Money-Sucking Grabbing Scams
Have you ever fallen for a scam? I bet most of you will say yes. Some will not want to admit it, and others are ready to talk about their horrible experience.
I bet you think because you fell once, you will never fall for it again.
The sad part is the scammers are so manipulative that some will get caught up in the emotional roller coaster and fall for another money-sucking grabbing scam.
Money-Sucking Grabbing Scams
Before I found WA, I fell for scam after scam trying to get someone to optimize my website. They all promised the world, took my money but did not deliver on their promises.
Even now, after a year at WA, I find some of the scam promotions so enticing. I review at least two products a week. Most of them are scams. I always keep an open mind until I get to the end. Then I determine if it is a scam.
With my open mind, I will still succumb to the manipulation or the shiny object syndrome mindset. So, I wrote down a few tips to keep me on track. These tips will help you steer clear of almost any scam out there.
Tips to Spot A Scam
1. It is all automated, and all you have to do is replicate my system. A done for you system is a common tactic among scammers.
They know you have worked hard and want a break, so they tell you they have done it all for you. All you have to do is set back, copy and paste and watch the money come in.
It doesn’t happen this way! If you want something, you have to work for it. No one else can do it for you.
2. You only have to work 15 minutes a day to make $5000 a day. RIGHT! But so many fall for this one because they don’t want to put in the time.
3. Firm manipulation affecting your emotions. It may be in a sob story about how they lost all of their money to a scam so they won’t do this to you. Or they were so broke they didn’t have a place to live until so and so gave them the secret formula to make millions.
The whole point to this type of manipulation is for you to identify with them. When you think scammer has gone through the same thing you have, you will trust them more.
4. You hear about a promotion from some of your WA friends. You listen to the video, and by
the time you reach the end, you don’t know what you will do to earn large sums of money.
So you click on the join button to find out more. You were manipulated with emotional power words to make you forget to check further before you pay.
5. Paid actors. Almost all scams will have fake reviews. These are people who are on Fiverr or other gigs for hire platforms which give a useful summary of how much money they made, but the program pays them to provide the testimony.
If they have to pay someone, this can only mean that no one is making money from their program.
Just screenshot the picture then drag and drop it into google images. It is a facial recognition tool to let you know what other aliases the person has.
6. If the program is giving you the incredible opportunity to pay to promote their product, then it is time to run.
Affiliation is free. You don’t need to pay someone to make a commission from their product. You are giving them free advertising.
Scammers are becoming smarter and more convincing today. I am sure they read all of the reviews and set their next scam up differently to trick you. But all of them have at least one of these tips in it regardless of the new tactics.
Stick With The Proven Method
We all want to grow our business. We all want it to happen now. We all want to make money. And we all think there may be a better way.
There isn’t a faster way. The right way is persistence, consistency, perseverance, and tenacity.
Keep these tips handy and look at them each time you come across a promise to make it happen faster and become smoother. A scam doesn’t have to have all six tips to be a money-sucking, grabbing site.
Were you scammed? Are you in a scam now? Do you feel all alone.
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Yes, especially the cash gifting ones. Or member cash programs, you never get your money back or refunded.
They are very tempting.
Everyone loves the idea of fast money, the green dollars or other currencies from other countries looks very enticing.
Sure some will get sales, one or two but it wont be consistent. Plus have to pay fees to get in. People want fast results. They will be sorely mistaken if they try.
You are correct, there is no fastest way.
I wasn't scammed but my late husband was until I told him it was a scam, he almost fell for it. He did listen to me because I did the research first. It was an inheritance scam back in the late 90’s, done by snail mail. It looked real and everything. I knew it was a scam so I went online, back then we were using just basic Internet DSL services.
According to my research it was a 411 scam by one country. That country is well known for scamming people through snail mail, phone, emails, relay services, cell phones, and hacking through Facebook and other social media outlet. I was able to stop the scam good thing I blocked him from doing that. What I did was to sent a copy of this to the state general attorney office to warn others about the scam. Our letter got us on local tv channel.
Now today, our local news warn us Oregonians of 4 scams going around locally.
One is the DNA scam, they dressed up in medical uniforms and asking for people to give DNA sample. That was so creepy. I would not responded to that. Common sense. Medical people do not do that.
Some neighborhoods got scammed, others reported it fast. The cops went out looking for them, later they were caught. They were selling DNA samples on the black market. The couple was arrested, turned out they were long time transients living in Portland area, well known for scamming people. I feel bad for the ones who did give a sample, scary.
Second scam, which most know already the social security scam calling people through their cell phones even I got one left on my cell phone message I just blocked and deleted it.
Third scam, is a caller asking for ransom money because one of their kids or grandkids in prison. Scammer pretends to be a cop. Common among senior citizens.
Fourth scam, targeting international Asian community in Portland (transients pretending to be a church non profit organization) asking for donations. Their images were captured on a Go Pro car camera and law enforcement are out still looking for these couple. They were well dressed and nicely groomed and fooled nice lady lost (there were some language barriers) a daughter reported that her mother lost 30k to this scam.
We all have to be leery of these scams whether in person, door to door, over the phone, email, snail mail, and the Internet.
We have to make sure that our reviews are honest and not put out fake reviews but make our posts genuine as possible.
Thanks for sharing these tips.
Brenda, thank you for sharing all of these scams. It is important to make everyone aware.
I am so happy you were able to stop the scam with your husband. So many scams appear so real. Many do not know.
Again thank you.
Laura
I fell for a couple of scams years ago and wound up losing thousands of dollars trying to make them work. At the time I was a single mom working a swing 12 hour shift, high pressure job and would've done about anything to make money online and see my daughters more. So I was a terrific target for scammers!
After that experience, I swore off starting an online business for years. But when my grandson was born, I wanted so bad to retire early and help my daughter, who was a single mom at the time.
That led me to finding ways to make money working at home and, eventually, to Wealthy Affiliate!
I consider the money I lost before as the cost of educating me on how to recognize a legitimate program. Because it was so obvious from the very first day that WA was completely different and had actual value.
I'm the same as you, though, when it comes to MMO programs. When I review one, I still have that little hope in the back of my mind that maybe this one will actually have enough quality to work. But 99% of the time, there's absolutely no value there.
Great tips for anyone considering buying any MMO program!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. So many wonder how someone can fall for this manipulation. It can happen to anyone or all of us. They are so good at what they do.
I am so happy to have you in my WA network.
Laura
Oh Laura, I wish I had met you 2 years ago! You could have saved me lots of money! Darned tootin I have been scammed...not just once, but over and over and I did not enjoy one moment of it!
You hit the nail on the head.
Until I found WA, I wasted so much time and money, but glad to be "home" now.
Great post as always.
Joe
Oh Joe, I too am so happy to be home here at WA. It is safe and has so much support.
By the way, I love your positive attitude about everything. Thank you.
Laura
So, does this mean the Zimbabwe lawyer who sent me an email saying he is willing to give me half the money he is trying to move to a US bank for safekeeping and needs my bank account number isn't being completely honest about his proposition?
Dang!
Ummmm, I think you should take a second look at that offer. If it's too good to be true then it is. LOL
Laura
What he says is Absolutely True ...
That offer is Spot-On ... But, You have missed out on One Small Step.
“The Honorable Intermediary” ...
This is where I come in -
Just send Me:
~~ a Pre-Funded VISA card, with an authorized amount of $25,000 ...
~~ Full Access to your Bank Account (ie: Account Number, Password, secret question/answer, etc ...
And I will take care of All the rest.
TRUST ME !!! (After All, I am your “Honourable Intercessor”)
Time is of the essence -
You “MUST” do all of the above Earlier than Midnight, August 13th, 2019, or you will forfeit you place in line.
Regards
The Honorable Joe
Thanks, bunches.
When I see your profile photo I get a smile every time. I love it.
Laura
Yeah, I work only 10 min a day to write a blog and make money. NOT!!!! Thanks, I appreciate you.
Laura
I got into a scam about a month ago from an ad on FB, for a Free One ounce gold coin. Just pay shipping. $13.95. But I did this on purpose. There was a 1% or less chance that it was worth $1276.00 gold value.
I received the coin about 5 days later and took it to a friend who is a jeweler. He tested the coin and as beautiful as it was, finish and all it was FAKE.
So over the next 2 days I wrote a 1200 word Scam Report and published it to my site, pictures and all, before and after. So far I have received well over 500 views of it and have not seen the company advertisements anywhere else.
Sonny
OMGosh Sonny, I love it! Now, this is a true entrepreneur. That is why I buy the scam products. I can make sure I am helping others.
Laura
How do you "drag and drop" their picture into Google? Is there a special software for this? Thanks!
No special software. Go to google, search google image, click on it, when it comes up you take the photo that you screenshotted from the promotion and move it over to the google image area.
Now I say there is no special software but I use fire shot to screenshot the image. If you want more info about this please PM me and I will get you started.
It is kinda fun.
Laura
Thank you very much. I've got great screenshot software - just wasn't sure where to plunk the image. Thank you!
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Awesome Share. I have been seeing those bullets ever since I can remember.
I thought I was careful and diligent enough but fell for an Anthony Morrison Scam 1 time, pushed from a guy I thought was ethical:(
Turn out he was just going for big ticket commissions.
All the best
Rob
Oh, I know Rob. they sound so good and are so convincing. This is why I wrote these tips. Anyone can fall for a scam.
Laura