He puts the “con” in romantic connection. Rather than scoring love at first swipe, Katie Powell, a single mom, was scammed out of $40,000 by a trickster on Tinder. “It’s turned my life upside down,” Powell, from Portland, Oregon, told KGW, her local NBC outlet. Powell met her romance scammer on Tinder, thinking she’d made … Read more
There is a certain phrase that should now get your Spidey sense tingling. This three-word message is one that scammers rely on and could make you high-risk to fall for a scam text: “Would you kindly.” It may seem like a friendly or harmless phrase, but your guard should go up immediately. Even the single … Read more
Hasta la vista, baby! A TikTok influencer was “catfished” on a vacation after booking what she thought was a hotel with a scenic seaside view — only to discover she’d been epically scammed. “We were screwed so hard,” said Sonja Dennig, 28, while recalling the dupe in a video with over 3.6 million views on … Read more
Revenge is a dish best served cold. A mom ran a local ice cream man out of town after he “stiffed” her child in a vaguely creepy way. The scorned mama bear, who recently roared on Reddit’s “petty revenge” page, detailed how her young daughter ran out for a frozen treat last summer after hearing … Read more
A woman went viral sharing how her family was scammed out of her $15,000 Carnival Cruise. She claims that the cruise line won’t refund her or admit fault but has changed its website and policy. Tiffany Banks was stunned when she realized that the trip she had been planning for a year was canceled without … Read more
For Nicole Vris and a large portion of her family, this year was going to involve the trip of a lifetime. Ms Vris and 35 members of her family were gearing up to travel to Greece, and meet up with friends and family — until they found out that not a cent of the $106,000 … Read more
Don’t believe everything you sea. An Argentinian woman who paid a fortune for an idyllic “seaside” hotel room in Italy was horrified after discovering that she’d been epically duped. “I feel scammed, guys,” the alleged victim, Clarisa Murgia, captioned the clip, which boasts more than 3.1 million views on TikTok. “No one has ever deceived … Read more
Just like Ja Rule did in the wake of the Fyre Festival, he also felt “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, lead astray.” An actor hired to work at the recent, disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland feels his golden ticket was a scam. Paul Connell, who played the part of Wonka at “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” … Read more
A growing number of Taylor Swift fans gripe that they’ve been “scammed” by the pop star’s online merchandise store — with many pointing the finger at her record label Universal Music Group over chronic mismanagement of the site. Store.TaylorSwift.com — which sells gifts, CDs and vinyl, as well as T-shirts and sweaters from her record-breaking … Read more
These scammers are gonna be on the receiving end of some bad “Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters created several AI-generated advertisements that looked and sounded like the Grammy award-winner endorsing Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads … Read more
An Australian grandmother has been scammed out of nearly $480,000 in a complex fraud scheme after selling her family home. Jane, a customer of the bank ANZ for nearly five decades, fell victim to the scam under the belief that she was transferring her money into an ING bank account, which promised a high interest … Read more
A California family claims they got scammed trying to escape the Maui wildfires, costing them $3,400 in airfare. Megan and Kevin Morgan were celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary on the island with their 8-month-old when they decided to cancel their celebratory dinner and return home to the Sacramento area — shortly before the devastating blaze … Read more
I Shih Tzu not! A TikTok user named Maggie claims that she was bamboozled by a dog breeder on Craigslist while purchasing what she thought was a purebred Shih Tzu puppy. In a recent TikTok, Maggie recalled buying her dog Alice from the classified listings site six years ago. She showed a picture of the … Read more
They worked hard for the money. A TikTok user has gone viral after revealing she was almost scammed by people using her bank’s phone number until she picked up on several red flags. Since being posted on Monday, the TikTok has gained nearly 2 million views. According to the user, she received a call from … Read more
Buyers beware: Don’t fall for the Facebook scammers. A TikToker has fallen prey to greedy online scammers, losing $2,250 after falling for a faux rental ad — and it nearly wiped her entire savings. Stephanie Thacker, who is homeless and has been living with her dog in her car for over year, took to TikTok … Read more