Loyalty testers will now catch out your cheating boyfriend – for a fee
Once Savanna Harrison accepts a “mission”, she can go as far as setting up dates with a cheating partner to prove their infidelity.
Savanna Harrison is a ‘checker’ who runs loyalty tests at Lazo. Pic: Savanna Harrison / Instagram
“I went on Facebook to see if he would go to the extent of meeting up with me. He did… but I never went.”
Savanna Harrison, 27, is a professional “checker”, using social media to expose cheating partners after being cheated on herself.
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”.
Now, she gets paid to run dozens of loyalty tests a month on people suspected of cheating on their partners.
“I’ve seen some comments saying its messed up,” she said – but she doesn’t feel bad about what she’s doing.
“If you can’t be loyal, then you shouldn’t be in that relationship.”
The loyalty test
Once she accepts a “mission”, Savanna messages her client’s partner, following tips and instructions from the suspicious client.
It’s usually women asking her to test their boyfriends.
“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.
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.
“Either way, I will flood into his [direct messages] and say something to see if he’ll reciprocate.”
Throughout the process, Savanna is updating her client, sending them screenshots of any conversations between her and the boyfriend.
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.
In a recent test, Savanna was asked to “set up a date… all the way until going there”.
She was then told to cancel on him so his girlfriend could show up instead.
‘It would be much better to talk’
According to one relationship expert, a loyalty test is not a healthy way to build trust in your relationship.
“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.
“It’s about saying: ‘There’s something wrong with us, what’s happening?’ That is the important thing, not to catch them out.”
She also advises thinking about why you don’t trust your partner and whether there is something deeper going on.
“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?”
The company running the loyalty tests, Lazo, says they’re not trying to catch people out.
“There might be this misconception that we’re here to entrap people,” says Ashlyn Nakasu, community manager at Lazo.
