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A portion of the initial email from scammer : Hello, I am Elizabeth Garcia, Senior Product Officer and Head of Collaborations at MAKITA. We are launching the last quarter of our influencer/ambassador campaign and we sincerely wish you would be part in the companies history. You captured us with the beautiful content work on your page, we love and admire your style, it shows beauty, confidence and power. Your Instagram profile is great! We think our brand customers would love the beautiful and captivating content you have. We discovered your page on Instagram reels #explore and you have liked some of our posts and we became interested in the beauty of your content. In this collaboration, the company would be sending free monthly packages (with your own exclusive discount code to share, make shout outs and reposts on our on our Instagram and website!) Every month one of the companies newest brand products will be delivered to you. You are to promote and show off those products in your own style. In promoting the products, you will tag us on our Instagram while maintaining your creative freedom. You are entitled to all intellectual property rights and MAKITA will not in anyway use your content for commercial or advertisement purposes without your consent. You will be paid €5100 monthly. This is the beginning, subsequently you will have more bigger deals with MAKITA. The aim for this collaboration is to grow, show love and put smiles on our customers as the year ends. We believe you to do what you do best. You would make posts and shout-out of our newest brand products in your style. We expect 4 posts from you in a month. Kindly let us know if you accept this offer and hope to work with the Brand so we can send you more information. Best regards.

Dollars Lost

$200

Targeted Person's Location

CA, USA - 93463

Scammer Information
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CA

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Unknown Phone Number

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Unknown URL

Scam Type

Retail Business

Business name

Elizabeth Garcia

Date Reported

January 8, 2026

Scam ID

1156695


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