About IG/Pinterest etc and bots, well not sure about this. Accounts using bots tend to be banned very soon. Also it is really difficult to get targeted followers. It is pointless having 1 million followers and then promoting Harry Potter if your followers are interested in fitness.
Also some guys here already tried IG etc. and I saw one had only 2 orders from a 1,5 million audience ....
Also these shoutouts will only be a waste of money, either the followers are not targeted, even if they are targeted they wont't buy, you may need millions to get 10 orders. When there was the German soccer WC I posted a goal video on youtube, I got 400,000 views. I promoted a soccer t shirt from amazon in description (= laser targeted!!!!) and got 0 sales. Like I said, if IM was that easy and if he you really could make so much money like always pretended, everyone has a a PC and internet, so everyone just would need only to do this and nobody would need a 9-5 job.
Also I tried again on fb, again nothing. I tried a dog product (NOT led collar), at first cpc is too high with 0.56, for ten clicks your ad budget has gone and with 10 visitors you make nothing. Also only PE seems to work for ads, always when using conversions or clicks to website cpc is too high, super low cpc of 0.0x you only will get with PE.
Now I did NOT use 20,000,000 dogs audience, but TARGETED. My audience is between 200.000 and 400.000, depending on age selection. The audience consists of popular fan pages related to "dogs", dogs tv shows, dog groups etc. So more targeted it cannot be. 0.35% conversion rate with targeted passionate audience, bullshit fb ads.
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Then again about some proof here, I really do not know but for some screen shots here it looks like really the person only wanted to show his ability in using inspect element. Come on, if I promote almost same product, and he has XXX orders and CPC 0.0x and I have zero orders and cpc 0.5, then something can't be right.....
Also about these video proof on fb groups, well, I also do cpa business, and I can tell you it is not difficult to make fake video proof. I made a video where I used a VB program that does NOTHING but popping up a message "We added 100,000 gold to your account", then made a video where I show this program "adds" the gold to the account, simply stopping recording, inspecting element, continue recording.
About why should they do this, well, they either want you to buy their ecourse, or you already bought the ecourse and they want you to stay away from demanding a refund for not working by showing you that it actually "works".
There are the results (Spent $30 in Facebook Ads): 
