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Dallas Woman Sold Designer Shoes on Poshmark. Her Buyer Wore the Shoes Then Demanded a Refund: ‘You’re Already Starting off on the Wrong Foot’

By Vanessa Esguerra Jun 1st
California Couple Found Dead After Sending $30K to a Facebook Scammer The Wife Swore Was Tom Selleck

By Terrina Jairaj May 28th
‘You can’t make this up’: 4 California people made $141,839 pretending to be a bear. Then a biologist ended their scam

By Terrina Jairaj Mar 31st
Woman gets new KitchenAid mixer for Christmas. Too bad a Target shopper decided to bamboozle her: ‘Do they not check it when it’s returned?’

By Charlotte Colombo Jan 9th
‘$240 is a lot of money’: Woman gets ‘free full body scan’ at Crunch Fitness. Then the personal trainer steps in—and starts texting her

By Rachel Thomas Nov 27th
‘My Pandora rings have held up better’: California woman spends thousands on rings from Tiffany & Co. Then her fingers turn ‘Elphaba green’

By Rebekah Harding Nov 26th
‘I use TaskRabbit and never had a problem’: Atlanta woman hires movers who do 10 minutes of work. Then she gets charged $222

By Rachel Thomas Nov 23rd
‘David Yurman would NEVA!!!’: Houston Cartier store worker damages $5K bracelet while taking it off for customer. Then they tell her it’ll cost $1,800 to fix

By Braden Bjella Nov 21st
‘This guy is not moving’: New York woman calls Uber. Then she gets to him before he has a chance to ‘scam’ her

By Claire Goforth Oct 31st
‘I think I got scammed’: Woman books ‘5 bedroom’ Airbnb in Arizona. Then she arrives at a camping site

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Oct 12th
‘GOODWILL SHOULD NOT be able to have an ONLINE AUCTION SITE’: California woman finds high-end bag at Goodwill. Then a worker intervenes

By Rachel Thomas Oct 8th
‘People gotta stop normalizing being scammed’: Carnival Cruise soda machine charges 27 cents per ounce. Then passenger fills a small cup with Sprite

By Stacy Fernandez Sep 30th
‘I can’t even believe the woman handed this cake over’: New York woman orders $65 cake for bridesmaid brunch. Then she opens the box—and crashes out

By Gisselle Hernandez Sep 27th
‘Was it also $80?’: Philadelphia woman orders an espresso martini at the airport. Then she realizes it’s just Folgers and vodka in a plastic cup

By Rebekah Harding Sep 27th
’I would have followed them to the next stop’: Missouri store owner waits on package from FedEx. Then he catches them red-handed

By Melody Heald Sep 26th
‘I have heard so many terrible stories’: Arkansas woman buys sectional and bedroom set from Ashley Furniture. Then she notices major design flaw $6,500 later

By Rachel Thomas Sep 9th
‘I feel like I got scammed’: Woman buys a $2 Kit-Kat from a Dollar Store. Then she takes a closer look at the packaging after it tasted weird

By Melody Heald Aug 22nd
‘Yall just got the Uno reverse card’: Missouri woman tries to use Venmo to scam man out of $300 of Labubus. She didn’t realize he was wearing Ray Ban Metas

By Claire Goforth Jul 19th
‘Even the reviews make it seem like a legitimate aquarium’: Woman finds an ‘aquarium’ to take her kids to. Then she gets there

By Sabine Joseph Jun 23rd
‘This happened to me with Target’: Woman’s Sephora order gets delayed. Then she discovers a little-known law that lets her get the $200 order—free

By Gisselle Hernandez Jun 2nd