It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
Scams
There are tons of people out there trying to get your cash with wild-eyed promises. Here is a perfect example. There is a person who claims you can make $439,000 per month connecting you with specific buyers and selling their wares on the Internet. First of all, that’s 5.2 million dollars a year. The cost of his program is a whopping $10. Let me ask you, if you were making 5.2 million dollars a year with a successful Internet business, would you be selling some cheesy $10 software to increase your competition? Of course not. $10 is chump change for someone making over five million. So what’s the deal? The deal is he does not make that much money. He is only selling you the potential to make that kind of money. You can potentially make 5 million doing anything you want. I could potentially make 5 million selling vacuums door to door. Will I? Probably not. However I can do whatever I put my mind to.
Nowhere are the scams more abundant than on Ebay. They are everywhere. Some sound so honest and real it’s hard to tell the difference. Because of this, I treat every potential deal with a great deal of caution.
Here is a good website to review http://homeparents.about.com/od/avoidscams/ and http://www.scambusters.org/work-at-home.html
Any incredible deal coming to you by way of email is most likely garbage. You get what you pay for. Look out for the two newest scams out today. There are very clever people who disguise themselves as eBay or PayPal and say they need to update their databases. They give you a link that will take where you can re enter your eBay financial information and credit card or bank information. In a matter of minutes you will be broke. Quickly erase them or better yet forward them to the appropriate companies. I always forward the eBay ones right to eBay at spoof@ebay.com . eBay will then send you a confirmation email saying they got your concern and are investigating. I send the other stuff right to the US Governments Federal Trade Commission at UCE@FTC.gov
So far I never heard from them whether or not they are removing these people but it feels good to at least help out.
eBay has a good fraud policy in place and you can learn more about it on their website. It covers everything from a deadbeat bidder, to downright fraud on the system. Remember they cannot catch everyone so be careful.
Educate yourself on what MLM programs are and what plans are really get rich schemes. MLMprograms are really multi level tiers which rely on you getting someone else to become an affiliate of the same program. They in turn go out and recruit others and it becomes a giant pyramid of potential dollars. The problem it is usually only potential and does not generate any real money in your pocket. The get rich quick schemes are usually easy to spot as well. That is why I will never tell you that you can get rich quickly using this manual or this system. These are only tools that spur you on to your own victories. Research is work; hard work is what pays off. Anyone telling you that there is an easy shortcut obviously thinks there is a free lunch.
On eBay Auctions
If you go to the business and industrial section on Ebay, under Websites for sale, you will see a ton of websites that are offered for sale. Many look very impressive, but lack giving you the complete story. I will show you what to look for and what to look out for. You may find 1 out of 1000 that would meet any criteria worth thinking about.
If you were to buy a website made from someone, it would have to meet some of the following criteria:
Unique: Most of these sites are made from templates, which means if you had some experience you could spit one out in about 20 minutes. However after a while, you run out of ideas and then you start making the same thing over and over again. Sure they say its unique, then you buy it, and they make another one with a different template. If you buy a site it needs to be proven and not the same thing you get everywhere else.
Old: The older the site, the better. New sites have zero credibility.
Administrator: Most will advertise that you can easily learn the administration portion of the site and it’s easy to learn. They never reveal what program they wrote the program in or where it’s hosted. Chances are you would need a high end program to manage the site and maintenance could be difficult to learn if you have no experience.
Tagged: Most of these sites have zero meta tags programmed into them. Without the tags, Google or Yahoo cannot find you. This gets you nowhere. Its like having a for sale sign in your back yard and you live 40 miles out of town on a road with no traffic except the mailman. You will get no visitors unless you tag it correctly.
Linked: If you feel you absolutely must inquire about a site, find out how many links the site has. If the seller has no idea, run for the hills. Links are essential in the search engine world, you must have them to rank naturally in Google. The more the better, and you will spend the greater part of your search optimization efforts in getting links.
Priced: If you can buy the thing for $20, and its such a hot commodity, its a red flag.
Easy: Anyone that says this business is super easy to operate and takes no time, is an idiot.
Amazing: If it was that amazing, they would keep it for themselves and run it as a profit.
Stupid Promo Pictures: If the site has a picture advertised that is not relevant to the business, they are trying to catch your eye with a cheap marketing trick. Chances are high that is has very little substance. There is a couple of mortgage sites for sale with a bikini clad model advertise how great the business is, avoid this.
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