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‘Speed Queen is the way to go’: Pittsburgh woman gets $748 Maytag washer after Kenmore floods her home. Then she’s ready to return it after less than 8 hours

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Oct 25th
‘They scammin’’: Uber quotes Atlanta woman $33.05 when she puts her American Express card. Then she switches to a Visa

By Braden Bjella Oct 19th
‘I feel like these companies need better management’: Cleveland woman’s uncle passes away. Then she tries to stop AT&T from billing his account

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Oct 15th
‘They don’t have scales anymore in the fruit department’: Walmart shopper buys 6-pound chicken for $16.42. Then he weighs it at home

By Claire Goforth Sep 16th
‘Please don’t send no more money to Elon’: Woman tries to send her ‘boyfriend’ Elon Musk money while at Florida Publix. Then a worker intervenes

By Claire Goforth Sep 11th
’Scary how they have pics of your car though???’: NYC woman gets a traffic ticket in the mail. Then she realizes she may have been paying someone else

By Rachel Thomas Aug 22nd
‘I’m not the first girl that he has done this to’: Florida woman matches with man on Hinge. Then she discovers he’s a ‘con artist’

By Charlotte Colombo Aug 21st
‘That’s insane to assume people can afford that’: Woman takes 4-minute pedicab after Morgan Wallen concert in Cleveland. Then she sees the total

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 20th
‘They’re doing this shady thing…’: Texas woman calls out Walmart for ripping off the edges off their price tags. Then she sees a blatant markup

By Ljeonida Mulabazi Aug 6th
‘If I can’t buy it at Costco, I don’t need it’: Woman says she was ‘scammed’ by Ashley Furniture. She fell for this loophole

By Claire Goforth Aug 1st
‘[The] same with the high end Samsung phones!’: Woman goes to T-Mobile store. Then she finds out her iPhone is ‘fake’

By Rachel Thomas Jul 20th
‘No Lennar or DR Horton’: Houston woman buys Lennar home. Then it’s deemed ‘uninhabitable’ less than 2 years later. She’s not alone

By Chad Swiatecki Jul 7th
‘Verizon does the same thing’: AT&T customer opens her phone bill. Then she says a $200 mystery charge was added

By Claire Goforth Jun 15th
‘Take it to your garbage outside immediately’: Woman says you shouldn’t let dates leave cell phone chargers in your house. Here’s the scary reason why

By Sabine Joseph Jun 5th
‘I’ve been traveling over a month on 8 different airlines’: Woman weighs her bag before American Airlines flight. Then she accuses the airline of running a scam

By Sabine Joseph May 28th
‘My dad was a victim’: Woman says her father spent $180 on the parking lot ribeyes

By Claire Goforth May 15th
George Santos Is Already Trying to Worm His Way Back Into Congress

By Kate Hudson Mar 8th
The AI-Generated Script From the Fake Willy Wonka Experience Is Beyond Wild

By Julia Glassman Feb 28th
A.I. Scammers Are Impersonating Real Authors to Sell Fake Books

By Julia Glassman Feb 19th
A Notorious Wellness Scammer Returns as the Subject of a New Netflix Series

By Ollie Kaplan Dec 15th