Avoid Internet Business SCAMs

There are just as many SCAMs on the Internet as there is business ideas. The most popular I see is "I Guarantee To Make You Rich In 5 Weeks or Your Money Back" Most of them will honor the guarantee if you follow their guidelines. The guarantee works because most people never complete all of the steps necessary to get the refund or get rich. Many of those that do just don't bother asking for a refund. Its what they call bean counting. They can sell more non refund orders than they do the ones that ask for the refund due to failure. If it were so easy then why is everyone in the world not rich.

Another big SCAM is e-mail hoax. I get four or five e-mails a day asking for for me to accept millions of dollars in the name of some corporation or bank. They are getting better with the wording also. The latest ones I have gotten are from some bank executive at some Swiss bank claiming the money is legal and legitimate. All they need is my account info to transfer the money out of their country to mine.

There must be people feeding this industry pretty good because it seems to be growing instead of disappearing. I would imagine they have millions of dollars but you will never see a dime of it. Their money comes from innocent people whom think they will get rich quick.

Another a couple of weeks ago came across my desk by accident. I got a SPAM mail from some one. Normally I do not answer them but this one made me mad because they tricked me into opening the e-mail under false pretenses. I sent them back a reply that they should look at getting web site traffic with search engine optimization instead of wasting time and effort on e-mails that just make people mad. A few days later I got another e-mail apologizing for the first and asking how much I would charge for my service. I thought I had a potential customer. I went out and started evaluating his sites existing position with the search engines. I could not find it. I then went deeper and started looking for his product. That is when I found that this was a company that was making a second try on the Internet with their cell phone resell product. It was a SCAM and I had considered representing them, until I researched the company.

I can not guarantee you that you will never fall subject to a SCAM but if you follow these simple steps it will remove most possibilities.