Beauty salon owners name and shame alleged 'Botox bandit'

Queensland beauty salon owners allege "a Botox bandit" has been getting free treatments at their expense and now they're naming and shaming the woman as a warning to other businesses.

Beauty business owner Courtney Warren claims a woman called Julie-Ann Daldy booked in with her for a home treatment.

"She had treatments to the value of around $800, which is a fair amount for a business in this economy," Warren said.

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But Warren claims she didn't pay.

"It's pretty clear that she is just a scam artist and she had no money to pay for her treatment," she said.

Warren claims Daldy posed for before and after photos before she made excuses about why she couldn't pay on the spot.

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"She claimed she was a victim of identity fraud herself and her bank accounts weren't working," Warren said.

Warren claims Daldy then told her a bank transfer wouldn't work either because had "phone issues" before the customer asked the business owner to follow her to an ATM.

"After extensively waiting for her at the ATM we decided to cut our losses and leave," Warren said.

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Warren said she even went to the house where Daldy had her home treatment but it seemed she did a runner from there as well.

"I approached a man there who said she had also scammed him and she wasn't there," Warren said.

"He tried to get her on the phone but it was quite obvious … (I) wasn't going to get my money back."

A month after Warren's incident, Chanel Tarrant claims Daldy booked an appointment with her home business too.

"Her total spend was $1100 with me," Tarrant said.

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"I don't think she had any intention of paying me for her treatment."

Tarrant claims Daldy also told her she'd do a bank transfer and then said she'd come back with the money before she was "never to be seen again".

"She went to pay and her card declined," Tarrant said.

Both business owners claim it's not the first time they've had something like this happen.

"I had one lady at my previous work just leave her phone behind and act like she was coming back with cash but the phone was obviously a burner phone," Tarrant said.

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"People are doing it more and more."

Warren named and shamed another woman who called herself Shannon on A Current Affair in 2021 after alleging she'd left behind a debt of $1600.

Warren said when people don't pay up, small businesses like hers face a substantial loss that they can't afford.

"Stop scamming people," Warren said.

"You are affecting real people. We are not nameless."

Both women said they have reported the incidents to police but are yet to hear anything back.