You have all heard the advice, If it’s too good to be true be careful. This is great advice when you are thinking about making money on the internet but you are afraid of scams. One little word can make a free offer well, not really a free offer. Read read and read it once again.
The scammers are out there looking to make a quick dollar while at the same time, telling you there is no such thing. Read and re-read any offer that is presented to you.
First I want to tell you something you probably know is out there. Hard to think that these are still being sent out, but I got on myself, just two days back.
The very first area that you need to practice care in is that e-mail in box. Anytime someone asks for information such as SS# or bank accounts be very wary. The best advice if you haven’t initiated the call or requested information via e-mail never give out that type of information. In the same vein, you never want to deposit money into an account to which you are give a number in hope of getting a huge amount in return. The old good faith deposit,if it sounds too good to be true, you know the rest.
Another good idea is to check on Google or your favorite search engine for scam alerts. Careful now, I have been told that now there are scam alerts that are there, just to try to get you to buy something. You are starting to see that you always need to be wary.
Think about this, if you where looking to start a business, would you do it without looking into the background of the venture. Would you not talk to others in the same line. I would suggest the same of any online business venture.
Money can be made from your home. It will involve time. It will involve some money up front.There will be missteps. With the right programs and with good solid back up advice the whole process can be made easier.
Thinking about buying a e-book, why not ask for a referral to someone who has read the book and see if they considered the price fair and the advice solid.
If there is a money back guarantee, read it carefully, print it out, and put it aside. If you are not happy with the home based business advice, or the weight loss advice, or whatever you subscribed too, ask for your money back.
One more tip, use your search engine to research the name attached to the web site that you will be directed to. There are a lot of honest people out there that really want to help.
Affiliate programs are some of the easiest money makers out there. The program you are promoting will want you to make money, because they make money. Could not be any easier.
The majority of web sites that are selling either products or information at the very bottom will have the word affiliate. Simply click on the word and get the information on how to get started.
Final piece of advice.Use good judgment and think objectively before you take out that credit card. Storefront refer to it as impulse buying, the same holds true on the internet.
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January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Articles
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Protecting your business from phishing scams
January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Articles
Phishing scams are where fraudsters are looking to fool the user into entering their personal information. This is done through a number of methods from pretending to be from your bank or a message or a friend from a social networking site.
Phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated and are constantly evolving. Therefore it is wise to educate yourself and your employees about the dangers of internet threats in addition to phishing scams. Everyone has to be careful when doing anything online whether that be business use or personal, either way can result in viruses and Trojans affecting company equipment.
Here are some recommendations to protect your business from internet scams. E-mails that are after urgent financial information should be treated as suspicious, investigate before giving out the personal information.
E-mails are normally looking for an immediate reaction so will contain exciting statements or upsetting statements, words that will make you take action straight away. E-mails will be sent out in bulk so are typically not going to be personalised. If it is a genuine message your bank, in most cases nowadays, will have something personally identifiable such as your name or quote part of your personal details. Explain to staff to look for this information before reacting to the message, just because it has the logo of the bank your business uses.
It is always best to call the bank to check if the e-mail was legitimate and as a rule of thumb don’t click on an e-mail link, always type the internet address into your internet browser. You can be sure the e-mail is from the right source and wasn’t forged if the e-mail is digitally signed.
Further peace of mind comes from always looking for https in the address bar with a padlock down in the bottom right of the screen which denotes a secure website where it is fine to enter personal information. Get more great advice by attending professional conferences such as the Marcus evans conferences.
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Scam Alert: don’t fall for these e-mails
January 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Articles
It was a Tuesday evening – 24th February 2009; I decided to run through the e-mails we had received. There was a message that was titled ‘Fw: From Platinum Habib Bank ATMs’. Being a banking information collector, I went for it first. The mail was from one Anita J. Olsen who I suspect is from Norway, she had received an e-mail on February 22, 2009 titled Platinum Habib Bank ATMs and inquired if it was a legal matter. So she forwarded the e-mail to us.
The sender (of the original e-mail) claimed that she (Anita Olsen) was the beneficiary of $14.6 million contract inheritance which she won in a state lottery award and wanted her to part with some of her personal information in order to receive some ATM cards with which she would withdraw her ‘loot’ from any ATM machine in the world.
The sender who sent the e-mail from anar...@wanadoo.fr also claimed that the President of Nigeria Umaru Yar’ Adua had assented to the disbursement so she needed to act fast. The e-mail was undersigned by one Ahmed Kuru with the designation Remittance Manager (Platinum Habib Bank) after warning that she deal with no other person within or outside the bank because “that was why her payment has been delayed until now”.
Going through the e-mail I didn’t need to be told who was behind this and what it was all about. Definitely a scam from a jobless Nigeria youth. I promptly replied her e-mail telling her to disregard the message and treat it as the scam that it is and I also wasn’t conservative in telling her it was just a cyber-fraudster trying to play a fast one on her. Since she had had no previous dealing with Platinum Habib Bank or any other bank in Nigeria, as our consequent correspondence confirmed, I have no apology for this.
Internet scam popularly called ‘yahoo yahoo’ (in Nigeria) isn’t new to most Nigerians because of the effect it has had in shaping the countries current image abroad. But what’s gaining ground and replacing the era of credit cards and control number is the practice of using real names of persons and organizations in trying to swindle their ‘maga’ as they describe their prospects. And of more concern to us is the use of the names of Nigeria banks and their top hierarchy and in some cases their Managing Directors in executing their nefarious intentions.
In the e-mail in focus for instance; Ahmed Kuru who was described as the Remittance Manager is actually the Executive Director North Bank, West, Central & East Africa for Bank PHB. In a similar e-mail also circulated titled ‘Zenith Bank Compensation unit in association with United Nations’ (in may 2008), the scammers claimed that the former UN secretary general – Kofi Annan – had ordered payment of huge sums to beneficiaries and was signed by Tony Elumelu who is the Group Managing Director of United Bank for Africa whom it described as the Remittance Manager of Zenith Bank and Mr. Jim Ovia Zenith Bank’s true Managing Director was designated Director Swift Card payment Centre. This, in my candid opinion, is undermining the reputation of these men before foreigners.
Another concern is that these e-mails are circulated far and wide, especially to foreigners who make no mistake in attaching it to Nigeria without reservations. These e-mails have also been posted on Anti Fraud forums including the scam section of Anti Fraud International and they are tagged ‘419 Nigerian Scams’. One of such recipient of the Platinum Habib Bank ATMs wrote on the Gariell’s Weblog (an online forum which helps people to recognize and not fall victim of fraud), “For all, use this phrase: “something about Nigeria?, no thanks” and you will be cured from such scams”.
For you, you’d really need to take guard because they make it look real. For no reason should you give anyone your personal details, it might just be an address they need to conclude their shady deal.
A way to easily recognize these e-mails is that they are not sent from the banks’ customized e-mails, which is a first sign of a fraud. For instance you find them use e-mails such as; zeni...@yahoo.com, rend...@yahoo.fr etc and give return e-mails like; unz...@post.ro, comp...@aim.com, unp...@live.com, jim7...@yahoo.com and so on. I believe I can say with authority that no Nigerian bank will send an e-mail from any other address except its customized addresses. And secondly, no bank would ask you to send your personal details for any reason. Customer updates are done through forms on their websites or in their bank branches.
So even if a staff of the bank connives with fraudsters by giving up the banks e-mail service, their demands should tell you it’s all a scam. Don’t be greedy to fall for any of these.
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My Instant Biz Is A Breath Of Fresh Air In The Halitosis Of The Internet Scams
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Articles
So there I am, bored to tears in the traffic exchanges, promoting yet another dead in the water affiliate venture. I keep seeing these splash pages. “Is your mouse clicking paying off?” Hmm, well, no. ” Are you making any money yet?” Hmm, NO. O.k, I give up, what is this? I ask for the free guide to be sent to my e-mail, not thinking much of it.
I check my mail, and lo and behold, there it is. O.k, this is where I get the e-book pitch. Right? Wrong. O.k., this is where I get redirected by a link to a one-time-only offer. Right? Nope. No get-rich-overnight system? My credit card is still safely in my wallet where it belongs? And I am riveted by what I am seeing. This is concise, honest, and to the point. This woman has laid out a system that I have been looking for for YEARS. And I can’t believe my eyes. So I say, what the heck. I’ve tried everything else, why not this?
I have not paid a cent and I am getting subscribers already. I’ve only been at this for a week and I am making more headway than I ever have doing anything else. And all I had to do was follow some simple instructions, join the traffic exchanges (most of them I had already been using anyway), and surf one hour daily. That’s the meat and potatoes of the whole system. You surf, that’s it. The system does the work for you.
You surf, they will come. I am living proof of that.
I have looked long and hard (most definitely the latter, very very hard) for something like this. My search is over. Margaret is the only “guru” (and I despise calling her that) out there with a conscience. She doesn’t want your money. She wants all of us- and we are very much a family, we have our own private forum- to succeed. Plain and simple.
Go figure! In this day and age.
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How to Convert Internet Surfers into Targeted Website Traffic?
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Articles
Are you ready to find the solutions you have been searching for to promote your website effectively?
What you are about to discover will benefit you greatly in attracting tons of targeted website traffic.
What you are about to read is the culmination of information from many different places and resources. I hope you enjoy this information and see results with increase in sales and traffic to your website.
You are about to learn the information you have been searching for. I hope you find it helpful.
You can convert surfers into website traffic by giving them free bait that they can use in their day to day life and which helps them to solve a specific problem.
Give them this free bait and convince them to get to your website. Here are some uncommon and unusual free product bonuses to attract casual internet surfers to your website…
1. Publish an Offline Directory.
Produce an online list of offline resources. You could incorporate names, phone numbers, addresses, etc.
2. Create eBook with Your Honest Reviews.
Announce an ebook with quality information that’s connected to your target audience that you could review similar products, web sites, movies, etc.
3. Organize a Round Table Chat or Start a Forum.
You could schedule a group chat of individuals your clients would desire to meet and talk to on the internet.
4. E-mail Alerts with Specific Information.
Acknowledge your clients to sign up to an e-mail alert list. You can alert them when you discover out news that could attack their life.
5. Publish a Quality Information eReport.
You could gather a report of different statistics that’s related to their purchase. It could be surveys, tests, specific studies, etc.
6. Personal Notes eFile or Your Own Tip List Diary.
Collect notes that you’ve taken around your industry and compile them into a downloadable file.
7. Outline eBook with Specific Niche Interest.
Announce a profile ebook or report of people your target audience are involved in. You can list their birthdays, interests, age, hobbies, etc.
8. E-mail Lessons or eCourses.
Provide information about a topic your customers wish to learn. E-mail them study materials, worksheets, assignments, etc.
9. Sample of Another Product in Your Niche.
Deliver customers a free sample of another product as a reward. It could be a basic version, excerpt, limited service, etc.
10. To Do List or Blueprint to Achieve their Goal.
Publish a list of instructions or things to do in sequence to achieve a purpose your customers would want to complete.
I hope you have gotten some good ideas from this article and that you are able to use them.
Well, that’s the end of my article. I hope you will be able to use this information.
We have come to the end of this informational article. It’s now your job to take this information and do something with it. Good luck and thanks for visiting.
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