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5 Sneaky signs your digital marketing agency might be a scam.

Posted on June 28, 2025

by Shyam Krishnan C. U.

Every business needs a proper marketing system, both digitally and offline. However, in 2025, people are too busy to spend lakhs on digital marketing agencies that are focused on emptying their marketing budget without delivering on their promises. Today, you will learn how to identify these fake digital marketing gurus and how to choose the best, affordable ones.

The hook trick.

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The sweet conversations.

They will ask about your business type and suggest to you some poster and video creation ideas, and also tell you, “Don’t worry, we can handle this, and we will show you the results.” But slowly, you can witness their lack of focus and laziness. At the end of the month, they will give you a report mentioning the expenses and the amount that you have to pay. No growth, no change, just some random posters will be added to your social media walls.

The justifying game.

When you find out everything is going wrong, they will use technical terms and will justify their work and give you plenty of reasons, which will make you feel everything is your mistake.

The Meta game.

At the beginning, they will say, “We need a particular amount as an ad budget for Meta or other ad running platforms.” And they will never spend the monthly ad budget amount for running your business ads, and will never update you about that. And you know where the money goes.

The Canva game.

They will offer graphic design services and tell you that they have the world’s best graphic design team and will deliver edited Canva template posters, which will make your business page look very ugly.

The solution.

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Now you know how to identify the fake digital marketing agencies. You know the value of every penny you earn, so spend it smart and be careful. If you’d like to know more about our marketing services, we are just a message away.