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Various Online Scams - You have one defense - Yourself
I am writing this article to join in the war against online
crimes. There are many of them, but all have one thing in common
- to take your money.
Let's see, there is the 419Scam named after the Nigerian law
outlawing it. There is the lottery scam telling you that you
have won funds. The auction and rental property scam. There is
also now the online dating scam. Oh, let's not forget the "I am
dying and want to give the funds to you" scam. There are many
more, but if you don't want to keep a list of them, just don't
fall for any tricks that require you to send your money "first"
or give out your account details to anyone you don't know!
The 419 scam seems to be the oldest one I've seen. This scam has
a very high success rate and has stolen millions from people
across the globe, especially Americans. Don't hate me for this,
but I think that the reason people are being scammed is due to
their own greed. How could you think that someone you don't know
will send you millions? The only people making millions are the
scammers and that is the bottom line. You are not special; they
have sent this email to many others.
The banks cannot protect you, which is sad. Once you have
deposited these fake funds into your account, the banks will
make the funds available to you, but in a couple of days they
will contact you to tell you the check or money gram was fake
and you must pay them within x days or face federal charges. You
could end up in jail and/or in debt while the scammer is having
a great time with your funds.
The online dating scam is new it seems. Someone contacts you.
Confesses love while they are in the U.S.A. then all of a sudden
they had to leave the U.S. on business to a foreign country.
This is only after you have chatted for a while and they can see
that you like them. Anyway, after they have gotten to the
foreign country, they tell you they cannot get back home and
need you to cash a money gram for them because this country does
not accept money grams/orders. If you fall for it, this is how
it goes: you will receive the money gram in the mail. You
deposit it into your account and wait for it to clear. In the
meantime, this person is telling you that this is an emergency
and need the funds desperately. The banks make the funds
available to you. You wire the money to your new "friend". The
bank, after a few more days, tells you that the money gram was
fake and you must pay it back in 7 days. If you don't have the
payback money, you might go to jail. Either way, you are out of
money and you will never hear from your "friend" again, except
maybe to tell you how stupid you were (I read a testimonial
about this one). The best way to notice this scam is to
ask
verifiable personal questions, many of them. Maybe ask for a
cell phone or home phone number with their voicemail on it. This
won't always work though. They could be using this person's
identity. Ask about their elementary or high school days -
something you can verify. A lot of times, the photo they sent to
you is also fake - it is usually of an extraordinarily beautiful
man or woman they picked up from the site where you met them or
online some place else. In this case, ask them if they have a
webcam or if they could send you a photo of themselves of the
current moment - many people have digital cameras. Some men pose
as beautiful women to get men to send them loads of dollars! If
someone you met confesses love for you without meeting you -
BEWARE!! If they ask you for money in any form, do not do it!!
The sale of items or rental of property is yet another scam.
This one works like this: You are selling an item online or
renting out property. The scammer contacts you and then sends
you a "real-looking" check or money order over the amount you
specified. The scammer either asks that you send the overpayment
portion back to them or some emergency has happened in their
family and they need the money wired back to them. You do so.
The bank gives you a dreadful call - the check was fake and you
must pay the bank back within 7 days. God forbid you already
sent the product out too - especially a pet - where did the pet
go if the address was fake?!! The best way to get away from this
particular scam is to not accept payments more than you
specified. Also, wait at least 7 - 11 days before shipping out
your products. This will give your bank enough time to see if
the check will bounce - saving you a big financial problem. If
the funds never bounced after 11 days, then I would think it
would be safe to return the funds back to the owner, but this
would be your decision. If the scammer badgers you for the
funds, just stall them until you can be sure you won't be held
responsible for fake checks and money orders.
There are many more of these scams. You MUST arm yourself and
not fall for these scams. Also, all of the scams are not from
Nigeria. These scams are worldwide. Nigeria is just the most
popular country. Just for your reading pleasure, go to Yahoo and
type in these words "stranded in Nigeria" and see what you get.
Start with these two websites for information to protect
yourself. http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-by-ip.htm
http://www.crime-esearch.org/news/12.12.2004/843/comments?p=7
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About the author:
Regina Stevens is CEO of Keep It Simple Websites
(http://keepitsimplewebsites.com). She writes articles for new
computer users.
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