The hunt for social media fraud isn’t taking a break in August. Influencer Poupette Kenza announced on her Snapchat profile that she had received a letter from the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF). She is fined 50,000 euros for “deceptive commercial practices” online.
At issue: an advertisement for a Crest 3D White brand tooth whitener, failing to specify that it was commercial content, specifies the document shared by the influencer on her social networks. Poupette Kenza will also have to publish on its various accounts the press release detailing its sanction. “I want to vomit”, reacted the interested party who assures that this mail “destroyed [sa] evening, they are big thieves”. “The worst thing, she chokes, is that it’s a fine, you have to pay it otherwise you go to prison,” added the 23-year-old mother.
Several cases around Poupette Kenza
Poupette Kenza is also suspected in another file of having promoted a kitty for Moroccan orphans, whose funds have disappeared. The association in charge of the orphanage, Atlas Kinder, had expressed its wish to file a complaint against the young woman for “breach of trust” and “embezzlement”, reported The Parisian.
Finally, she is also suspected of acts of child abuse on her son. In February, an investigation was opened for “suspicions of evasion by the parent of a minor child without legitimate reason of his legal obligations compromising his health, safety, morals or his education”, following a series of videos shared on Snapchat which explains the hospitalization of his barely one-year-old son for a head injury.