Let's Talk About Scams--On The Internet & In Real Life

It wasn't a shame to share my experience here. Once, it was at my early age while I was in high school. I received a phone call, a stranger claimed that I had won some radio gift, a book of coupons worth $300, but I have to forward $50 transaction fee plus transportation fee for him to bring it over. So, I did agree, although I don't know when I entered a radio contest to win such gift. I gave him $50, and that book of coupons was worthless at some point.

With technology developing so fast, its very difficult to stay safe from scams and also these scam artists are actually going to a great extent putting in a lot of effort but you can always learn by experience.By experience I don't mean get into a scam and suffer. What I'm saying is by keen observation you can always tell which ones are scams and which aren't

okay a few years ago I signed up for alottery type site for a dollar a month okay so I w ons maybe thirty or forty cents but the next month instead of one dollar they had used myh derbit card to take from my accou nt ten dollars which was not in the deal at all.I had to chasnge my debit card number to stop their draining money out of myh accoujnt then myh bgan,k jumped on them and they were forced to return all ten dollars as I hnad closed the acco unt.I do not know the name f uit niw byt it just gae you a chance to bet a series of winning numnbers.they scam you right and left.

This era is full of all kinds of scam. There are phone scam, internet scam, direct selling scam and marketing scam. There is this infamous land banking scam that swipe almost all the South East Asia countries. My husband and I heard of this but after listening to the talk, we invested. Just do not know why? It seems they really good at convincing us into it that it is legitimate and everything is proper. However, we took the risk and did not even withdraw during the allowable 'cooling off' period of one month. After 4 years and there is still no development on it, I got a feeling it could be a scam too. So, I am telling myself, if after 20 years they did return the money, then it is a bonus ...like the famous Chinese saying "Salted fish comes alive". I am praying hard that we are able to cash it out in few years time as we really need those money for my son's college fees. Still praying and hoping!

I have almost been scammed once. I join a site called FanBox and I was told to add my PayPal email for payment. When I did that, they took 20 dollars from me. I contacted the site and no one ever got back to me. They took my money just like that. So I contacted PayPal and explained the situation to them. PayPal then stopped payment to them and got my money back. I then canceled my account with FanBox and blasted them all over the internet. I don't feel bad about that because they just took my money without warning. I even started a discussion here on MyLot about it. We do have to be careful online. I am happy with the sites I use now to earn from. A great social network, MyLot of course and some other sites I use daily. Also a few writing sites as well. It keeps me busy and I earn at the same time.

to be agent of 1971 one peso Rizal coins which is not written in our history but later i found it as HOAX and only to fool others is their intention. I thought it is realy existing for some agent here say it says I don't have a background being an agent and it was my first time to find my luck. So i made a researched after this for many offer that they have this but they need a down payment and other one said they have a buyer of it and they need samples and few months later not even single coin I haven't seen even the coin collector here in the Philippines do not believe with that too for it was not in the record. and later I found out what they said is true. I wasted my time and load there and my name here in the internet.the next one about renting a dump truck for mining companies. they gave me a draft contract that i will show to look for 10wheeler dump trucks for rentals. and I have collected orcr which is proof that there is a dump truck. but months come and the mining haven't started and later after making a deep research and contacting the mining companies and corporation I found out that there is no contract existing yet and all the draft contract is only made with this people whom you wouldn't think that they cannot fool others for they are educated and some are with profession.so I found out that they collect ORCR and then after they collect it they will offer this to companies. and many also posted this on the internet. and also some who passed the orcr is only fooling too. You will only found out being fooled when after the specific date they will move it and they have many different alibi. So I stop on it. So my moral lesson here is first research deeply and follow our common sense. I have common sense before but I still believe in their words of mouth. Now I learned from my mistake.Many agents here are scammer. They will offer different item which is impossible to other and for them it is possible and you will be convince how they talk and promise you millions of peso, and if you don't make invetigation.. You will find yourself caught on their trap.