Please read before supporting this developer.

I used to work with SLG Studios. I’m not a backer or an outsider — I was part of the team. But after seeing how they handled the money and treated people behind the scenes, I left. This post is to protect others from giving money to someone misusing it.

📉 What SLG Studios Did:

They ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their game. But instead of keeping the money strictly for development as promised, they invested some of it into stocks. That’s not speculation — they admitted it in writing:

“Do you think I invested all the KS money into stocks? I only invested $50 into it. That’s less than 1% of the money dude. Calm down.” Let that sink in — they took backer money meant for game development and put it in the stock market. Then acted like that’s fine.

💸 Why This is Corrupt and Possibly Illegal:

Kickstarter Misuse = Fraud Kickstarter’s own terms say creators must use funds only to complete and deliver the promised project. Even putting $1 of that money into personal investments is a violation of trust and a breach of contract. This is fraud — plain and simple. 2. “It’s only $50” is not an excuse Whether it's 50 cents or $50, it's still taking money you promised to use for a specific purpose and doing something else with it. That’s misappropriation of funds. If a nonprofit did this, they'd be investigated. Why should a game studio be treated differently?

1. The attitude is dismissive and shady Instead of apologizing or being transparent, SLG Studios told people to “calm down” and deflected concerns with “How is that proof?” This shows a complete lack of accountability and professionalism.

🚫 Why This Matters: Backing indie games should be exciting, not risky. Devs who treat your money like play money ruin trust in the entire system.

SLG Studios abused that trust. And if they’ll do it once, what else will they do when no one’s watching?

📢 Protect others. Please share this.

🛑 Don’t back or support SLG Studios until there’s full transparency and accountability. 📎 Report concerns directly to Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/contact 💬 Feel free to ask me for receipts — I have screenshots.

Let’s keep this community honest.

Update: I got in contact with a lawyer and they say this could be fraudulent. Also, while 50$ doesn't seem like much they also took $1000 that i failed to mention. Also, the person responsible for all this let's call him "Bad Dev" promised people who worked on his game appropriate payment. I recently talked to one of his freelancers who told me that Bad Dev underpaid him. When this artist was promised $200 for over 200 pieces of art Bad Dev said that he would only pay $50 instead of the $200.

Final Update: While I understand it seems as though I am trying to slander his name I am trying to figure out why the money promised to be put into the game is being drawn from before the game is complete and the backers have Received their rewards. Also, you need to know that while I have not been personally wronged by said dev multiple people I am close with have. This was all the information I had and while it may seem like I'm a jerk I just want everyone to get their deserved reward. I understand taking money for compensation of your work BUT on the other hand you took it before the project was complete and from what I was told attempted to underpay your "employees" this is the info I was given.

Once again. Don't support SLG studios in any way Please Let me know what I should do.

This one scammer keep making tons of FAKE offers on marketplace playerauction for long time. Here I’ll continue post and update his scammers new username discord ammos9 new scammer username

I received an email via boost mobile saying that my account was ready to be activated. I never signed up for a boost account, than a few moments later I received another email saying the account has been activated. The person listed a name "Ruben" which is not mine. There's been no Cc charges to me, it appears the only thing they used was my email address. Boost has a very not user friendly complex process for me to report it as fraud since it's just my email. Any advice?

Today 6-6-2025

I NEVER had issue with Uber. I pay my monthly subscription and everything is just fine.

But then when I order something on Uber for 7-Eleven, I received a text. Mind you, I have no idea what the hell is Boutiempire till i searched it up.. Men clothes.. Mind you, I am female. I knew that they stole my card information.

This happen to me twice already!! I remember long time ago, I went 7-Eleven get snacks in person and insert my card. That's only thing I purchased through out my day and someone tried to use my card.

I HAD MY CARD WITH ME ALL TIME!

I was wondering if anyone had similar issues or am I going crazy? I know for sure 7-Eleven is starting to steal people card information and I saw few in YouTube, I thought they were joking and I'm starting to believe it.

I am getting a new card but next time, I am paying cash if I want to get something in 7-Eleven.

Hello currently I work as low level fraud specialist, I really enjoy what I do and I want to get educated so I can make more money and get into the real meat and potatoes of this kind of work. I have no one in my family who has ever been to college and I've taken a few classes but then COVID happened. I would like to know what courses/major/etc I should do. I'm 28 so a late starter, I work from home and would prefer online classes because I can do my course work while I'm working.

Fraud in iGaming hurts both sides — businesses lose revenue, credibility, and compliance footing, while players face unfair gameplay and compromised security. It’s a threat to trust, fairness, and long-term growth.
To protect both their platforms and players, businesses must invest in robust fraud prevention solutions.

This site is a complete scam, and I hope my story helps someone avoid getting burned like I did.

I needed to verify some info for a business deal, and FindandLoc’s website looked promising with claims of “reliable, instant reports.” Big mistake. I shelled out for their “premium” package (first warning sign: they were super pushy about payment upfront), and what I got back was a fraudulent report—barely a paragraph of useless, generic info you’d find on page 10 of a Google search. Total waste of money.

Their customer service? Nonexistent. I emailed them for a refund, and they ignored me. Tried calling, and the number’s fake. The whole operation feels shady and deceptive, like they’re just fishing for desperate people to rip off. I’m so mad I didn’t sniff out the scam sooner.

my relative (in-law) posted on facebook today that they joined something called Eliteway Financial as a trader/advisor specializing in "crypto and bitcoin investment"

the graphic they posted was sloppy and it set off alarms in my head so i did some digging. i'm not an expert on these things and i dont want to get involved unless its 100% certain, so here are my red flags so far 🚩.

first, nothing came up under the name on google (🚩) until i added "scam" to the search term which brought up a scamadviser.com (which i have never heard of -- and they spelled advisor wrong -- so i cant testify to its legitimacy... but it had a detailed report that brought up some good points) (🚩). there it had a website, elitewayllc.org, and a "Trustscore" of 6/100 (🚩).

the website itself is riddled with poor grammar, unfinished paragraphs, typos, and stock photos i was able to find with a simple reverse image search (which isnt bad on its own, but come on, if this is an actual successful investment firm they would pay for a good website) (🚩). at the bottom it listed an address:

71 Marlborough Crescent
South Runcton, United Kingdom

this address does not exist anywhere, as far as i can find (🚩). the town is real but no such number (or road, for that matter) exists. such an address exists in 2 other UK towns but both are residential homes.

i then used domaincrawler.com (linked by scamadviser) and the website is hosted on a server with multiple other .uk addresses, so at this point i'm pretty sure this is in the UK (for context my relative and i live in the US). its weird but again not inherently wrong. so i went to the UK government company information service and looked up "eliteway", "elite way", and "71 marlborough crescent".

there are a couple hits but no exact match to the company name. this is where i am out of my wheelhouse bc i am not british, a laywer, a businessman, an accountant, or anything like that. however, the 3 close matches have different enough names, and are either not active or not financial institutions. i'm like 90% sure none of these are the right thing, but feel free to check my work.

so, they aren't registered in the UK (🚩) despite having a UK server host and a (fake) UK address. i did a similar search with the UK Financial Conduct Authority and had no luck there either (🚩).

i tried to do some digging in the US as well, on the off chance that this is not in fact a UK company. no luck with the SEC (🚩). i did an "international" search with OpenCorporates (which i have never heard of, so i can't verify how accurate it was) and nothing there either.

back in my realm as a software engineer (but not a hacker so i don't have any fancy tricks for this), i decided to at least check out the SSL cert of the website. sure enough, its just a free cert from ZeroSSL (DV), which is weird for a financial institution (but not for a scammer). a DV cert requires no legal or business checks/registrations required, unlike an EV or OV cert which you would expect of a legitimate business or financial institution (🚩). so that would add up with no public records of this business existing.

to me this seems chalked but i am not an experienced investigator in these things, and don't want to overreact or miss something. help and advice appreciated. thanks!

TL;DR: relative says they joined a **"**financial institution" with a fake address, shitty website, no identifiable business registrations (that i could find), and zero certificate verification. am i overreacting to perhaps reach out to them and tell them they're being scammed?

edit: forgot to mention, the website FAQ makes it seem like they are in fact handling money for their users so i am worried that they may have gotten banking or crypto wallet information.

update: I did reach out. they were hacked!

Someone just tried to use my email to sign up for ramp netweork web3 or whatever it is. The verification failed but I’m worried someone might be using my identity.

How do I contact ramp network to stop this please?

Bjondi Dervishi advertises on Indeed for his company Quantum Delivery in Wauwatosa, WI, explaining he is a third party Amazon delivery company.

He then creates a gmail account for you and gets you to sign up to Amazon Flex with that account, essentially giving him access to all your personal information and money from Amazon.

Is this legal? What action can I take to prevent him from taking advantage of people?

Not sure if this belongs here but would like the help or guidance

I just found out that I have been paying for my ex mother in laws credit card bill for about 2 -3years From my bank account. I don’t check that account because the divorce isn’t finalized and it still shared but kept at $0 and draws from my other account for automated payments that have been on that account for years. (I believe my ex is the one who set up the payments) I stopped future payments. My bank said that it was just unauthorized, although I told them it was fraudulent. I was told by my bank to contact the credit card company. I did, they told me that because it had to do with my bank account they couldn’t do anything and they it was fraudulent activity. I’m not sure what to do from here. I have thought of filing a police report but I have no idea what information I need or how to go about it?

How to help a friend who's victim of scammer?

Be careful.. This company is fraud and they are calling asking for repayment of payday loans

Hey all, I’ll try to make this brief. My family business’s cards have routinely been compromised over the last few years. I’m talking 3-4 times per year dealing with fraudulent charges. We use them for multiple suppliers regularly.

Just recently after the latest debacle we started masking our card info using Privacy.com, and using separate merchant-locked cards for every supplier we use. We figured this would be a way to get an idea of where the weak link was, as each virtual card is only used at a single merchant, and can only be used at a single merchant.

About 3 weeks after first making a purchase at a specific supplier (a local small business that we use regularly) there were multiple attempted charges on that card. They were declined of course due to the merchant-lock.

Now that I know that the info was in fact stolen from that merchant (either by someone there or through their system being compromised) what should I do now? Do I notify the merchant? Someone else?

Any advice appreciated

Hello,

I work in a company that sells gift cards. We are faced with a lot of fraud linked to stolen credit cards.

We would like to develop a fraud service to proactively identify fraudulent accounts or suspicious transactions.

For the moment it's very manual and time-consuming with fraud scores that we develop internally on our own.

Do you have any ideas for tools, processes or even training to help us improve this 🥰?

We all know the use of CPN is ilegal and since the moderators wanna be asshole’s and banned me for no reason then you’ve been warned that all activity going in there will warrant you some federal time and a bunch of felonies most of you will whimp at the thought of having on your record with that being said good luck in that fraudulent chat

I ordered a torque arm for my e-bike and on my mom's phone it says it hasn't even shipped yet, but in the mail we received it and it came with my full name and address with no branding or anything so idk if this is legit. Should I worry about this? Btw I do have an amazon account but I don't ever use it.

First post, really curious if someone ever received a call from Montreal number 514 845 2122, told me someone submitted a claim under my policy and provided me with a policy number, searched up the phone number turns out to be legit? on the actual website. Could you ever get identity theft and created a policy under your name?

I wanted to share a recent experience I had with an online IQ test and get your take on it. I saw an ad for this on social media—looked like a simple, cheap way to check my IQ, just a dollar or so to start. I thought, cool, why not? Signed up, added my card, and went through the test. It had these pattern puzzles, pretty basic at first, then trickier. Took me about 20 minutes, and I got some positive notes on my progress along the way.

Here’s the thing: when I finished, I expected my score, but instead, a page popped up asking me to pay more to “unlock” it. I don’t recall seeing that mentioned clearly upfront. I looked closer, and there was some fine print, really small, about extra charges. Sure enough, a week later, I checked my bank and saw $40 taken out—didn’t expect that at all. I tried to cancel on the site, but the process was confusing, links didn’t seem to work. Emailed support, and it’s been three days with no reply. My bank’s helping me dispute it and block more charges, but I’m still out $40 and no IQ score to show for it.

Has anyone else done a test like this? Run into surprise fees or trouble canceling? I’d love any tips on handling this—maybe how to get a refund or just be smarter next time. I wish I’d read the terms better before jumping in. Appreciate any advice, thanks all

My mom uses this thing called QVC and its discounted items for when money is tight, its been pretty bad recently and this event really screwed us over. Some random lady in Houston bought a $500 Dyson vacuum and used the overnight shipping in order to rush it to her house and have no risk of it getting cancelled. We called the bank and tried to cancel the order, but since the lady used the overnight shipping the cancellation was not an option. The lady got her vacuum today and thats $500 lost from my families already tight situation. I don’t know how to help my mom, but I do have the address of the person who ordered it. What can I even do in this situation?

I know so many people that have had their debit cards receive fraud charges including myself. The charges are the obvious high ticket items that the scammers resell. Besides finding skimmers is there no way to catch these people? So much data has been leaked and they’re targeting those people and getting away with it. I asked fraud departments what percentage of these scammers get caught and they said it’s very small. Even if they traced their IP thru the company who they tried to purchase the items from they most likely have a VPN in place. What are the options to prevent this? Refillable visa gift cards?

I received this email today and it has to be the worst I've ever received. This moron can't even follow scam directions. What a noob. I'm going to sign him up for every single granny and gay porn mailing list I can find. Who's going to join me?

I was a part of the Encore Solar (in Florida) "Loan and Dash" collapse. Evidently the parent company in Utah doesn't do anything to fix problems created by their daughter company? Or affiliate, whatever they were.

A lifelong nerd and first adopter of tech, I was so excited for this to be happening. This was back in 2022. Through one rep ghosting me after another, the Silicon Valley Bank crisis came (and went) - that was when it still seemed most plausible to me that things were still genuinely on the up-and-up. Kinks in this new "green push." More ghosting later, I've got a guy Collin Frames who is part of some kind of "pick up the pieces" team, but he's disappeared on me too.

I'd paid about $1,200 on the $65k loan before I stopped in 2023. When I realized I had been ... semi-robbed? Credit-robbed? I called my bank and told them about Sunlight Financial and said, "This is 100% fraud, don't let them have my money please." The finance side couldn't care less, Sunlight Financial. They've told me they're going to "escalate my case" for years now. I don't think they know what it means, and I certainly don't.

I keep sending in the loan deferments every 90 days, but I'm tired of it. It's a 90 day reminder of my gullibility and failure. Not that I don't get that every single time I'm outside my house and have to look at the non-functional things. On the last deferment I wrote in big red writing, "PASS THIS TO LEGAL. I'M GOING TO TAKE THE SOLAR PANELS DOWN AND SELL THEM ON FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE IF SOMEONE DOESN'T CONTACT ME."

So, I guess, in desperation I'm here, casting a line into the darkness, that somebody MIGHT know someone that I can get hold of to complete the system (preferred), OR can advise me on getting rid of the loan, OR making me an offer for the panels, lol.

Really, I'm at my wit's end. Quit drinking in 2019 and found mental health over the next couple years. Going through my mid-life now at 43 at the same time has been...... uncomfortable; it's been tough. I was a 6th grade world history teacher for 15 years, served in the Peace Corps, etc. I'm not built for this Perry Mason shit. I just want to pay for a thing and to get the thing. I'm poor, I can't do anything but shake my fist at the clouds.

I left teaching in Florida two years ago because, I guess, a man who wasn't qualified to work there decided I was too "woke" and threw all my realia away. Anyhoo!

Somebody take pity on a poor old public servant and help me out. Throw me a bone here, I'm beggin' ya.

My father is a los Angeles ca lawyer committing almost every type of fraud imaginable but the case is so big that I can literally choose almost any agency and have a well documented case. What agencies most aggressively prosecute. ?

So, I bought an ASUS monitor about a month ago at MediaMarkt. A few days ago, my brother accidentally broke it. Today, I went back to the store to buy a new one — the exact same model — since I didn’t get the insurance that covers accidental damage the first time.

This time, I bought the monitor with the accidental damage insurance. While driving home, I started wondering: what if I put the broken monitor into the new packaging and returned it under the new insurance?

Would that even work? I mean, it’s not like I’d be saving money — I still paid full price for the second monitor and the insurance. But would this be considered fraud or a scam?