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Philly woman wears House of CB dress once. Then she packs it in her suitcase, and finds out the hard way maybe it wasn’t worth the price tag

By Melody Heald Jul 16th
North Carolina Influencer Gets a Sephora Gift Card As Payout and Goes on Google to Check her Balance. Her Laziness Got Her Scammed: ‘I Did it Twice’

By Kopal Jul 13th
Woman sees Welch’s jelly for $6 on the Walmart app. Then she walks into the store—and realizes people are being tricked: ‘We’re being robbed’

By Rachel Thomas Jun 16th
‘T-Mobile is scamming me’: Customer says she paid off her phone in full—then T-Mobile blocked her phone, making it inoperable

By Rebekah Harding Jun 3rd
Woman sees Lysol ‘value pack’ of 2 at Target, so she whips out her calculator—and realizes how much people are being scammed

By Rachel Thomas May 26th
Walmart shopper finds $3 shoes, but they ring up for $19, says the price changed 3 times—while she was in store: ‘Dynamic pricing should be illegal’

By Melody Heald May 25th
Server exposes what she actually serves when people ask for Ginger Ale and they’re out: ‘Don’t ever bring me this’

By Tiffanie Drayton May 11th
‘Don’t get fooled’: Orlando woman helps ‘homeless’ women at Target buy $100 of baby supplies. Then she realizes she was bamboozled

By Tiffanie Drayton May 4th
‘Walmart doing us dirty’: Texas man goes to Walmart for extension cord. Then he finds one on clearance—and rolls back the price

By Rebekah Harding Apr 29th
Did JetBlue Just Admit the Quiet Part Out Loud?

By Teresia Gray Apr 21st
‘I would have gotten my money back’: Houston woman orders cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory. Then she realizes she’s been bamboozled

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Apr 9th
‘She brings up how pregnant I am’: California woman leaves Yelp review after stylist ‘fries’ her hair. Then the owner responds

By Rachel Thomas Apr 1st
Woman gets offered ‘free samples’ at Sephora. Then she gets her receipt—and catches the cashier in a scam: ‘They want to hit their metrics’

By Sophia Paslidis Mar 7th
‘I almost got scammed’: Georgia woman checks out at Family Dollar. Then she notices something odd about the card scanner—catching the worker in a lie

By Braden Bjella Mar 7th
Boston woman takes late grandma’s pearl necklace for repairs. She’s devastated when she gets it back: ‘I dreamed of wearing them on my wedding day’

By Rachel Thomas Jan 30th
NYC woman gets an email from ‘Skims’ asking for bikini pics. It’s not from Skims: ‘There’s no way y’all are falling for this in 2026’

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Jan 27th
‘They switched to dynamic pricing’: Idaho woman notices 70% clearance at Michaels. Then she catches them ‘scamming’ customers with the price tags

By Braden Bjella Jan 23rd
‘My bank did not give me my money back’: Florida woman deposits 2 checks from jewelry company. Then they ask her to Zelle them something back

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Dec 27th
Arizona woman catches Verizon charging her $718 for ‘no reason.’ They claim she upgraded. She didn’t: ‘That’s the exact reason I refuse to do autopay’

By Braden Bjella Dec 26th
‘The day before close’: Michigan man buys Detroit house. Then he catches the realtor double-dipping on commission with the oldest trick in the book

By Braden Bjella Dec 6th