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Saturday, February 6, 2010

don't be scammed!


In our province, when internet was first introduced a lot of my schoolmates get scammed! My brother was no exception. He received a scam letter from a Nigerian. It consists of a message stating the sender has a large sum of money, usually around 35 million, and needs help transferring it out of Nigeria, or some other place. As a reward for the help, the sender promises to pay a few million dollars. He doesn't yet have any idea about scamming or scammers before so he replied. They keep in touch for a while to attract his trust and even send him some fake documents in his name that proves that the money is in his name and all the things he has to do is open an account, deposit the money in it, pay their share and keep the balance for himself. Of course, he become doubtful at that time. The Nigerian said that my brother will have to pay to release the money from this and that to receive the Anti-Drug clearance certificate for the money that proves that this money is not earned through drug dealing and such kind of stupid stories. My brother even talked on the phone the "lawyer" of the deal. Good thing that my brother is wise at that time and that he doesn't have money for it. He was not scammed.

You may say that this is really stupid and you will never be fooled by such a stupid story. You maybe right but they have been able to cheat thousands of people so far. I personally receive few emails from them every week. As I said, they make you greedy first and then you will do whatever they ask to release the money.

So if you received an email or fax from an un-known person who asks for your help to transfer a huge amount of money, you just need to delete the email and don’t think about it.

I've read lately that there are many complaints about Intelius, a site that helps users find information about others for taking serious advantage of consumers.

Be warned! Doing business with Intelius will result in you getting all kinds of unauthorized charges to your credit cards. Intelius is currently under indictment along with their co-founder , John Arnold. He was personally being under indictment for other stuff not related to the reverse billing fraud they do. He was charged with lying to a grand jury about strip-club sex acts, was taken back into federal custody Thursday — allegedly for contacting a witness who works at the club and planning to meet her in Las Vegas.

There are always a lot of abusers and cheaters who wait for suitable opportunities to cheat others. They know that people love to work through the Internet and make money and this is a good opportunity to rip them off.

If you like to work online, you should be aware of scams and avoid them. It is very easy to know which program is scam and which one is reliable. You just need to know how the scams behave and act and what offers they always give to cheat internet users.

Don't be scammed!


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