Haven’t you got an email stating that you have won a lottery, sometime a billionaire died and his property is unclaimed , sometime a girl has been pinned in Iraq and she needs your help, sometime they are providing you a iPhone in very low price than that of market and etc….. And what they require to get what they are offering is your personal information and later on small fee to initiate the process. Do you remember any such email if you have been using email services for quiet long now?? Most of you might have got at least one. If not, you haven’t checked your email properly. This is all about Online Scam.
It not a new thing that people have been using internet as a part of daily life and cases of people being scammed through internet has piled up as well – Online Scam. There are so many variations of scamming people. It can be through email, popular websites, message boards, chat rooms and many other ways through which a person can be contacted. The person who tries to fraud people with illegal activities is referred as Con artist or Scam artist and people who fall for these activities – Victim.
Why are they called con/scam artist?
Because they are very well prepared gathering almost all the information about the medium through which they are going to scam. They will also try to grab as much info as possible about the victim as well. They try to take advantage of any weak points of a medium. They do it in a very professional way so that most of the time victim doesn’t realize until victim loses his hard earned money and scam artist goes unavailable. Getting hold of scam artist is almost not possible due to its nature. Most of the time scam artist are from abroad and it becomes very difficult for any cases to be filed in police station because scam artist use fake personal details like name, address and phone number. Hundreds of people have been scammed through internet loosing thousands of dollars. The process starts with asking for the personal information so that you could get may be billions of dollar, claim a lottery, help a pinned girl in Iraq, business partnership with Prince of Saudi Arabia and any other reason to make you interested in his offer. The process involves you transferring the initiation fee, ownership fee, legal fee and many other fee until you can afford to pay. Sometime victim pays the cost of the goods and gets nothing. We shall be giving some examples in the next page and a way to be safe.
- First the email is from Nigeria (famous name in the scam world).
- Western union wouldn’t have such type of email.
- There is no way you will be getting that money since Western Union has no provision to pay that much money as compensation.
Next Example : This is an emotional scam email. Many people might send her the details. But after you send the details, you will be asked to send some initiation fee and so on. But you are going to get nothing since its a 101% scam email trying to get the victim. Why would anyone who even doesn’t know you will send you email and trust that you will send her the money after you get it.
I even read in the newspaper about the scams about the gold dust some days ago. The person found the agent online who was trying to start a business. He was well educated person and knew about the online scams. He inquired about the person.. got his personal details, documents of his organization. He even went to visit that person. He met that person and even got the gold samples which were 80% gold. He was quiet sure that it was not scam and it’d make him rich. After he got the sample, he brought the documents of the scammer’s organization and checked it with the trust worthy source and got positive results. And he sent the money to that person about $4 million. After the money was sent, scammer made various reason for the late delivery of the gold dust. Slowly and slowly he was breaking communication. The person (victim) was too worried since it was a big sum of money, he went to meet him(scammer) in his country just to know that he(scammer) has left no any trail and had disappeared. All the documents that scammer provided him earlier proved to be false which were looking positive during the initial inquiry. There are many other ways that scammer use to find the victim. Many people have fallen into these type of scams. Be careful.
Some of the ways to be safe from scam :
– Never share your personal details with an unknown person or the person that you know only through online and get involved in a monetary transaction.
– Remember if someone is offering you something without having you to do anything, red alert – Scam. – Someone offers you some products way too low price than that of market price – big scam alert
– High return for your investment in very short time – It is a scam. At first, the scammer asks for small investment, gives the initial investors good return and receives a good review. Later on many other investors also invest money and the result… Scammer runs away with the money. – Always check if the site is secure or not (https://) if you have to provide secure data like username/password. – Never give login details to anyone even if they claim it to be the representative of respective site. Legit site never asks for login details in any condition. When something seems to be too good to be true, then it probably is! If a small percentage of your mind says, this can’t be true… Listen to it and try to clear out the doubt. Scammers are very well prepared to answer your every question making it look like almost real. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog and walks like a dog, it’s a dog! Greediness is the main reason why people get scammed. Don’t ignore even small reason to doubt out of your greediness. There is no short-cut to earning money, short-cut always puts one in trouble. Think smart, Stay away from scam !