A woman from Vancouver has shared a story online in which she says a man she met in Las Vegas convinced her to rent a Hertz car under her name, and then kept the vehicle, leaving her with a bill of more than $5,000. The woman, a TikTok creator named Taylor (@nopeanutsplz), posted a 16-minute TikTok video describing what she says happened to her.
In the video, Taylor draws a comparison to a well-known Netflix documentary. “So you may have heard of the Tinder Swindler,” she says. “But have you heard of the Afterpay Runaway? Well, I’m about to tell you. Because this is a crazy story that I unfortunately did live.”
Taylor said the situation began in September 2025, when she was on a trip to Los Angeles with two friends. She explained that the group decided to take a day trip to Las Vegas to attend a party, and afterward went to a casino for drinks. As they were leaving, one of her friends allegedly recognized a man she knew, and the group decided to stay the night to keep hanging out with him and his friends.
A weekend rental that was never returned
One of the men was named Isaiah, who said he was from Seattle. Taylor said he paid for nearly everything that evening, which she said included food, drinks, a hotel room, and a flight for one of her friends who needed to leave town the next day. Taylor said she and Isaiah kept talking after that night, and that he later booked her a round-trip train ticket from Vancouver to visit him in Seattle.
When she arrived, Taylor said, she learned that his car was not working and that his license was suspended, so they needed a rental car for the weekend. She acknowledged in the video that there were warning signs she did not notice at the time.
“There’s going to be red flags that you see while I tell this story that I unfortunately did not see when I was living it,” she says. “I know now how naive and stupid I was being.” Taylor said she agreed to put the Hertz rental under her name and that Isaiah sent her the money for it at first.
She said that after the weekend, he asked to keep the car until she returned the following weekend, and she agreed. She said she was under the impression the entire time that he would pay the full bill.
Taylor said the car was never returned as planned and that Isaiah became less responsive over the following weeks. She said Hertz later contacted her about the overdue rental, and that a towing company eventually called her on December 12 to repossess the vehicle. Hertz informed Taylor she would be charged a repossession fee, toll fees, and the final rental charge, which she said came to over $5,000.
After the car was repossessed, Taylor said she tried to recover her money from Isaiah without success. “Obviously me and him are done at this point,” she claimed. “I’m trying to get my money back from him. He’s still trying to give me the runaround. He said he was going to pay. I am harassing him to send me the money. He’s not doing it.” Other dating encounters have taken unexpected turns too, such as one woman whose first date turned into a getaway drive.
Taylor said she then posted about him in a Seattle “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” Facebook group. She claimed that several other women responded, saying he had allegedly done similar things to them. “So he’s like dated women, started getting to know them, lovebombed the [expletive] out of them, and then somehow gets them to create a Klarna or Afterpay account,” she says, adding that she alleges he ran up charges on their accounts and left them with the bill.
One commenter said she had paid for an Air Canada flight at his request, which Taylor said matched her friend’s flight home from Las Vegas. Bold approaches in dating can play out in surprising ways, as seen when a man jumped from a moving car to get a woman’s number. Taylor said Isaiah later made one payment of $300 toward the debt but did not pay anything further. Isaiah did not address the accusations as of writing.
Published: Jun 25, 2026 05:15 pm