Queenpins is streaming on Netflix but is it based on a true story?

Are you currently scrolling through the listings on Netflix to find something to watch? If you’re not in the mood for a series, you’ll want to check out a movie that involves a crime. It’s all about Queenpins.

Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste star in this buddy crime-comedy movie. It takes coupon clipping to a whole new level, with the two characters turning their love for saving money into a counterfeiting business.

Bell plays Connie, a former gold medal Olympian. Howell-Baptiste plays Jojo, an aspiring social media influencer. The two clip coupons as a way to save money, and then they realize that they could help lower-income families. However, it ends up being a criminal organization nobody would have expected.

Yes, Queenpins is based on a true story

There are times that you will think that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, that’s the case here. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

While Connie and Jojo are fictional characters, the story itself is based on a real-life criminal scam that took place in Arizona. Robin Ramirez, Marilyn Johnson, and Amiko "Amy" Fountain were the ones behind it, and they were all eventually caught.

The scam involved a site called Savvy Shopper. Customer would receive discounts or totally free items on food, coffee, diapers, and detergent. All they had to do was purchase $50 worth of coupons first. And the only way these people could get to the website was to be referred to by current customers. Those customers couldn’t just be shared with anyone, and customers weren’t allowed to advertise that they’d purchased coupons.

If you think that sounds suspicious, well, that’s because it was. That didn’t stop people from across American spending $600 on the fake coupons.

The best thing for the customers was that many of the coupons worked. They looked so real that employees would override their registers to make sure the coupons were accepted.

Queenpins is certainly an entertaining take on the scam that was difficult for anyone to stop. It’s well worth a watch if you want a crime movie this weekend.