Scams

media type="custom" key="3894197"media type="custom" key="3894175"media type="custom" key="3894095"media type="custom" key="3868407"  There are many types of scams these include: lottery and competiton scams, chain letter and pyramid scams, investment scams, money transfers, banking and accounts scams, idnetity theft, internet scams, mobile phone scams, health and medical, job and employment and small business scams. Lottery and competition scams are when someone asks for an upfront fee in order to be in a lottrey or give you fake betting winners and numbers. Pyramid scams are where someone makes a fake business and then charges an upfront fee to employ people.

Then the employees don't get any of their money back until they start to employ more people. These things never work because they'd have to have and endless amount of people getting employed and this cannot happen. So the money quickly dries up and no one gets any money back execpt the person who created this scam. Investment scams are where they make up a fake comapany and promise you rising share prices all the time or that the share price will double or even triple. They then get sent money from people supposebly buying shares in this company. Afterwards this person will then liquidate the company or pretend they went bankrupt. The most common type of scam is where they send you an emial offering to send money to your bank account as long as you give them your bank details. But what they really do is empty your account and steal all your money as well as your personal details. They might send an email pretending to be your bank; asking to make sure that your bank details are correct.

Your bank will never ask for your bank details on an email so if any emails ask fro your bank details it's a scam. Also some people might create a fake website pretending to be a bank and will really steal your personal details. A mobile phone scam is where you buy a ring tone and what's happening is they've signed you up to a service that keeps sending you ring tones and charging you for them. They are also hard to get out of and they still charge you even if you don't want the ring tone.

Internet scams are usally fake websites or popups offering you money or services for an upfront fee or for your personal details. The medical and health scams are when they pretend they have a miracle cure for a disease or a way to lose weight fast by eating or using this product. If you haven't heard about this cure or weight loss product on the news it'll be fake because it would be everywhere on the news if it was real. Small business scams are where they send you a fax offering you money, great deals, competitons and other scams to draw you in. They say all you have to do is send a fax back to a premium number which can cost over $6.00 per minute. They make sure it'll take a while for your fax to come through and can cost a fair bit of money.

Also they might pretend to advertise your company in a directory or any other means and they say it's free. But when you agree to it they then charge you a fee later on. They also might pretend you've already subscribed to it by reading out an advertisement of your business from another directory and then charge you moeny for it. If you don't pay they might threaten legal action but don't believe them. There are also scams that sell ordinary products that are overpriced or are of poor quality. Sometimes this happens in stores because the company might raise the price of something and say it's on special. How do you detect a scam? If they ask for upfront fees or payments for lotteries, purchases or services over the phone or by email it's usually a scam. If it sounds to good to be true it usually is like the medical and health scams. When a popup offers you something for free or says your a winner or the 1 millionth vsitor to this site and then it goes to a different site when you click on it, it's a scam.

If you get an emails offering you money and asking for your perosonal or bank details it's a scam. When you buy a ringtone make sure they don't keep chaging you for it. Always check quality of somehtig your buying and use comparative shopping to be surew it's not a rip off Also for the fax back scams if it's a premium number (startes with 190) and offers you something for free it's a scam. If your a small business and someone says you've already ordered or subcribed to something you don't know about it'll be a scam. You can also tell if you've never heard of that company.