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For social media creators

Your name is your business. Keep it yours.

For anyone who builds an audience on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Twitch, a podcast or a newsletter. Free checks for brand-deal messages, account security, copies of your face and voice, and the followers who trust you.

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Who this is for

A creator’s account is a shop window, a contact book and an income at once, and a known face and voice can be copied. The risks below reach creators of every size, from a first thousand followers to a full-time team, and each comes with a free check.

The risks you meet most, and the check for each.

  1. A fake brand deal that takes over your account

    A sponsorship offer or a “copyright strike” warning links to a sign-in page, or sends a file to open or a command to paste. Sign in only through the app or an address you type yourself, and never paste a command a message gives you.

    In February 2022 Google reported that accounts it had switched to two-step sign-in by default, more than 150 million of them, saw 50 per cent fewer hijackings.

    Source: TechTarget, report on Google’s two-step sign-in results, February 2022

    The check: Before You Paste a Command and turn on two-step login.

  2. Sponsorship offers that ask you to pay first

    An “agency” offers a paid partnership, then asks for an onboarding fee, a contract fee, or for you to buy the product first and be paid back later. A real sponsor pays you; it does not charge you to work with it.

    The Federal Trade Commission reported that people in the United States lost US$501 million to job and employment agency fraud in 2024, up from US$90 million in 2020.

    Source: Federal Trade Commission, new data on reported fraud losses in 2024, 10 March 2025

    The check: Before You Reply to a Recruiter reads an offer for the same warning signs.

  3. Impersonation accounts that target your followers

    A copy of your profile messages followers to say they have won a giveaway and must pay for shipping, or offers an investment “you recommend”. Pin a post that says which accounts are yours and what you will never ask followers for.

    People in the United States reported US$2.1 billion lost in 2025 to scams that started on social media (Federal Trade Commission, 27 April 2026).

    Source: Federal Trade Commission, new data on social media scam losses, 27 April 2026

    The check: send followers to Is this a scam text message? and Before You Invest.

  4. Copies of your face and voice

    Hours of public video make a creator’s voice and face ready material for a copy, in a fake advert or a call to your own family. Agree a safe word with the people closest to you, and tell followers you never ask for money in a private message.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on 3 December 2024 that criminals use generative artificial intelligence, which makes new text, pictures, voices and video, to make fraud more convincing, and advised: “Create a secret word or phrase with your family to verify their identity.”

    Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center, public service announcement on generative artificial intelligence and fraud, 3 December 2024

    The check: Family Safe Word.

  5. Hidden details in what you post and send

    A photo can carry the exact place it was taken, and a media kit or contract can carry tracked changes, comments and the rates you agreed with another brand.

    The check: Remove photo location and Release Check.

  6. Brand briefs and contracts pasted into artificial intelligence

    A brief pasted into a chatbot to draft a script can carry confidential terms, contacts’ names and hidden instructions written for the chatbot rather than for you.

    The check: Hide Names from artificial intelligence and the Prompt Injection Checker.

The free tools that fit.

Every one is free, runs on your own phone or computer, and keeps working with the internet off once the page has loaded.

Guides to read next.

What the tools cannot do.

  • No tool can take down an impersonation account. Report it through the platform’s own impersonation form, and ask followers to report it too.
  • A check with no warnings is not a guarantee that a sponsor is real. Confirm through the brand’s own website or a contact you already have.
  • A safe word cannot stop a copy of your voice being made. It lets the people closest to you check who is really calling.

The pack that fits

Working alone, or with a team?

Release Check

$29

One payment · one person

The exact location of every problem in a document, with the words found, whole folders checked at once, a dated release record and Redaction Studio with no page limit. Twelve months of updates and a fourteen-day refund.

See Release Check

Artificial Intelligence Tools for Work

$119

One payment · a team of up to ten in one organisation

An artificial intelligence use policy in United Kingdom, European Union and United States versions, staff training with a quiz and a training record, Release Check (full version), Redaction Studio and 21 more tools arranged by team. Twelve months of updates and a fourteen-day refund.

See Artificial Intelligence Tools for Work

Prices are in United States dollars, paid once, with no subscription. Gumroad, the shop that handles payment, shows the total, including any tax, before you pay. Every purchase can be refunded in full within fourteen days.

Sources and dates.

Facts on this page were checked against these sources on 24 October 2026. Reported losses count only what people reported, so real harm is larger.