Doesn't matter if it's Y2K, COVID or Caldor, SHAMELESS FRAUDS are the same

[theking]

Instead of helping, take advantage of the situation:

First flames, then fees: Tahoe evacuees report price gouging

STATELINE, Nev. -- As fearful Lake Tahoe residents packed up belongings and fled a raging wildfire burning toward the California-Nevada border, some encountered an unexpected obstacle: price gouging.

A rideshare company quoted a fee of more than $1,500 to be transported from the smoke-choked ski resort at Heavenly Valley to the safety of Reno-Tahoe International Airport, about eight times the going rate. A Nevada hotel-casino outside the evacuation order zone advertised a two-night stay for $1,090.72, almost four times the midweek rate offered a day earlier.