Scamming has been used by a lot of Internet users to gain income Online. After reading this article, you will know the most effective methods of scamming that a lot of scammer use to generate incomes faster than any other methods found online. That way you’ll be able to prevent it.
A lot of people have chosen to be a scammer simply because they’re wanting an easy way to earn money without a lot of efforts. The chance of getting caught by law enforcer also relatively small which make this kind of money making method tempted a lot of internet users.
However, scamming is not as easy as it sounds. It will take long hours at the front of your computer before you earn a good profit from scamming. So basically, if you’re not talented to be a scammer, it would be very hard for you to earn a good profit from it.
Scamming Methods
Here are the five most common methods for scamming, sorted from the easiest to the hardest one :
eWhore : This method is proved to be the easiest of all. All they need to do is to pretend that they’re a girl who desperately need money. Most of the eWhorers are men who want an extra money by scamming another guy. The most common places where this scamming happened are MySpace and Chatroom where lonely good guy usually hang out.
Although it’s not common, but this type of scamming also happens to some women. The eWhorer will show the women his fake picture that’s usually handsome and will tell the victim that he desperately need money. After then, a weak women will usually melt after flirted by him and will give him the money he wanted.
Fake eBooks : This method is done by making an eBook that’s completely fake and all of its content are copied from other people’s works. To make it not suspicious, the title is usually catchy and few first pages in the eBook will be made interesting and unique.
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Blackmail : This is usually happened to women, especially a mother with children. The Blackmailer will send an email to the victim and tell her that she or her children will be hurt if she didn’t give him a money.
The Blackmailer usually a guy who have at least read the victim’s profile on community site like MySpace where a mother usually tell everyone her name and her children names.
Fake Lottery : This kind of method can takes hundreds or even thousands of victims every day. The scammer usually send an email to the victim and claim that the victim has won a lottery. And it will tell the victim to visit their site and fill the form with a personal contact information including credit card.
Click here to see few examples of fake lottery emails.
Fake Services or Products : This is usually done by a website who claims to have a special discount over some pricey products or services. But after the payment has been done, the website won’t give you anything.
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When you send them a complaint, they usually will tell you that there’s been a problem in the shipment or services and it will be fixed soon. But after you send a lot of emails to them and waited a long time, you’ll know that you’ve been scammed.
Hacking : This is the ultimate and the hardest compared to all kind of methods in scamming. The hacker must be an experienced programmer that has been in programming field for years. And then, he will try to make money by stealing other people personal information.
When an experienced hacker hacking someone, it’s unavoidable by most people and all they can do is to call the police and hope for the best. However, an experienced hacker usually hack a person or a company that has more than 100,000$ wealth.
Final Word
You can prevent yourself from scamming by not trusting any person on the internet who said to you that she/he desperately need money. And never trust any claims in your email that said you have won a lottery unless you feel that you have joined it with an intention.
Also when you’re not sure that a website is secure and trustworthy, just search on Google by adding “scam” to the website name in the keyword (e.g Green Card scam).
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A complete information about how to report scamming is on BustAThief.com.
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August 30th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Thanks for the share!! Great article full of useful information!
August 30th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Excellent. thanks for the info. I get a lot of lottery emails regularly especially from Africa. I automatically click spam.
August 30th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
haha, the scammer and anti-scammer et along. to hose reading this, i used to cam people all the time, and he tries to pevent it. i dont cam money, but the occasional gamer account, but me and this guy r triod friends. iron huh?
August 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Nice Article! Great Job. I learned NOT to click on random e-mails. Haha.
August 30th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Thank you for all comments!
@Caigewa : Yes, I’ve become a good guy now, hahaha!
August 30th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Nice post! Very useful nowadays
August 31st, 2009 at 3:04 am
grat article
August 31st, 2009 at 3:30 am
Yeah, I hope this article will be useful to help a lot of people. Thanks!
August 31st, 2009 at 5:01 am
This is an incredibly useful and remarkable article. Thank you so much for sharing my friend.
Best wishes,
François
August 31st, 2009 at 5:19 am
Great arcticle, I actually enjoyed it
really interesting.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:21 am
Thank you, Francois and b bb! Your compliments is so nice!
August 31st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Thanks for sharing such a useful information
Best regards
September 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am
great help..
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 am
This is great work I hope this is should be the way for all.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Sweet write! I am particularly critical of those “El~Gordo” sweepstakes that I regularly ‘win’ (without having entered) and people, people people! -MOST major national lotteries around the world do NOT allow non-nationals to enter or win! Seriously! So if you got a notice that you just won some Italian lottery and you are not Italian, forget it! You are about to be scammed…
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 am
You’re right, thestickman. People can’t win a lottery if they never joined it; especially if it’s made outside their country.
Thank you for your comments!
September 4th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
What a very interesting article, avaxier! It was very eye opening. You really do have to be careful while you’re online because there are people out there who have no problem trying to bilk money out of you.