“I went on Facebook to see if he would go the extent of meeting up with me. He did… but I never went.”<\/p>\n
Savanna Harrison, 27, is a professional “checker”, using social media to expose cheating partners after being cheated on herself.<\/p>\n
She wanted to help other women avoid the same heartbreak she felt, so she started working for a company called Lazo, which describes itself as a “tool designed to see intentions and let go of toxic relationships”.<\/p>\n
Now, she gets paid to run dozens of loyalty tests a month on people suspected of cheating on their partners.<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen some comments saying its messed up,” she said – but she doesn’t feel bad about what she’s doing.<\/p>\n
“If you can’t be loyal, then you shouldn’t be in that relationship.”<\/p>\n
The loyalty test<\/strong><\/p>\n Once she accepts a “mission”, Savanna messages her client’s partner, following tips and instructions from the suspicious client.<\/p>\n It’s usually women asking her to test their boyfriends.<\/p>\n “She’ll give me details of where she wants me to go with a conversation,” said Savanna, talking to me from Corona, California, where she also works as a lash technician doing eyelash extensions.<\/p>\n She’ll find out where the boyfriend hangs out and start up a conversation, saying she’s seen him in his favourite bar, or pretending to accidentally send him direct messages and photos.<\/p>\n “Either way, I will flood into his [direct messages] and say something to see if he’ll reciprocate.”<\/p>\n Throughout the process, Savanna is updating her client, sending them screenshots of any conversations between her and the boyfriend.<\/p>\n A loyalty test can last around five days, with checkers like Savanna going as far as arranging dates with the target that they won’t turn up to.<\/p>\n In a recent test, Savanna was asked to “set up a date… all the way until going there”.<\/p>\n She was then told to cancel on him so his girlfriend could show up instead.<\/p>\n ‘It would be much better to talk’<\/strong><\/p>\n According to one relationship expert, a loyalty test is not a healthy way to build trust in your relationship.<\/p>\n “It would be much better to talk about why they feel insecure in the relationship,” said Marian O’Connor, consultant couple and psychosexual therapist at Tavistock Relationships.<\/p>\n “It’s about saying: ‘There’s something wrong with us, what’s happening?’ That is the important thing, not to catch them out.”<\/p>\n She also advises thinking about why you don’t trust your partner and whether there is something deeper going on.<\/p>\n “Is this the experience you’ve had in all relationships? Is this lack of trust something that is from childhood, or is it in this particular relationship?”<\/p>\n The company running the loyalty tests, Lazo, says they’re not trying to catch people out.<\/p>\n “There might be this misconception that we’re here to entrap people,” says Ashlyn Nakasu, community manager at Lazo.<\/p>\n “That really is not the case.”<\/p>\n She says all the company is doing is helping people confirm what they already suspect – that their relationship is ending.<\/p>\n “[Often] they just need that proof, that final kick in the butt to let them know: ‘This is the wrong person for you’,” she said.<\/p>\n “We always tell people the best first choice is to communicate with your partner. And if communication fails to exist, then you can try to have a loyalty test if you truly believe that something is wrong.”<\/p>\n So how much does it cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n Tests usually cost between $50 to $80 (\u00a337.50 to \u00a360) but the price ranges from checker to checker, with some charging over $100 (\u00a375) for their services.<\/p>\n “I don’t care about the money,” says Savanna. “It’s more about helping other girls because I’ve been there.”<\/p>\n Lazo only has one full-time checker, who is making around $3,000 a month doing loyalty tests, but there are 350-400 part-time checkers like Savanna on their books.<\/p>\n They’re a new company – Lazo launched fully in January – but loyalty tests aren’t a new concept.<\/p>\n The hashtag “loyalty test” already had millions of views on TikTok before Lazo launched, with suspicious partners often finding strangers on the internet and asking them to test their partners.<\/p>\n Lazo, says Ms Nakasu, just created “a database of people that are willing to help, who know exactly what to do and know exactly what people are asking for”.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I went on Facebook to see if he would go the extent of meeting up with me. 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