About three years ago, I received the first email from Nigerian
scammers. They have different methods to introduce themselves.
Some of them claim that they work on some Nigerian banks and
need someone from another country to help them to transfer a
huge amount of money. They say that the previous owner of the
money has lost his/her life in a car accident or airplane crash
and they couldn't find any other member of family to give the
money to him/her and....
Click here to reads some samples of the letters and stories they
send to their potential victims:
http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/scams
What to do if you receive a Nigerian scam letter? 1- Do not
respond to it. 2- Notify your own nation's national law
enforcement agency and your own nation's foreign office. 3- File
a complaint with the Nigerian embassy or high commission in your
nation. 4- If the contact from the scammers was via email, write
their email provider at their "abuse" address (abuse@yahoo.com,
abuse@onebox.com etc.) And include the scam message with its
headers; complain about the scam message; and ask that the
account be shut down.
Why they focus on people who look for business opportunities or
have internet business opportunity websites? They know that
people who look for business opportunities or have internet
business opportunity websites are eager to make money. On the
other hand, they know that making money is not easy and these
people always look for a better way to make more money, faster
and easier. So they will respond to scam letters more than the
others.
Please prevent scammers! If you promote a business on internet,
you can easily help to prevent scammers to cheat more people.
One of the best ways is placing a separate page on your website
with a visible link on the home page to inform your website
visitors about these criminals and scammers. Try to educate your
websites visitors who can be the future victims of scammers.
People should know about them and the ways they use to cheat and
if so, they can never be fooled by them.
If you promote a MLM or affiliate program, you'd better to
inform your referrals about scammers. Most of your referrals are
new to internet and online business opportunities and so they
can easily be cheated by scammers. This is your responsibility
to educate them about scammers because you have referred them to
the new world of internet with all its good and bad things.
Always keep yourself updated about the new ways that scammers
use, their websites and everything related to them. Try to join
work at home business opportunities forums like
http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/forums and let others know
about your experiences and also know about others experiences.
Also try to take a look at article directories like
http://www.work-at-home-topics.com/articles every now and then
and learn about new scamming methods. Only if you know about
them, you can easy distinguish and avoid them and also help the
others to avoid them too.
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About the author:
Tom Nelson is a successful Network Marketer on the Internet. He
is the head of a group of work at home people who try to use the
best and last methods to promote their work at home jobs. This
group also helps people who want to start working at home.
