World’s top 10 scams to avoid : Tips And Tricks
In every mouse click now or the other scam takes place . Each year billions of people from US fall victims to internet fraud ,mostly web based ,but what if you are one of them ?
Certainly you would not like to lose your hard money to con artists . Recently 2009 Internet Crime report also revealed increase in cyber crime ratio.
So know the scams which are hunting you and know best tips and tricks to avoid them.
1.Phishing Scams : One of the worst scam till now . Mostly figures in form of identity theft. Top features of this scam includes smoothly stealing personal information in the name of reputed organisations through bogus emails. Avoid opening unknown emails. Know your sender,never provide your personal information like credit card number ,social security number.
2.Spyware & Rogue Software : In recent times this is most easy crime business over internet ,as people can be easily fooled by installing fake antivirus into their computers or cell phones containing ,spyware ,malware and trojans , which are ready to infect .Therefore never entertain free scan request,update your legal antivirus and get your browser updates.
3.Financial Frauds : This could include foreclosure scams . Scammers taking advantage of economic slow down and defrauding people in the name of foreclosure rescue schemes , which actually wont work ,resulting huge loses. Therefore people should approach towards legal schemes making sure of it’s where abouts.
4.Lottery Scams : Most common crime,figures in your inbox saying fraud winning notifications often asks victims to wire money to collect cash prize ,in fact which is not so.The best part would be never respond to such fake winning notifications.
5.Nigerian fraud : Also Known as 419 Nigerain scam which is famous in the form of advance fee scam , through fraud websites.
6. Work from home : A quick and easy way to make money sitting at home is advertise by the fraud designers .But in return people earn nothing ,resulting money losses.
7.Pyramid Schemes : Here the consumers are asked to pay and become a member for certain schemes and making lots of people involve in investing the scheme through friends and relatives and in return cash reward for the same .But sometimes people exit soon to defraud you.
8. Online Auction : Least but common over online auction sites ,like ebay ,where sometimes it is becomes difficult to know who is the exact buyer and seller as the deal looks like legal routine business. But it important to know how online auction process actually works.
9.Travel And Holiday : Planning your dream vacations would not be easy as phony travel clubs and holiday clubs could market fraud schemes and plans mostly in terms of ticketing , free holidays ,but at the last it is derived there are no free holidays and accommodations.
10.Bogus Investments : Investors should be beware of fraudulent schemes which always popular in tax season. Sometimes it is difficult to judge as it looks like legitimate from the source.
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March 16th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
On the point of auction scams. People are now coming up with ways to game Paypal too. It is just crazy how many scammers there are online. But, one big one that is not on this list is Processor payment scams or free trial scams.