If you recently got an email claiming to be Duolingo asking you to “collab,” please don’t click anything and watch this first. In this video I show you what the scammy email looks like and why it’s designed to feel super casual but also weirdly urgent. The offer they sent me was $5,000 (with $2,500 upfront) and that alone was a massive red flag—especially because I’m a smaller creator and I don’t even do sponsorships on my channel. I like my content to be incredibly authentic, and I only really get paid through views. I also use Duolingo (my husband and I both do), so I totally get why an email like this could feel believable. But the “download this” + “log in” combo is exactly how they get access to your YouTube or other social accounts and basically hack you. My biggest takeaways: if it feels too good to be true, it probably is; urgency is a red flag; and nobody should be rushing you into clicking or downloading anything. We don’t have unions protecting influencers, so we really do have to look out for each other—stay safe out there.