The Internet is not only a storehouse useful information, but also a very dangerous environment. There is an abundance of deception and all sorts of schemes to swindle money, which scammers use for their dirty enrichment.
The principles of deception are quite primitive and of the same type. Designed for beginners or simply inexperienced Internet users. And most of all, the caste of users who are asking the question: how to make money on the Internet? These are the people most vulnerable to fraud and, as a rule, they are young people.
You probably are not eager to join the huge number of people who have already been deceived on the Internet. I hope this is exactly the case! I will help you.
To avoid becoming a victim of deception, you just need to follow one simple rule - Never pay anyone or anything on the Internet and not believe in really working earning schemes related to investing money (any kind, literally)!
What are we talking about? Let's take a more specific look. You can come across similar offers: “You will earn $1000 in the first week by investing only $10” or “How I earn $3000 on the Internet in a month.”
Will you believe it? You need to understand that such slogans are designed for those who do not have their own heads on their shoulders. If all this were true, then there would not be a single janitor left in our country. Everyone would earn thousands of dollars at home on the Internet. But the reality is completely different! You can earn an income of 150 rubles a day, for example, this is already true and the numbers are more sane!
And here is another fresh example of how it is unnecessary to act. Now there is a new scam floating around the Internet - making money by transferring money. To earn money you need to register in their payment system and open an account there. Then a certain amount of money will be transferred to your account, and invoices will also be provided. Your task is to transfer money from your account to the accounts that were previously provided to you. After the work is completed, you will be credited with the promised % of the transfers. But this is where the fun begins...
When you want to withdraw these funds, it turns out that you need to top up your account with 100 dollars!, such as for account verification. That is, this is the very fatal line when someone who wants to earn money is faced with a choice - to believe it or not? Should I send it or not? But to get to the point, an inexperienced person will send money and get scammed for $100. Another will doubt it and start typing “earning money by transferring money reviews” into the search engine. A sober-minded realist will spit on this income from transferring money after one minute of delving into the essence. I hope you understand what I mean...
But don't despair. You can actually make money on the Internet, for example, from marketing research, but not thousands of dollars, but only three to five thousand rubles. And even then, if you have a smart head...
So, below I will list some of the most common ways to get scammed on the Internet.
What seems especially funny to me is this method of deception that has recently flooded the entire Internet. It can be called “The method of beating roulette.” It’s very interesting for me to look at the weirdo who believed in this and began to play as this “Super Method” prescribes.
The bottom line is that when playing roulette you bet on red and if you lose, then double your bet and again bet on red and so on until red comes up. This method will actually prevent you from losing, if not for one BUT! Absolutely all casinos in the world, and for a long time, know about this method. It's called the Martingale Principle. In this regard, I can say the following: it is almost impossible to deceive the casino! Especially due to such a primitive method.
Now let's take that smart guy who claims that this all works. Imagine that you have invented a truly working method of beating such establishments. When playing using this method, it is impossible to lose; will you then begin to trumpet it to the entire Internet? Of course not! Why should I tell you about this? After all, then all the casinos will know about your method and will quickly take this information into their arsenal. I think you're more likely to play quietly, keep your mouth shut, and pocket the free money.
The question may arise: what is the goal of the person who is offering you this method, what is the benefit? The answer is: this person affiliate program with the casino and it has a % of your loss if you start playing and lose. It is also possible that he himself is the owner of the Internet resource in which he advises to play.
All casinos in the world are created with one goal - making a profit. There are no owners of gaming establishments who will sit and rejoice, silently watching you beat their roulette every day.
Friends, be realistic...
The essence of the deception is that they assure you that a way to make money on exchangers has been found. You just need to transfer funds from one payment system to another using an exchanger (exchangers) back and forth. There are many options on how to do this. They claim that you can earn several hundred dollars a day from this. I want to assure you that this is just another nonsense! This, of course, is not entirely a scam, since you will not lose the full amount of money. However, the amount you turn over will be significantly reduced due to the commissions that exchangers charge for each transaction. It is also possible that these exchangers are completely fake and all the money in full will go into their pocket.
If you believe in this “type of income” and begin to act as the person who is “rubbing it in” advises you, then he will earn money from affiliates for your operations. Or he will simply take the entire amount if the exchanger is fake, since he created it himself and precisely for these purposes. You will lose part of the funds from the amount that you had in circulation, and possibly the entire amount if the exchangers are fake. All this is designed for users who hope to make easy money on the Internet.
A magic wallet is another “type of income”. The bottom line is that they assure you that there is such a wallet on Yandex Money or on another payment system (no matter which), to which you transfer 100 rubles, and it sends the money back to your wallet twice as much. You receive 200 rubles. Then you transfer 200 rubles to him, and he returns 400 rubles, and so on. As you understand, no money, much less double the amount, will come back to you. All this is a primitive scam of gullible and still stupid schoolchildren.
Sometimes you can see messages on the Internet: “Everyone knows that magic wallets are a scam, I myself fell for it and lost a hundred. I decided to punish these scammers, I found a wallet into which you put 100 rubles and it returns 200 rubles, but when you put in 200 rubles, nothing comes. They specifically increase the first amount and transfer it in order to gain trust. Now I make 1000 rubles a day, the most important thing is that after the first doubling, do not double it again, and a little later start again from a hundred and so several times. Can you imagine how it works, they don’t put shoes on me, but I put them on. Write down the number of this wallet Rxxxxxxxxxx!, otherwise they say it will soon not double at all.” This is, of course, the same scam, just a different wrapper.
Also, you shouldn’t believe in making money from selling blocked wallets when you first need to pay to unlock the wallet. Is it true or not that you can get something this way? No and no again! But making money without cheating still exists!
Auto-earning programs are a typical type of fraud. They are trying to sell you a program that, according to the seller, will generate income automatically and you will receive money without doing anything. Those people who fall for this will very soon be disappointed. Instead of the income they were promised, which the program purchased with their own money should bring, they simply will not be able to boot their computer; it is blocked by a ransomware virus.
Names that these evil programs can have:
WebMoney Generator
Automatic bonus collector
WebMoney hacker program
Yandex Money hacker
In fact, there are a lot of names and varieties. The only one relatively worthwhile program The auto-earning machine that I came across is called ltcraft - this is earnings on video. It really allows you to make money. It is based on the use of video card resources, but the earnings are very small and dangerous for the video card itself.
There are a huge number of offers on the Internet about so-called work from home, for which they promise to pay you good money. In reality (in most cases) you will work for free, and some dubious employers offering such work will even try to scam money from you. Such job offers are usually related to
Here I have presented only a tiny fraction of the variety of types of fraud that exist on the Internet. If you describe all the options, you will get a whole book, about 100 pages for sure.
My goal was not just to list and describe ways to take money using the Internet, but to convey to you that no one just gives money on the Internet. You shouldn’t believe in promises of huge earnings from all sorts of “Like the Year” promotions and other nonsense. Don't rely on freebies. It’s stupid to pay anything for account verification anywhere (a common scam lately). They'll just cheat you out of this money!
Real work on the Internet is really work in the full sense of the word. There are many honest ways to make money using the Internet, but they require effort and time, take a look. By the way, it takes a lot of time to achieve a stable income online!
Personally, I spent about two years to reach some relatively good level of income online. And this is not just a period of time! This is two years of work on websites, and this, by the way, is real hard labor. And what is most offensive in this matter is the lack of at least some guarantees of success. At the same time, there are a lot of costs, both time and financial. And, you know, you can’t count the workdays either.
I cherish the hope that my page “deception on the Internet” will protect you from rash actions and loss of money!
Hello, in this article I want to touch on the topic of deception on the Internet, how to avoid them and not become a victim of scammers. There are more and more users on the Internet every day, and along with them there are more scammers and ways to collect money from the population. Human greed has no boundaries, and this is exactly what scammers on the Internet exploit. What are the ways to cheat on the Internet to get your money:
1. Method of deception on the Internet SMS confirmation of registration
You found on the Internet a site that you liked, it could be a dating site, or a social network for adults, or just a site that contains some information that is interesting to you, in order to get to the information you need, you will be asked to register. At the end of registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration and send a message to a short number. If you fall for this, you are guaranteed to lose a tidy sum from your phone.
2. Method of deception on the Internet: A unique technique
buy for 500 rubles earnings from 1500 rubles per day. Who among us has not seen such a message, it probably came across to everyone, not with exactly the same content, but with similar content. It happens, pay 500 dollars and get 100,000 dollars, and this method will cost several times less than the final earnings. After you pay and receive this method, you will find out that what you just made can be sold to other people and on You can make money from this and the main thing is that you won’t undermine it, you bought it yourself.
3. A way to deceive you on the Internet if you are a rich heiress or heir
Such a letter may come to your email, of course, everything is official, you will be asked to respond to the letter if it is you. You will receive a new letter, you will start a correspondence, after a few letters you will be informed that the inheritance is very large and to quickly process it, you need to send a certain amount, then to issue an invitation, then to issue a visa, then for something else, if buy it, they will extract a tidy sum from you.
4. Cheating in online casinos
You will be given a presentation on how you can easily make money in a casino by playing roulette. Simple, uncomplicated bets on red and black. They won't ask you for money for this information, everything is on a voluntary basis, they will simply recommend you some casino, and it will be a legal casino, to which you will go through the affiliate link of the person who kindly shared this information with you. The fact is that it only takes 5 minutes for any casino to recognize that you are playing unfairly with them. The casino will take action. You will not be noticed, but they will transfer you to another table, where they will take out all the money that you have credited to the casino account, it seems fair to me, and the person through whose link you entered the casino will earn money from the fact that he brought you.
5. Scheme of deception on the Internet winning the lottery
When navigating to sites, you see a message on the left or right side screen: You won the lottery, your IP address was selected by the computer and you became the owner of something, you will be asked to fill out a form, write a comment on the topic of how you feel, leave a phone number to which you will receive a message with the following content: To confirm your identity , reply to the SMS and if you respond and respond, then a whole correspondence will begin with you until you run out of money on your balance and if the mobile operator does not count the money from your balance on time, you will remain in debt to the mobile operator.
6. Deception in online stores
Moving through the Internet space, you go to a store with good design, with cheap, and most importantly high-quality goods. Do you really see worthwhile thing at a bargain price marked as a promotion that is valid for just a few more hours, you rush to pay for it, everything works out successfully for you, you see a message that within 10-15 days your purchased product will be sent to you by mail at the specified location residence. A week passes, two, three, but, alas, there is no product and there will not be any. You go to the address of an online store, either there is no trace of it, or the support service does not answer you. Therefore, everyone should know payment system on the Internet, there is email addresses partner stores, use this database to avoid unpleasant life moments.
7. Method of deception on the Internet social networks
Many of you have probably seen a message on the status of some nice woman saying that money is urgently needed for the treatment of a small child who is terminally ill. You need money urgently, there’s no time to delay, the account number is attached, if you can’t help with money, give it a thumbs up or like, this is how scammers fish out money by playing on people’s pity. Therefore, if all this is true and you decide to help the poor child. Therefore, the message must include official addresses, telephone numbers of various guardianship and trusteeship authorities, public funds that can confirm this information; it was not yesterday that they found out that their child was sick, but requesting contact information from official bodies takes a few hours.
8. Method of deception with payment systems
You will receive a letter by email with the following content, that there has been a failure in the system and you will be asked to fill out a form where you need to indicate all your personal data and do not forget to indicate your card number with PIN code or ID address with password, indicated, sent, say goodbye with money. No bank, no similar payment system will send you a request, so contact your bank by phone or go to the official website to clarify the situation.
9. Method of cheating on the Internet during match fixing
I met such a person in person, he knocked on my friend’s door in social network a person with approximately the following sentence: Are you interested in match-fixing? I answered: “Yeah, look for fools!” He: - I'm serious, there is a result on the outcome of the football match. Me: - and how much are you asking? He: - 4000 rubles. Me: I pretend to laugh creepily with emoticons, let me test it out. He answered: he gives 2 teams of England 0:1 to win, that’s it. I go into the bookmaker's office, look, and in fact, in four hours the match is really going to take place. I believed him, but checked to my happiness. I couldn’t sleep half the night, imagining my brand new Porsche or Mercedes, if the information was correct, but I was lucky, the information turned out to be incorrect. Why lucky? I immediately understood the scheme this swindler used: he knocked on people’s doors and offered to buy the result of a fixed match and told everyone a different result, and for some, this result worked. And he with full confidence paid the scammer 4,000 thousand for the next result. It’s so banal, this man made money from greed.
10. Method of deception on the Internet: phishing
Collecting data from English, on some Internet resource, you may be asked for your login and password from your social networks, which are necessary to activate registration, or enter your ID from an electronic wallet. But always remember that your payment system ID is the only way to get to your money. Never enter your data on dubious sites - this risks losing money or a page on a social network, etc.
11. Autosurfing is a way to cheat on the Internet.
This is a semblance of a box or a mailer, only on these projects, you will be asked to buy bots, which for a month will work for you on the site and earn many times more than their own value, for which you will pay with your own money and in the end you will not receive anything back. Another type of fraud on axleboxes, you will surf sites all month in pursuit of collecting the required amount for withdrawal and will not receive anything for the work done, so work on proven axleboxes, earn a pretty penny, but it’s stable.
12. A way to cheat on the Internet by blocking a virus
On some resource you click on a button with an interesting offer and catch a blocking virus, a window appears on your entire monitor screen, and you cannot do anything with it, it completely covers most of the screen. You will be asked to send an SMS to a number in exchange for a code to disable this window, for which money will be withheld from your phone number and you most likely will not receive the code. Therefore, you have no choice, you will have to reinstall windows, so use antivirus programs, they will warn you about an unreliable site.
13. Fraud at money exchangers
On the Internet you may need electronic money, those payment systems on which you do not have electronic money, this is due to the fact that payment systems, they usually do not cooperate with each other and in order to get money you will have to use exchangers, and this carries certain risks. The fact is that you first transfer money to the payment system account specified to you in order to receive money from another system, so use trusted exchangers.
14. Method of cheating on the Internet on mobile devices
The number of mobile Internet users is growing every day. Therefore, exploring Mobile Internet, you can go to an Internet resource where you like, some application that you want to download and, as usual, the application will request access to functions on the phone, almost all applications ask for such a request to work. Therefore, please worry about this with your mobile operator, disable the automatic SMS function, I lost, like, 1000 rubles due to this type of fraud.
15. Magic wallets
The essence of this scam comes down to the following. At one time, it was very common, you send some amount to the wallet number specified to you, and get back 2 times more. Perhaps you will be lucky once or twice, but you will be overwhelmed by greed, and you will send a good amount there, which is what the scammers are counting on and there will be silence in response, and perhaps you will not receive anything even with the first experimental payment. They don't joke with money.
16. Freelancers and web designers, working on the Internet without cheating
Deception of remote workers has a large number of options, advice for freelancers to act through specialized exchanges, although there are also competitions on them for higher-paying work, so don’t really buy into various competitions, perhaps this is a scam.
17. Transfer the insurance premium
You have found a job for yourself on the Internet, this work is well paid and not labor intensive, for example, collecting pens at home, we have a big competition for work, if you agree, transfer 10 rubles in the form of an insurance premium for your agreement to work, your 10 rubles will be returned to you as soon as the staff is approved, what I can say about this type of fraud is that it is as old as mammoth bones, the entire business has been automated for a long time and is tens of times cheaper than human hands.
18. You have become the thousandth visitor to our website
You can come across such an ad when you go to another web resource, you are asked to fill out a form, respond in order to receive your winnings, do not forget to indicate the number cell phone and confirm the copyright holder of the number, as soon as you do this, the money will be read from your number and you will discover this immediately after sending the SMS.
19. Typing
You have found a job for yourself at home, you are asked to do typing, from scanned pages that will be sent to you by mail, after completing the work, employers may disappear, be careful not to become a slave to scammers.
20. SMS fraud
In general, it is very common on the Internet, so never send SMS to short numbers from your phone, everything is done the other way around, a code is sent to you, and you enter it on the site.
21. Deception on the Internet based on advertisements for lost documents
Not long ago I encountered this type of fraud: I lost my documents. And, as many of us do, I turned to local television, where I placed an advertisement that I was asking for the return of my documents for a fee. The response did not take long to arrive and I received a call from unknown people who told me that they had my documents and would return them for a fee. To do this, I need to send them the amount to their mobile bank or Webmoney and after that a girl will come up to me and solemnly hand me my documents. To which, of course, I told them that under no circumstances and that I would only give them the money during a personal meeting. The fact is that the ads in the ticker were duplicated on the local television website, which served as bait for scammers.
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Legislation Russian Federation It is clearly established that fraud (this is what it would be correct to call the situation if you were deceived out of money) is a real crime, the responsibility for which is established by the Criminal Code. To be precise, fraud is the theft (theft) of someone else’s property or obtaining the right to it by deception. The “skill” of modern criminals knows no bounds; you can encounter it both in real life and in the virtual world, but the most offensive thing is that in the latter case, the money that is defrauded from a person turns out to be real.
Anyone can become a victim of fraud, and it is difficult to predict when and where deception awaits you, but it is possible and necessary to figure out what to do if you were deceived for money without panic and hysterics, then there is a chance to find the fraudster and bring him to justice law.
Common options for how someone can deceive you for money on the Internet
One of the most common ways to deceive people today is Internet fraud, and there are many ways:
- auctions (the victim allegedly wins the auction, dreaming of receiving an exclusive product, transfers money to the specified account, but never receives the purchase directly);
- super promotions (products are offered incredibly low prices, which is explained by the arrival of a new collection, but you need to make an advance payment before your transfer reaches the seller’s account, the item you are interested in is sold, and no one wants to return the money);
- committing fraudulent transactions with bank and credit cards (transferring funds without the owner’s consent);
- deliberately false delivery of the order (one product was promised to the buyer and paid for by him, and in return he received a cheap fake or a completely wrong thing, which they do not want to exchange).
These are just some of the examples with the help of which many people have been defrauded of money today, but it is impossible to list them all, since fraud in the virtual world is developing even more rapidly than in real life. There are many paid services and shops, but they are often joined by shell companies.
Variants of popular scams in real life
A huge number of scams occur in the real world. One of the most common is a call or SMS to the mother/grandmother’s phone, with information that a relative is supposedly in trouble (he hit a person, got into a drunken fight, etc.), and urgently needs to transfer money to such and such phone number. It happens that the “representative” of law enforcement agencies himself calls, reporting the threat of a criminal case in order to “hush up” it, which requires a certain amount of money.
They cheat you out of money by taking an advance payment for goods and services that you definitely won’t receive; they come up with various lotteries and pyramids. Congratulations on winning a car have become frequent because you active user gas stations or mobile operator, but to receive a prize you need to transfer such and such an amount for expenses and registration (which, accordingly, is not the case). The list of such scams can also be continued for a long time.
What should someone who has been scammed out of money do?
If you have been deceived by scammers and, through cunning or outright deception, have taken possession of money to which they have no right, in no case should you hush up this fact. Even if the amount is small. You should definitely contact the police, and the sooner this is done, the greater the chances of protecting your interests and the fewer the number of subsequent victims. This path is suitable for all types of deception:
- for victims of scams in real life;
- for online fraud.
There is another option, but directly related to cases of fraud on the Internet - this is an appeal to the Bureau of Special Technical Measures, which is a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but specifically deals with Internet fraud. The contact number can be found in help desk your city or by contacting your provider.
Attention! The portal owner should be informed about the fraud.
How to properly write a statement to submit to the police
The first thing anyone who has been defrauded of money needs to do is write a statement to the police. Has a certain shape of this document no, but it must be drawn up in accordance with the general rules for preparing such documents, indicating:
- name of the authority to which the appeal is sent;
- personal information (full name, address, contact phone number);
- the main text in which you ask to conduct an investigation into the fraud that occurred and bring the fraudster to justice;
- that you are aware of the liability for false denunciation;
- date, signature.
In the main text it is necessary to describe what happened, detailing how you met the scammer, how the event occurred and what the amount of damage was. If you were defrauded of money using an online resource, then you should indicate which portal you communicated on and everything that is known about the scammer (for example, his network name on the portal, auction ID, etc.).
The application should be accompanied by all materials that are in any way related to this situation (printouts email correspondence, photographs, screenshots, a copy of the agreement (if drawn up), transfer receipts or history of bank transactions, and so on). In general, everything that will help prove you are right and find scammers.
How can an experienced lawyer help in this situation?
If you don’t know what to do and what to do if you become a victim of money fraud, you want to find out where to go or where to get advice on paperwork, contact a lawyer who specializes in these issues. He will definitely help you find the right way to resolve the issue.
A fraudster who defrauded you of money will be subject to Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, according to which he may be subject to a fine, correctional labor, mandatory or forced, and imprisonment. In some situations, it is possible to file a claim for compensation for moral and material damage; a lawyer will also be able to talk about this in more detail when assessing your situation.
The elderly are especially susceptible to deception, statistics say. Firstly, they tend to have more savings than young people, which attracts swindlers; and secondly, with age we become more trusting - contrary to the belief that life teaches us something.
But this does not mean that if you are not yet retired, you can relax and not be afraid of scammers - anyone can become a victim of deception, especially now, when the path to every home is literally open for deceivers. Cell phones, email, ICQ - more and more new means of communication make us more and more vulnerable to deception. So you must always be on your guard. Here are the 10 most common fraudulent schemes, time-tested and operating wherever there are people and money.
1. Work from home. The salary is high!
The wave of unemployment that swept the entire civilized world could not help but become a reason for the development of new “routes”. More precisely, the scheme itself is as old as the hills, but interest in it has flared up in a new way. And all because of the crisis.
“Work from home. Secondary education, high salary” - such advertisements can be seen in dozens on the street, in the subway, on the Internet, even in newspapers. It would seem worth being wary: why will they pay this very “high salary” to a person without education and special skills? But people believe: they believe and call the numbers provided. Next, they are asked to pay, say, 1,000 rubles, and in return they are offered a training kit for a new employee. In fact, this set turns out to be a stack of papers (at best, a disk), with instructions on how to “dissolve” a couple more fellow sufferers.
Or this option: you are offered a job of proofreading or layout of text. To get a permanent job, you need to complete a trial task, which (attention!) will be sent to you for a symbolic amount - 300 rubles. They say, “Sorry, we have often been deceived and have not completed any tasks, so we ask you to leave such a deposit.” Well, what could be more touching than deceivers who justify themselves by their hard lives? This is how they make money.
2. You became the 1000th visitor
You receive a letter, for example, from Spain - or any other distant country - but it must be in English. It congratulates you on the fact that one day, having visited such and such a site, you automatically became a participant in a prize draw - and won! The prize is a large sum of money or a car. To receive it, you just need to transfer a certain amount of money to a certain account to pay for the delivery of the prize to Russia. Naturally, the money goes away irrevocably and without a trace. There are cases when people lost several thousand dollars in the hope that now their winnings would finally be sent to them.
3. Become a landowner
The scam begins with the deceiver buying some overgrown field and cutting it into small sections. Each piece is sold to an individual victim for exorbitant amounts of money. The talent and charm of the deceiver himself plays a role here: his task is to convince the victim that soon a highway will be laid here or an amusement park will be built here and the land will rise in price tenfold. Fake construction plans and documents are used. Naturally, no construction is actually planned, and the scammers disappear, leaving their victims on a worthless piece of land.
4. Pyramids
A classic financial pyramid involves from hundreds to several thousand “investors”, each of whom contributes a relatively small amount of money. The promised gigantic dividends are paid at the expense of newly arrived victims.
According to a more advanced scheme, participants in the pyramid are encouraged to independently involve their friends and acquaintances in the “business.” For each convert, a certain fee is paid (and it is collected from the same converts). Your friends are asked to do the same - and so on ad infinitum, until the pyramid is exposed or its creators decide to close up shop.
5. Innovative business
This layout is designed for people with money and free views. Fraudsters are looking for those who are willing to take risks and dream of starting their own business, and ask them to invest in their business. As a business plan, a potential investor is offered some “super idea,” most often using revolutionary technologies or some personal invention. The victim is promised mountains of gold and returns in the first six months after the investment, but as soon as the so-called businessman receives the money, he naturally evaporates.
6. Working on the phone
Another “work from home” scam. The most attractive is the promise that “you will be able to earn money without interrupting your usual activities.” Allegedly, one hour a day is enough to earn back your weekly earnings at your main job. Naturally, no special skills are required again. You only need to pay for the employee certificate and special phone number. The ending of this story is predictable.
7. Goodbye car
The main victims of such scams are private car sellers. During a crisis period, when prices began to fall by leaps and bounds, people do not care much about the profitability of the sale and try to quickly get rid of the property - before its price drops to zero. This is what pseudo-buyers take advantage of, offering the seller a higher price, but... on the condition that payment will be in the form of a bank check or receipt payable to a third party. By the time the seller discovers that the check is counterfeit and the receipt is issued in the name of a “dead soul,” the buyer has already managed to drive the car abroad or resell it.
8. Time to invest in stocks
Since the onset of the crisis, the share price of many super companies has fallen by 50 or even 80%. Therefore, many analysts began to urge the general public to buy securities while they are so cheap. They say that in 3 years, when the crisis is over, the shares will rise in price several times and their holders will be able to earn a lot of money.
The flurry of such recommendations could not help but play into the hands of the scammers. Pseudo-brokers call novice or potential investors and offer to buy so many shares of a certain company. It supposedly should soon rise due to a change in management or a transition to new efficient production. Moreover, the employees of this company themselves have already begun to buy its own securities, which is direct evidence of its rapid growth. Just hurry - there are very few stocks left.
Having spent about 20 thousand dollars, investors soon discover that they have invested in a shell company. As a rule, this is some kind of one-day scam, registered a few days before the start of the scam and existing only on paper. Or a company with a long, but not the most successful history. Of course, it is impossible to sell such shares.
9. You have a letter
This scheme is called phishing. To organize such an operation, a fraudster needs a computer and the client base of a bank. Fortunately for lovers of easy money, these bases can be purchased at any radio market.
So it comes to you email supposedly from the security department of your bank. You are notified that your savings may have been attacked by fraudsters, so the bank needs to conduct a complete audit of your financial transactions. To do this, you only need very little - your passport data and access codes bank account. Once scammers have this data, they can do whatever they want with your money. Remember: no bank will ever ask you for personal data, much less your card PIN code.
10. Let's place our bets, gentlemen.
Another category of the most common victims of scammers is gamblers. Moreover, we are not talking about casino regulars and slot machine fans, who, in fact, are deceiving themselves. Scammers profit from fans of horse racing and other sporting events.
For example, you want to bet on a horse or a wrestler, and some helpful and knowledgeable person offers to sell you the “secret” - who is better prepared for the competition, who is lame on one leg, etc. Experienced players don’t get caught doing this, but newbies do it all the time.
Another scheme: you are asked to bet money on such and such a horse. They say she will win, the scammer knows this for sure. In return, he asks for 50% of the winnings, and in case of failure, promises to compensate for the damage. Of course, the bet does not win, and the scammer disappears immediately after making the payment.
Based on materials from The Guardian
One maniac set up a website with a counter and declared on it that he would kill his rabbit if he did not urgently collect 200 thousand dollars. The counter showed how much was still missing to “ransom” the rabbit. Compassionate users collected the required amount.
Or here’s another case of making money from collective charity: a certain girl published a photograph of herself with her bare breasts. Her breasts made such a pitiful impression that people from all over the world quickly sent her money for plastic surgery. Then the young lady thanked all the sponsors by posting her new photo on the same website - with a magnificent silicone bust.
This story looks more like a fundraiser than a scam. However, we will never know who exactly was hiding behind the image of the poor girl and whether the rabbit that half of America was saving actually existed...
It also happens that scammers pretend to be single women on domestic dating sites. They post a photo of a beauty there (sometimes a popular singer or fashion model, but for some reason no one notices this) and start a long correspondence with the foreigner they like. The correspondence becomes more and more intimate, the foreigner invites the lady to visit him - in another country. And then she, poor thing, admits that she doesn’t have enough money for a ticket. A foreigner sends her money. After which the mysterious lady disappears. This type of fraud requires a certain artistry and mastery of the epistolary genre. According to statistics, the turnover in this area of fraud is $2 billion a year. Other scammers flood the Internet with Trojan viruses that hunt for users' bank account numbers and passwords. You never know how many tricks electronic combinators have come up with! There is such a primitive “scheme”: e-mails are sent to many addresses, saying that we have found a huge treasure here on the territory of the state of Limonia, but we do not have enough money for travel and various formalities. If anyone helps, we will share the treasure. People are biting! Or, for example, the victim of deception receives e-mail notification that he is the lucky one who won the lottery. To receive your winnings you need to pay tax: transfer the money to such and such an account. Oddly enough, such idiotic traps work. It is not clear why many people are so willing to believe in the story of the treasure, and that they won a lottery in which they did not participate. These types of fraud, blackmail and begging are as old as time. Only in our enlightened age are they carried out using the latest interfaces.
Unchangeable cheese
Among fans of online freebies, there is a legend about a certain mysterious electronic wallet, the address of which periodically pops up here and there. The legend is simple: you transfer any amount to it, and in return they send you twice as much! Indeed, sometimes you come across such a web page, lavishly decorated with large multi-colored font and a photograph of a fat man who, with bulging eyes, is counting a wad of dollars. It says something like this: “Once I saw my boss transferring one hundred bucks to such and such an address, and immediately two hundred came back to him! Don't be a fool, I wrote down the address and sent a dollar there to try. It worked! Two dollars came back. Sent five, ten returned. Then I became brave and sent a hundred. Two hundred have returned! The boss noticed my scam and fired me. But I don’t care about that, because now I have tons of money. This is the address. Enjoy it for your health. Just don’t be greedy - don’t transfer money there more than five times a day, don’t overload the server.”
Well, why not a fairy tale about the irredeemable ruble?! Or, rather, about free cheese... The practical side of the matter is this. Someone got himself an electronic wallet and posted its address online with this fancy comment. Moreover, to clear my conscience, I added: believe it or not. It seems that everything is clear - they are collecting money from narrow-minded idlers.
But for every poison (that is, cheese) there is an antidote. On one forum, someone shared their experience. I supposedly transferred 50 cents to such an account - the dollar came back. I sent a dollar and got two back. But when I sent $50, nothing came back. I realized that I had been scammed and decided to act smarter. I sent one dollar each from many different addresses. And for each one came twice as much. After all, newcomers are not abandoned. On the contrary, small amounts are regularly doubled - in order to lure a new victim! In short, deception technologies and ways to circumvent this deception are constantly being improved on the Internet. And at the heart of all this fuss is a person’s strong and ineradicable desire to get money for nothing. The Internet, with its anonymity and inclusiveness, has become an ideal field for such adventures. A person visiting a site can judge it only by the information posted there. Suppose there are mountains of gold drawn there and it says: stop working! If you want to get rich, click here! And they press... This wastes a lot of time and money.
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