HOW INFLUENCERS GET SCAMMED BY BRANDS ON INSTAGRAM ⚠️🚨
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RT to save someone !!
With so many brands tapping into the influencer marketing space to advertise their products, some of the influencers might or have fallen into a trap of being scammed by these brands.
These brands often leave comments under influencer’s posts, such as “ Hey honey, you looking stunning! DM us for a collaboration”. In most cases, such collaboration are scams ! they want you to purchase their products at a discount.
Being scammed in the past, I decided to write down  few tips that will help you identify a potential collaboration scam on your Instagram.
Red flags : Instagram collaboration scams:

1. When the brand asks for collaboration under the comments section
2. The page doesn’t look authentic, usually fewer posts , less engagement
3. The collaboration deal doesn’t make sense
4. you are asked to DM immediately, to seal the deal!
5. The brand asks you to pay a certain amount of money to promote their product e.g. 70% discount for exchange
6. The brand’s tone is very casual or unprofessional
These scammers target micro influencers (because of their small following) because most marketers assume that microinfluencers have little experience and are typically easy target.

Whenever you see these comments understand that its not genuine collaboration. Its scammers!
Had a similar issue too ? Share your experience with other influencers in the @humanz_ai community boards by tapping on this link

https://www.humanz.ai/post/1383 
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