Truth Behind Scams on The Internet

Truth behind Scams on the Internet

The Internet helps us in many ways. Having us communicate and be socialize and expose to different cultures and races around the globe. Buisness and marketing was enhanced with the help of the Internet to communicate all over the world with just in a matter of minutes or could be possibly in seconds. It helps alot in companies to merchants, businessman and even to every person to express their products and services. As the Internet grows and grows bigger the complexity of security issues is also at risk. So here comes fraud, piracy, theft and misuse of information should always be a concern. Are you always secured in surfing the web? Nah! That’s a hard question to be answered swiftly by yes. Yes! i mean you should have to think of it as many times as the Internet fastly evolve. So why the do we need this security? The answer is simple you wanted not to be a victim of scammers and spammers.

So What is a Scam?

A scam is a sheme which purposely distorts the truth in order to get someone to part with something of value. see  http://www.ukskeptics.com/article.php?dir=articles&article=what_is_a_scam.php for a narrow meaning of scam.

Heres a sample video of scamming that happens in the real world, uploaded at youtube.

So have are you done seeing the video? Guess what? It happens in reality even though you met the person face to face still you could get scammed, how much more when it is apply in the digital world of business and marketing.

Scamming issues in the internet is not new to us. Since we have it in reality so we also had it more digitaly. The onlly thing we could have is to prevent and if possible avoid it.

Types of Scam

More common scams are:

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Currency exchange

Customers are often charged with hihg extraordinary rates when they want to convert their money.

Parcel delivery

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Many surfers are victim of counterfeiting for engaging fake company establishments like purchasing the products displayed on their websites and need a shipment fee of some dollars or pounds and tell customers and that the parcel was onhold by the customs and they should pay the shipment fee that could paid through visa or a bank account. After the victim had paid, yet the victim didn’t recieve anything.

Job offers

Foreigners offers and promises jobs to people in third world countries over to prosperous countries and have them paid for high salary jobs and pay for some initial payments and enough money for visa processing, yet after paying initial payments they don’t even have a simple job offered.

Lotteries

In this situation emails are sent through a victims email address and stated that they have won their lucky lottery numbers and in order to claim the prize they must pay a processing fee.

Credit card

The mishandling or providing of credit card numbers on the net to people who are untrusted with little or no background of thier biological information lets the victim being hacked.

For more types of scam please visit: thestar.com.my .

How could we be protected?

I am not a cmputer geek nor a computer genius either but as simply as what we see, the only thing we should do is to search for more information into that certain company bussiness or individuals offering their services before indulging and engaging to what we want in return.

Conclusions

We could not blamed that in the internet we had scam sites. It is because either a site’s purpose is to be established for profit, enjoyment and many other possible good or bad reasons. Sites often goes down or becomes scam sites because of abussive members who cheat, spam or scam the website itself. And so as a community that is established through the internet, all of us are affected. So, all i can say is that the best way to prevent and control the manipultions of scam sites, we should firstly start from ourselves not to cheat, spam and scam.

Hope your one of us.