Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Nigerian 419 scammers and other online scams How to protect yourself

How you can avoid to get scammed

Be aware: Not all internet scammers are stupid monkeys. Each one of them is experienced in giving you the feeling that he is exactly the person you are searching for, regardless of what you are talking about with him. By the way: scamming is a male-dominated business. Even, if he pretends to be a sexy girl, you are always dealing with a group of 6 to 12 male scammers. That is the reason why your chat partner is almost at any time and any day online, or why he often seems to have forgotten details of what you had spoken about before. Unless, he is a total beginner in his "job", he knows exactly how to make you feel safe and comfortable. Scammers commonly also know to push the "right buttons" to make you agree to what they want.

It is well known and important to know: All scammers definitly depend on the email addresses they use. Either for sending out their mass spam mails, writing mails to their (future) victims, or to use it as the technical base of their messenger ID. Since a scammer can not scam you without email address, he opens a new mail account if his old one gets closed by his mail-provider. So, closing a scammer's email accounts appears useless. The best way seems to be making their email addresses useless by publishing them. A large number is stored in this online database: check your emails before you reply, before you are a victim. If you know that a suspicious email comes from an online scammer then you can not get scammed. Our database already contains more than 1,120,000 known email addresses of proven scammers. When ever you are in doubt or have received an email from any person who you don't know: check it in their online database. If the email is asking for money or offering any obscure occasion and the email address does not show up in the results of the database search, just report it to them and help so that more people around the globe can avoid to get scammed by criminal scammers. Check the email now and even check it if you are not in doubt. Help them to protect you. They do not store your email address, and their service is for free. Better be safe on the today internet.

When it comes to chatting or emailing with anybody on the internet just keep in mind that everybody you do not know may be a criminal scammer, and no internet user will offer you true love, a great occasion, or an amazing business in another way than he would do in the real world. Never, UNLESS IT IS A SCAM. So better think twice. What ever you do on the net - NEVER forget one word: "NO!", and do not hesitate to use it. If someone wants you to meet him on webcam: "NO!" (they will record the session with you and use it for scamming the next victim). If somebody wants you to tell him any of your private details: "NO!" (they will keep it in their records about you, and believe it: they will use it one day). If someone who you do not know wants you to tell him your private email address: "NO!" (after their ride with you, they will sell your email address to any other scammer group, and you do not know who will approach you next). If somebody asks you to send him money: "NO!" (this is always a scam, what ever story he may tell you). If somebody wants you to cash any cheque or money transfer for him: "NO!" (that is also always a scam. Your bank will maybe cash the cheque, but after some weeks or even days they find out the truth. You will be the one to pay back the debts, your debts). Do not let anybody who you do not know personally send you any gift: "NO!" (you would have to disclose your physical address, probably you will have to pay customs, and the gift will most likely be paid with stolen credit card details).

The very first interest of a scammer is to steal your identity (he can make more money by creating a virtual identity or cloning you). It is simple with the details he gets to know about you (your photos, your email address, your physical address, your social security number, your bank details, your name, a copy of your driving license, a recorded webcam session with you, and so on). They will use this CLONE OF YOU later for any other scam, eventually a huge BUSINESS SCAM. You will be in trouble to prove your innocence. Even if you will get out of this trap again, you will have to solve your problem, which will cost your money. So better avoid this sad story because NO lady, NO man, and NO occasion can ever be worth to risk your own or your familie's health or even your life.

Nowadays, it's becoming harder to recognize fraudulent emails. Scammers often use text phrases which they have found and copied somewhere on the net. Here you find some examples of scam emails. Moreover, day by day learn criminal scammers more and more how to write emails that look genuine. So, even if you are not in doubt and fully trust the person you are chatting with: it is always worth to go for sure! For your own security check all received email addresses in our database before you reply, before you get victimized. Try to avoid to get scammed.

If anything sounds too good to be true - you better check it.

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