Instagram brand protection
Monitor suspicious Instagram listings with Valigard.
Valigard searches Instagram for public shops and accounts that reuse your product photos to sell copies, and keeps a saved page of each one with its price and account details. It prepares your report for Meta's counterfeit or trademark report forms, or for Brand Rights Protection if your brand is enrolled.
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How Instagram handles reports.
Instagram is covered by Meta's intellectual property reporting: the Counterfeit Report Form for fake products and the Trademark Report Form for other misuse of your brand. Brands enrolled in Brand Rights Protection can review and report Instagram accounts and content from one dashboard. Enrollment requires a registered trademark and a Meta business account.
- Counterfeits
- Meta Counterfeit Report Form
- Trademark misuse
- Meta Trademark Report Form
- Enrolled brands
- Brand Rights Protection dashboard
- Enrollment needs
- A registered trademark
What Valigard finds
The copies worth looking at on Instagram.
Valigard searches with your official product photos, so it finds listings that reuse them even when your brand name is nowhere in the title.
Accounts selling copies
Accounts posting your product photos and taking orders by message.
Shops using your photos
Instagram Shops illustrated with your official images.
Lookalike brand accounts
Accounts using your brand name or logo to look official.
Links to outside shops
Accounts sending buyers to web shops that sell copies of your product.
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What Valigard keeps for every Instagram listing.
Each listing you mark as likely counterfeit keeps its evidence in one place, ready for a report or a legal review. Download it as a PDF evidence pack or a CSV.
- Listing URL and title
- Price and currency
- Seller or store name, with its page
- Country of the listing
- Photo match with your reference photo
- Saved, timestamped copy of the page
- How many searches found it
- Whether it was removed or relisted
From finding to filing
How Valigard supports your Instagram reports.
- SearchSearch Instagram and other marketplaces with your official photos, worldwide or in the countries you choose.
- ReviewCompare each listing with your product, run the AI check if you want, and mark what is likely counterfeit.
- Keep the evidenceSaved page, price, seller and history stay with the listing.
- File and logFollow the Instagram guide, copy the report text, file on Instagram, then log the status and case number.
Valigard and Meta Brand Rights Protection
Meta's tools act inside Instagram and Facebook. Valigard finds public accounts and shops that reuse your photos, follows the web shops they link to, and keeps a saved page of each so your report shows what was offered.
Valigard doesn't send reports
You file every report through Meta's report forms and Brand Rights Protection, so the decision stays with you. Valigard makes sure you have what the marketplace asks for, and tracks what happens next.
FAQ
Questions about Instagram.
Which Instagram content can Valigard find?
Public shops, accounts and posts where your product photos appear. Private accounts and messages are not searched.
How do I report an account selling copies?
Use Meta's Counterfeit Report Form, or Brand Rights Protection if your brand is enrolled. Include the account and post links and your trademark details.
What about the web shops these accounts link to?
Valigard's search follows your photos to those shops too, so they appear in the same review queue with their own evidence.
Can Valigard remove an Instagram account?
No. Meta reviews each report. You file it with Meta and log its status in Valigard.
Step-by-step guides
Other marketplaces
Sources
Reporting procedures checked in September 2026. Marketplaces change their programs; check their official pages before filing. Valigard does not determine with legal certainty that a product is counterfeit and cannot guarantee that a marketplace will remove a listing.