Number of Scam sites
By tihsur
@tihsur (112)
8 responses
@drilyas (843)
• Pakistan
30 Sep 07
thats a nice idea.but you have not mentioned any site that tell us which site is a scam.do u know how to test any site?
@acmepride (1546)
• United States
19 Sep 07
This is really a very helpful discussion, which could perhaps easily provide extremely important information to all of us.
Personally, I don't exactly know whether I actually came across a scam site already perhaps because, even if I already have, I may not have been fully aware at that particular time that such site was indeed merely a scam, especially since I don't really fully know what a "scam site" precisely is.
However, to be sure, if a scam site pertains to a website that was set up to hire you for your services and claims to give you monetary compensation for the services you've rendered or work you've done, then I believe that I have unfortunately been victimized by a scam site.
Though I do not know for sure if it's indeed a scam site for all who became a member of it, my personal experience with it tells me otherwise, given my definition of a "scam site."
The site I'm exactly referring to is the now inoperative http://www.setupyourwebsites.com
So, why exactly do I think that it's just a scam? Allow me to recount my unpleasant experience.
This particular site claims to pay you for whatever services or works you could give or produce that they would, in turn, use for their own purposes.
Specifically, I've been writing web content for it for several months and, as a result, monetary compensation appeared on my payment log.
After several months of writing for it, I earned several dollars, which I did not immediately withdraw, since I wanted to essentially increase my earnings before I would finally ask for a payout through IKOBO or Paypal--the mechanisms by which I would have been paid, as claimed by the website.
However, since I was busy in school during those days, I naturally had less time to log on to my account and write web content.
So, in a sense, I had a hiatus from writing for the site so that I could focus more on my academics.
After several weeks, when my schedule was not so busy anymore and quite manageable already, I decided to access my account again (this was late 2006, if I'm not mistaken) and to my utter shock and chagrin, this was the terribly infuriating message that welcomed me:
"Sorry... please try back in 2007!
This site is down for adminstrative revamping and we remain down until at least January 1, 2007."
What in the freaking world is that?!
It's obviously way past January 1, 2007 now but they are still "revamping" and they still "remain down."
Let me get this straight. I spent several months exerting so much effort just to ensure that my works would be excellent, if not perfect, since I expected to be proportionately compensated for it.
But what do I get for all of it?
ZERO! NIL! A FARTING MESSAGE!
I haven't even gotten a cent for all the work I've done, which they just unfairly used for their own shadowy purposes.
To add insult to injury, if I'm not mistaken, the operators of the now defunct http://setupyourwebsites.com is currently deplorably operating a site called workfromhomehq or something like it.
So, to those who are planning to visit such scam sites, for your own sake, PLEASE DO NOT!
As the oft-used adage, more or less, goes, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
In the end, I could really only hope that others would not experience what I had the bad luck of experiencing.
Stay safe and happy myLotting!
@andyliuzn (1029)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Sep 07
Hehe, I don't have much experience here , or say,I wouldn't remember once I notice it I would close the window. I would try to note it and give you more details here.
Andy
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
1 Oct 07
Join my website go to my prolile please. it is slow but you do make money, they say it is best to upgrade but I haven't, I want to upgrade with the money that I make there. welcome to Mylot.