He Took Her $1,100, She Says. She Found Him in the Hot Tub.

Vanessa Phillips bought a second cruise fare to confront Armonte Domious Wilson, who says the payments were disputed on Venmo.

A woman bought a second cruise ticket to confront the man she says took $1,100 from her, then posted video of the encounter at the ship's hot tub. The confrontation and the man's response were reported by the entertainment site Dexerto, which identified the pair as Vanessa Phillips and Armonte Domious Wilson.

He has since denied scamming her https://t.co/PWnhI8fzNv

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) 2026-09-13T03:00:07.000Z

Phillips says the $1,100 was supposed to hold her spot on a Caribbean sailing. To ask about it in person, she paid for a cruise fare a second time.

The two met on a cruise in late 2025, Dexerto reported. By Phillips's account, they planned a second trip together, Wilson offered to handle the arrangements, and he told her he needed $1,100 to lock in her place, which she sent. She says he then stopped answering her and used half the money to book himself onto the boat, and that he had reassured her along the way with invoices and agent booking numbers she describes as fake.

She found him in a hot tub.

In the video she posted to her own Facebook page, she stands over him and asks for the money back. “You took my $1,100. You thought I wasn't going to make it?” she says in the clip, as quoted by the outlet.

From there it moved the way these things move. The footage was reuploaded to X and TikTok, and one X post carrying it passed 14 million views in a single day, the outlet reported. Dexerto's own X account posted about the story again on September 13, 2026, noting that Wilson has denied scamming her.

Wilson answered in a video that runs close to 40 minutes, posted to TikTok and Instagram, Dexerto reported. He said the payments Phillips sent him had been disputed through Venmo, and that the dispute is why he removed her from the booking. “I understand that Venmo may ultimately rule in her favor because I was unable to respond within the required timeframe,” he said in the video, per the outlet. He said Venmo also closed his account, and he denied any plan to defraud her.

How that dispute ends hasn't been made public. Wilson said he's waiting on the outcome.

Phillips, meanwhile, has asked the internet to leave him alone. She said on TikTok that she doesn't condone bullying or harassment, and that she'd taken her videos about the matter down.

Source: x.com, retrieved September 13, 2026.