[metadat]

Yes, not link fraud but pure, unadulaterated self-promo spam in IG comments along the lines of "I subscribed to this account and no regrets, it's all I need! Laughs every day!" constantly pinned at the top.

I do also see the occasional Bitcoin links and other linkspam on IG as well.

Edit: Dear downvoters, is this a threat to your precious growth hack, or?

[dangrossman]

You're being downvoted because your complaint is unrelated to the post topic. It's about scam ads masquerading as linked to trusted domains (an ad that shows it links to "adobe.com", but actually takes you to scamsite.com when you click it).

[blowski]

FWIW, I downvoted because of the complaint about downvotes.