I've gotten five e-mails this week, all from different people at Uprise Media with the subject line: Earn money from Facebook: Understanding the basics of monetization. They are offering me $1000 upfront and 10% revenue share, but the whole thing screams scam. The only issue is that I haven't been able to prove it yet.
I’ve been getting contacted a lot by Hashtag Media and Uprise Media, both located in the UAE, with lucrative offers to monetize my Facebook page with ads and videos. Their offers sound very much like the scam offers where they steal your page, but there’s no evidence that they have actually done that. There’s just a lot of reasons the companies seem suspicious, and I think people should exercise caution when handing over access to their Facebook pages. Read on to see why it sounds like a potential scam, and please comment if you have worked with them! I couldn’t…