Lottery and Sweepstakes scams
The consumers may receive phone calls or Email stating that they have won a fortune in the lottery lucky draw. It may carry the names of genuine lottery agencies from abroad such as UK. The numbers of this unsolicited e mails are increased in the recent past. The scammers from UK, Nigeria and other African countries are prevalently involved in these scams.
In the mail they may congratulate on winning big amount of money in the national lottery draw. They will ask for initial amount to claim the money for the purpose of shipment and delivery charges. In fact no genuine lottery agency asks for delivery and tax charges from the consumers. These are just to deceive the public and earn money.
Online Auction Frauds
The scam is prevalently called as E bay or PayPal scams, since the scammer widely used these two companies. They misrepresent products advertised for sale via online auction site and offer you in very cheap prices. Because of the big offers and very low prices, some tend to buy the product online, without thoroughly verifying the site. The scammers will collect money before the product delivery and the product never comes home.
Money Transfer Scams
In the money transfer scams the victim may receive offers from the scammers via letter, email or fax stating that they need to transfer money from the country to country. They also offer to provide the victim a whopping share for the return of using the bank account.
This scam generally targets the bank account details of the victim. They may ask you to provide the details such as name of the bank, type of account, account number etc. Once they get the account details, they swindle their account in no time.
Phishing for Identity Theft
The scammers may send you well designed and professional looking mail which appears to be received from real bank or Credit Card Company. That will be given link to another page which will ask for the details of the bank account.
This is just to collect the details of your account using which they can sweep your savings from the bank. Never ever disclose those details as the banks and credit card companies never ask for details thorough E mails.
Get Rich Scam Websites
These websites will contain the ideas and shortcuts to make money online in no time. They may state that you can earn lot of money by spending part of your spare time using their techniques and tactics. Using this opportunity, they may sell you their products such as books, CDs etc which contains nothing. The websites themselves are scams, which is only a gimmick to collect your personal identity information.
Freelance Works Scams
Most of the people wants to works at their home and don’t want to get into pressure environment. Using this opportunity, many online scammers may contact you saying that they will provide jobs which you can do it from home itself. They will ask you pay some meager amount for the sake of security. These are scams; they never provide jobs to you. They will only target some bucks from you.
Multi Level Marketing Scams
Some online networking websites which may scream like ‘make money online in your spare time without any work’. What all you need to do is just buy our product and join our community. Then you will receive free gifts for each and every person you persuade to join the site.
These are scam websites and business. They never provide any free gifts or money as they promised. Nor you can approach them in their physical address, as they only provide fake address.
Phone call Scams
In the phone call scam the scammers tend to give you missed call usually from a toll number. But the number will be disguised and it cannot be exactly found out the location of the number.
If you make calls casually to the number, you mobile balance will be dried out as that is a toll number. The scammers use this trick for a very long time and making money out of it.
Debt loan scams
The perpetrators may approach you saying that they can help you to get out of your debt by providing you a bank loan for that. They may demand for the advance amount for that. The bankrupts would tend to believe that, as they are in trouble and pay the advance amount. Later the payment they cannot contact the person and by the time it is too late to understand that it is just a scam.
Job Hunter scams
The scammers may contact the job seekers through mail stating that the receiver has got job in a MNC with the salary in millions. They will ask you to pay the deposit amount as they need to send you air ticket for the final interview. Without knowing that this is a scam many jobseekers pay the deposit amount for the air ticket which will never come. No MNC demands you to pay deposit amount announcing through email communication. There are generally scams which will not have any contact number in it to clarify.
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