of doing it
But you could try the app if you wanted to so you're gonna want to click on the link that says this form and then
It loads the report and impersonation account on Instagram. It says if someone created an Instagram account
That's pretending to be you or someone
You know please use this form to file a report, so it says which of the following best describes your situation
someone has created an account for my business or
organization someone has created an account pretending to be me or a friend or someone has created an account pretending to be someone I
Represent eg my child so if you wanted an account that's under some sort of brand name
then obviously go for the first one but the one we're gonna be talking about today is the one where it says someone has created an
Account pretending to be me or a friend so if you click on that one
It will open up another couple of options
It says is this account impersonating you and this is just Instagram asking if you're applying for yourself or on behalf of someone else
And obviously in this situation you're applying for yourself, so you just want to click yes
I am the person being impersonated
Then it's gonna load up a form and you're gonna want to fill all of this out with all of your information so you've got
Your full name in there, then you got your email address in there
that should be the absolute best place that
Instagram can contact you because if they want to give you the account then this is where they're going to give you it then also
The full name listed on the account that you're reporting and then you're gonna want to upload your
Government-issued ID and put in the Instagram username of the reported account
So this is basically the account that you want to take for yourself, then there's a little description box here it says
Please tell us how this account is impersonating you
We'll need a detailed description of how the information on the account that shows intent to deceive others by using your identity
This information could include links to images and you may even point out captions or comments associated with the images
To get a link to the image a visit
Instagram on the web blah blah blah all that stuff so basically in this description box you're gonna want to be as persuasive as you
possibly can
Asking Instagram to give you the account
So you don't want to sort of show intent of you wanting to take the account but sort of say stuff like
They are using my name
They're using my brand so I'd recommend
maybe creating a website that links to the
Username that you actually want to have so create a little website on a free website creator
showing that you own that brand
And it essentially tells Instagram that someone is infringing on your brand and that they're taking your brand and saying that it's theirs
Now obviously Instagram takes this sort of thing very seriously
so if you sort of
mention that that's what's going on then they're very likely to give you the account then all you have to do is click send and
Wait a few hours to a few days Instagram looks through every request individually so it may take a bit longer than usual
But just wait it out
And they'll get back to you as soon as they can I hope this video helped you out and good luck trying to get your
Username that you want
I hope it works out for you and obviously if you have any questions
Please leave them down in the comments below and as always I'll see you all in the next video