r/Scam_Finder

They lure you in with discounts on a subscription that doesn’t even work with their flagship product. The app membership doesn’t work with their bike. You’ll pay 4x as much per month and no military or first responder discount. They know you’ve sunk thousands into their equipment, so they have you trapped. For a fraction of the cost you could buy a generic spin bike and do free classes on YouTube or much cheaper classes on a variety of platforms. They want to you to open your wallet and pay $50/month for the rest of your life. After you’ve already wasted thousands on their equipment. Every one of their bikes I’ve seen rusts like crazy after just a few years. Terrible experience avoid at all costs

Need ko talaga ng money for my grandmas meds nag check ako ng mga ola since sa 2 days na hindi nakakainom lola ko and sa 15 pa sahod ko chineck ko tong pesonowa nag fill up ako pero hindi ko tinuloy kasi nagulat ako 4k offer pero 2400 lang matatanggap mo. Pag gising ko kanina may nag notif sa gcash ko may natnggap nga ako edi bumalik ako sa site nila nag go through yung application kahit hindi ko naman tinapos wtf gusto ko sana ibalik yung pera nila. 😩

Posting this as a warning and also to document what happened because I still can’t fully believe it.

I got pulled into this through Instagram. I was scrolling through comments and saw an account openly talking about rugpulls and showing supposed profits. It looked sketchy but also kind of interesting so I DM’d them just to see what it was.

They moved me into a Discord server called “Novara”.

The server honestly looked very professional. Clean layout, almost 5K members, active chat, everything structured like a legit trading or launch community. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t immediately think it was a scam.

I opened a ticket and started talking to someone claiming to be the founder, going by “Lou”.

I asked a lot of questions because I was already a bit skeptical. He explained it as some kind of launch system where you send SOL to a “dev wallet” and get returns from launches.

I tested with 1 SOL first. I sent it to a wallet address they gave me. They said it was a Phantom dev wallet. After a short time I got back about 1.2x. Nothing huge but it seemed real.

I tested again with 2 SOL and got around 1.3x. At that point it really started feeling legit because it was consistent.

Then I went up to 6 SOL and it still “worked”. Same pattern, small profit returned.

After that they told me about a “KOL launch”. They said it was a special event boosted by a crypto influencer and that the returns would be much bigger than normal launches.

This is where I made the mistake. I went all in and sent 11 SOL, which was basically my entire savings.

The next morning I woke up to messages saying I had made a 183x return, something like 2032 SOL. I was also given access to a wallet showing the supposed profits in USDT.

When I tried to withdraw, nothing worked. That’s when they said the funds were “too large” and that I needed to pay gas fees for the transfer to process.

That explanation immediately felt off, especially because it didn’t make sense that profits would be locked like that.

I checked the wallet independently and the numbers didn’t match what they were claiming. The balance shown publicly was way lower than what I was shown inside their system.

After digging more, I found other people in the same situation in the chat. Same pattern: huge fake profits, then inability to withdraw, then being told to pay gas fees to unlock funds.

That’s when I realized it was a coordinated scam setup.

They later banned me from the server after I started questioning things.

I ended up losing 11 SOL, which was my entire savings.

For context, I’m 18 and still in high school in France. I saved that money over months from birthdays, small jobs for family, and basically not spending anything on myself because I was trying to build something for my future and eventually become independent from a pretty difficult home situation.

I’m posting this so people recognize the pattern if they see it:

fake community + small initial “returns” + scaling deposits + fake huge profits + withdrawal blocked + “gas fee to unlock funds”

That’s exactly how it played out for me.

I had a Job offer on indeed from a company called Tennis Pro Now and I applied.I was sent a text message from someone named Jade. She proceeded to interview me over the phone and then sent me the website along with how to apply for a job as a tennis coach. I filled out the brief application. I was then told that I was hired. From that point on everything about it has been very phishy. I’ve been sent information about a students to teach. She sent their first name and age. I asked for more information so that I could speak with the student and she said that would not be necessary that I just need to meet them at the tennis court that she would provide for me.She didn’t even know any tennis courts in my area that were open or free to teach these so-called Lessons.I know nothing about the Student. I never received any kind of formal introduction of working for this so-called company as an independent contractor. I am trying to find out if I am being scammed?