Different Types Of Online Scams And How To Avoid

By Author: William King
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Along with individuals, entrepreneurs, students, professionals, internet has also been extremely helpful to scammers. Just like the internet provided a great opportunity to small businesses to reach out and find buyers from all over the world, scammers can also prey at victims* from all over the world, just like the students can make use of various techniques to acquire more and more knowledge, scammers can also employ techniques as hacking, forgery* and the likes. Where the online marketers are always thinking of new ways of doing business, making sales, converting leads into sales, scammers are also thinking hard to defraud people in new ways.
Work at Home:
Of course, lots of people work from homes and it has transformed into an industry. But that only makes it worse, because people can see other people working and earning from their homes, they fall easily for these work at home offers and pay some sort of registration fee. Whole websites are dedicated to lure people and it's not easy to differentiate between the real and the fake ones. So what's the best way to see if they are fake or real? There's no fool proof ...
... way to do that, therefore the best bet is to don't pay any kind of fee to any of these work at home companies. There are very few companies who actually provide this kind of jobs but they wouldn't be asking for any registration and they won't be promising big dollars for little amount of work either.
Billionaire & Six figure Income:
Often, you'd have been to some website of an allegedly billionaire, who narrates his success story and then tries to sell his secret to you. These getting rich quickly stories are enticing and they make you miss one obvious point. The person who's selling his secret to you is already a billionaire and he's comfortably earning billions right now so what's the point of selling their secret to others for a minimal amount? Billionaires aren't supposed to go for these small profits, second selling their secret means they are inviting lots of competition that will only slash their own profits. Therefore these schemes have fraud written all over them.
Money Transfer:
This is another very, very common type of online fraud. Doesn't matter which email service are you using, this email must have reached your inbox at some point of time. That narrates some tragic story; praise your nobleness, and concludes with a request to help the sender transfer, a huge amount of money. You don't even need to put a fraud-check to these emails because these are confirmed imposters.

William King is the director of Electrical Goods Wholesale Suppliers & Distributors: http://www.wholesalepages.co.uk/ukwholesalers/Electrical_Goods-75-0.html , Wholesale Trade Suppliers, Distributors & Manufacturers: http://www.dailytrader.com/ and Abu Dhabi Classified Business Directory: http://www.adcbuae.com . He has 18 years of experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping retailers, entrepreneurs and startups with their product sourcing, promotion, marketing and supply chain requirements.