How to avoid the Common Internet Scams?

Reference:

http://www.poea.gov.ph/air/internetscams.htm

Internet has brought many advantages to the people nowadays in all aspects. Business, communications, transactions become faster than ever before. However, it has also become a tool for fraud, forgery, and other crimes. These frauds which are popularly known as “scams” rocked the internet world that each one must be aware of.

I have read on an article from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) which talks about the top ten internet scams. And here the things that we should always bear in mind so that we will not be trapped on the dangers of the internet fraud:

1.   Beware of unsolicited e-mails. If you receive an e-mail from a person you don’t know or from a company you are not involve in or in contact with, do not entertain them.

2.   Beware of phishing sites. These are counterfeit sites that will steal your identity, your bank account number. Use your judgment. Instead of supplying the important information, ask yourself “Why do they need this information?”

3.   Beware of large payments for unskilled tasks. Scammers will send you via e-mail or SMS saying that there is a big business opportunity awaits for you and you need to do is to pay a “little” amount for the legal fees to claim it. And if you do it, they will entangle you to the trap as a result they will suck money from your pocket.

4.   Lottery scams. Messages will appear that you won a large amount of money on lottery together with the contact person and if you will call that person, he will ask for advance payment for the processing fee or any legitimate reason.

5.   Employment scams. A great number of jobseekers have fallen into this trap. They were promised with very attractive compensation and in order to be accepted in the job, they need to pay at Western Union for the processing pay of any other reason.

6.   Beware of disaster-relief scams. When disaster strikes, there are charities who will solicit money for those victims of the calamities. Scammers have taken advantage of this; they created a fake charity website to steal the money donated to the victims. The best thing you can do here is to call the charity organization as to the legality of the said site.

And there are still a great number of internet scams at present.

Summary:

If the person or organization is always chasing you to yield to their opportunity, you must have a second thought of it. If they keep enticing you with words like “activate now or else you will lose…” then stay away from them.

If one wishes to earn money through the internet, he must do it in a legitimate way. He must stop spamming his clients by offering them the “hypes” instead he must use the principles of attraction marketing by helping other people. In this way, one will become a “helper” not a scammer. One can use the facebook, youtube, email in a legitimate way. Let us protect our friends from scams.

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