How can scam sites be stopped
By enyi ada
@Berrygal (5834)
May 16, 2018 5:29am CST
I just joined a forum where members of another site are complaining about not being paid and the admin of that site is not replying to PMS for weeks now,now that can very annoying and the site is still online and scamming people but my question is ,is the anything we can do about this?Any way to report such sites?
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@owlwings (43907)
• Cambridge, England
16 May 18
Not really. The server on which the site is hosted may be in one country and the actual admin/owner in a completely different country. The people who own the server won't be interested as long as their fees are paid and their Terms of Service aren't being breached and the police in the country where the owner/admin lives won't do anything unless you can prove that a criminal offence has been committed (and non-payment of the relatively small amounts involved in a site such as that probably don't constitute a criminal offence and, in any case, would be difficult if not impossible to prove. Besides, you'd need to hire a lawyer in that country to sue the owner of the site and pay court fees and costs. Is it worth your while doing that? I thought not! Just accept the losses (which are likely only time spent) and move on.
@Berrygal (5834)
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16 May 18
Your last sentence if all sites admin should have this at the back of their mind oh they will move on if not paid then no body would make a dime online.of course this your last statement is why other scamming sites are booming daily. I think if such people are dealt with scamming sites will drastically reduced
@owlwings (43907)
• Cambridge, England
16 May 18
@Berrygal It has to be said that most of the so-called 'scam' sites don't pay because the owners are bad businessmen and don't have the money to pay what they promised. There'd be little point in trying to prosecute them because no amount of wringing would get money out of someone who has none.
There are, of course, a number of REAL scammers who never intended to pay their members in the first place. They are usually sites which ask their members to pay some money up front and then use all sorts of tricks to refuse payment. You will usually find 'get out' clauses hidden in their Terms of Service, so they can't be prosecuted because what they are doing is perfectly 'legal'.
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@kaphokz (202)
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16 May 18
I think you should go away with that site, and forget about the money that you have in there.
@EfficientNinja (124)
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16 May 18
One would be to stop supporting the site and inform other active members. This way, their revenue will decrease and they could stop hosting their website.
