What Happened to MGP25 Cyberint?
Facebook sued MGP25 Cyberint in Madrid in June 2020, and the court ordered it to stop its fake engagement service. What's left at mgp25.com today.
MGP25 Cyberint Services was a Spanish company that Facebook sued in Madrid on June 18, 2020. The suit was over software that sent fake likes and comments on Instagram. In early August 2020 the court ordered the company and its founder to stop "their fake engagement operations immediately," by Facebook's account. On October 23, 2026, mgp25.com served an empty page.
Quick Answer: A Madrid court ordered MGP25 Cyberint's fake engagement service to stop in August 2020, by Facebook's account. mgp25.com is still registered, through August 5, 2027, but it's blank, and the Internet Archive excludes it. If you came for Instagram growth, our free tier gives 12 free Instagram likes with no password and nothing to install.
"Mgp25" gets about 50 Google searches a month, by Google's Keyword Planner on October 23, 2026.
What we found on October 23, 2026
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| mgp25.com | An empty page |
| Domain | Registered 2011, renewed to 2027 |
| Internet Archive | "Excluded from the Wayback Machine" |
| The GitHub library | Disabled after a DMCA notice |
| ScamAdviser | "Very Likely Safe," a 5-year-old scan |
Our server's check of mgp25.com, Verisign's registry record, the Internet Archive, GitHub and ScamAdviser, October 23, 2026.
What did Facebook say MGP25 did?
Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland sued the company and its founder in Madrid's commercial court, Facebook's newsroom post of June 18, 2020 says. The charge was "providing automation software to distribute fake likes and comments on Instagram," in the post's words. The service "was designed to evade Instagram's restrictions against fake engagement by mimicking the official Instagram app," by Facebook's account.
They did it for profit and kept going "even after we sent a Cease and Desist letter and disabled their accounts," Facebook said. The suit cited "Spain's protections for databases and online platforms" along with Instagram's Terms of Use.
It was filed the same day as a US suit against Massroot8, a data scraping service. The pair was "one of the first times a social media company is using coordinated, multi-jurisdictional litigation to enforce its Terms," Facebook said. Our Massroot8 page covers that case.
The founder denied it that day. The company didn't sell likes and was a security consultant, the founder told BuzzFeed News, as Google showed the report on October 23, 2026.
What did the court decide?
Facebook updated its post on August 12, 2020. The Commercial Court in Madrid had ruled the week before, it said. The court granted Facebook's "request for a court order directing MGP25 Cyberint Services and its founder to cease their fake engagement operations immediately," in Facebook's words.
The court found a service built to automate "the creation of accounts and posting of likes, comments and other fake engagement," in Facebook's summary, in breach of Instagram's Terms of Use and Spanish law. It was "an important milestone in our global legal enforcement against fake engagement," Facebook wrote.
We haven't seen the order itself, so this is Facebook's account of it.
What was Instagram-API?
The name is also a well-known developer handle. Instagram-API was a PHP library on GitHub by the developer known as mgp25. Gizmodo reported that the developer described it as a tool that mimics the Instagram mobile app, built by reverse engineering.
Instagram sent GitHub a DMCA notice in January 2020. The notice said the tool's "core functionality" was "to circumvent Instagram's technological measures," by Gizmodo's report. It also cited "prevent[ing] automated liking and commenting" among those measures. GitHub then "removed the entire repository, along with over 1,500 related forks," Gizmodo reported on January 31, 2020.
The repository still read "Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown" on October 23, 2026. The mgp25 profile on GitHub links to mgp25.com and describes "an independent security researcher" in Spain. BuzzFeed News's report on the lawsuit ties the company to the developer and mentions Instagram-API.
What is mgp25.com now?
An empty page. On October 23, 2026, mgp25.com answered our server with a blank response, and there's nothing to log in to, buy or download. The domain dates to August 5, 2011 and is renewed through August 5, 2027.
There's no public record of what it showed, either. The Internet Archive answers "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine" for it. ScamAdviser's last scan, five years old, rated it "Very Likely Safe," which says little about a site that now serves nothing.
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Frequently asked questions
What happened to MGP25 Cyberint?
Facebook sued it in Madrid on June 18, 2020. In early August 2020 the court ordered the company and its founder to stop their fake engagement operations immediately, by Facebook's account.
Is mgp25.com still working?
It answers with an empty page, as of October 23, 2026. The domain is registered through August 2027.
What was MGP25 accused of?
Selling automation software that sent fake likes and comments on Instagram while mimicking the official app, and carrying on after a cease and desist letter, by Facebook's post.
Is Instagram-API by mgp25 still on GitHub?
No. GitHub disabled the repository after Instagram's DMCA notice in early 2020, and it still showed the takedown notice on October 23, 2026.
Did MGP25 deny it?
Yes. The founder told BuzzFeed News in June 2020 that the company didn't sell likes and was a security consultant.
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Sources
- Facebook newsroom, "Taking Legal Action Against Those Who Abuse Our Services," June 18, 2020, with its updates of August 12, 2020 and May 18, 2021, read October 23, 2026
- BuzzFeed News, June 18, 2020, as Google showed it on October 23, 2026
- Gizmodo, "Instagram Wipes Independent Developer's Work in the Name of Copyright Protections," January 31, 2020
- GitHub's mgp25/Instagram-API repository and mgp25 profile, our server's check of mgp25.com, Verisign's registry record, the Internet Archive and ScamAdviser, read October 23, 2026
- Hclout's service list, read October 23, 2026, and Google Ads Keyword Planner, October 23, 2026
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