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How to Recognize Scam Sites

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in Uncategorized

Hi lad!

Have you ever come across one lengthy page sites, with testimonials that are too good to be true, offering business opportunity, ebooks, or automatic moneymaker softwares?

My friend, many people seek the opportunity to earn money from the internet, some use quality services as a media, some use scam to swindle the innocence. Scam sites belongs to the second, trying to get money without providing genuine value. If you are new to the idea of making money online, you better read this in order to evade the fraud of the second type.

Basically, scammers work by delivering the making money idea of “do what I do” to you. If you buy their trick, they will give you web scripts to create your own scam site or trashy e-books to resell, like they do. And Google never have any program that pays you to put links, so don’t buy that crap. Such program will suck money from your credit card starting the second month of your membership.

So, how to recognize spam sites?

1. Single lengthy page sites

If you see a website that only consists of one extra long page, and it looks like the owner only wanted to set it up once and never update it again (but keeps receiving money), it can be a scam. Scammers’ ideology is to earn money continuously without keep working. They usually put lengthy information on the front page, with signup / buy link on the bottom of the page.

2. Fancy testimonials

If the testimonials from the users / members on the site sounds too good to be true, perhaps they are too good to be true and the site is scam-ful. Those people are fake and the photos are stolen from somewhere. This method is the basic on scamming dictate book.

3. Big fonts

Using big fonts is a common tradition among scammers. If you see a site that uses big fonts for its texts and even bigger for headlines, it can be a scam. Junior scammers get the typical script from their seniors, and they later on pass the custom to newbie scammers and so on, that’s why.

4. Whois / domain info

You can get domain information of a suspected scam site using whois lookup tools. (search for “whois” on Google, you’ll find one). If the domain was created three moths ago and there is a testimonial stating a membership of five months, that’s certainly a scam. Some scammers are too lazy to create their own scam so they only copy and paste testimonials from other scammers. It is not too harmonious with the domain information sometimes, and some scammers are not intelligent enough to know it.

5. Promoted via spam + shortened URL

If you see a website offered in spam emails where its URL is shortened, it might be a scam. The URL shortening is to hide the original one, and why would someone hide an URL if there were nothing wrong with it?

Alright then, those above are the flags of scam sites, be careful if you find them somewhere. Ask uncle Google to find you further reference about the suspect and think twice before joining or use their products, as precautions. And if you have an honest online business / website, don’t make it look and promote it like a scam. It’s not too good for business, is it?

Tags: online buisness, scam