Mystery Shopping SCAMMER EXPOSED | Don't Fall For This Mystery Shop Fraud

Frugal Friends Podcast

Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures

Leisure, Home & Garden, Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Would you pay someone to teach you how to make money? This influencer went viral not for the success of her courses, but for being exposed in the scams she created along the way. Jen and Jill are here not to drag anyone’s character, but to look at how she mixes truth with lies to manipulate people into spending hundreds of dollars on information they could easily get for free.

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0:38.9	dot U.K. slash Wondery. Mystery shopping scammer exposed. Don't fall for this mystery shop fraud.
0:51.7	Welcome to the frugal friends podcast where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life.
1:01.6	Here are your host, Jen and Jill.
1:07.6	Welcome, Frugal Friends. My name is Jen. My name is Jill. And Make Money Scams are some of the most
1:14.0	prevalent scams on social media across the internet. And this one is just the latest to go viral.
1:22.3	We're going to be using this example we're about to give you as the template for how scams across social media
1:31.9	can happen. This one just gives a lot of really good examples. Yes. And so we are talking today
1:39.5	about Kayla Sansom, known on TikTok as Kayla laughs out loud. She has over 300,000 followers and is a self-proclaimed
1:50.2	mystery shopping and mystery shopper and mystery shopping coach who sells a course on how to make
1:58.3	money mystery shopping for $97 a month.
2:02.5	That's right. It's a subscription. You got to pay for. In August, she posted a video of a mystery shop
2:08.2	that went viral. She went to Chicken Salad Chick and she berated them for the service. Later posted
2:15.0	a video saying that she kind of got the manager fired.
2:21.4	And this all came out when chicken salad, this all went viral.
2:26.8	And then chicken salad chick actually posted a response.
2:30.7	You can go and see it on their TikTok.
2:33.7	It said they don't hire mystery shoppers.
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