Dinara Yegeubayeva

Affiliated media: YouTube channel DINARION, Journalist

Incident date: September 19, 2022

Attack type:

• Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Dinara Yegeubayeva's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The author of the YouTube channel DINARION, blogger and journalist Dinara Yegeubayeva reported that on September 16, unknown people created her fake Instagram account, which on September 19 already had more than 11,000 subscribers. On September 17, a call was published in that account on her behalf to go to a rally and support a certain movement with donations to her card. «I don’t believe in coincidences. Everything is happening at the same time. Mass bot attack. A police call. Creating a fake account with appeals for which I can be prosecuted. In short, I am being set up. I take it as an attempt to silence me», — the journalist wrote on Facebook. After the complaints of Yegeubayeva’s followers, the fake account was blocked.