Internet Scams

Forums and carnivals

2009-07-16T21:56:00.000-07:00

This is another post which I hope will go over well.

I am just starting to appreciate the uses of forums. I mistakenly imagined that they were kind of boring. Weblogging was easier and I went with it for my internet efforts. Blogging is superb, I know this from experience, and I learned many things about css because of it. I got to know about search marketing and how to write articles and submit them to article directories on the web. Back to the subject of forums. Sometimes known as an online bulletin board a forum is essentially an online site for discussions among other things that it does. To state the obvious, the forum is patterned after the traditional forum, where people speak their ideas and when people cannot be together in one place at the same time, the next thing:

a bulletin board. There are many uses that forums can be put to. Online Marketing easily comes to mind.

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I will prevail

2008-10-18T06:20:00.001-07:00

I know that it is difficult. I know that it is next to impossible. I do not have the magic that will make me move from stupid to magical. I am going back to Cagayan De Oro and that is a good thing. My fingers are still stiff and I delude myself into thinking that I could ever play the piano. This is a laugh but this is nothing because it hurts no one.

I know that I should pick myself up and not allow myself to sink into the old morass that I kept myself in for a long time. This is just stupid and I should not allow this to happen again. There is mango concentrate in Cagayan De Oro City and I am looking forward to buying a bottle or two.

Where is the magic? Where is the wonderful thing that will transform my life into something truly worth living?

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Some discussions about scams

2008-04-28T08:49:00.000-07:00

I have just finished making a number of posts relating to scams and I found out that many people have been scammed and that it is something quite common on the internet. I suppose that nothing can be done about it because there will always be takers and even though people learn once they have been scammed not to trust everyone implicitly, there are newbies that just wait to be scammed, what with their open-eyed suggestibility.

This is not to say that newbies are easily duped. But that scammers are constantly perfecting their craft and it is becoming more difficult to spot the scams that are played on the internet. I only hear about this person and that person who have been scammed and you thank God that this part of their education is now over and they are ready to move on to the next stage.

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Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway. Jai Alexander rocks!

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Another scam

2008-04-15T19:04:00.001-07:00

I recently got an email telling me about another scam which involved asking you to try out an offer for $1 but which also requires you to give your credit card information and your permission to have them deduct $29 every month unless you revoke it.

One could easily forget to revoke since one would not be reading all the fine print and the details and one could suddenly just discover it months hence, if ever it does get found out.

This is a very clever scam and would not be a scam of itself if what it is selling is worth the monthly fee.

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Check out these other sites: Cebu which suddenly got a pr1, Cagayan de Oro just for fun. Moira Trinity also got a pr1.

Some scammy types

2007-11-19T04:26:00.000-08:00

In my early days on the Internet, I came across traffic exchanges and I jumped into them with gusto. So much so that my hard disk gave out from having to jump from one website to another in those automatic traffic exchanges. I did not know if they were any good or not but I had nothing else so I did those. There were some sites that enticed you to click on ads and now I know that this is truly immoral. Then, I thought it was just one of those things. The thing that I quickly realized was that it was a labor-intensive process which somehow flew in the face of my theory of automatic income. These methods of traffic generation are bogus.

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One of the traffic exchanges that purported to be a cut above the rest was linkreferral. When you join them, you were supposed to review and give your comments on other people's websites in exchange for having other people review your website too. Sounded good to me so I did it very religiously. I got some pretty good reviews and my standing was pretty good. Problem was that it was just as labor-intensive as the rest of these exchanges and the benefits were a bit dubious. They had this thing where you could pay $50 and you did not have to physically click and review any sites at all and they had a referral program which looked promising. The part which I thought was scammy was the stats where they say you had so many people that you referred and they could have upgraded too. You could make money but you really don't know because they don't tell you if these were real people or they just made them up to entice you to upgrade.

Upgrade I did to the tune of $50 and to my dismay and disgust at my naivete, there was nothing there. The people that they listed as having been referred by me turned out to be just numbers generated by their script.

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Work At Home Scam

2007-10-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

It seemed too good to be true. Well as it turned out, it was. The sales pitch made a big to-do about the scheme being legal and allowed by government agencies. Immediately, it should have raised a red flag somewhere in my brain but my curiousity got the better of me and, the money they were asking was not really much. There were others asking for $49 and even $99 for what seemed like the same thing. Here was this offer for $9. I just had to find out if it was the real deal. Well as they say, curiousity killed the cat. In this case, curiousity scammed this cat.

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As it turned out, the materials they were so "generous" in giving amounted duplicating the ads and getting other people to buy into the scheme and in effect, scam others. The only thing is, I was going to be the one to scam these unwitting others. I emailed the lady who so blithely said it was not against the law. I said it was certainly immoral and left her to deal with her karma. I certainly got stung with mine.

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Is A Scammer Smarter Than The Scammed?

2007-09-12T05:11:00.000-07:00

Someone once said that among the Maranao people in Muslim Mindanao, putting one over another is a form of victory proving that one is smarter than the other. There is no ill feeling involved, just competition. An example of this is the case of one muslim man who was organizing a Rock Concert and did not include his cousin in the organization. The excluded cousin merely said, "I am happy you are making this concert because I will be making money". When asked how he plans to do this, he merely said, "I will print fake tickets and sell them".

Could this be considered a scam? Is cheating merely a game?

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More scams than I realize

2007-07-26T06:14:00.000-07:00

It never occurred to me that scamming on the internet is so widespread. Even so-called legitimate internet marketers resort to 'scam-my' tricks to make a buck. The fact of the matter is that when the amounts that you are asked to shell out are small, there is very little incentive for you to go and run after the scammer since that would entail more expense on your part with no assurance of success. Besides looking foolish for falling for the scam in the first place, one can only be seen as being even more foolish for running after someone who has probably done this a thousand times and could easily disappear in the Internet jungle.

When so-called expert internet marketers offer to share with you their 'fool-proof' plan to make you an internet millionnaire you must wonder at their motivation for doing so. Is it altruism or does he know something that you don't? Namely, that he is making money from people like you and not from the stuff he is teaching. That should be fairly obvious. Still, many fall for the line that they pitch and plunk in their dollars. Do they succeed and become internet millionaires or do they fail in ignominious silence?

Directories and Web Portals. These are popular concepts and they are supposed to be magic bullets. I wouldn't know. I haven't had any sort of success on the Internet. Maybe I should travel to exotic destinations to help me get rid of this preoccupation with the Internet.

There are scams and there are scams

2006-10-02T09:51:00.000-07:00

There are scams being perpetrated on the net which are so subtle that one would find it absolutely difficult to build a case against those perpetrating the scheme, for the simple reason that they are so clever in devising the scam that it just never occurs to you that you are being scammed. The sales pages are so convincing but one would have to be an expert to really find something wrong or illegal about it. I would not know since I have not tried to test the legality of some of the "scams" which are being played on the net every day.

A very common theme which I have found is the big sales pitch that one could make lots of money from joining some free site. This would entice everyone except the jaded and the smart. They explain in a very convoluted and verbose fashion the mechanics of how it works, taking care not to show exactly how it works. Am I being obtuse here? Let me explain. Let us say that you are to be paid a certain amount for doing something like clicking on ads or banners. This is most questionable but for the newbie, it can be a damn simple way to make money. Or so he thinks. The deal is, there are only 3 or 4 banners to click everyday and each click pays a fraction of a cent.

You do the math. You cannot make even a cent in one day. The reason for this is they ask you to recruit other people to join the scheme thereby allowing you to make more or so they would want you to think. Very clever indeed since the more dupes they get, the better for them and, since the dupes do not make any real money anyway, they will not have to worry about paying anybody out dupe or otherwise.

I have always wondered about the legality of this kind of website but I figured, it is the job of the authorities to go after them. The big thing to remember here is that they very often give you a big bonus for signing in, but you will never see the color of their money since the amount they set for payout is so high that it would take you ten years of clicking to get at the money.

This trick or technique of setting a very high amount for payout is not limited to paid to click schemes. You often find these in manual or auto-surf sites which entice you to join free and earn bonuses from surfing other people's sites. It can get pretty exciting when you get bonuses of 2 or 5 or 25 or sometimes even 50 cents every few minutes while earning visits to your sites too, but pretty soon you realize that it would take forever to earn the payout of $150 or more. I remember doing this and feeling excited when I totalled $15 in one day and simultaneously felt groggy and nauseous from having to stare at the computer screen for most of the day. I could not do any kind of work the following day due to the fact that my vision was scrambled and I had a touch of vertigo from trying to earn a measly $15 the day before.

Is this a scam? Maybe. Is it illegal? I do not think so. Caveat emptor. The Romans say. Is there incentive for the operators of this scheme? Do they make money? I do not think so. I have seen a lot of sites like this go out of business after a few months. The upshot is, everybody learns. I would hope.

I have since come to realize that there is no substitute for learning your way around the Internet and seeing how things really work from reading about other people's experiences and getting burned first hand (ouch!). Still, the Internet is all about selling whether it be products or ideas. Even some ideas being sold are so outlandish one wold think they are somehow "scammy".

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Life is a scam

2006-08-28T00:48:00.000-07:00

What can you do? Most of life is really one form of scam or another. The biggest scams are being uncovered as scientists peel away the layers of reality to reveal that nothing is really as firm as we believe them to be. A piece of wood may look solid enough so that if one were to be hit in the head with it, some form of damage would be inflicted on skin of the head if not fracturing the skull itself. On the sub-atomic level, the atoms that comprise that piece of wood have another kind of reality. An atom is composed of a nucleus and orbiting electrons. The nucleus and the electrons never meet such that it might as well be infinite space that separates them This ghostlike quality of an atom is a far cry from the solid manifestation of a bunch of atoms that comprise a piece of wood that is capable of inflicting great damage to a head or a portion of the human body that comes in contact with it as when a wooden bat is swung to strike a man. A neutrino on the other hand, is a particle so tiny that it would pass through most anything as though nothing exists except itself

One of the biggest scams in human history is the belief that the world is flat. Sailors and mariners would be afraid to stray from charted waters for fear of falling off the edge of the world. Ancient maps would say, "here be dragons" to denote parts of the world which people know nothing about.

Christopher Columbus in his quest to find treasures for his king by charting a route to the fabled land of India mistakenly thought that the Indies was India hence the name and the indelible appellation of native Americans as Indians.The fiction of Heven and Hell is one of the biggest scams perpetrated on gullible Christians who swallow hook line and sinker anything professed by Church Fathers and Evangelists who know how to write and orate better than to use their reason.

Galileo Galilei was a genius who fell victim to the ignorance of the Church Fathers who found his notion of the Heliocentric System contrary to the Religious belief that the sun revolved around the earth. He spent his life in house arrest so to speak unable to share his wisdom and knowledge for the good of humanity simply because his theory challenged popular Christian belief.

Even today, the general population is held captive by the ignorance of so-called leaders who foist their own brand of authoritarianism in the name of Democracy and freedom and economic progress. Proponents of terrorism also promote the fiction of a holy war on clueless adolescents and young people who feel dispossessed and hopelesss enough to end their own lives along with their intended victims by a tragic act of self-annihilation.

Life is a scam and scams are not limited to economic scams perpetrated in the Internet by unscrupulous marketers who prey on the naive desire of people to make money online. Every day there is a new scam being concocted by people and every day there are people falling victim to these scams. The Romans in their legalistic wisdom knew that scams were difficult to prevent so they merely decreed: Caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware.

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There's a sucker born every minute

2006-08-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

Was it P.T. Barnum, the famous circus impressario who said, "There's a sucker born every minute"? This astute observation underlies a very basic fact that powers commerce which is: Information. A very simple example will suffice to make my point. Let us say a product is selling in a warehouse for $1 and very few people know about it. An enterprising man would canvass the people he knows to see if they would buy that product and at what price. If he could find 10 people to buy the product at $5, he might go back to that warehouse and buy 20 items. He knows something which the warehouse owner doesn't know which are the people who would buy the product and he also knows something which the people who want to buy the product do not know which is where to buy the product at a lower price. The enterprising businessman has leveraged his knowledge or information to make profits.

This scenario is all very good business practice and most businesses are conducted in this manner. In fact, this is the whole basis for International Trade. In times past, the explorer who could find a way to the East which is where spices were plentiful could create an empire. The tiny island of Britain became a vast, powerful empire due to her enterprising subjects who brought Eastern products to Europe which had an unending appetite for Oriental goodies.

All of this is very good and the activities of businessman provide the goods which satisfy men's wants. There is however, a different kind of businessman or enterpreneur, one who exploits ignorance or curiousity or need utilizing means which are less than honest. A circus or a carnival is a prime example of this type of enterpreneur who ply their trade in an overtly legal manner: they take your money from under your nose and there is nothing you can do about it because you gave that money willingly. In simple words, you were suckered into it.

This brings us to the question of products or schemes of questionable nature. We are all aware of the infamous Pyramid scheme where you are enticed to invest sums of money for out-of-this-world profits. A skeptical man is easily duped by initially receiving double the amount of what he put in, all in a matter of days. He begins to suspect that this smooth operator might have a real money machine and greed reels him into the scam. Of course, it is quite easy to double a small sum of money. The real winner in this game is the smooth operator who runs away with vast sums of your money once you let him have his hands on it.

There are scams and there are suckers and the world goes on whirling in space as the song goes.

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