10 Instagram Scams To Look Out For

Paying for followers

Maybe you’re willing to skip the illusion of gaining followers a “natural way” by paying another “successful page” (see last slide) to promote your stuff, and you’d rather just skip to buying followers yourself. Your idea is innocent, as you know many people decide who to follow based on the pages that already appear to have many followers. You know you’ll create engaging, valuable content, and if people just give you a chance, they’ll be glad they followed you. So how much can it hurt to purchase 20,000 followers? Well, first off, it is against Instagram’s guidelines and could get your account suspended. But furthermore, many “companies” who offer to sell you followers are not real. They’ll show you accounts they’ve also “helped” as proof, but those also are not real. So you’ll hand over money and, poof, suddenly the helpful company will ghost you, and you will not gain followers.