Most Common Internet Scams

For years, internet marketing has become one of the fastest ways to make money apart from Forex. More and more people are joining the various home business opportunities believing that they can earn big money easily with minimum effort after being promised by so-called gurus. Unfortunately, their desire has also become an easy prey for the scammers who also saw internet as a potential money making tool. The only difference, they are out to earn at others' expense without giving anything or any value in return.
In this article, I am going to highlight the most common internet scams which eventually became the main reason that made most people sceptical and prevented them from achieving success online. I am also going to show you how to differentiate internet scams from real internet business opportunities that really can make you and I rich.
The first internet scam is lottery. The victim once received an email claiming that he has won millions of dollars due to the fact that his email address was being selected in a random draw. From my experience, most of such emails are written in broken English, inconsistent fonts and letter sizes. Secondly, I do not remember there is such a lottery contest called random email selection. Third but not least, it is ridiculous to accept the fact that Google, MSN and Yahoo are organizing a joint venture email selection contest since they are all direct competitors in both email accounts and search engines.
The second internet scam is Nigerian 419 scams. They are far more serious than lottery as they claimed more victims using its deception. Using a software called email harvesting, they gained access to millions of email addresses around the world and started sending scam messages. Those messages come in various forms such as:
1) Unclaimed Inheritance Funds
The victim receives an email that someone has died in a plane crash or some terrorist attack or natural disease and have left a huge inheritance usually 1 million and more. Since the decreased had no family or his family members also died with him, the funds are in the bank suspense account and unclaimed. Because of this, the victim can claim the funds.
2) Hidden Bank Deposits
In this case, the scammer will portray himself to be the son or daughter of a rich businessman who was killed by some jeolous relative or rebels. He will claim that his or her father have deposited a huge sum in the bank secretly and wanted to transfer the fund out of his country for security reasons. He will arrange the diplomat to deliver the money personally or funds to be transferred via Telegram or bank.
3) Contract Funds
In this case, the scammer will impersonate him or herself as a prominent businessman who wants to invest in another country for business purposes. Just like hidden bank deposits, he will want the fund to be delivered by the diplomat he sent or be transferred from bank to bank.

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