So how would it be possible for Scrypt.cc to be able to negotiate lower energy prices when Brazil has approximately triple the energy costs as USA with the recent hikes in energy prices?
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-business/electricity-bills-to-increase-by-70-percent-in-rio-and-sao-paulo/#You may also combine this with the anonymous newbie account, no pictures of any mining equipment, and the recent "hack" which would make it pretty much impossible for them to repay all customers. The name Marcelo Santos doesn't really mean anything, might as well be Jesus as there is nothing to check it against.
Completely agree, just pointing out that Curitiba is not in the states discussed on the news you've posted (Rio and São Paulo); Curitiba is in Paraná (the state where I live and where the situation is even worse since not only the federal government raised the power bill nationwide, the state government has raised it a little more in Paraná).
At least one thing on this website has a high probability of being real: the admin is indeed brazilian. Some people have claimed that he is american / indian because of IP tracking results, but today he answered a message on S.CC's "trollbox" (chat) in perfect portuguese, even using a slang.
Curitiba itself wasn't really the point as the general vicinity gives an idea of power costs. Would power costs between neighboring countries be radically different? No it would not because it's affected by environmental factors such as weather and if you are mining, that generates a great deal of heat in one of the hottest countries in the world. You could not achieve less power costs than US, Canada, or even Russia because the national average in Brazil is twice that of those countries and in order to keep all the rigs from literally melting in the heat, the cooling alone would make it uncompetitive.