r/ScamCenter

can anyone tell me cryptosad.com is legit website or not.

Hi everyone,
I’m part of a performance group that has been approached to perform at a private multi-day wedding event at Villa Tolomei in Florence this September, and before we commit to international travel, I wanted to do a quiet sanity check with locals.

The event has been described to us as:
a large luxury private wedding a full weekend celebration multiple performers / artists / entertainment booked destination wedding style event.

The reason I’m asking is that I’m aware there are known scams where performers are invited to fake destination events, so we’re simply being extra careful and verifying everything properly before making arrangements. It sounds too good to be true.

I’m just wondering whether this sounds plausible / familiar to anyone local, especially people working in hospitality, events, or weddings in Florence.

Thank you very much 🙏

"I paid for the SuperGrok Lite subscription and I am also considering the more expensive Ultra plan, but both have extremely low usage limits.

The voice and text limits are so restrictive that they are almost the same as the free version. This makes the paid service practically useless.

This is false advertising. xAI is charging for a service they are not delivering. It feels like a scam because we are paying for something we are not actually receiving.

Please investigate this practice."

"Paguei o SuperGrok Lite e o limite de voz é praticamente o mesmo do gratuito. Falo poucos minutos e já sou cortada. O plano mais caro também tem limite ridículo.

Isso não é 'limite baixo', isso é propaganda enganosa. xAI tá cobrando por um serviço que não entrega. Golpe."

"I paid for SuperGrok Lite and the voice limit is almost the same as the free version. I get cut off after just a few minutes. Even the more expensive plan has terrible limits.

This isn't 'low limits', this is false advertising. xAI is charging for a service they're not delivering. Straight up scam."

So my sister in law is a V-tuber and she’s hosted two art contests across all her socials. One for Valentine’s Day and one for Christmas. Her requirements for both were for the art to be fully colored, full body (two bodies, one for her character and one for her hubby’s for valentines) and full background. For both she had offered the winner a $35 Amazon gift card. The losers received nothing.

For the first one on Christmas she had received 9 submissions. Me and a few other people who have done and received commissions worked together and set reasonable prices for each of the artworks and the total cost of all the submissions for this contest was $360. The winning piece we agreed would be worth around $65-$70 (as it was fully colored, full body and a completely hand drawn background with high visible skill.) The artist had mentioned when submitting it that it took them the entire week deadline to finish it. They were only paid $35.

For the second contest the rules and prize was the same. This time around she received 10 pieces all with considerably more skill involved than the last so the full price of all the art submitted was estimated to be around $740. The winning piece was worth around a whopping $110-$125, no doubt about it as it was fully colored, had a hand drawn background, had 1 full body, 2 full chibi bodies, and 7 bust drawings of her and her husband’s characters in the piece with HIGH skill involved. Again she only paid the winner $35.

She is still sharing and using ALL of the art from both contests to boost and advertise her V-tubing channel without compensating the artists involved and for the ones she DID compensate she didn’t do it adequately. She had a habit of doing this, using people for free labor (she had done the same to me with her wedding. I did 50 cupcakes, built the RSVP & invitation website, decorated 50 bubble wands and did her makeup because she had mentioned she would pay me. She didn’t even credit or pay me.) She’s even asking our brother in law to make her a furry tail as a favor, again, not discussing payment at all. I WOULD show you the art but this would effectively doxx both her and me and I don’t want her to start getting a wave of hate and I want to stay as incog as I can on this. Would you guys consider this a scam?

hey everyone! i recently fell for the muse/mural scam (by account vincent290680) and i wanted some advice on next steps. for context i am a high schooler and i had no clue this was a real scam people did and i am very upset that this happened as i usually never fall for these. i have contacted my bank and they set me up with a new bank account and told me that i should just leave the money in the fake check they sent me alone.

i am quite worried for what will happen when the supposed “money” is scheduled to go into my old bank account. the bank said to just leave it alone, but i am worried about what the scammers will send me next, and if the money actually goes into my account, what i should do then. i can also share pictures if that’ll help anyone.

also i did make sure to tell the “client” that the money would not be in my account for a few days so i refused to send money until i saw the money in my account. still, very worried and anxious so any kind words or advice can help (please don’t be too mean i genuinely didn’t know)

I have been scammed by this account on telegram and bought a ticket for LFC last game vs Brentford for £150. After I transferred the money, no tickets received and no response and finally when they got back to me they said that no money was received and asking me to send again!!
Avoid

So there’s a scam going around that starts with a random “Hey Tara, how have you been?” text. You say they have the wrong number… and instead of leaving, they suddenly become SUPER friendly.
Then comes:
“What do you do for work?”
“You seem nice.”
“I make great money online.”
“Have you heard of AI training / crypto / investing?”
Next thing you know, they’re trying to get you to “deposit” money to start “working.”
Just a reminder:
Real jobs do NOT require deposits. Random strangers do NOT accidentally become your financial mentor. Wrong number conversations that keep going are usually intentional

Stay safe out there y’all. If it feels weird, trust your gut.

Sorry this might be very dumb, but i feel like i’m getting ripped off big time at LAFitness and i don’t know what to do??
For starters I have been coming to this specific gym since i was 18. I got my membership right out of high school since it was a 4 min drive compared to other gyms which would be a 20-30 min drive.
When i first got my membership, i told them i just wanted a single club and a guest pass, which they told me would be $42 a month with the annual fee of $68. I payed a starting fee of over $200 that day (can’t remember the specific number since it was over 7 years ago, but it was definitely over $200).
Fast forward two months ago, i called to see if i could change my pass and just remove my guest pass since i wasn’t using it as much as i thought i would. The man told me we could do that by cancelling my current pass and pretty much open a new one with the new terms. He even asked me if i still wanted the multi club pass, which confused me because this whole time i thought i could only use one gym since that’s what was on my contract. He explained that i had multi club and the guest pass. This didn’t upset me as much as i feel like it should’ve but i just brushed it off and continued with trying to remove the guest pass. The man told me it would be $19.99 a month with an annual fee of $68, that i just had to pay $180 that day to restart my account…
I agreed carelessly thinking it would all stay the same as before just without the guest pass.
He emailed me the contract and i realized it said “The initial or minimum length of this contract is _______2months______________________, subject to the
cancellation and renewal provisions herein.” i don’t know why when i first read it i thought it meant i had to use it for 2 months until I decided to cancel.
Fast forward to today, i received an email saying my membership is cancelled and if i wanna continue using it i have to pay another initial fee of $150 and my monthly payments would be $38.
All i wanted was them to remove my guest pass, i regret doing this over the phone because i feel dumb for not double checking everything. On the phone, he never mentioned that the membership was only for 2 months. He never mentioned that i would have to pay another initial fee if i wanted to continue going and that it would be $38/monthly after those 2 months. On the phone he even was telling me how paying the initial fee of $180 there would be better in the long run to change my membership pass to $19.99/monthly and to look at it like an investment because now i won’t be paying $42 a month. I didnt even sign the contract, i thought i would go in person to sign it but he signed it and emailed me.
Overall, i feel extremely dumb and disappointed and don’t know what to do. I am going to go later today and see what i can do.
Any suggestions or advice?? i don’t want to change gyms to a far one but i don’t want to deal with this.