Avoiding online swindles is not that difficult. Here are a few easy tips that can help you to weed out scams and thus minimize your risk of being swindled. Most of the following tips are simply based on using common sense, a few also require you to do some minor due dilligence.
The more the following rules apply the higher the chance is you’re dealing with a swindle.
* Never join an opportunity that you receive by spam. Scammers are often spammers. Real opportunities will never spam you and have strict policies in place against spamming.
* If it looks to good to be true, it probably is.
* If you don’t know the people behind an opportunity or if you can’t verify their real names, don’t join. People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
* If the program administrator(s) made great effort to hide his/her/their identity, e.g. they use secured email services like Mailvault.com or HushMail.com, no phone number, no address etc are listed on the website or in the promotional email, be very careful. If scammers run with your money it’s very hard to find them.
* Check the used account numbers of an opportunity. If they are relatively new so is the opportunity. New opportunities can’t have long track records so they should be approached with caution.
* Do some basic due diligence on every opportunity you find interesting and see if the data you find makes any sense. Looking up the whois report is a good place to start.
* Take your time to study and watch an opportunity. If an opportunity is good it will last and you’ll have enough of time to invest with them.
* Subscribe to mailing lists, news groups and forums with a good reputation. Most of these are free to join.
Some have well over decade of experience and seek out only proven passive income programs with high potential. That is a good place to start reading.
Some list owners will also warn you for obvious scams. Beware though, there are quite a few lists that focus on ‘games’ (=ponzi scheme) as well and they sometimes consider an obvious ponzi to be a quick opportunity.
* Ask your associates and friends what they invest in and how that is working out for them. You might also want to ask them which mailing lists they are subscribed to.
* If an opportunity only accepts e-currencies, and therefor enjoy some anonimity, you should be cautious. Opportunities accepting credit card payments for example are less likely to be a scam. These are real accounts with real names attached to it. Watch out for credit card fraud though!
* Last but not least: use common sense when looking at an opportunity. If there’s a story on the site that doesn’t make a lot of sense you know you are being scammed.
For example, oil companies offering $10 investments in oil don’t need the few dollars you and I have in our digital currency accounts. Not to mention the administrative work they would have, legal issues to deal with etcetera.
Keep these simple rules in mind and you’ll have more success with your online investments!
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