Have You Been Scammed Online?
By ronslove
@ronslove (481)
Philippines
June 11, 2008 5:06am CST
Cyber crime is eventualy creeping nowadays that it has a become a trend to those evil techy people.According to the study of Internet Crime Report of 2006, there were 207,492 complaints of online fraud all over the world. The highest fraud attributed to the so called Nigerian Letter fraud ($5,100)( I don't know why it's called Nigerian fraud) followed by check fraud victims ($3,744) and investment fund ($2,695). The cyber crimes started out from communication through email (73.9%) and webpages (36%). Creepy right?
Are you one of the victims? Have you been scammed online?
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6 responses
@douchrti (176)
• United States
12 Jun 08
Im the lucky one in this case. Online security is my business. Its very saddening to see the Internet experience we enjoy trashed by those would would take advantage of the casual user.
@douchrti (176)
• United States
13 Jun 08
OK, here are a few must haves,
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm
And there is ScamBusters
http://www.scambusters.org/
And I have a link on my site for many more,
http://www.spywarebiz.com/spyrecommend.htm
Hope this helps,
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
12 Jun 08
I haven't been scammed through email before though I have received tons of scam emails. But I have been scammed quite a good number of times through other means like participating in hyips, auto-surfing programmes and those programmes where you invest your money for a return. Having been bitten so many times, I have learned to stop participating in such programmes, but I still keep to a few which are still ongoing. Hopefully these do not turn into scams also. I am still discovering ways to earn money without being scammed.
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
12 Jun 08
Thanks for the link. I'll keep that in mind. I have come across a couple of sites like this where people with skills post their experience, and companies looking to hire help contract work to freelancers who match their skill requirements. I am actually more inclined to look for passive ways of earning through those set and forget kinds of schemes. There are such opportunities out there. The challenge is to find the right ones that can really make money. I have tried affiliate marketing but have only limited success so far.
@arcideaco (1257)
• Singapore
11 Jun 08
The only time that I was scammed was by Paid.vg. But it was really not too much of a amount.
Cheers.
@arcideaco (1257)
• Singapore
11 Jun 08
Yes, I was both unfortunate and lucky way. Well in a way though.
Cheers.
@brucekaushik (891)
• India
11 Jun 08
yes i have been scammed by a person online who promised me to teach me how to earn online .. when i payed money to him and that's it and he never came online again.
and also i brought some crappy ebooks also which i felt are equal to scam.
@brucekaushik (891)
• India
11 Jun 08
yes i did learn that lesson
but after i got to mylot a lot of people are helping me.
@gabbarsingh (95)
• India
11 Jun 08
i have been scammed once by an email of UK lottery. I am sorry i have deleted that email so cannot share it with you,
However, i guess there no shortcuts to success and hence ignore any mail which says this much money in this much time.
