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May 20, 2024 05:29PM
I watched a bit of her live feed and it was nothing worth $1000. But I did get to thinking, that she has spent weeks if not months creating videos of her "mystery shopping". Mostly all I see her doing is fast food places that are not available in my area or any area around me. I assume they are fake, but she makes them look super easy, drives through, orders something, and then makes statements about how great they were or how bad they were and that is the end of the video. Then sometime later after she has built up a following creates a way to help everyone get free food, money, and to travel all over all you have to do is just pay me $1000 and I will tell you. Pretty good grift.
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May 20, 2024 05:53PM
It is a pretty good grift, but I think its about to come to an end. In my day job, I work very closely with the fraud team at one of the convenience stores she recently "shopped". I asked them today if they were aware of these videos she was posting about their brand. They were not, but are now. And mentioned if this gal is actually shopping via one of their programs, she has violated her MSC agreement and more important the MSC has violated their contract with the brand. She is disparaging a multi-billion dollar brand, and while she giggles through her claims that she's allowed to do all this, I wonder if their army of attorneys might help her see it differently. And on top of that, she is making some wild HR accusations in her most recent video, opening them up to an employee lawsuit for defamation and breach of confidentiality (she states an employee she interacted with was 'fired on the spot' - something that would never happen publicly in 2024). So...yeah...I give it a week tops.
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May 20, 2024 06:22PM
Oh, this is an interesting twist. I know she has commented in the past about making sure an employee is fired because of her experience. My comment at the time was that is not our job. Our job is to report how they acted and what they did. Whether or not they are disciplined is not the mystery shoppers' job. But she makes it sound like she is hired as a quality control consultant who goes into business with this goal in mind.
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May 21, 2024 10:22AM
All these "content creators" and "influencers" make me want to yawn. I find them a waste of time. It's the old be careful what you believe thing.
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May 22, 2024 05:09PM
I am unsure if I can post links here, but here it is...the "serial mystery shopper.." Here is the link where folks can pay $997 to join her private FB group and learn all about mystery shopping and make thousands and thousands of dollars a year... Kayla will laugh out loud all the way to the bank!

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May 22, 2024 05:15PM
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May 22, 2024 08:12PM
After all this talk about her tiktok, I watched a few clips. It seems like half of the "shops" are ones she's made up in her own head about pass or fail. If she only sticks to the legitimate mystery shops, she wouldn't have that much content because they'd be redundant or boring. I could video tape myself going to Disneyland or Cheesecake Factory with my own criteria and report that they passed or failed. It's all clickbait, which is not surprising for social media.
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May 22, 2024 09:05PM
"Here's what you'll get.....Mystery Shopping Community to Ask Questions and Hang Out"

Uh-huh. Jacob beat you to it, honey.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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May 22, 2024 10:56PM
I only respect these content creators if they are honest and telling the whole story....fabricating, outright lying, misleading people? nah, that's no way to make a living...taking advantage of others.
A pox on their houses. I am old school like that.
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May 23, 2024 02:20AM
@cindycribbs wrote:

I watched a bit of her live feed and it was nothing worth $1000. But I did get to thinking, that she has spent weeks if not months creating videos of her "mystery shopping". Mostly all I see her doing is fast food places that are not available in my area or any area around me. I assume they are fake, but she makes them look super easy, drives through, orders something, and then makes statements about how great they were or how bad they were and that is the end of the video. Then sometime later after she has built up a following creates a way to help everyone get free food, money, and to travel all over all you have to do is just pay me $1000 and I will tell you. Pretty good grift.

According to the internet she is in Newberry, South Carolina--a town of about 10,000. How much Mystery Shopping could there be in a town this size? She also promotes herself as a Process Server and Soap Maker. She is good at self promotion, but I hope people don't fall for the sizzle.
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May 23, 2024 01:26PM
$50,000 a year since her second year of shopping, including during the height of the Pandemic? In Newberry, North Carolina. Yeah right. And pigs fly. This girl is so full of it. I can not believe TitTok would allow this type of fraud/scam. I really hope people don't fall for her obvious Scam.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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May 23, 2024 01:31PM
Her videos can and should be reported to TikTok as a scam. She posted that she has already made $800K with her new "program" (800 sign ups at $1K each), and then in the same day she posts a video of herself doing a $12 fast food drive in shop. Um, yeah, ok....that adds up!
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May 23, 2024 01:48PM
I just reported her. I had to google how to report her account/videos. I am attaching the instructions. Not sure if you need an account to report, I have one.

In the TikTok app, go to the person's profile.
Tap the Share button at the top.
Tap Report.
Tap Report account.
Select a reason for the report and tap Submit.

It works with individual videos as well. I just reported each of her videos referencing her Mystery Shop Program and her account as Fraud/Scam.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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May 23, 2024 05:27PM
She also stated that she is a stylist which helps when she does the Gucci and Louis Vuitton shops. I don't see her dressing at all like a stylist or someone in the fashion industry.
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May 23, 2024 05:39PM
She blocked me on Tiktok, but I did report her on FB as a scam.
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May 23, 2024 08:03PM
Y'all keep us posted on what happens with reporting her. I hope she gets a big old bootmark on her butt from where they kick her off.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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May 23, 2024 09:39PM
It's all fun and games until someone pays for whatever an influencer is selling and it turns out to be fabrication...and they submit a complaint to their state attorney general's office...and then the next person does, etc.
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May 24, 2024 01:21AM
Paid for your voice-overs in the morning, Louis Vuitton stylist in the afternoon, video recording of a McDonalds "shop" for dinner, whipping up a few bars of soap at night. Its really amazing! (is there where we add ???? - I assume you are also a grammatical editor for the New York Times in your off hours?)

Trying to get $997 a pop to send out 'your' list of the 100 MSCs that anyone with the ability to do a Google search could find for free - what is that called on your list of occupations?
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May 24, 2024 01:24AM
A list she probably stole from this site, now that we know she knows about it.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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May 24, 2024 01:41AM
And poof! Just like that she is gone. I guess she blocked herself from here?
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May 24, 2024 02:19AM
You went to an attorney to make sure you were doing an honest thing? That might be the funniest thing I've read in a very long time. Maybe have your Honest Abe attorney take a gander at all the MSC agreements you've signed that had confidentially clauses in them, since you've violated each one every time you are tiktoking away with the shop "Pass/Fail" results. That isn't how this works, so if you think its honest to tell people a whole bunch of bad information, and you need an attorney to validate that for you, I think most honest people would let you know that you have, to use your word, FAILED.

And the marketing team helping you that you keep referencing, Profitable Pineapple, is an Amazon marketing specialist.

If you send me $997, I'd be happy to send you my Top 100 List of How to Use the Internet Effectively.
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May 24, 2024 04:32AM
Come ON, Service. There are enough scammers, charlatans, and snake oil peddlers giving our industry a bad name…we don’t need another one.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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May 24, 2024 04:40AM
What you seem to be missing is she is not a legit shopper. It is all bogus, and she is ripping people off by providing her so called expertise. She has clearly lied about having permission from the MSCs to post videos of her so called "shops, " and is presenting herself as an expert and selling gullable people information that is readibly available for free, which she probably stole, as she is clearly not a ligit shopper. Watch some of her videos, she is clearing making up her own criteria. And giving people false information. (No true Mystery Shopper goes around passing and failing locations, most of the time we don't know what consistues a pass or fail). Nope not jealous. Couldn't care less how much she claims to be making, just doubtful she is making that amount one $12 fast food shop after another. Which constitutes 100% of the shops she post about. Have u even watched her videos? She is a fraud! Pure and simple.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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May 24, 2024 05:42AM
Please do report her for the fraudulent grifter she is.
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May 24, 2024 05:54AM
I agree with @Mellifluy that her shops are just made up in her head. Her designation of pass/fail doesn't ring true with any shops I've done. I think we are a diverse enough bunch that someone here would've said that McDonald's does have mystery shops in my area or any of the other ones she's claimed.

It could be there are other MSPs that also have Pizza Hut, but I did a search for the one I know that has that client and they did not say hand out a $25 Visa card if certain requirements are met on your visit. I watched a youtube video she uploaded in April where she had to buy a pan crust pizza from Pizza Hut. I did a search for that and there was that requirement last year, but the pizza she showed in the video did not have the toppings required of that shop.

Her influence on TikTok has not transferred to Youtube. She has less than 4 dozen YT subscribers.

I have no doubt that some MSPs don't mind her videos since it is recruiting more people to compete with us and you know that an environment with more shoppers is always a positive for our fees rising - NOT. It doesn't cost the MSP anything either.
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May 24, 2024 08:34AM
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May 24, 2024 08:40AM
-heart hands- Service, you and I will just have to a2d - that’s agree to disagree - on this one.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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