Protect your Money by Detecting Email Scams
Here are a few of the more prevalent email scams to look out for.
The Work at Home Scam
If you receive an email offering you a job that you can work from your house doing online searches, international shipping, envelope-stuffing, medical claims processing or the like it very well could be a scam. The way it works is, the email sender, i.e. the scammer, will “hire” you to perform a certain job that they will agree to pay you for at some time in the future. In the mean time you are expected to work for them on good faith that they will, in fact, pay you. Additionally, some of these scams even require you to invest a certain sum of money in order to get started. Almost inevitably, upon completion of your work the company decides that the quality was not good enough to justify paying you for it.
The Magic Weight Loss Scam
When you receive an email claiming that a new cream or pill has been discovered that can miraculously make body fat disappear, don’t get your hopes up. In fact the whole pitch of this scam assumes that there are people who are willing to try anything to lose weight. Don’t fall for these scammers, they don’t want to help you, they just want your wallet.
The Lottery that you’ve Already Won Scam
This is similar to the magic weight loss scam, in that it plays on peoples willingness flush logic down the toilet in order to believe that their life has instantly changed for the better. When someone sends an email saying that there is money just waiting for you to claim, and all you need to do is send money, or your credit card information to them be very suspicious.
The Magical Disappearing Debt Scam
This scam requires that you declare bankruptcy, but always seem to fail to mention that in the original email. The scammers make fairy tale claims that sound too good to be true for getting you out of the black hole of debt. Again, this is another scam that people only fall for because they want so badly for it to be true. There are better ways of getting rid of debt, but they require a little more work than waving the magic wand and pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
The general rule of thumb is, don’t give away any financial information or send any money until you have a good reason to trust them and their business.
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These emails usually go to our spam folder. But some are not. I don’t believe in these emails especially the lottery that I have won millions of dollars. I hope my mom won’t receive such emails though LOL.
I get a lot of these emails especially the lottery ones. There are also ones pretending to be Paypal which is kind of convincing if you’re not careful enough!
These emails usually claim that there is some problem with your account, and tell you that you should reply with certain types of personal information such as a credit card number or password to keep your account active. They often threaten dire consequences if you do not comply, such as the deletion of your accounts..
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I guess that everybody that have used email in the last few years, have receive that kind of email, but to be honestly, I don’t know anybody that have been scammed by email, just most emails are so naive.
I know a few people that have been scammed with the lottery scam. Surprisingly, they were all businessmen who really believed for one moment that their lives was going to actually change 180 degrees. In the end, they all find out it was just a scam.
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Unfortunately many people are falling into this scam and I can say that some of those emails are written really well. Once I decided just to have a play with those scammers, they even send me pictures and were looking so real.
When an e-mail is trying to offer me large amount of money or telling me I won to some sort of raffle and asking me to give them money before getting the pot price, I will send that mails immediately to trash. They are completely scam. Thanks for the additional hint on how to determine spammy scam, kept them in mind.
Susie, I’ve got a thousand emails of these kinds in my inbox!!! This is simply horrible the amount of junk i receive each day. Who would buy stuff like this?? It looks so fake!
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Another way of scam is employment. I received an email that a 5 star hotel in London is urgently needed a worker, there are many positions available. They ask me to send CV, and fill up forms for visa. Afterwards they are now asking for fee for visa processing. It it’s too good to be true there’s something fishy on it.
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