10 Signs of Online Scams

1. Too much marketing terms
Home business opportunity: No experience required. No work involved. Earn $2000 in one week! It's easy to spot these kinds of scams because they're full of too good to be true promises. And, exclamation points, too. What job will earn you that much money in a week without having to have experience and NOT having to work at all? None. Nada. Zilch!

2. Too friendly email
I mean the intro part of the email. If an email from someone you don't know starts with “Hello my friend”, “Dear friend”, and they weren't filtered by your spam box, consider these emails not so trustworthy. This method of scamming is known as phishing or fishing for details or information that will put your financial security in danger.

3. Money Matters
It promises that you can make money online. But you have to pay that upfront, one-time fee first for some training materials. Shady!

4. Assembled Jobs
If a home based business opportunity requires you to assemble furniture or stuff envelops, these are generic but often overlooked signs of a true blue scam.

5. Country Representative Job Offer
Coupled with sign no. 2, if an email offers you a job as a payment receiver requiring you to deposit a check on their behalf or anything similar to that job description, you're doomed if you reply.

6. Job Offer that Requires Your Picture to Get Hired
Unless you are applying as a model, which is not a form of online money making venture, someone who's looking for, say, a virtual assistant and asks that she sends a picture is offering something suspicious. Lots of free job listing sites have these types of job posts. Be very, very careful.

7. Employer has no online presence
If you are trying to win an online job but when you researched about the online presence of your would-be employer and there's no trace of his name or his company, ask your employer about his company or his business first.

8. Presence of Pressure Tactics
If the online business opportunity tells you that you will get a chance to win a anti-scam book if you sign up now or you can avail of an early bird discount, walk! Unless they're coaching or consultancy services which are not direct ways to earn money online, you should not be subjected to these kinds of pressuring if the opportunity will really make you money.

9. Request from Employer or Sponsor that You Keep the Offer a Secret
Coupled with scam sign no. 2 and 5, if the email sender asks you to keep your transactions confidential just for any reason at all, red flag, red flag, red flag! They don't want you to inform others that you are about to get scammed, of course.

10. Emails from Someone in Nigeria
Although many Nigerians who use Internet scamming as past time, have already figured out that lots of Westerners already know that they should not trust any email from someone in Nigeria, there are still those who are gullible enough to fall for these frauds.
Educate your friends and family who love to use the Internet. They can still be too busy checking their emails or MySpace pages to know these signs.

http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/319101/10_Signs_of_Online_Scams/5.htm?va=0

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Thanx for sharing...

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Thanks

ifihearam: RUBBISH

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na scam u dey do? U fear he don expose u finish

Great writeup.

I'm a constant recipient of 5,6,7, 9 and 10. They just never seem to quit it.

I highly disagree with No 2. I know some top Internet Marketers who uses Hi Friend to address their subscribers. I mean genuine marketers

ƪoƪ @ no.10!

Breeze don Blow Fowl yansh.... Oya scammers defend una sev now ooo

ifihearam: RUBBISH

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OBOY SEE VEXX!! Dem don spoil business for guys
But on a serious note it's annoying that Nigeria is the number one name that comes to mind when this issue is discussed but in reality, the real scammers that pull off tens of deals monthly are not Nigerians. Ask guys in Malaysia.

winexviv: 10 Signs of Online Scams

1. Too much marketing terms
Home business opportunity: No experience required. No work involved. Earn $2000 in one week! It's easy to spot these kinds of scams because they're full of too good to be true promises. And, exclamation points, too. What job will earn you that much money in a week without having to have experience and NOT having to work at all? None. Nada. Zilch!

2. Too friendly email
I mean the intro part of the email. If an email from someone you don't know starts with “Hello my friend”, “Dear friend”, and they weren't filtered by your spam box, consider these emails not so trustworthy. This method of scamming is known as phishing or fishing for details or information that will put your financial security in danger.

3. Money Matters
It promises that you can make money online. But you have to pay that upfront, one-time fee first for some training materials. Shady!

4. Assembled Jobs
If a home based business opportunity requires you to assemble furniture or stuff envelops, these are generic but often overlooked signs of a true blue scam.

5. Country Representative Job Offer
Coupled with sign no. 2, if an email offers you a job as a payment receiver requiring you to deposit a check on their behalf or anything similar to that job description, you're doomed if you reply.

6. Job Offer that Requires Your Picture to Get Hired
Unless you are applying as a model, which is not a form of online money making venture, someone who's looking for, say, a virtual assistant and asks that she sends a picture is offering something suspicious. Lots of free job listing sites have these types of job posts. Be very, very careful.

7. Employer has no online presence
If you are trying to win an online job but when you researched about the online presence of your would-be employer and there's no trace of his name or his company, ask your employer about his company or his business first.

8. Presence of Pressure Tactics
If the online business opportunity tells you that you will get a chance to win a anti-scam book if you sign up now or you can avail of an early bird discount, walk! Unless they're coaching or consultancy services which are not direct ways to earn money online, you should not be subjected to these kinds of pressuring if the opportunity will really make you money.

9. Request from Employer or Sponsor that You Keep the Offer a Secret
Coupled with scam sign no. 2 and 5, if the email sender asks you to keep your transactions confidential just for any reason at all, red flag, red flag, red flag! They don't want you to inform others that you are about to get scammed, of course.

10. Emails from Someone in Nigeria
Although many Nigerians who use Internet scamming as past time, have already figured out that lots of Westerners already know that they should not trust any email from someone in Nigeria, there are still those who are gullible enough to fall for these frauds.
Educate your friends and family who love to use the Internet. They can still be too busy checking their emails or MySpace pages to know these signs.

http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/319101/10_Signs_of_Online_Scams/5.htm?va=0

HOW CAN THIS THINGS BE STOP? I RECEIVED MANY OF THEM IN MY EMAILS BOX. THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO THERE GET ONCE EMAIL ADDRESSES?

11. Bad english used or spelling errors.
12. Letterhead of company is hard to decipher.
13. Telling you not to tell anyone or that it is only through them that you can get the offer.
14. Email is a dodgy email address, unserious like mnm2012@yahoo.com
15. They tell you it is a competition you have never entered before in your life.

Advice:
reply all these mails with "your nyash" or simply ignore...

People fall for scams easily due to greed. No amount of sermon will save if you want to make quick money without been diligent. The worst past is that Nigeria is mention specifically in the post. It is SAD

alosiby92: 11. Bad english used or spelling errors.
12. Letterhead of company is hard to decipher.
13. Telling you not to tell anyone or that it is only through them that you can get the offer.
14. Email is a dodgy email address, unserious like mnm2012@yahoo.com
15. They tell you it is a competition you have never entered before in your life.

Advice:
reply all these mails with "your nyash" or simply ignore...

Seconded

ifihearam: RUBBISH

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OBOY WAYO NAA, THE GUY NO CARRY YOU FOR MIND O, ME SEF NO KNOW SAY NA YOUR WORK BE THAT

Lol. Everythings true tho

One Igbo guy claimn to b a yoruba guy just scammed me of recently! I knew d whole thing was a scam bt i just risked it...though he didnt collect much from me, bt seriously i wished i could see him nd skin him alive! Chaii....i fear some Igbo guys ooo...dem no get conscience at all!

gboss4sure: I highly disagree with No 2. I know some top Internet Marketers who uses Hi Friend to address their subscribers. I mean genuine marketers

They are genuine scammers.

The original post is from Alibaba a very stupid company. Guys don show them peper for long. What have Nigeria got to do with their stupiddity??

john11769:
HOW CAN THIS THINGS BE STOP? I RECEIVED MANY OF THEM IN MY EMAILS BOX. THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO THERE GET ONCE EMAIL ADDRESSES?

There are softwares that extract email adds and it's meant for marketing purposes. That's why sometimes,you recieve mails from coys like sony n co. However,fraudsters also use dese softwares & as such,can get ur email add.

What about this I keep receiving it in my email..

Gulf International Bank (UK processing unit) offers loan to any one
who might be in need of a loan for any financial concern. for further
Information contact

Us on our Private E-mail: (gulfib30@admin.in.th)

Highbros:
They are genuine scammers.

Really? What makes you say so

Pls has any1 in here ordered for wedding card from india b4? Really dnt trust them

good info

11. If the offer is coming from Nigeria and there are grammatical error(s), it is without doubt a scam.

Bad market!

john11769:
HOW CAN THIS THINGS BE STOP? I RECEIVED MANY OF THEM IN MY EMAILS BOX. THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO THERE GET ONCE EMAIL ADDRESSES?

why did you quote the entire OP, u dey craze ni?