Social media influencer GloJays is known for giving lots of cash to strangers. However, one woman said it was all about influence. Zipporia Tullis, a homeless woman living in Georgia, said he founded the GoFundMe page and raised more than $20,000 on behalf of her and her five children.
But he refused to give her money. However, in a TSR investigation GloJays exclusively claimed he gave Tullis $3,500 but refused to hand over the rest of the money after she refused employment assistance and hit him online.
So, does GloJays owe Zipporia this amount? Should Zipporia be satisfied with $3,500? The Shadow Room investigates…
The story begins back in June, when Zipporia was making money at a Union City, Georgia Walmart. That day, she was approached by a man who gave her $500.
That man eventually became an influencer on social media GloJays, and Zipporia says this was the start of an elaborate scam.
Behind their seemingly happy scene, shot by GloJay’s team, she says she’s been commented on to look “sad”. Zipporia can be seen telling him her story, how she was evicted from her housing situation in 2020, how her father passed away last year from COVID-19…
“My father is really all I have. I’m just trying to get up again,” she tells him in the video clip.
By the time GloJays started peeling the dollar bills to give to her, she could be heard saying “this is a scam.”
“This is not a scam, it’s all your fault,” he said as he handed her cash.
The video of the scene is among dozens of social networking sites GloJays, where he boasts two million followers on TikTok and more than 400,000 on Instagram, all within the past seven months.
Zipporia’s clip alone has been viewed by more than 13 million people.
But the feel-good story doesn’t end there. She later learned that he had set up a GoFundMe on her behalf, with the money being used to purchase housing, clothing and food for her children, and the cost of a car as described by the fundraiser.
The fundraiser has raised more than $20,000, with the money going “directly to her when the fundraiser ends,” the organizer wrote.
“Everything on that (GoFundMe) page is linked to him, it was never linked to me,” she told TSR Investigates Justin Carter.
She said she received about $3,500, most of which went to hotel rooms for her and her children, with her room rates around $100 per night. She added that she owed the hotel about $500, so she got almost a month’s stay at the hotel from the money GloJays provided her.
Zipporia said he eventually asked her to take a photo of her ID to send her the rest of the GoFundMe donation, but days passed and she didn’t receive another dime. The relationship between the two quickly began to deteriorate.
“He never really wanted to give me the money,” she said. “(He) took it.”
For his part, GloJays told TSR Investigates he would never woo someone and give them $20,000 without regulation.
“You have to do something,” he said. “Working or something. No one has ever pulled you and gave you $3,500 like me, no other stranger has done that. Regardless of whether they raised if because of you, gave it to you. Nobody gives you the money that I have.”
GloJays added that he also approached Zipporia about a number of job and housing opportunities, just days after posting the video. He said that she stopped replying to people and that she was not interested in helping.
When asked if he believed she was a professional cameraman, he replied affirmatively. TSR investigators questioned Zipporia over claims that she wasn’t actually homeless, and she said she was living off the hotel and if she didn’t have the money she would be taken away go out.
She went on to say that she couldn’t work unless she had a babysitter, that she couldn’t go to work and leave her five children behind.
Reactions online have been mixed, some to Zipporia and some to GloJays.
GloJays said that in all other cases he gave 100% of the money to the person in question, sometimes more. He said he canceled the campaign after she started hitting him online and took it as a personal insult that he would fall in love with someone for just $20,000.
When asked where he got his money, which was then used to help people, he said that he did a great job in trading, making about $400,000 in Netflix shares.” when it started to plummet.”
He added that he has no intention of giving Zipporia any more money and has no plans to issue an apology either.
“She can take it to court, I don’t care,” he said. “Do your work.”
A quick investigation of GoFundMe policies reveals that all fundraisers must be used in relation to the fundraiser’s description or goals, and if a page is created on behalf of someone else, then he or she will get all the money raised.
There is an option for donors to request a full refund, no questions asked.
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