Hello. I’m writing this surprise post today because I’d like to share my knowledge about figuring out what is scam and what is not.

I met with partnership offers in 2020 for the first time when I created my official social media accounts. I’d just finished my specialization courses called Philology For Media and I was looking for a job and a way to grow my blogging activity abroad. I’ve got many offers and I didn’t know that anything could be wrong with that. They don’t teach you at the university how to recognize real offers and scam.

So, I’ve decided to collaborate with 4 brands. Two were rather successful and two other less. The only way to earn was commissions and no matter how hard I tried, nobody ever used my discount codes. One brand send me not what I was ordering so I couldn’t post about it. I texted them about this issue and I met with no response. The second one didn’t react each time I promoted their brand while they should do the same thing and repost my stories/posts. In the end I stopped trying and I focused on my literary studies.

In the end everything has changed this year when I’m more active again. I’ve got many offers for paid partnership what was totally new to me and I thought that my master’s title was a reason, my official website, finally being a published author… But the most of these offers turned out to be nothing but scam and my successes probably didn’t matter here at all. I’ve learned during my little research that other influencers have never been paid and many other things. So, now I’d like to share few ways how to recognize scammer’s offers.

1. Real influencing is about receiving presents (no shipping fees; discounts are actually legal but the present should be in 100% free and that’s the most common) and you should get a contract to sign that would be clear in every possible point.
2. Check out the website https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/ and learn if the brand offering a collab is legit reading the review of the website.
3. And now reach out and learn what other people think about the brand. They may be warning you that it’s a scam and they never been paid after signing the contract. I’ve read the article about the situation when the Polish court punished the influencer for not fulfilling their commitments so all I can say is that it’s not too late to look for the justice when something like this happens to you. I’m sure it works in both ways.
4. Don’t rush making decisions.

That’s all. Be careful, people. Don’t let any brand deceive you. Every worker deserves a payment for their job. And every educated person shouldn’t have such difficulties with find a job… I mean it’s been a while and I’m still searching for the job of copywriter… Or maybe the job of influencer…? Or maybe something changes soon and I’ll be able to be just a poet, writer, songwriter & blogger and nothing more just like I should be…? We’ll see…

Let me know if you have more tricks exposing the cheater. That’s a very important matter and we all should help each other so the world would be a better place.

The tomorrow post is coming as planned.

Greetings!

AA