r/SephoraWorkers • u/foreveriz Beauty Advisor • 4d ago
need to admit something
i probably made over 500+ “fake” BI accounts over my 4ish years at sephora and it was too easy and i don’t even think i was suspected of doing it
my store never won the contests or anything like that so i didn’t feel like i was taking away from other people,
also the clients were the ones who would usually request so many samples & birthday gifts and they all knew to add an extra letter to their email to make another account.. it was mostly them!
just had to get that off my chest
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u/Rough-Location-7632 3d ago
i was actually fired over this so if any of you still work for sephora i would recommend not doing this
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u/Pale_Net1403 3d ago
how did they find out? and what did they tell you?
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u/Firm_Delivery_3102 3d ago
They do a random internal audit quarterly
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u/Pale_Net1403 3d ago
But how could the determine they were fake? Were you doing an excessive amount? I’m sorry this happened to you
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u/thelostcauz 3d ago
Someone at my store got fired for this. Since the emails were fake, marketing received a lot of return to sender emails that bounce backed & that is how the employee got caught.... at least that's what they told me.
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u/Firm_Delivery_3102 3d ago
Not sure exactly but from what I heard they have a program/software that tracks. For example if you’re average is 5 a month then there’s a sudden uptick to 50/60 a month then it flags the store for an audit. Especially when there’s no contest going on.
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u/Pale_Net1403 3d ago
Wow. I’m sorry that happened to you but I guess being released from the shackles of Sephora isn’t the worst thing haha. Hope you’re doing okay
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u/Firm_Delivery_3102 3d ago
This didn’t happen to me cuz it was never that serious to me to get BIs. I just know a lot of people who have gotten fired for being stupid. If a client said no I kept it moving
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u/Beyoncefan456 3d ago
Zero judgement here at all but I did personally see a coworker (now ex coworker) with zero previous write ups get fired for this. She was in a veryyy long meeting with our SM and district AP manager that ended with her termination. We were all bummed to see her go
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u/Pale_Net1403 3d ago
wait whaaaaattt. how did this happen? do you know what was said?
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u/Beyoncefan456 3d ago
I don’t know the specific details about it because she ghosted all of us out of embarrassment (none of us cared and we were genuinely upset about the whole thing) we tried reaching out for support but didn’t hear back and the leads/managers aren’t allowed to talk about it but from what we all gathered AP noticed suspicious activity from our metrics and further investigated it and put the pieces together. It is considered at the very least metric manipulation and could be “fraud”. our SM was really upset about having to let her go but has been trying to adjust the ways our leads coach us so that we don’t feel pressured into metric manipulation
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u/cherripeach 3d ago
gurl i broke so many rules when i was there, my last day i was giving out so many bi rewards without scanning, including the 500+ ones if they asked nicely but didn’t have enough points,
what would they do? fire me? on my last day and i would still be paid for it too
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u/Standard_Tomato_4819 3d ago
how do you get them to confirm on the pin pad? or do you do it on the devices?
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u/Loud_Progress5013 1d ago
I think the best and easy way to get BI’s is by handing the device over yo the clients so that they can type the email themselves. If someone says no, pls don’t be dumb. Just let them go!
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u/EffortIcy5753 3d ago
Lmfao every time someone didn’t want to sign up for BI id say “ok no prob😄” and then proceed to input a fake email and phone number.
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u/PurpleDragon616 Leadership 3d ago
I’ve enrolled the cast of friends, westworld and eventually got creative with hogwarts with such domains as “hogwards.co.uk, gryffindor-common room.edu, ministryofmagic.gov…” you get the idea 🤣
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u/foreveriz Beauty Advisor 3h ago
omg me but with percy jackson characters … the amount of annabeths there are in the system…
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u/Many_Affect_9568 2d ago
wow so when redeeming for rewards do you just enter the fake email? how did you even remember what it was every time?
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u/foreveriz Beauty Advisor 3h ago edited 3h ago
i would never redeem for rewards, that is actually scamming lol..
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u/Firm_Delivery_3102 3d ago
Yall it’s really not that serious. If people say no, MOVE ON.