Scams and how I avoid them

The internet is a great place to perform services from retrieving and sending information to making payments from home and while many companies and websites offer these services legitimately there are individuals and/or groups that offer these services with no intention of providing them.I personally don’t consider a scam as something that only attempts to take a person’s money but something that steals something much more valuable than that which is time. I consider PTC websites as a sort of scam since none are honest enough to tell eager users that simply clicking ads as an attempt to make some kind of profit is a waste of time and definitely not worth the rewards once the expenses have been added up. After all, are all PTC websites claiming that everyone who surfs has an article or website they can use to generate income from referrals?While scam websites generally have to look legitimate in order to work, there are many signs to identify even the most well designed websites.

• Support- Before I get to the ways to check, if you have already signed up and invested in a website after which point you feel that you were cheated then don’t hesitate to contact the support team first before you tell the internet how bad a company is you must consider that it might be a temporary technical issue and the support team might have a solution or reasonable explanation. Also keep in mind that some support teams don’t exists, it might just be an email address stuck behind the servers domain name. If you don’t receive a response within at least 24 hours then you should not even consider sending a follow up message because it means one of two things, either that the support team is receiving more messages than it can manage which means that the website has more problems than it could possibly hope to solve since it clearly can’t even hire enough people to respond to its customers/users.
• Comments – There are several websites that solely exist to allow users to comment on websites. How they work is that a user visits a website and makes use of its services, they might make an online deposit or put long periods of time into it. After the user has done the work, its time for the website and its team to keep their word and give back the rewards. If the website fails to do this, the user usually sends a message to the support team and if that fails then the user turns to the online community and this is where the website will lose most of its potential customers as many people find these forums while doing research before visiting the website and making any commitments. On these forums a person usually doesn’t have to post their problems as another user or others have already had issues with the website and after a few bad posts someone will occasionally say “scam alert” and this is a clear sign that you should not be using the website. On one occasion my opinion changed because an employee from a certain foreign exchange broker responded on a forum and asked the user to contact support again, while this is not a sign of being legitimate it certainly shows that the team is somewhat dedicated and this is definitely something to look for as not all website owners understand the power of a single bad review simply because the it allows other users to comment.
• Reviews- Right next to comments from users are reviews from people that actually use the internet to sort the trusted websites from the majority of websites which are scams. All one has to do is type the website name with the word review behind it and some web critics should appear also with comments from users.
• FAQ- This is a very important part of any website that offers services as there are many things that users need to know which cannot always be put on main pages for design purposes or other reasons. These should always have questions that relate to yours and if not then they were probably created by the team or individual to avoid receiving messages with technical issues. Remember that just because a website has a FAQ section doesn’t mean that the answers are legitimate, the best scam websites make efforts to make users feel comfortable using them, they may even pay their first few users in order to avoid bad reviews from the start, these websites are well funded by people who fund scams in order to make them look the part, I fell for this twice distracted by their impressive designs high pay rates. Here are examples of their selling sentences: The “highest paying PTC website” and “The cheapest web hosting service”, although there may be legitimate websites that may have the same lines on their home pages, these were the lines I saw while I was wasting my time believing that anyone could offer anything for so little money or by offering so much for so little work, keep in mind that this particular PTC website was offering at least twice what the others were and I knew there was a problem when I reached my 100 clicks( stated as a reasonable minimum requirement before withdrawal) only to find out that I also needed 10 referrals to get my money. Once this happened I decided to have look on the internet for ways to get referrals and came across referral exchanges where I could ask individuals to sign up with my link on condition that I do the same with theirs, as I posted my request I got a reply saying “Its a scam, sorry to tell you”, slightly in denial and having being new to online forums and not knowing about website reviews I decided to search the website with the word”review” at the end. I got results with comments on the website and felt the need to burn my computer after discovering I had wasted weeks and large amounts of data viewing websites for nothing and that if I had not received a reply then I would have led 10 innocent people to waste their lives on a pointless website, well I suppose its not pointless since its designed to provoke users into depositing money to get traffic to their websites.

I consider these the best methods of finding out about a website although there are other ways like viewing the terms of use. These terms should always be available to anyone who is registering on a website with a link so that the person can read or save them. Websites that offer payment for services or the other way around should always have this section and if not then I don’t understand how it could be considered to be legit since there are no transactions made without terms as no one involved is safe from being robbed especially on the internet where users have nothing to protect them from heartless programmers, there are authorities on the internet where websites can go to prove legitimacy but these would require an article of their own . Knowing that these websites are trusted helps when you do things like register with your email address as you wouldn’t like it being sent to someone as a mailing list to be used for spam, I find it annoying as I get the occasional email that I don’t care about which seems to be advertising some service that earns me tons of money or at least an amount that will provoke me to click on the link which for all I know is enough to get the mail owner some money for the visit. Email addresses and passwords don’t just fall out of the sky, its very likely that someone would use the same passwords for several things.