If you ask Soulja Boy, he'd likely say he's the victor in his beef with Kodak Black but at the moment he's certainly the victim of a $175,000 scam.

There was a time when major-label rappers enjoyed video budgets well into the six- and seven-figure range. The late 1990s and early 2000s felt at times like an arms race to make the most lavish four-minute clip imaginable, and directors like Hype Williams had yacht rental numbers on their speed dial.

But in the depressed industry that we have today, the more modest video budgets are often bolstered by brand sponsorships: the Beats Pill, Apple products, any number of foreign carmakers. The corporate backers du jour are the makers of the two-wheeled  "hoverboards" that have become ubiquitous in videos and on rappers' Instagrams. But it's not all fun and games: many public areas and events have barred the devices, and a London teenager was recently killed while riding one. And, as Soulja Boy is quickly learning, they're the subject of significant credit card scams.

According to BuzzFeed and to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the rapper is out at least $175,000 after a series of fraudulent credit card purchases at his online store. In an email to the vendor, Soulja wrote, "I need help all the payments are fraud. And it sent my account to negative because they all say they weren’t authorized. please help in any way you can thanks. I don’t want to have to pay all this money because of frauds is there any way to reverse these payments and get my account to Good standing."

Documents obtained by the news outlets show that more than three-quarters of hoverboards purchased on the site in the last half-year were then disputed by the owners of the credit cards that were used to purchase. In most cases, the merchant is held liable for such transactions, pending any criminal prosecution of the scammers.

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