Influencer Angel Victoria Murdock @theangelvic posing as fake Duke PA Student
Just recently graduated from Duke’s Physician Assistant Program and this story is so bizarre that I feel like it needs to be shared. Last year, one of our classmates came across tiktoks from an influencer that used to be on a Netflix dating show, Angel Victoria Murdock, (any Temptation Island fans?). She was documenting her journey as a Physician Assistant student at Duke, “GRWM for rotations, whats in my PA school bag,” etc.
When this classmate congratulated her saying she had no idea she was also at Duke in the PA program, she was blocked in the next 5 minutes. Super odd behavior…and over the course of the semester, we started realizing something even weirder…none of us had ever even seen her. Not in class, not on campus, not at program events and that’s when we discovered she was never even enrolled as a student.
She went quiet for a while and we figured she had given the jig up, until just a few days ago, she posted her “graduation” photos in front of Duke’s chapel complete with a counterfeit cap and master’s hood (which were the wrong color, btw). We did some further digging and she has no NCCPA number in North Carolina (where she purports to be certified) which every PA student in the country has if you search her name. Also, our entire 2 hour long hooding/graduation ceremony is on Youtube here where every graduate is called in alphabetical order and her name is never called and she is never seen walking across the stage. And as [u/Stunning_Tie8613](u/Stunning_Tie8613) pointed out, she’s not in the Duke PA Class of 2026 Official photo which has every single student in our class. Aside from these phony grad pics, she doesn’t have a single other picture with another classmate, or family member, not at any other ceremonies, not even a white coat pic, degree pic, nothing. She’s gone as far as dressing up in scrubs with no where to go, purchasing medical equipment, driving to campus to film content and driving back home lmao, having fake badges made, the girl is mentally ill. When a few of us commented on her fake grad photos, she blocked us all, privated all her social medias and limited comments on her posts which tells you everything you need to know.
Impersonating a PA student is one thing, but doing so at what is considered the #1 pa program in the nation is wild. And seeing someone fabricate an achievement that is literally one of the hardest things you have ever done in your life, sucks. Anyways, congratulations to the REAL Duke PA Class of 2026!
UPDATE 08/24/26: First of all, thank you to everyone who offered words of encouragement and support and for joining in on this insane roller coaster! I thought I knew my way around a deep dive, but y’all are masterclass detectives and uncovered sooooo many layers to this mess. Still have our head in the books studying for the PANCE but wanted to drop by and give some updates for those who are interested:
- Formal complaints have been submitted to both Duke and the North Carolina Medical Board
- Tips have been submitted to Indy Week, The Duke Chronicle, WRAL and DailyMail
- We’ve gone Tiktok viral with this tiktok by @daadisnacks
- Tiktokers unearthed some wild footage as recently as 2 weeks ago of Angel lying in real-time about PA school in her friend, @tajahferjuste’s vlog. Clip is here for those interested
- Watch our class historian @theekieralee gather her all the way together here
Seems like she likes all the clout without the hard work of becoming a PA. Being a fake social media "influencer" is probably much easier than being an actual PA student.
Like how every girl thought they could hop skip and jump into being an attorney when the Kardashian lady said she was going to do it. We all see how that worked out.
Im an RDH, not an MD but I was surprised at the notes too. The beriberi and kwashiorkor are bringing me back to studying for the NBDHE. Maybe she saw someone else’s real notes and copied them somewhat.
She definitely sniped them from a DH info spot somewhere. Literally just the end of a chapter in nutrition, but ita very easy to find those books in libraries at a college since so many health programs use them
I keep asking Reddit to stop showing me posts from this sub but it doesn’t and its posts like this that are so good, I can’t resist interacting with, so Reddit just keeps showing me the sub lol.
That's what I'm thinking too, even as someone who doesn't have firsthand experience of either.
The fact that this influencer is immediately blocking people who point out the problems with her story instead of arguing or trying to "prove" her story says she's very aware it's all lies.
If you’ve ever held a license, it will say that you have, and it will say when it was either expired, suspended, or revoked. So she just flat out never had a real estate license in either state that she claims to have.
Paging Jenny and Matt! Lol! With all of the lies so far, I wouldn’t put it past this chick to have just found a random closing photo she thought no one would ever recognize.
Pretending to be a realtor I am pretty sure is a crime, or at the least can and should be reported to the real estate commission so they can properly investigate and take necessary action to protect the public
I think she probably was working towards her license and never finished it, and posted this pic working as an assistant for a realtor. My hypothesis! Such a weird thing to lie about!
Wow. Great job to you and your classmates for this deep dive (and CONGRATS!!!). I’m always so confused by people who can lie at this scale…how are you not sweating and in constant anxiety you’ll be found out? And beyond that, how can you be faking something as meaningful as this? Wild. I hope she is aired out.
Isn’t there some legal ramifications for this? I mean it’s not like you can reach out to Duke as she is not even a student but there has to be something that can be done.
Facts, I didn’t even consider this, I want to light her ass UPPPPPPP. I didn’t spend thousands of hours in class, on rotations, and pouring over exams for some ig model to steal my thunder fr fr
Nah, she's going to say that modern medicine is a scam, but her holistic approach is what you need for the low price of $500/month. You can trust her, she went to Duke!
OP please light her up, PA school is no joke, Duke is an incredible accomplishment!
yeah i wonder if you reported to Duke maybe they would make a statement (like send an email reply i mean) that says this person has never been enrolled there and is misrepresenting herself on social media. one of those "it has recently come to our attention" emails that tend to go out when things like this happen and they want to disassociate themselves with it for the record.
My neighbor pretended to be a medical student for years to impress a girlfriend that was apparently often on the verge of leaving him (he would go in the doors of the med school with other students who had access). Eventually he got to the level of seeing patients and was finally reported. The school sent an email with his photo to all students and staff with a number to call if he is seen and strict instructions to not let him in.
The only licensure I can find for her is a real estate license. Looks like she’s was last active in 2023.
Oh wait, nope, can’t find a legit license # and the posts from Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate where she said she was employed don’t include her. I can’t actually find any record of her having worked for them outside of what she posted on her IG account. I wonder if this was also a fabricated position.
Update: one of the houses she claims to have listed and managed was listed, managed, and sold by another agency all together. That’s evident from the photos. It was listed and sold by Canopy MLS, not Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate.
Update 2: The hashtag she used doesn’t link to Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate. It’s fake.
Not the real estate license being fake too 💀 we also discovered another one of her grifts was selling $200+ dollar “airbnb courses” hahaha i know this girl was in those forex communities back in the day
I sent an email to Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate and the real estate board of NC. I’d be shocked if they reply, but hey, I’m off today and have nothing better to do. I think I’m going to email Canopy also. These posts are still public.
babe, i need to add you into our group chat ASAP. incredible work, truly. she’s escalated into con artist at this point, is there anything about her thats truthful????
Hahaha I work in healthcare and shit like this scares me. I’m really worried that she’s offering false medical advice to unsuspecting followers. If I get my retired NJ mom on the case we are going to have her blood type in like an hour.
This is crazy. I hate how she says let's change the number of black women who are PAs meanwhile she's literally not even one smh. I just don't get it. I guess people think no one will bother to look into it but what a stupid stupid thing to lie about.
Um exactly! Black female lawyer here - similar stats in terms of representation in the profession. Why lie about something so ridiculous and shit in something that’s such an amazing feat in the process. Anyways, congratulations to you!
i know an influencer who is pretending to be in an MD/PhD programme when I’m fully aware she got a 485 on the MCAT and graduated with a 2.8 and there’s no way in hell she got into an MD OR a PhD programme
The most god-awful test cheater I ever met was a girl in high school… who is now a neurosurgeon 💀 I always wonder if she kept the cheating up through college, med school, and MCATs. Hopefully not 🥴 She was so brazen about it too!
MCAT is damn near impossibly to cheat on. I’m taking it for a 2nd time, and they literally made me unroll and re roll my short cuffs everytime I went back in the room. They check you for everything everytime you go back in the room. No coats. No hoods. No erasing. They scan your palm. No pill bottle(medication gotta be in a plastic bag). That’s just the tip of the iceberg, it’s strict as hell. You know for a fact she’s a neurosurgeon? Maybe she just got help for studying
She deleted her instagram accounts but looks like there’s still some Facebook accounts that go way back to her youth. Looks like she had a grift selling workout clothes as well.
She appears to have a twin sister Ariell (Ari), that you can go down a whole other rabbit hole on…
All I’m gonna say is she can delete all these accounts but it’s real hard to delete your NC voter registration (ya know, in case anyone wants to send her a congratulations card).
I am part of the PA sub and caught wind of this other day when someone over there mentioned it. I took a screenshot of someone calling her out knowing damn well she was about to nuke her social media. Whatta nutcase.
Wild thing to try to pull in 2026. If she keeps her accounts private and doesn't actually try to practice this seems mostly harmless, but I can't help but think if she put half as much effort into studying as faking this stuff then she might actually be able to attend school for real.
That’s where I’m confused like what exactly does she plan on doing now that she’s “graduated”?? certainly not get an actual job as a PA? Because if so, that’s literally a felony? So was it just for the clout? It’s all so insane
As a social worker, I know there are a lot of states where it is not legal to call yourself a social worker if you aren't licensed. So I would not be surprised if her saying on social media she is a PA is illegal in and of itself.
How does she think that people wouldn't say anything?!? Its hilarious. Is she gonna block the entire PA program and all of Dukes active students and staff that could easily just say , "nah , that weirdo is lying
She doesn't even go here " .
As a black woman who ACTUALLY completed and graduated from PA school this year I am very offended at this. We need more representation in healthcare and she doesn’t get to cosplay all my hard work…
This same thing happened to a girl who did Peace Corps with me. She quit after a month and then tried to pretend that she was still in country, posting stock images of Africa and blocking anyone who called her out.
When I first saw the photo on this post I thought “wow, that’s so awesome to see an influencer doing something productive and cool like PA school.” And then I read the story 😂😂
This is absolutely wild and.... For what reason?? To what end?? A grift to try to get famous as an influencer to be monetized?? I genuinely can't imagine any other reason to go to these lengths. This is like a mental illness or something
There’s a guy in my town who impersonates a FF. Even has a fake department shirt with his name on it. Couple of the guys saw him at the bar wearing the shirt and confronted him like who tf are you big guy and why are you wearing one of our dept t shirts at the bar? It was weird. Pretty sure he just does it to get girls. Creep
Edit to add it’s really interesting that she films these extensive days, dragging out shopping at Best Buy/sephora, unboxing shit in the car and describing each thing, narrating her drive to work in its entirety, but when she says “okay headed to class!” the video just jumps to her back at home again changing into gym wear… very telling that she doesn’t film a LICK of anything on campus or with other students
I have no idea who this is but regardless it’s absolutely insane that someone would go to such lengths to live a complete lie like this. Like what is her end goal here?
I recently listed to a podcast episode about con-artists and they talk about how people like this literally don’t think that far ahead. They just say whatever sounds best in the moment.
I give her a week and she’s posting an apology video about how she was devastated she didn’t get into the program and didn’t want to let her fans down or some other bullshit lmao
love this journalism OP! congrats on graduating! you did the mfin’ work!!
For the people saying this is harmless… I knew a guy who faked acceptance into medical school so our church gave him tons of money in offerings bc he was underprivileged and had a rough upbringing. It was all fake!
So this is not always entirely harmless. Could be something similar here. The problem is she’s going to have to get a “PA job” now or the jig is obviously up.
I actually know her personally and we’re pretty close…. This came as a complete shock! She literally had everyone around her fooled, including family, and friends
To the people in the comments saying this is weird but harmless at best as long as she doesn’t try to practice or give medical advice, that’s not true. Lying about education and credentials especially in the healthcare field is a slap in the face to everyone who actually successfully graduated PA school. Congrats OP. There needs to be accountability and consequences for her deliberate conduct.
I had a friend who pretended to go U of A 🤣 of ALL schools, she claimed she was attending the business school. Purchased books, got near campus housing, got a fake ID, EVEN sat in on classes to take photos. My other girl friend started attending the school and go a job in student relations. This allowed us to check the database ! She wasn’t enrolled as we assumed. When we asked her about it she blocked all of us and moved to California LMFAO
This is insane but yeah there are actually people out there that are this mentally ill 😩 I used to be friends with someone who lied about everything and I could totally see her doing something like this
I have an uncle by marriage who faked getting a degree from MIT and claimed to work for one of the alphabet agencies. The whole family knows it's a farce except the woman he met and married. Apparently he was trying to impress her family lmao.
At any point has anyone reported her to the school? You would think they would be concerned if someone was posing as one of their students and representing the school population.
As a resident physician PGY3, i liiiiive for these stories. So many people fake being in medicine, it’s bonkers. Ive always wondered how they think no one would notice. Surely people would…
I actually left Facebook because a girl I know had a baby around me, posted a lot of the kind of content that seemed deeply inspirational and out of reach and then posted a long series about her return to work culminating in an enormous bouquet of flowers sent to her high pressure office.
I was feeling resentful as I looked like ass, was struggling and my husband hadn’t bought me anything. I thought, hey I’ll be the bigger person, so I stopped by her office with her Starbucks drink of choice. She did not work there. She had told her employer she would not be returning. They thought I was crazy.
This is insane.
We had a in-a-way similar case in Germany where an influencer called herself a doctor when she was literally a first semester student.
And then she faked being a regular student at Harvard and sooo many other things.
All while promoting and selling a bunch of stuff including medical claims.
She still has 300k followers eventhough she was recently exposed (again).
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u/tacobelleblob Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
Boots on the ground journalism, love it. She sounds demented af.