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20 hours ago
- ABC News
On the tail of a scammer
On an otherwise unexceptional evening, my inbox came under attack. Random emails were coming in faster than I could open them, let alone read their contents. Many were from websites I'd never heard of, like Peel Up n Dye and British Hoverboards. The 'email bomb' flooding an ABC reporter's inbox. ( ) Some were in foreign languages. Others contained only garbled text. Individually, the emails themselves held no meaning. They were just fodder designed to clog up my inbox. It was the intent behind them — to harass, to intimidate — that hinted at their true sender. Tracking down a scammer An encounter with an Australian crypto scammer reveals an online underworld of extortion, hacking, and problem gambling. Earlier that day, I'd been reaching out to known associates of a mysterious young Australian, known online only as Serpent. Serious allegations had been made against him, concerning a series of scams that involved cryptocurrencies, hacked social media accounts, and millions of dollars in takings. With Australians losing an estimated $1.3 billion to investment scams in 2023, it was a rare chance to see the other side of this equation: the perspective of an Australian scammer. Over the years, Serpent has reinvented himself multiple times, but through every incarnation, his real identity remained unknown. I decided to try to track him down. The obvious place to start was his teenage years. Serpent was once a celebrated gamer, amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers on his YouTube account, where he posted highlights of himself playing the video game Fortnite. But he was caught cheating in June 2020 and became the subject of a minor scandal in the online gaming world. Articles were written about his e-sports team dropping him, and Epic Games banning him from Fortnite forever. A 2020 article discussing Serpent's cheating scandal. ( ) In a public apology, in which he admitted to cheating, Serpent explained that his choices had been "blurred by the money, influence and experiences" of the pro-gamer lifestyle. Half a decade later, he appeared to have succumbed to the same set of vices. But if the barrage of emails hitting my inbox was anything to go by, it seemed unlikely he was going to apologise for it. A 'pump and dump' scheme Following his exit from professional gaming, Serpent restyled himself as an online vigilante. He outed scammers in long threads on Twitter, tracing the flow of cryptocurrencies from scam websites to their operators. He even posted screenshots of himself confronting the perpetrators on social media. "Somebody get this man a cape already," wrote one follower. "Wow, this is impressive detective work!" posted another. As his profile grew, Serpent started throwing his clout around by promoting a strange new cryptocurrency. It was called $ERROR coin, and he had invented it himself. Like other bespoke cryptocurrencies, Serpent's creation served no function in reality. Its value was purely speculative, so it was worth exactly as much as everyone else thought it was. To exploit this, Serpent hyped $ERROR up as the next big thing in crypto, before launching it publicly in March 2024. Serpent spreads the word about $ERROR coin on X. ( ) Word spread, and investors got wind. Not wanting to miss out, many of them bought in. The hype cycle was now in full effect. As $ERROR coin became increasingly valuable, Serpent's stash was suddenly worth serious money. And that's when he hung everyone else out to dry. Serpent started selling his own coins as fast as he could, flooding the market and sending the value of $ERROR coin down to zero. By the time he was done, investors were left with a pile of worthless digital coins. This playbook is so common it has a name: a "pump and dump" scheme. In orchestrating one of his own and making off with an estimated $900,000, Serpent shredded his reputation in the crypto community. In the fallout, he was accused of further financial trickery involving a duplicate currency and fraudulent marketing tactics to "shill" his coin. The mob turns on Serpent The thing about cryptocurrency is that every transaction is recorded publicly. In the wake of the $ERROR fiasco, an infamous crypto-sleuth called ZachXBT followed the trail of digital breadcrumbs that Serpent had left behind. He found that the former pro-gamer had been involved in an earlier scam, one that looked suspiciously similar to the $ERROR coin scheme. The website promoting another meme coin associated with Serpent. ( ) This other coin had supposedly been subject to a pump and dump scheme as well, with a group of perpetrators making off with around $US1.3 million. When ZachXBT posted evidence of Serpent's involvement, the mob was quick to turn on its former hero. Serpent found himself being publicly shamed in the same way he had done to others. "If you buy my plane ticket," wrote one user who claimed to have lost money on the scam. "I will go to Australia and [mess with] those two. !!!" "He had a bad reputation back when he used to play in Fortnite," chimed in another. "Rats never change." They were angry, but there was little they could do; Serpent's financial trickery fell into a grey area, since it had taken place in an essentially unregulated market. This was months before the president of the United States would mint a cryptocurrency in his own image, and thrust the concept of a "meme coin" into the mainstream. Donald Trump created his own "meme coin" in early 2025. ( ) After $TRUMP coin was launched, the US financial regulator decided that bespoke coins were "akin to collectables" rather than financial instruments in need of regulation. This loose approach to crypto laws has the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concerned. The regulator has made cryptocurrency scams an enforcement priority in 2025. "Any weakening of [crypto] regulation is of concern for us," ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has said. Serpent's misdeeds had been insulated from the real world, where fraudulent behaviour has real consequences. But it wouldn't stay that way for long. The gambling connection After the heat died down from ZachXBT's exposé, Serpent got into the habit of live-streaming with friends. Notably, he was seen making serious bets on an online casino that allows customers to play using cryptocurrencies. He kept the broadcast going as he gambled, and forgot to turn it off as he moved money in and out of his account, sometimes as much as $US200,000 at a time. A screenshot of Serpent depositing money into on a live-stream. ( ) An owner of a rival casino, who did not want to be identified, confirmed that crypto scammers are often big gamblers. "These kids are dime a dozen in the casino space," he told me. "They scam a bunch of people, clean their funds … and gamble their money away." During his gambling sessions, Serpent momentarily flashed the addresses of his cryptocurrency accounts onto the screen. This was all ZachXBT needed to dig deeper into Serpent's online activity. The sleuth followed the digital breadcrumbs, uncovering financial connections between Serpent and a string of further crypto scams. These involved more serious crimes, including hacked accounts and fraud. The most surreal began with a rogue post from McDonald's official Instagram account, promoting a McDonald's-themed meme coin called $GRIMACE. A curious ad for the $GRIMACE meme coin. ( ) Apparently believing it to be officially endorsed by McDonald's, investors were duped into buying almost $US700,000 worth of the coin. But, of course, it was another pump and dump scheme; the hackers who had taken over the account quickly sold their holdings and made off with all the money. An unknown hacking collective — going by India_X_Kr3w — took credit for the stunt by updating the bio of the McDonald's Instagram to jokingly apologise. The hackers gloating. ( ) Similar incidents had played out on social media accounts for rappers Usher and Wiz Khalifa, actor Dean Norris, and, somewhat incongruently, a small Japanese aquarium. In total, the damage from nine separate incidents was an estimated $US3.5 million — all siphoned away from the investors who had bet on these valueless meme coins promoted by celebrities and businesses. Through a complex web of transactions, ZachXBT was able to connect the proceeds of these other scams to Serpent's crypto wallet and his deposits into several online casinos. I had these links double-checked by Nicolai Sondergaard, a research analyst at crypto tracing firm Nansen. "It is always tricky to 100 per cent pinpoint a clear cookie-cutter connection," he noted, "but the circumstantial evidence from wallet movements are absolutely there." It wasn't proof that Serpent was responsible for these later scams, but it did establish a connection between him and the perpetrators. And I was keen to ask him about it. Contact By the next morning, the email barrage had slowed to a crawl. Rogue missives continued to come from newsletters I was now signed up to: Variety, Deadline Hollywood, Marine Insight — the list was endless. But at least I was no longer being inundated with new sign-ups. I wasn't sure what to think. Had it just been a warning shot? Or would it soon start up again? Meanwhile, I was making little progress on tracking down Serpent. One former gaming partner said they had not heard anything about him in years. Another said Serpent was "a really good chill guy". And then, ping. Another email landed in my inbox. It was from an address that Serpent had been known to use previously. "Hi, I heard you were asking around about me." In the extended conversation that followed, Serpent denied most of the allegations against him. He admitted to "memecoin trading and stuff", but said he did not "hack any celebrities or companies" or purposely orchestrate any pump and dump schemes. In Serpent's telling, it was his association with a community of troublemakers, hackers and scammers that had seen him blamed for other peoples' actions. These people often gambled on the online casino using accounts they had bought online. This was to avoid their online activity being tied back to their real identities. "Gambling addiction is a very common thing with fraudsters," said Serpent. This part of his story checked out. Pre-verified accounts for are well known to be bought and sold online, allowing people to gamble anonymously with cryptocurrencies. Some of these shadowy figures were "ghosts" that Serpent had heard rumours about but never met. Others, he spoke to regularly. By sharing accounts with them, Serpent said their respective money trails had gotten mixed up. As for the earlier pump and dump schemes, he said that the first coin crashed due to a technical error, which was someone else's fault. And then the price of $ERROR crashed because his reputation had been muddied by its connection to the earlier failure. Somehow, Serpent managed to come away from these failures significantly richer, as the blockchain evidence showed. Not to mention that ZachXBT observed him gambling millions of dollars on several online casinos. "I did make some money," he said. When I asked about all the emails I'd been receiving, Serpent said it wasn't him; it was someone I'd reached out to when searching for him. He even sent me a screenshot of his friend telling him about it. Serpent shared this screenshot of a message exchange with an unidentified friend. ( ) I had interpreted the email barrage as a warning, but now it seemed more joke than threat. Serpent and his friend were clearly out of their depth, and reacting on impulse alone. Given Serpent's online history, this wasn't totally surprising. Repercussions Since being caught cheating at Fortnite as a teenager, he had floated between several online worlds — gaming, gambling, and cryptocurrencies — that were all about instant gratification. These exact three technologies — and the cultures that have developed around them — are starting to overlap in ways that pose risks for impulsive young men, says psychology professor Paul Delfabbro of the University of Adelaide. "They don't want to wait," he explains. "They want to get rich quick." One young person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told me that early exposure to crypto casinos had "lit the fuse" on his gambling addiction. He was 15 when he first gambled online. By the time he turned 18, he was "completely cooked" and needing treatment. According to Serpent and others in the online casino industry, there is significant overlap between problem gamblers and crypto scammers. Impulsive teenagers, hooked on gambling and desperate for quick cash, are liable to resort to scamming or hacking, especially if they are spending time in spaces where those behaviours are normalised. But, as Serpent discovered, that choice can lead to serious repercussions. Since ZachXBT went public with the allegations against him, there have been attempts to extort him for money, threats to publicly reveal his identity, and even talk of mugging him in real life. "It's kinda insane," he said. All he wants is for the attention to go away.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
800,000 Paddy Power and Betfair users warned of email scam threat
Gamblers have been warned of the dangers of email-based scams after information on 800,000 users leaked online. The leak saw IP addresses, email addresses and online gambling activity for Paddy Power and Betfair leaked online, and security experts have warned that it could be used for targeted phishing attacks. The incident was confirmed by Flutter, parent company of Paddy Power and Betfair, although the company made clear no passwords or payment details were leaked. Flutter has advised users: 'There is nothing you need to do in response to this incident, however, we recommend you remain vigilant." What could happen as a result of this leak? Experts have warned that the information could be enough for cybercriminals to create highly targeted phishing attacks, playing on people's fondness for gambling. 'Flutter's breach response and regulatory notification and transparent communication is commendable. However, usernames, emails, and addresses should not be considered 'limited' data," Javvad Malik, lead security awareness advocate at software company KnowBe4, told Yahoo News. 'Criminals use all information at their disposal to create social engineering attacks. Knowing that potential victims enjoy gambling could enable them to craft campaigns which exploit their behaviours. In such circumstances, even limited data can become weaponised by attackers who want to manipulate the psychology of their victims. Betfair and Paddy Power are owned by the same company. (PA) For example, attackers could lead gamblers towards sites resembling the ones they use, but create fake sites to harvest details such as credit card numbers. Such fake sites can lull visitors into a false sense of security and mean that they are happier to 're-enter' details. The use of AI in the cybercriminal community has meant it is easier to craft large-scale phishing campaigns, using technology such as ChatGPT to craft convincing emails. 'While Flutter is confident that it has contained the incident and it is over, for the victims whose data has been stolen, the incidents may only just be beginning," Malik warned. What caused the Flutter leak? Flutter has 4.2 million monthly players across its UK and Irish platforms, but has said that the leak did not come from its own systems. Instead, it was a result of an issue with a third-party provider. Cybercriminals now commonly target large companies via smaller companies they work with, for instance, by targeting lawyers or accountants that work with a larger organisation. 'While Flutter has stated that the breach did not result from any failure in its own systems but rather from a third-party provider, this distinction will offer little reassurance to affected customers," Jamie Akhtar, CEO of cybersecurity platform CyberSmart said. 'In an era of connected services and extensive data-sharing, organisations must ensure their security standards extend across the entire supply chain.' What should users do? Users should ensure that their devices have up-to-date software and anti-virus, and be highly sceptical of emails, particularly any unexpected emails referencing gambling, Malik advises. If unexpected emails arrive, do not open files or follow links, and instead call the organisations concerned, or type their address into a browser. Staying cautious around cybersecurity more generally is also a good idea in such situations - here are some general tips that might come in handy. Change your password if there's any way it could be guessed from public information about you - for instance if your email is associated with a social media account where you talk about sport, and the password is related to your football team. If your email has been hacked, there are a number of steps you should take immediately. If the hackers contact you and either threaten you or offer you back your account in exchange for money, don;t respond. Any action you take may just alert the hacker that you are there. Another step to take is to reset the password and switch on multi-factor authentication. This reduces the hacker's chance of getting into your accounts as they would need access to your other devices to be able to authenticate themselves.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Gamblers will pay more taxes in 2026 and beyond when Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' hits
Gamblers lost a bit of a tax break in the nearly 900-page mega tax-and-spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law July 4. If you won $1,000 betting on the Super Bowl in 2025, for example, you still could claim up to $1,000 in gambling losses if you itemize all your deductions when you file your federal income tax return next year. And you wouldn't be taxed on that win in this example. But the game's over when tax rules for gambling change beginning in 2026. What are the tax rules when it comes to gambling? What remains true: You can claim gambling losses up to the amount of your winnings only if you itemize all your deductions. Most people don't itemize these days because they get a better tax break by taking the standard deduction. The amount of losses you can deduct are limited by your winnings. Deductible losses still will not be able to exceed total winnings for the year. How the new tax law changes things for legal gamblers What's changed: Beginning in 2026, the tax law shifts just enough to irk plenty of people who dream big by heading to the casino, betting online, or buying lottery tickets. A $1,000 win in 2026 and afterward will mean that you can only deduct 90% of your losses ‒ or $900 in this example. Someone who wins in this example would pay taxes on $100 in winnings in 2026 when they file that year's tax return. Economic outcomes: Trump's mega tax and spending law will have small economic impact, forecasters say "Instead of gambling losses being deductible to the full extent of gambling winnings, they're going to be limited to 90%," said Tom O'Saben, enrolled agent and director of tax content and government relations for the National Association of Tax Professionals, which has 23,000 members. Make no mistake, the new 90% limit has no impact on the 2025 tax returns that will be filed early next year. It would only apply to winnings and losses that take place in 2026 and after. Casual gamblers cannot deduct expenses related to their lodging, transportation, or food and other incidental expenses during their gambling, Mark Steber, chief tax information officer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, told the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, earlier this year. And that's still true going forward. Yet, he noted, someone who is a professional gambler and considered self-employed would be eligible to deduct travel and lodging expenses while working. The new tax law, though, clarifies that any expense related to carrying on gambling activities ‒ such as travel, admission fees and lodging related to professional gambling ‒ would be treated as a gambling loss and then subject to that 90% cap, O'Saben explained in a presentation on July 9 to tax professionals. As a result, everyone from professional poker players to young gamblers using an app to bet on football is screaming foul and viewing the change as a 10% penalty of sorts. Some already want to see the new tax rule changed On July 7, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus introduced legislation to restore the 100% deduction for gamblers. The Nevada Democrat calls her bill the My FAIR BET Act ‒ which calls for "Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation." "It gives everyone ‒ from recreational gamblers to high-stakes gamblers ‒ a fair shake," Titus said in a statement. "We should be encouraging players to properly report their winnings and wager using legal operators. The Senate change will only push people to not report their winnings and to use unregulated platforms.' The American Gaming Association applauds Titus for introducing the FAIR BET Act, as the group would like to see congressional leaders and the Trump administration restore the long-standing tax treatment of gaming losses, according to a group spokesperson. The industry group ‒ whose members include DraftKings, MGM Resorts International, Churchill Downs, FireKeepers Casino Hotel, Cherokee Nation Entertainment and other big names ‒ earlier in the spring urged congressional leadership to not only "maintain the deduction for taxpayers who itemize, but ‒ as a matter of fairness ‒ Congress should consider allowing for non-itemizers to net their gambling wins and losses for purposes of reporting adjusted gross income." "Under current policy," according to the letter sent in May to congressional leaders, "most taxpayers do not itemize and many gaming customers are subject to the mismatch of being taxed on the full amount of their gross gaming wins with no ability to net their losses." "As a result, those who are in a losing position at the end of the year are in effect being taxed on income they have not received," according to the letter. Others are speaking out on social media, too. A Nevada-based tax preparer posted on X that high-stakes gamblers will be hurt if this law with the 90% limit stays in place and goes into effect in 2026. "But so will the average gambler who 'gets lucky,' " said Russell Fox, whose profile also proclaims that he's a poker player. "Vegas was built on the dream, and if that dream is removed (or drastically lessened) by a bad law, Vegas will be hurt." I'd imagine the same would be true for casinos in a million other spots where many people choose to legally gamble. Contact personal finance columnist Susan Tompor: stompor@ Follow her on X @tompor. 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The Sun
2 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The Wild Things That Happened At Bachelor And Bachelorette Parties That Should've Caused The Wedding To Be Canceled
Recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the wildest thing they witnessed on a bachelor or bachelorette trip. Here are some of their responses: Note: Not all stories are from the BuzzFeed Community. Some are from this Reddit thread. 1."Buddy of mine (I wasn't there) had his bachelor party in Vegas and had sex with a stripper. Then he had sex with another stripper the next night. One of the guys who went on the trip with him WAS HIS FIANCÉS BROTHER!!! So when they got back home, the brother said, 'I hope you had fun, but I have to tell my sister what you did.'" "It was a whole thing, but the dude ended up not saying anything, so the brother told his sister (the fiancé) what happened. She married him anyway, and he ended up repeatedly cheating on her. Eventually, they got divorced." —u/ChampionshipStock870 2."It was a bachelor party in Las Vegas. Nobody knew that the groom had a problem with gambling. The first night we're there, we were all in the casino having drinks and playing cards. The groom got up to 'get a drink' and never came back to the group. After hours of searching for him, we finally found him sitting on the bathroom floor of his hotel room crying his eyes out. He lost over $10,000 in just a few hours playing blackjack. We were there for three more days, and he pretty much didn't even leave his hotel room and was terrified to go home and tell his fiancé he gambled away most of their savings." —u/mox44ah 3."The bride, her maid of honor, and three bridesmaids all went for a four-day girls' trip to Vegas. One of the three bridesmaids let it slip that the bride, the maid of honor, and one of the bridesmaids all had sex with guys they met there. The wedding was called off, and the maid of honor's marriage ended." —u/dogguy444 4."It was a bachelorette party a week before the wedding. A couple of other friends and I said it was a bad idea. We knew the bride and knew nothing good could come from a Vegas trip. But she really wanted it. Red flag right there. Sure enough, a video was sent to her fiancé of her making out with some random couple at the club we were at. And apparently that's not all that happened. She said that the couple recorded their threesome." "It sucks, too, because her fiancé was a really sweet guy. She wasn't even drunk either. Not that it would make it better, honestly. But she made all these decisions sober. She told us to fuck off when we tried to get her away from the couple." —u/Living_Bath4500 5."As a bartender and server in Savannah, Georgia, I saw a soon-to-be-groom flip off his fiancée and proceed to make out with the maid of honor at my table, while I was standing there. I didn't know what to do, so I stood there awkwardly as fighting ensued." —tedf4f45654b2 6."My ex insisted on a bachelorette in Vegas before our wedding. I get a panicked call from her sister in the middle of the night that they lost her (my ex) because she drank too much and became belligerent. She went off with two of her bridesmaids, who also were not answering their phones, and the short version is that those two friends hooked up with random strangers from Vegas that night. My ex claimed she had nothing to do with it, which I believed at the time, but came to realize I was fooling myself. Well, those two friends were both in long-term committed relationships that ended when their Vegas antics were revealed." "The rest of the bridal party wouldn't speak to my ex for years after this fiasco because of the fallout. My ex somehow held me responsible for the outcome because I rallied the troops — her sisters and the remaining non-drunk or non-cheating bridal party members — to find them, and called all the nearby hotels and venues I thought they might be at. When I finally found them, they were in the wrong hotel having a stand-off with security, which I successfully de-escalated from 3,000 miles away." —u/ET4117 7."One of my closest friends at the time slept with a stranger from the club when we were out partying two nights before her wedding. It was shocking and upsetting, and since she was my friend, I tried not to be judgmental. But damn, who does that?" —lizk41ced1621 8."This was at a friend's bachelorette! It was a small group of about five girls, including the bride. It was in a city about three hours from where we all live. She invited a male 'friend' to a club we were going to because 'he lived nearby and she hadn't seen him in a while.' At the club, they were in a corner all night, and definitely looked like more than friends. It was incredibly awkward for the rest of us, and he tagged along the rest of the night while she was wearing a white bachelorette dress and her engagement ring." "The next morning, she confessed that she'd always had a crush on this 'friend,' and wasn't sexually attracted to her fiancé. The rest of the trip, she kept asking us what she should do, since she didn't physically cheat on her fiancé. Despite almost all of us telling her to break up with her fiancé, she decided it would be too much to break off a wedding since everything was already paid for. I couldn't stand by her as a friend after witnessing that. I went to her wedding, and now don't talk to her, but to my knowledge, she is still married to the original fiancé she wasn't attracted to." —ilovemymonstera 9."We went to Vegas for a friend's bachelorette party. All the girls I went with cheated on their partners they were with at the time. Bridesmaid #1 was pissed I wasn't partaking in these activities with them. When they came back, the boyfriend of Bridesmaid #1 found out she was still texting/dating the guy she had cheated on him with, and he freaked out. Bridesmaid #1 didn't want to be the only one whose relationship fell apart, so she threw Bride and Bridesmaid #2 under the bus and told everyone that they had cheated as well. The entire friend group imploded, and none of us talk to each other anymore. Bridesmaid #1 married the guy she cheated with, Bride married her partner (he never found out), and Bridesmaid #2 broke up with her boyfriend (he never found out, either). I hate Vegas." —u/mala72 10."My friend's fiancé went to a bachelor party. After he came back, she deleted all of his pictures on Instagram and broke up with him. He had videos on his phone with a $1,500 sex worker. She asked why he even recorded it, and he said because it cost $1,500. Bruh." —u/Prestigious_View_401 11."A relationship that had been sidelined by infidelity (on his part) ended up back together. As good decisions go, they decided to push past the insecurities by getting married. He planned his own bachelor party, and we were just along for the ride. Her one rule: no naked girls. The second stop of the evening (after the all-you-can-eat buffet) was, of course, a gentleman's club. We all chipped in and got him a private dance or two, hoping to soon be on our way. Instead, he went off with two girls and was gone for almost an hour, racking up hundreds of dollars in charges." "We went to collect him and move on, and he said, 'You guys got this covered, right?!' No, bud. We'd already spent what we brought. Bouncers appeared from nowhere and 'politely' prevented us from leaving until he settled up. I had to help him drunkenly activate the PIN on his card to visit the ATM. Guess who was monitoring his spending activity? He flew home to an empty apartment." —u/JohnGalt314 12."At one bachelorette party I went to years ago, it was the bride-to-be's goal by the end of the night to have as many men hit on her/buy her drinks/etc, as possible. It turned out that every single guy was really sweet and mature and self-respecting, and realized, 'Hey, this girl is dressed in all-white with a bachelorette sash. I'll just congratulate her and not hit on her like a scumbag.' And all the people who bought her drinks/shots were other women or the bartenders! Well, my friend didn't like this, and as the night progressed, she got more and more forward and pushy. She was essentially begging men to hit on her, which only in turn made them scurry away. Not really a life-or-death secret, but I guarantee if she knew her husband-to-be acted the same way at his bachelor party, she'd be furious, and if her husband ever found out, he would be pretty sad." —cheesebones 13."A friend of mine was engaged to a narcissist, and everyone warned her not to marry him, but it was one of those 'marriage will fix our problems' situations. The night of the bachelorette, we all got very wasted, obviously, and she drunkenly confessed to me that she'd had an emotional affair with two different men on Instagram. Both men lived in different parts of the country, and she had no intention of meeting either of them, but she spoke to them almost daily. She said she needed the emotional validation from these two men because she did not get any from her fiancé. When I tried to discuss this with her the next day, when sober, she shrugged it off as not a big deal. She got married the week after, and they're still married, but to my knowledge, she hasn't ended her emotional affairs either." —Anonymous, 26, South Africa 14."The bachelor and bachelorette parties were the night before the wedding; two separate locations. The groom disappeared from his. He was found in the morning, passed out in some bushes. His friends were so drunk, they didn't notice he fell over when they went to an ATM. " —Anonymous, 55, Los Angeles 15."OK, I confess, it happened to me and 19 of my best friends at my bachelor party in a packed strip club when there came a swarm of women busting past the security guards, screaming names that were very well-known to me. Suddenly, my right ear was in a vice grip by the wife of a good friend who was also yelling for her to let go of his left ear. All the ladies were grabbing their boyfriends or husbands by their hair or an ear, and then they pulled all 19 of us out of the strip club." "I went back to that bar two days later to pay off any tab left behind. The manager said the dancers paid for it because, in their words, it was the funniest thing they had ever experienced in a strip club. 49 years later, in my only marriage, I bet that was some funny stuff to watch." —magicalcentipede207 finally, "I was the designated driver on a bar crawl bachelorette. The group got separated, and it took a while to locate the very drunk bride. We found her necking on the hood of a cop car with a handsome stranger. The wedding went on as planned, but the handsome 'stranger' picked up the newlywed bride at the airport after her honeymoon. Long story short, she reunited with hubby and they're still together 35 years later. " —Anonymous, 38, TX Do you have any wild bachelor or bachelorette party stories? Let us know about them in the comments below! Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity. Solve the daily Crossword
