An influencer who hails from Australia's Gold Coast has broken down in tears after taking to TikTok to announce that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her revenue from the x-rated subscriber-based website, OnlyFans.

In a tearful video, Billie Beever revealed that she had been losing followers on the platform since the outbreak of the virus, and that the loss of income means that she "can’t pay rent anymore".

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In the clip, which can be watched here, Billie said that she "didn’t want to talk about it because it’s so humiliating and stuff but like everyone on TV is always talking about how like everyone has lost their jobs and like people can’t pay for anything anymore."

"Like I’m losing subscribers on OnlyFans like — my main source of income — like I can’t pay my rent anymore," she continued. "And like even if I was to go back to work like what am I supposed to do, like go work in a strip club? Which they’re all closed down as well.''

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"They’re all closed, like all the strip clubs like you can’t even be f*cking close to someone because of social distancing. And like I have … I have nothing else going for me, I have no other talent. I can’t dance, I can’t sing. I can’t do anything so like I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do."

Billie, who has over 113,000 followers on Instagram, and is a top 2.2% OnlyFans creator, per her bio, concluded that she just wanted everything to "go back to normal so people can keep subscribing to my OnlyFans."

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Travel experts have weighed in on the dispute between a customer and Carnival Cruises after a scammer used a booking reference to cancel a family's entire vacation.

Tiffany Banks' story went viral online after she took to TikTok to complain about her cruise being canceled less than 48 hours before she and her family were due to board the ship.

Taking to the video-sharing platform, the distraught mom opened up about the entire ordeal, stating that her world was flipped upside down within mere hours of receiving a cancelation email from the company.

“We have nearly $15,000 tied up in for this vacation including excursions," she said in a video. "The room itself was I think $12,000 or $13,000, and then we’ve got a few grand tied up in excursions, and actually with almost $2,000 for flights."

She called the Carnival customer helpline as soon as they opened at 9:00AM, hoping that there was a mistake in their system, but when a representative confirmed to her that her reservation had been canceled and taken by someone else, she was left panicking.

The company tried to offer her two other rooms, but it was a massive downgrade from the one she originally booked.

After some further deliberations, an investigation into the matter was launched.

That's when it was discovered that someone had actually created a fake account, pretending to be Tiffany after they found her booking reference in a screenshot online, after a screenshot of the family's vacation countdown was shared on Facebook.

The social media blunder led to the family's dream vacation being snatched from them.

"Do not share that booking number," Tiffany told viewers. "But it shouldn't be such an easy way to go in there and edit somebody's cruise or information. Like, that's not okay. They gotta' do better."

But why would someone do this?

Travel experts have now weighed in on the issue.

Taking to Reddit, a person who claimed to be a former travel agent revealed how scamming in this manner can benefit them.

"I can shed some light on this. I used to be a travel agent, and had a client who posted his airline reservation on social media," they wrote in a comment. "The person checked online, and sure enough, it was canceled.

The scammer told the guy that he could rebook the family on the same flight, but they had to sit in business class, and they had to pay with an Apple gift card."

"I got a call from the guy's wife, who found this suspicious," the travel agent recalled.

"When she told me, I immediately told her to call her husband, who was already at CVS buying Apple gift cards. While she called her husband to stop him, I called United, explained the situation, and they reinstated the family's booking. Same flight, same price, no extra payment needed.

"Not saying this cruise situation is necessarily the same scam, but just wanted to give an example of an angle scammers can use," they added.

The travel agent explained that a booking number should always be treated as confidential.

"Always treat booking number like a password. Never ever post them on social media," they concluded.

Another travel expert took to YouTube to discuss the story after hearing about it and advised people never to reveal their booking references.

"The day before the cruise, she found out that her cruise had been canceled," Cruise expert and YouTuber Ilana Schattauer said, recalling Tiffany's story. "She thought that the cruise line had a glitch, but it turns out that wasn't the case.

"What happened was, that lady had posted her booking information online, making her booking number visible. Somebody created a fake account on Carnival's website and put her booking number into that and canceled her booking."

The YouTuber used the story as a warning to others to never share their booking information on social media.

"Did they do it maliciously? Was it someone that knew her? I don't really know the details," she stated, before adding: "However, I think the lesson for all of us here, not just first cruisers, is not to post details like flights and cruise information online. It's never a good idea."

It comes shortly after a spokesperson for Carnival Cruises addressed the general issue telling Daily Express US: "It is never a good idea to post personal information about your travel plans, including a confirmation number for a booking, which could allow a bad actor or identify thief to use that information in inappropriate or even illegal ways."

While the identity of the scammer was never found out, the IP address was traced all the way back to British Columbia.

Of course, the reasoning may not be as convoluted as the travel agent suggested on Reddit - it could just be that social media is full of people who get a kick out of making life miserable for others.

But, put simply, a booking reference should never be posted on your social media - especially as your name is alongside it. And if your birthday is also visible, you're really just handing identity thieves some easy pickings.

In the end, the family ended up having a mini vacation in Florida at an Airbnb after rejecting Carnival's $10,404 credit offer and vowing never to sail with the company ever again.

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A TikTok influencer has said a very big thank you to her Uber driver.

Becca Moore was left in a sticky situation at Coachella after she says her phone, credit cards, and car keys were stolen.

She was so overwhelmed by the situation that the day after she broke down in tears and told her unsuspecting Uber driver, Raul Torres, the full story.

Little did she know that Torres would be more than just a sympathetic ear.

In an interview with USA Today, Moore explained how the driver helped her get back on her feet after her traumatic time at the California music festival.

"I was like, 'I got robbed last night,'" she told USA Today, adding: "I was kind of downplaying it, and he was like, 'No. This is actually bad. I'm not going to let you go into the Sprint store and leave you. I'll just wait and make sure you get a phone.'"

Not only did Torres help her get a new phone, but he also took the full day off work to give her a hand. After swinging by Starbucks with her, he took her to the police station to report the theft and helped track her missing phone to an Airbnb.

Torres, Moore, and the cops headed over to the Airbnb to search for the phone - but there was no sign of it. At this point, police started to give up on Moore. The festival-goer claims officers weren't taking her seriously and treated her like a "party girl".

The Uber driver on the other hand listened to her issues and helped her keep searching until they located her phone - still with her credit card in the case.

"It was so relieving because I knew I could leave now," she explained. "My credit card was in the [phone] case, so I could get a rental car to get to LA so I could get to an airport or something."

But before she headed home, Moore made one more stop with Torres when the two grabbed dinner together. It was only then that she learned his daughter was battling cancer.

"I was like 'Oh my God. This guy's daughter has cancer. I just wasted his entire day,'" she recalled thinking.

Eager to say thank you to her superhero driver, Moore set up a GoFundMe page to raise support for him and his family.

Thankfully, Moore is something of a TikTok celebrity, with over 887,000 followers on the platform. Once she shared the fundraiser with her followers, it wasn't long before it had raised well over the $1,000 goal.

"It hit $1,000 in one hour and then $100,000 in 24 hours. That was the most insane thing ever. I still can't believe it," she told USA Today.

So far, the fundraiser has raised over $248,000 for the Torres family. Looks like karma really does exist!

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If you're going to embark on a criminal lifestyle full of sketchy behavior and illegal activity, there's pretty much only one rule you have to follow: don't get caught.

As it turns out, though, some people can't even manage that.

Emily Lock, a 22-year-old woman from Caerphilly in Wales, recently got herself busted after traveling the world and living the life of a Kardashian... all while she was supposedly only earning £10,000 ($14,200) a year.

Lock first entered into the life of crime when she settled down with her boyfriend, 27-year-old Mark Price. And, for a more than a year, it all seemed to be going swimmingly.

He took her on holiday to the United Arab Emirates, Spain, France and the Netherlands; he bought her all kinds of luxuries from designer brands such as Chanel, Christian Louboutin, and Louis Vuitton; and - perhaps most appealing of all - he whisked her away from her mundane life as a shop assistant.

Unfortunately, it all came crashing down when some people noticed that Lock's social media posts appeared to show her spending just a tad more than her means.

After doing a little digging into Lock's and Price's personal lives, the police put two and two together and figured that the couple had been raking in a ton of cash via illegal means. In fact, after raiding Price's home in September last year, officers found a bag containing 110g of cocaine, and messages on his phone which suggested that the man had been making around £1,600 ($2,270) per week by dealing drugs.

A further search of Lock's home turned up approximately £50,000 ($71,000) in goods that had been purchased using criminally-acquired money - but the 22-year-old claimed she had no idea that her boyfriend was a criminal. When questioned by the police on the matter, she even tried to convince them that she thought he was a builder.

That being said, she did eventually admit to having spent the money, and pleaded guilty to acquiring criminal property.

Ironically, Lock's lawyer said that his defendant was actually in the second year of a criminology degree at the time the crimes took place, and that she had hoped to work for the Probation Service after graduation.

PC Michael Coles, the officer in charge of the case, said:

"I hope the sentences issued to these individuals highlight that the supply of controlled drugs will not be tolerated in Caerphilly. These people endanger our community and this lengthy investigation shows we are committed to using all powers and resources available to bring them before the courts.

"I hope this sends a message to those who continue to be involved in the supply of controlled drugs, that you will not just be prosecuted, we will also use our powers to seize any financial assets you have acquired through criminality."

Three other people were also arrested and charged in connection with the crime, but Lock got off with the lightest charge because she could not be directly linked to the possession or supplying of class A drugs. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, while Price received seven years behind bars.

An influencer has shared a video confronting a man on a plane after claiming that he tried to take pictures of her while she was sleeping.

Fitness content creator Anna Clara Rios - who boasts 644K followers on Instagram - took to the social media platform to share a video explaining the incident late last week.

The alleged incident took place as Rios was flying home to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from a work-related trip to São Paulo on December 14, per Daily Mail.

In the clip which was initially posted on her Instagram Story, Rios can be seen standing in the aisle describing the incident next to the alleged culprit - who is seen in his seat, nonchalantly looking at his phone.

Translated from Portuguese to English, in the video, Rios said: "I am shaking with rage. This gentleman here was taking photos of me while I was asleep, they had to let me know to move me."

Cited by the outlet, the influencer claims that she was warned of the man's alleged actions by a flight attendant, saying: "My first reaction [to the flight attendant] was, 'I work on social media, he must have recognized me.'

"But she said to me, 'I don't think that's it, while you were sleeping, he was zooming in and trying to see what was under your dress,'" she continued.

The content creator decided to confront the man and urged him to delete the pictures from his phone. She also revealed that the alleged culprit sent the snaps to someone on WhatsApp, per the New York Post.

"I felt very vulnerable and insecure so I told the flight attendant that I was going to confront him because I wanted him to delete the photos from his mobile phone," she said.

"I went to him feeling that my privacy had been invaded, I said this was not right, that I could be his mother, sister, or daughter," Rios added.

According to Daily Mail, the influencer took a screenshot of the message to later share with authorities. After the alleged incident, she said that officers were waiting to accompany the guy off the plane at Belo Horizonte International Airport.

In the footage, a police officer can be seen speaking to the man, before he is led off the plane to the sound of passengers applauding the woman.

Furthermore, Rios also gave a statement to the police and said the man was taken to a nearby police station to give a statement as well but was not placed under arrest.

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