You suddenly see a flood of unsolicited emails in your inbox, inviting you to sign up for a product offer. The product offer is well crafted to appeal to you to sign up for a free trial or for as little as $1 for 7 days. Thereafter,you are asked to sign up for say $27 per month to make $250 or $1500 per day using the methods, tutorials or steps outlined in the product offer. You are told that you have to replicate the steps the so called internet gurus used to make money online overnight.
They try to show you how they made so much money in one day. You try out the product only to find that you have been scammed.
How can you avoid an internet scam the next time you see a product offer?
The first thing to do when you receive a product offer on the internet is to do a product review. A product review is a research that you have to make about the product offer, before you can make a buying decision. This review will entail you to read about what others say about the product. There are various websites and forums that offer product reviews. Beware; scammers also have fake product review websites. I recommend the following;
STEP 1.CONDUCT A SCAM REVIEW OF THE OFFER YOU HAVE RECEIVED.
Do a scam review of the product you are being offered. A word of caution here is that, Some Scammers have set up dubious scam review websites that can deceive you into making a buying decision.
To have a genuine scam review, check the review of the product you are being offered on the websites that I have listed here, to see what they say about the product. They are independent and trusted scam review websites.You can simply type in the name of the product offer in the search engine of any of the scam review websites that I have listed below orYou can typein Google, the name of the product offer/scam review or you can type in Google: scam review/name of the product offer:
E.g. makemoneytoday/scam review. Google will list all review websites in the results. Beware with scam review sites. Some scammers also create scam review sites that may appear to be genuine on face value. You should focus on the scam reviews given by the trusted sites listed below.
1. scamadvisor.com
2. webutation.com
3. scamxposer.com
4. betterbusinessbureau.com
5. reviewopedia.com
6. ripoff report.com
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE REVIEW.
1. Is the website rated as a web of trust?
2. Are the owners of the website known?
3. Where is the website registered?
4. Is there a physical address of the website owners?
5. How long has the website been in business?
6. Are the current owners of this website reported to have owned a website in the past which is no longer active? And why did the previous website close?
7. Has the same website changed its name from another website to the current name?
Avoid signing up for a product whose promoters address is reported to be unknown.
Avoid signing up for a product offer for a website that has changed its name or a website that is too recent(new product offer on the internet.)
8. Are there any reported customer complaints about the product offer in the review?
9. Have reported complaints been resolved and cases closed by the website?
Avoid signing up for a product offer whose refund rate is reported to be high.
Avoid signing up for a product offer whose customer complaints/unresolved issues are reportedly high.
STEP 2.REVIEW THE PAYMENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE ON THE PRODUCT OFFER.
The next step to go if you are happy and satisfied with your scam reviews outlined in step one, you have to check what type of payment mechanism is used for paying for the product. There are three trusted known ways of making payments. These are; paypal ,clickbank, or NETELLER(e wallet.)
WARNING! If you are asked to make a payment through any other method apart from the three that I have mentioned here, then you must sense danger.
There is a more recent payment making website which is like a rival to clickbank,it is called clicksure. Much as it is recorded as a trusted site.The affiliate product offers that ask you to pay through this site do not have favorable reviews in the review sites that I listed above.
However, clicksure have countered the reputation of high refund claims and poor refund settlements by offering 60 day money-back guarantees on most affiliate products sold through the clicksure payment option.
It is very likely that each time you click on the payment button that asks you to make an online payment forproduct , and you see a 60 day money- back guarantee,then you are dealing through clicksure.
Most of the products offered through Clicksure are reported to have a high refund rate on the review websites that I listed above. It has been reported that some of the product offers on Clicksure are of Marketers that were kicked out or rejected by Click bank.I have not verified this except from reading the reviews themselves.
Take Notethat not all product offers on Clicksure are questionable.Some product developers tend to market affiliate products through Clicksure because mechanisms such as Click bank and PayPal have certain restrictions and theysegregate.
For example, one cannot sell his digital products through click bank and cannot receive payment through PayPal if they are from Africa and from some selected countries worldwide.
The best option for an African to receive payment and to sell product is through NETELLER(E-Wallet.) Or neteller as it is also known.Clicksure and e -wallet have a somewhat all inclusive policy, which does not marginalize any person worldwide, who is looking for an opportunity to make money online.
Whichever the case, I recommend that you go for a payment system such as PayPal, click bank and e wallet. These are trusted payment sites with favorable reviews.
STEP 3.SIGN UP WITH INTERNET MARKETING REPORT CARD.
The best way to receive genuine product offers from email promotions and offers if you want to avoid scams, is to signup for Internet Marketing Report Card membership. It is free to sign up. All products offered through the IM Report Card are from trusted online Marketers.
If you want to genuinely make money online. The following are top websites of trust.
1.Chris Farrell Membership.
2.Traffic brokers.com
3. Online income university.
4. Empower network.com
5.Mylot.com
6. Project payday
7.Online payday system
8.Team Vinh International
(Note: This list is not exhaustive.)
Try to scam review them all on the sixreview websites that I have listed in step 1 and you will see collaborated results.The scam review for nearly all of them is about 100% safe.
Please avoid purchasing product offers that claim that you can make money by just sitting and watching some software do something for you. Making money online is work just like any other day to day work that you do.It calls for your time and effort to make money. Work FromHome, or Work at Home to make $250 overnight websites, are not good for your credit card.
Well my friends stay scam free, protect your credit card and don’t fall prey to get rich quick scam hype!
