Bags, shoes and clothes are the most commonly faked products with luxury and high-end retailers like Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Nike each having dozens of knock-off accounts. Rampant in the fashion industry, imposter brand accounts hawk goods and products across 65 million fake posts a year, according to data analysis firm Ghost Data.

Keep reading to see some of the most common hustles and how to protect yourself on social media. In a world where anonymity, bullying and catfishing are common, scams prey on internet users’ sympathy, fear or greed. With over 1 billion active monthly users, Instagram offers up a large, captive audience. This is 100% the last article I was expecting to write on Labor Day in the year of our lord 2019, but it’s been a really weird year already, so why not.With online scams reaching epidemic proportions, Instagram is just the latest channel for fraudsters to make a quick buck. It’s unclear just exactly what precipitated the act, but a previous photo on the user’s Instagram story of a totem reading, “Does Flume even eat ass?” gives us a good guess. (The story has since been deleted, but was shared to Reddit first.) She’s also the girl (on the left) from this infamous Jeff Goldblum meme. Though we can’t see her face, the girl is suspected to be Paige Elkington, whom Flume is currently dating, and on whose account the video is posted. Flume, for instance, while DJing one of the nights at the festival, was eating a girl’s butt on stage. While of course the rules of human decency and basic laws of the land still apply, it’s truly an event to let loose and try new things. When someone tells you that Burning Man is an anything goes event, they aren’t kidding. While that may harm the original ethos of the gathering, it also produces crazy moments like Flume eating a** on stage while performing on the Playa. While the festival is focused on community and real-life values, it has become a breeding ground for social media content thanks to its otherworldly setting. If your Instagram feed is suddenly being flooded by photos and videos of dust storms, wooden structures on fire, barely clothed humans engaging in communal behavior, and a myriad of other things, congrats! You’ve just learned that Burning Man just ended.

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