Monday, January 12, 2009

Online scams aka "A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted"

Why should anybody ...

be taken in by Online Scams or Mobile Phone scams or fax scams, etc?

You greedy &%&$*%(~ !!

The criminals know that there are greedy people everywhere, who want to get something for nothing (the free lunch thingy? heh heh ...). Well, as a reasonably reasonable person, you should be able to differentiate whether it is really a free lunch (as explained in a separate post far below) ... or a scam. The following are scam pointers to look out for:
  • they start asking for your bank account details
  • they ask you to bank in a small sum ("administration fee") to get a humungous sum
  • they ask for your passwords
  • they PROMISE you a free trip, etc
  • you have not bought any lotteries, but they say you have won milliions
  • you have not entered any contests, but they say you have won big
  • they start to pressure you, eg. they say this is a time bound "offer"
  • the offer is too good to be true
  • they usually have bad English spelling

Well, there you go ... don't get scammed ... whether it is by Madoff or Satyam or Nigerians ... hee hee ...

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