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“Dm us, we want to collab with you”- a pretty enticing message if you’re an aspiring influencer and naive to the ambassador scheme that seems to keep popping up on instagram.

If you’re wondering “is this a scam?” the answer is probably yes. Trust your gut.

It’s truly a great scam, because they are clearly working and TONS of people are falling for them. Which means BIG money for these companies at scale.

So, how does it work? They simply pay a small amount for bots to comment on thousands of accounts per day telling you to “DM them to collab”. So, you DM them. They then give you a “discount” off of their overpriced products, promising an aspiring influencer the chance to be an “ambassador” and you buy. They make money, you get nothing more than a cheap product, and no opportunity.

You then realize, YOU’VE BEEN SCAMMED. Don’t worry, even I almost fell for one of these.

Some companies are so shady, they just take your money and run. I don’t want any of you to fall victim to that.

After finding out that so many of you had been encountered by these “influencer scams”, I decided to do a bit of an investigation. I wanted to create a resource that lists all of the companies that you guys have sent in.

There are many red flags that the trained eye can see, but if you’re new to this world, you may not realize — Check out my article “How to Spot Scam Influencer Programs” where I explain 9 different red flags to look out for.

We used to have a list of companies that were sent in here, but for legal reasons we took it down.

We also wanted to direct people to the experts (Better Business Bureau) and also encourage you to submit a complaint to the them, so that they can do an investigation and shut down the real bad scams. This is their expertise.

For the list go here: https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/us

There are currently 85 scams complaints listed on the Better Business Bureau (the link above), if you search the keyword “ambassador”.

Please search this list to see if the company you are curious about is on it.

You can also checkout this podcast episode that I made all about this! I go over the different signs to look out for, to tell if it might be a scam.

We caution you to be careful out there, but don’t be scared. There are Millions of great brands to work with. Don’t let a few bad apples scare you. Once you’re aware of what to look for, you won’t have a chance of being fooled by these ambassador scams.

If you want to work with reputable brands, the best way is to pitch them for brand collabs! Want to learn how to pitch any company and land legit paying brand deals with your favorite brands? Check out our free Masterclass here

chicnycrunway.com scam (This one was sent in to me over 50 times) BFirst Apparel Vaszmo Fashion Brute Impact Sygra Fashion Bloggymary_shop Paris Runway Ready Ernest Martheo Sunglass Galeria Fashion Up Colla Batigel Be Just Strong Krusader Fitness Imperial Swimwear Casefetish Lofi Boom The Naked Flaw Chic Nyc Imposter Pacific Swimwear The Calibar Collection La Venné Co Swimclassy Yello Sincere Sally Elora Jewelry Atlantis Ice Shop Livingstone Brand Dazzling Swimwear Dazey La Pretty Girl Collections Mirina Collections Strive Athletics Co Wrun Fit We are the World Missy Athlete SXRBA SLIMINIA Acusling Vonachi Pretty sinners We are the wrld Kāissy wear Karpash Ray & Rose Maison Cajaulet gymted.co Engensinn SEPROF Cosmetics atboujees Limitless Flair icy.mira Youstella Boutique Valerio lookveganrace soopfeel Zerefia Yukio Hishika glesos agrios PWRD sportwearOfficial Love Bracelet  The Friendly Cup Ewelyni (IG that reaches out: ewelyni.yy3) Luminspot.abd2 (IG that reaches out) luminspot for brand Palma aloha (IG that reaches out: palmaloha.deym) Silmanii (IG that reaches out: silmanii.yang) MONTEZA (IG that reaches out: seraphina_mtza) **Brute Impact (IG that reaches out: bruteimpact.fashion/brute_impact_extra) DP Watch (IG that reaches out: Dp.watch.leo) Karis Land (IG that reaches out: karis.land00) Cuzette (IG that reaches out: official.keyyth) Luxury Shades (IG that reaches out: luxuryshades.asy) Acusling Boutique (IG that reaches out: acuslingbotique) April Moon (IG that reaches out: AprilMoon_RJ/aprilmoon_boutique) Marrah (IG that reaches out: manager.beaa3) Adorlis (IG that reaches out: adorlis.official) Naeyd (IG that reaches out: naeyd.sa) Palmpé (IG that reaches out: palmpe.stella28)
**Sphinx Vogue (IG that reaches out: sv.jabelle) Glesos  (IG that reaches out: Glesos_ma) Wavilo (IG that reaches out: Wavilo.sa) Agrios Jewels (IG that reaches out: agrios.octavia/agriosjewels) Lavenne (IG that reaches out: lavenne.official) You Stella (IG that reaches out: youstella.thelabel)
Valerio (IG that reaches out: shop.valerio/valerio_buzz) Love Bracelets (IG that reaches out: officiallovebracelets) Zavanci (IG that reaches out: zavanci.official/zavanci.famous) Swimnova (IG that reaches out: nova_cielle)