Amandine Pellissard, Gulfer Taskiran, Melanie_orl: new influencers pinned for misleading content

After Julien Bert, Rym Renom and Simon Castaldi, it’s now the turn of new influencers to get their fingers tapped. The DGCCRF (General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and the Repression of Fraud) published on August 10, 2023 in the morning of new names of influencers and content creators reprimanded.

This time there are 4 of them. They are Amandine Pellissard, Melanie_orl, FannySNL, and Gulfer Taskiran (@feliccia_GUL). The four influencers are all pinned for deceptive commercial practices.

Influencers reprimanded for deceptive marketing practices

The first injunction from the DGCCRF concerns former reality TV candidate Gulfer Taskiran, better known as @feli_ccia on Instagram, where she has nearly 500,000 subscribers. According to the Fraud Suppression, the influencer:

• would not have indicated the advertising nature of certain stories for which she had been paid by an advertiser;
• allegedly wrongly asserted that cosmetic products had specific properties, which however have not been demonstrated;
• promoted certain food products which she claimed to be French when they were of German origin;
• presented counterfeit branded clothing offered for sale by two advertisers, and gave the impression that the items were legal, when they were not;
• finally, she would have promoted a service of hyaluronic acid injections carried out by a practitioner who does not have the status of doctor, which is illegal.

For Amandine Pellissard, two facts are alleged against her. According to the DGCCRF, she would have:

• promotes injections of hyaluronic acid and botox by a ” a service provider who does not have the qualifications required to perform such medical procedures “, which is unlawful, and ” misleads the consumer » ;
• would not have indicated the advertising nature of certain stories for which she had been paid.

For FannySNL, the DGCCRF explains in its press release that it discovered that it had been “ paid by commercial partners to promote their products or services in its publications. However, the publications in question did not mention their commercial intention. »

The influencer, who is for the moment the only one to have spoken about the injunction in a YouTube video and on her Instagram account, however specified that what she was accused of was the fact that ” the indication was not directly accessible “, because she was not ” not in the first lines of the description of [ses] YouTube videos ».

Finally, for Melanie_orl, the DGCCRF indicates that the influencer would have:

• promotes hyaluronic acid injections performed by a service provider who does not have the qualifications required to perform such medical procedures, a service which is illicit;
• promotes the services of a “tipster”, or a sports betting advisor, by claiming that such advice increases the chances of winning at gambling;
• would not have indicated the advertising nature of certain publications which it would have produced for remuneration.

The DGCCRF will increase controls

This is not the first time that the DGCCRF has revealed the names of influencers who have engaged in misleading commercial practices. The first wave of names was in early June 2023, when 6 influencers were pinned, and the second in July 2023. So far, 13 influencers have received a public injunction from the crackdown frauds.

In any case, this is not the end of the publication of the names of content creators who have engaged in harmful behavior. In an interview for Numerama, Sarah Lacoche, the director of the fraud prevention department, told us that checks on influencers were going to be amplified, in order to be sure that they comply with the new rules imposed by the law on the influence on social networks, adopted in June 2023. For content creators, this is just the beginning.

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