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Fed up with Scams
If you have been online for a while I am sure you have run in to all different kinds of scams, especially when you were just starting out to make a living online. Over a year ago, by accident I clicked on some link of what was supposedly to be an “investment opportunity” offering a 10% profit on money you would put in the program, the wonderful thing about it was that it would only take a day to get your money back, plus the 10%. Yeah right, I thought, nobody is going to return that kind of money in a day! But… it did stay on my mind and like many others, I thought it would be fun to see what happened, after all, greed is what keeps these programs up and running… greed and stupidity I should add. So, I put in a few bucks to play and surprise surprise, the next day they had actually sent me my bucks plus the 10% profit, which they had promised. I repeated the whole thing and after only a week or so, I had actually made a whopping $223 profit, paid into my egold account! I decided to call it a day, not wanting to get overexcited and way greedy, losing the money I had earned. Instead I started talking about this program with a friend of mine because I could just not figure out how this was actually possible. He got all exited about it and decided to try it too, only with a bigger amount even after
Warning I was not really sure how it all worked, just that it had worked for me. I got a call from him the day after he put his money in, saying that he was trying to log into the website in order to cash out, but that the website had disappeared… Now, you might have expected this turn of events, the saying “if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is” proved right yet another time. We did continue to invest this kind of programs though; he even started a blog because of the whole scam Ponzi schemes and has learned a lot about investing the “right” way and actually making money on it, but learned it the hard way. Nowadays, after personal experience with all different types of scams, ponzi schemes, pyramids and the lot, I see programs popping up which are a lot harder to recognize as such.
For example programs for which you are required to write reviews on whatever you decide yourself, and they are actually sending flat rates of a few bucks into your account for only a few minutes of your time. Great to see your account growing only until you reach your pay out minimum and find your account cancelled or banned for reasons nobody can explain. There are many variations on this one, especially with getting paid to read, getting paid to write, job opportunities you need to pay for in order to enrol and start making big bucks and the list goes on. So today I just wanted to send out a little warning, before signing up for anything, before sending your money to some program which offers you big bucks when you participate, before spending hours and hours clicking mails, writing comments and the lot, do a search engine check on the program combined with the word “scam” … It will save you a lot of time, sweat and money! |
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This intel was contributed by Mirjam
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May, 2012
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