Is this sponsorship email legit?

Paste the whole email — the From: line, subject, body and any links. Sponsir checks the sender against the brand, looks for malware and phishing lures, and pulls out the deal terms. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you paste is sent anywhere.

Tip: in Gmail, open the message menu (⋮) → Show original and paste that for sender-authentication checks too. Ctrl/⌘ + Enter runs the check.

Paste a pitch and click Check this pitch.

The patterns behind almost every fake sponsorship

Sender doesn’t match the brand

“NordVPN” from nordvpn-partners.co or a personal Gmail; Reply-To pointing somewhere else; punycode lookalikes.

The file is the payload

Password-protected ZIP/RAR, installers, “game builds”, briefs on Mega/MediaFire/Dropbox transfer, shortened links.

Sign in to view the contract

Credential phishing dressed up as DocuSign or a “secure portal”. Real contracts never need your Google password.

You pay first

Shipping fees, deposits, “buy the product and we’ll refund you”, gift cards, crypto, or “let’s continue on Telegram”.

Too generic, too urgent

“Dear creator”, no reference to your content, $8,000 for a cold email, “only 3 slots left, reply within 24 hours”.

Real, but one-sided

Perpetual or all-media usage rights, whitelisting, IP assignment and Net 90 buried in the terms. Legit — and worth pushing back on.

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