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A personal finance TikToker claims unlimited PTO is the 'biggest scam.' Career experts say she has a point.
Unlimited vacation time has been a perk companies have offered to attract talent for a few years, b…
Lindsay Dodgson
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TikTok is rife with scams promising to fix your credit score or wipe your debt, finance expert warns here are 3
Accredited financial councelor and Markia Brown spoke to Insider about some of the financial red fl…
Lindsay Dodgson
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A viral TikTok jewelry scam is sucking in customers with 'revenge' videos by creators who say they too were tricked
Customers of Trugala, Deraldi, and Vulosa were lured in with too-good-to-be-true discount codes, pr…
Lindsay Dodgson
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An Etsy seller is vehemently defending pricing a miniature purse at $270 after TikTokers called it a 'ripoff' and accused her of scamming
Etsy shop owner Stevie Lynn D'Andrea told Insider the backlash has grown so severe she's received d…
Tanya Chen
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The terrifying new AI scam
Scammers are using AI-generated voices of people's actual children to swindle them out of their cas…
Eve Upton-Clark
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TikTok Pro scam – What is it and how to protect yourself from it
Several users on social media have reported that they have received an SMS or a WhatsApp messa…
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Everything finance TikTok gets wrong about saving money, according to experts
Money experts spoke with Insider about when TikTok can be helpful for starting your saving journey,…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Grieving women warn of TikTok scam involving sending loved ones' ashes to a fake artist who uses the remains for extortion
Three women from different states are looking for answers after a scammer allegedly used the remain…
Jordan Hart
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I spent all night on TikTok Live, and discovered a wasteland of clickbait, scams, and other oddities. It got stranger and darker by the hour.
The streams were relatively normal at first, lulling me into a sense of ease — but then thing…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A TikToker is accused of mishandling $20,000 he raised on GoFundMe for a woman he said was homeless
Read Choi refuted questions about what he was doing with the GoFundMe money he raised for a woman, …
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Olivia Rodrigo fans call 'SOUR' album merchandise 'thin and cheap' on TikTok, alleging clothes arrived in different conditions than advertised
Disappointed Olivia Rodrigo fans have taken to TikTok and Twitter to say they feel let down by the …
Charlotte Colombo
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A TikTok creator said she inadvertently touted a scam before hackers told her fans she was kidnapped
A TikTok creator with over 1.3 million followers said she inadvertently touted an investment scam b…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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A petty customer dispute spiraled out of control on TikTok after a woman got sent skeleton pictures instead of a gown
A mom wanted to buy a labor gown, but inexplicably ended up with pictures of skeletons. Both she an…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Man pleads guilty to hacking Elon Musk's and Joe Biden's Twitter accounts in bitcoin scam
Joseph James O'Connor was part of a group that hijacked several high-profile Twitter accounts in 20…
Pete Syme
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has the internet eating out of his hand
In today's edition of 10 Things in Tech: Romance scams are on the rise, Gen Z is coming for the hou…
Hallam Bullock
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US tourists are going viral on TikTok for claiming that Europeans don't drink water. Europeans are saying they're ignorant.
US TikTokers have gone viral in several videos claiming Europeans don't drink water. Europeans are …
Aimee Pearcy
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TikTok is obsessed with 'anti-wrinkle' straws, so we asked 2 dermatologists if they actually work
Yes, you can get wrinkles from repetitive lip pursing — and smoking and playing the flute, dermatol…
Julia Pugachevsky
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I'm a 24-year-old man who tried 'softmaxxing,' a less intense version of 'looksmaxxing,' for a week. I can say with confidence it's a toxic scam.
Looksmaxxing has gone mega-viral on TikTok in the last couple of months. I delved into the shocking…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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In the era of online scams, here's how to not get tricked when starting a digital business
Business owners are being scammed by false promises and guarantees online. An entrepreneurship prof…
Alexandra York
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The top US consumer watchdog is worried you're going to fall for AI scams or overblown marketing hype
The FTC is checking the AI claims of tech companies and investors and concerned about AI-powered fr…