Have you seen the mystery shopper that is all over social media posting her actual shops?

Her handle is Kayla Laughs Out Loud and I first saw her on TikTok and later realized she is on all of the big social media platforms. She films all of her shops then posts them along with a discussion of the business passing or failing. It all seems way outside of the contract terms of confidentiality. Of course, she is monetizing her videos and selling her mystery shopping 'course' so maybe she doesn't care about flaunting the rules because she is making bank. I'm just shocked the MSC and clients are okay with it.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 03:22PM by callinectes.

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Here we go again.

She has been discussed on here and has posted on this board to defend herself.

I had no idea, I just ran across her accounts. I searched the forum for her name and only one comment in one thread comes up. *shrug*

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 02:55PM by callinectes.

You're late to the party, calli! But c'mon in and have a drink. You'll need one as you review the thread

[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

(Oddly, my searches have been yielding better results that they ever did before)

Oh boy, I missed this by a couple of months. What a thread. I can see JimmyP having a cow, now!

About what?

@Okie wrote:

Oh boy, I missed this by a couple of months. What a thread. I can see JimmyP having a cow, now!

My bad, my bad. Poor joke.

You can make jokes. I just don't understand the joke. If you think I would have an issue with this thread, you probably are misunderstanding me somewhere. I was just informing the person so they can look to find the threads. @sestrahelena was more committed and nicely posted the threads for them.

@Okie wrote:

My bad, my bad. Poor joke.

Half of her shops seem to be fake (or the ones that I saw before she blocked me on Tiktok). She blocked anyone who questioned her questionable practices.

You can see her account without logging into Tiktok on your webrowser and I am floored! She is getting more and more braisen. In one of her Tiktoks she is even recognized by the store employees and filmed them and laughed. I hope some of the companies see her page and start banning her. I do not see how this is not a violation of our IC agreements. It appears that she is picking up a lot of the shops that no one really wants anyway. She may have already gotten banned by some of the companies that are a tad more selective.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 05:38PM by gigishopper.

I wonder if any mystery shop companies even pay her for any of it. She's just found a way to get money out of people.

gigishopper, you got me intrigued! Thanks for leading me to the dirt. As someone who struggles with social media, I debated whether I should look into this more, but here goes! I did not know that TikTok was capable of content longer than five minutes. I thought these were going to be quick hitter shorts.

I only watched one video (fried chicken dine-in), but I feel bad for the employees being filmed. They're looking directly at the camera with what the ... looks. Also, the other lady has her credit card information on display! Blur it out, please. Take some time to edit your video! Dang, she's so critical of fast food employees. "You failed miserably." Anyways, that's all!

Ohh, thanks for the link! It will be good reading on this cold afternoon!

I dont know what's up with the search function. Yesterday I searched for WaWa and Panda and got nothing!

@sestrahelena wrote:

You're late to the party, calli! But c'mon in and have a drink. You'll need one as you review the thread

[www.mysteryshopforum.com]

(Oddly, my searches have been yielding better results that they ever did before)

This woman is a thorn...she's been banned from several mshop companies and to someone's point, she is likely being untruthful with who she's mshopping for and is swindling people.

Yup, have seen her, she sells a $1000 "program" to teach people how to be mystery shoppers and uses her platforms to push her grift.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 10:23PM by CashieNess.

Can anyone tell the area she is shopping? Someone should see where she is going and confront her when she is filming and call her out. Maybe film your interaction with her doing her thing and you can go viral for exposing her fraudulent butt!!!

I have not watched any of her stuff. I don't do social media (even though I own quite a bit of META stock).

How do we even know she is being paid? Is she showing payments from some MSC? Just claiming you are a shopper doesn't make you one. Now if she is showing Paypal payments from the big I (or another MSC using paypal) or direct deposit from @mfisherri company, or Tipalti payments, then okay, but until I see she is getting paid, I'm not sure I believe the claim(s).

Greenville SC and she’s shopping places that are mostly posted on Presto and if you know you know type thing. Some look legit (Ty shops) and some I have never seen especially in recent years like Micky Ds.

@hbbigdaddy wrote:

Can anyone tell the area she is shopping? Someone should see where she is going and confront her when she is filming and call her out. Maybe film your interaction with her doing her thing and you can go viral for exposing her fraudulent butt!!!

I have not watched any of her stuff. I don't do social media (even though I own quite a bit of META stock).

How do we even know she is being paid? Is she showing payments from some MSC? Just claiming you are a shopper doesn't make you one. Now if she is showing Paypal payments from the big I (or another MSC using paypal) or direct deposit from @mfisherri company, or Tipalti payments, then okay, but until I see she is getting paid, I'm not sure I believe the claim(s).

Perhaps she has a big video library of shops she did and videoed years ago. Can anyone tell if any of the posted shops are recent? She may have stopped actually doing the mini pay shops already.

Great point! If Hardees, Bojangles, Arbys and McDonalds are currently being shopped, then these may be legit and current. I have seen none of these in KY, IN, TN or Georgia. Shes in SC, so maybe? Who on here is from SC that can maybe verify if these establishments are being shopped and she is following current guidelines? She posted one shop that was a retail tag check (100 items) and she said she finished the shop in 25 minutes and made $30. That particular shop has a requirement to stay a minimum of 30 minutes and they pay starts at $17 and bonuses increase in $5 increments here.

@sandyf wrote:

Perhaps she has a big video library of shops she did and videoed years ago. Can anyone tell if any of the posted shops are recent? She may have stopped actually doing the mini pay shops already.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 10:20PM by gigishopper.

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Im all about entrepreneurship and anyone trying to make an honest dollar. Shes violating her IC Agreements. From what I have seen, she is not even following guidelines on the shops that I can tell are legitimate. Supporting her BS is what is shameful and disgusting to me. Tell me what part of what she is doing is thinking outside of the box.

@ServiceAward wrote:

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2025 11:00PM by gigishopper.

@gigishopper wrote:

Im all about entrepreneurship and anyone trying to make an honest dollar. Shes violating her IC Agreements. From what I have seen, she is not even following guidelines on the shops that I can tell are legitimate. Supporting her BS is what is shameful and disgusting to me. Tell me what part of what she is doing is thinking outside of the box.

@ServiceAward wrote:

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Kayla is thinking outside the box because she is doing the marketing work for the MSCs. That is, recruiting shoppers. Even people who do not pay for her course, she is drumming up interest. The MSCs are getting free publicity. While you are not supposed to do this per the IC agreement, rules are only rules until they are not. I have no doubt every MSC is aware of what she does. Some may very well terminate their agreement with her. Others probably gladly take the free marketing, even if it violates the agreement. I don't know how many followers she has across her platforms, but my understanding is that she has a decent reach, especially to younger people. Those are exactly the people the MSCs want to reach. Kayla makes it seem exciting. She is over-the-top about it. One can watch her stuff and how she is playing things up, but she makes it fun. She's engaging.

You people take what she does too seriously. I'm sure she is here, laughing at you all. Because the more enraged people get, the more money you are helping to put in her pocket. That's the genius of it. Controversy sells.

To me, like others have mentioned, I think the most concerning part is that she's selling a year's worth of access to the course for $1K? I guess you could try it for a month. I believe most would not purchase this. As others have stated, the pinned threads in the New Mystery Shoppers section is probably more than enough and comparable to get you started for free. It's better off to start there. If you still need assistance, then maybe you do need the course (no offense).

On YouTube and other platforms/mediums, there's a lot free and quality information about even more technical, specialized, and niche topics. The content creator only asks that you like and subscribe to stay relevant in the algorithm!

When I visited K's TikTok page, the first first two videos were pushing to purchase her paid program. The way she speaks about it is actually counter-intuitive to how most marketers communicate. Almost intimidating and threatening that you'll be unsuccessful without it.

On some level, I found her dine-in fried chicken video somewhat entertaining. Maybe I can laugh at some real and humanized elements/aspects of it.

You’re are absolutely right. Let her laugh.. you too! While she’s filming unsuspecting fast food workers and exploiting them on TikTok, I’ll be at work at my real job making 3x what she claims to make mystery shopping and conducting my fine dining and other upscale shops on the weekends. Kayla, if you’re reading, please post some upscale restaurant shops! I would love to see them!

@ServiceAward wrote:

@gigishopper wrote:

Im all about entrepreneurship and anyone trying to make an honest dollar. Shes violating her IC Agreements. From what I have seen, she is not even following guidelines on the shops that I can tell are legitimate. Supporting her BS is what is shameful and disgusting to me. Tell me what part of what she is doing is thinking outside of the box.

@ServiceAward wrote:

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Kayla is thinking outside the box because she is doing the marketing work for the MSCs. That is, recruiting shoppers. Even people who do not pay for her course, she is drumming up interest. The MSCs are getting free publicity. While you are not supposed to do this per the IC agreement, rules are only rules until they are not. I have no doubt every MSC is aware of what she does. Some may very well terminate their agreement with her. Others probably gladly take the free marketing, even if it violates the agreement. I don't know how many followers she has across her platforms, but my understanding is that she has a decent reach, especially to younger people. Those are exactly the people the MSCs want to reach. Kayla makes it seem exciting. She is over-the-top about it. One can watch her stuff and how she is playing things up, but she makes it fun. She's engaging.

You people take what she does too seriously. I'm sure she is here, laughing at you all. Because the more enraged people get, the more money you are helping to put in her pocket. That's the genius of it. Controversy sells.

@gigishopper wrote:

You’re are absolutely right. Let her laugh.. you too! While she’s filming unsuspecting fast food workers and exploiting them on TikTok, I’ll be at work at my real job making 3x what she claims to make mystery shopping and conducting my fine dining and other upscale shops on the weekends. Kayla, if you’re reading, please post some upscale restaurant shops! I would love to see them!

@ServiceAward wrote:

@gigishopper wrote:

Im all about entrepreneurship and anyone trying to make an honest dollar. Shes violating her IC Agreements. From what I have seen, she is not even following guidelines on the shops that I can tell are legitimate. Supporting her BS is what is shameful and disgusting to me. Tell me what part of what she is doing is thinking outside of the box.

@ServiceAward wrote:

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Kayla is thinking outside the box because she is doing the marketing work for the MSCs. That is, recruiting shoppers. Even people who do not pay for her course, she is drumming up interest. The MSCs are getting free publicity. While you are not supposed to do this per the IC agreement, rules are only rules until they are not. I have no doubt every MSC is aware of what she does. Some may very well terminate their agreement with her. Others probably gladly take the free marketing, even if it violates the agreement. I don't know how many followers she has across her platforms, but my understanding is that she has a decent reach, especially to younger people. Those are exactly the people the MSCs want to reach. Kayla makes it seem exciting. She is over-the-top about it. One can watch her stuff and how she is playing things up, but she makes it fun. She's engaging.

You people take what she does too seriously. I'm sure she is here, laughing at you all. Because the more enraged people get, the more money you are helping to put in her pocket. That's the genius of it. Controversy sells.

Talk about passive-aggressive. Let people be. It isn't a big deal. It really isn't. And if you were making so much money, you would not be mystery shopping. So take that BS elsewhere.

Ha ha ha if you only knew what I do for a living and what I make…. That’s pure comedy.

@ServiceAward wrote:

@gigishopper wrote:

You’re are absolutely right. Let her laugh.. you too! While she’s filming unsuspecting fast food workers and exploiting them on TikTok, I’ll be at work at my real job making 3x what she claims to make mystery shopping and conducting my fine dining and other upscale shops on the weekends. Kayla, if you’re reading, please post some upscale restaurant shops! I would love to see them!

@ServiceAward wrote:

@gigishopper wrote:

Im all about entrepreneurship and anyone trying to make an honest dollar. Shes violating her IC Agreements. From what I have seen, she is not even following guidelines on the shops that I can tell are legitimate. Supporting her BS is what is shameful and disgusting to me. Tell me what part of what she is doing is thinking outside of the box.

@ServiceAward wrote:

Kayla is an influencer. She is an entertainer. That is her job. I realize people here do not understand the premise of what she does. As I repeatedly argued in the original thread, there are literally dozens upon dozens of people across social media who do exactly what she does. Search 'mystery shopper' on IG, YouTube, TikTok, etc., and you will see this for yourself. Nobody wants to call out those people. Instead, the fuddy-duddies here want to pile on this one woman. It is shameful and disgusting.

Social media influencers and entertainers extend to nearly every industry. It is not new and has been going on for years. Unless you pay for Kayla's course, you have no right to accuse her of taking advantage of anybody or committing fraud. You do not know exactly what she does and what people get out of it. Also, if new people were not treated like crap here, maybe they would not have to turn to Kayla and others like her.

I 100% stand by my support of Kayla and commend her for thinking outside the box.

Kayla is thinking outside the box because she is doing the marketing work for the MSCs. That is, recruiting shoppers. Even people who do not pay for her course, she is drumming up interest. The MSCs are getting free publicity. While you are not supposed to do this per the IC agreement, rules are only rules until they are not. I have no doubt every MSC is aware of what she does. Some may very well terminate their agreement with her. Others probably gladly take the free marketing, even if it violates the agreement. I don't know how many followers she has across her platforms, but my understanding is that she has a decent reach, especially to younger people. Those are exactly the people the MSCs want to reach. Kayla makes it seem exciting. She is over-the-top about it. One can watch her stuff and how she is playing things up, but she makes it fun. She's engaging.

You people take what she does too seriously. I'm sure she is here, laughing at you all. Because the more enraged people get, the more money you are helping to put in her pocket. That's the genius of it. Controversy sells.

Talk about passive-aggressive. Let people be. It isn't a big deal. It really isn't. And if you were making so much money, you would not be mystery shopping. So take that BS elsewhere.

The last thread was a good read. Ya'll shut it down just when it was getting good. I wouldn't say what she is doing is a scam. However, it is a poor investment for those that buy in to it, given that the information can be obtained for free.

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Oy. The quotes!

Re: the info she is providing can be obtained for free: Sort of...what most people want to know is things they can't find for free elsewhere. IE. what are the good, reputable mystery shop companies where they live, how much per shop they can expect, which MSC shops their favorite stores, hotels, etc. Most MSers gatekeep this info, seeing anyone who asks as a threat to their income stream. If she's found a way to make money letting the cats out of the bag, I understand why she's doing it. Influencers exist in a place where people will pay them to be controversial and get "engagement". But in this case, I don't see who would be advertising on her videos. The only way she could make $ are the instruction courses/videos that she charges for. Also, why aren't the MSC serving her a cease and desist for violating their IC contract? I'd imagine whoever she shops publicly would not be happy with their business being showcased in this manner.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2025 01:05AM by Tiffany0921.

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