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That’s illegal and since it is your email account, you can actually report it to instagram. There is an option to report the person as pretending to be you. Did you report the fraud?
This is not illegal and it does not rise to the level of fraud. It does violates Instagram's terms of service, but if you want to say it violates laws you're gonna have to cite your sources.
It would be illegal to log into someone else’s email account without the permission of that person. If someone used another person’s email account to make an instagram in that person’s name, then he or she would need to log into that email account to access the verification link. As soon as he or she logs into the email account, without permission, he or she is breaking the law.
Yes, accessing the email account without authorisation would be prosecutable under the CFAA, but you assume that the Instagram account cannot be used at all without accessing the email account to get the verification code. This is not true. Simply creating the account does not require the verification code, and limited functionality is available if you log in to an unverified account even without completing the verification. Of course the application will hound you to verify your email until you do it, but it's not immediately necessary.