Easy Scam Detection

The scam industry (how else can we call it) is circulating hundreds of billion (milliards under the classification of certain countries, of dollars around the world. This in immense amount of money that eventually finds its way to criminals who utilize networks which they exploit effectively to extarct money from innocent people.
In order to protect you from being one of those victims, we show certain tips that are easy to use, to detect those who keep inventing their sophisticated tricks. All it takes to be attentive and gullible, and be another ne to depart with his hard earned money.
These are the tricks are used, who are in many instances are not to result for them to succeed the tools.
1.      Use of email based on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and similar free services: When you receive a unsolicited email, from some organization like a bank, large international organization like the United nations, the  FBI, a large courier service like DHL, UPS, FedEx etc, and whatever bank that seems to be a known brands from around the world, check one point that will immediately expose the scammer: the email the user scams.
Most scammers will use at least one service of free public email. Most on the least are Gmail emails. So, if you receive an email from unknown scammer, presented himself as a bank, international organization etc. yet the email used is one of the common free emails simply delete the message. It is fake. Example: the United Nations will not use @gmail.com for its emails. So will not a bank, a courier service and other large entities. They all have their own email which are based on their domains, that their website is built on.
The problem with a free email is simple. You are the Internet user, can’t really check who is behind it. Indeed. Gmail or the others try to verify the identity of the person or business which is creating the email, but the type of identification is mostly based on verifying by a mobile number. Mobile number can be obtained easy today, in any country, while the scammer is living in a country which is thousands of miles away.
Many time you may see that the email is based on a domain which is serving a website that the scammer presents as his website, under a name that is similar to names of famous bank or other organization. A nice trick to make the victim fall for it. To avoid this simply make sure if the domain under which the website is shown, has been registered for a reasonable time. Example: if the domain of the website has a domain registered recently (last few years) it is obvious that it is a scam, since a bank or large organization is already been registered for many years. This calls for further caution as it will look like the name is really similar to the name of the real entity, but nothing more. To verify just go to www.whois.com and the details of the domain registration will appear in seconds.
The fake email is the first and most solid evidence that you are facing a scam.
2.      Request for payment on a delivery of an ATM card, or product, expected to be delivered by one of the courier services: Here it is very simple.  No courier service will even ask you to pay for delivering something to your address. And sender is the part that pays. Always. No matter how enticing is the story, delete it. Sending money to a courier service, in particular to an email which is not based on the domain of the company, need no more explanations. It is a crude scam.
3.      A story of whatever emotional narration, based on a famous name: This is usually a story of someone, most of the times from a woman, who presented herself as dying from cancer, yet has a large amount of money to be donated to someone who is honest and will to use the funds for helping vulnerable people. Before moving on, check the name in the story and you will find that the person either does not exist or does exist but is a person of good health, known in its region of living. All you need is Google the name and you may discover that it belong to a lawyer, a famous person or anyone of good fame. Run away. It is obvious scam.
4.      A message from a senior bank employ about a dormant bank account that belongs to someone with a similar last name like your. This person under the story has died and left the funds without anyone to serve as heir. According to the story this bank employee can arrange the documents in your favor. No risk, so both of you can benefit from the large amount. The only weak point is: you will eventually be asked to contact a lawyer provided by that bank executive, who will arrange all the paperwork to release the funds. This work is of course not cheap and you are required to shed thousands of dollars to that lawyer. All before there is one dollar transferred to you. Well, if you are stupidly greedy, you will discover tat sending money to this fake lawyer will result only in the fact that you will be poorer by thousands of dollars. Once the money is sent, you can only hit your head in the wall cursing your stupidity.
5.      A loan offer for business or personal needs, at amazing low interest. You may be contacted by a company which offers a large amount of money, for a term of many years. No collaterals. No credit check. After they send you all the documents for the so called processing of the loan, you will be asked to provide a payment for the processing of documentation to release the fund. The amount can be of many thousands of dollars. All before the so-called release. Indeed. So called release, because in reality there will be no funds. Just less money in you own bank account. Try to retrieve the money? Well easer will be to catch the wind in the field. Most of these entities are from countries in the Middle East, known for their abundance of cash. This is a point that can easily shift the mind of the person to believe n all they tell you. They just wait for the moment that al is ready. The money is about to be released to you. Just the cost of the release documents. Don’t fall for similar stories, no matter what shape they take, and not matter how similar they look to a legitimate company.
6.      A myriad of fake stories that are incorporating some features explained in the above paragraphs. No matter what is the nature of the story that arrived in your mail box, these stories carry some or all of the ingredients mentioned in the sections about. If you are not sure whether it is legit or not, use the points we mentioned to make the evaluation. That said, always remember the most crucial aspect: never, yes never, under any circumstances, ever send any money t anyone, as honest they may seem, before receiving what you were promised. The test will be simple: always promise the person who offers the funds and who asks to pay the required expenses for the release of the funds, to reimburse 5 to 10 time the amount paid for the release. After all, tell the person, since the person know the true existence of the funds, he or she takes no chance. Just stand to gain. After to promise such an act you will get several explanations why t can’t be done, or these people will simply disappear.
7.      Some type of offer that requires you to provide personal data, including an image of your ID. Under any circumstance never provide this data. People who get your personal info can use it to scam others and get you involved with the law without any fault of your own. This type of activity is referred to as Phishing. Don’t fall for it because if not directly, you may or might eventually pay dearly for it.