Online Scams to Avoid

Have you ever been scammed in your efforts to make money online?

The internet comes with a lot of opportunities, but it also comes with a great deal of scams so you have to watch out.

In today’s post, I’m going to introduce you to 7 of the most rampant online scams that exist, and how to avoid them. So, if you’ve been trying to make money on the internet. You’ll inevitably come across some of the many scams that are online. Let’s jump into these scams, one by one:

1. Free PayPal Money

Who wants free PayPal money? Everybody right? There’s a website that claims to give free PayPal money – makeonlinepyp.win. What’s weird is you can also choose how much money you want. After choosing the amount and entering your PayPal address. You’ll be given some text to copy and paste on YouTube comment section of other people’s YouTube videos. This is how this scam is perpetrated on the internet. What happens after this, is they are going to have you take a bunch of surveys and get your credit card details in the process. So, they are willing to go through all that trouble to get your card details. Because, that’s how they’ll scam money out of you.

2. Binary Options

Also known as Crypto trading scams. But just to quickly point out that not all crypto currencies are scams. There are a few legit ones out there. Binary options scam takes advantage of the goodwill that people have for crypto-currencies. And they use that to get people to use these scam artists money.

3. Crypto Mining

There are crypto miners that aren’t necessarily scams, but there are a number of crypto-mining companies which are totally scams. Some crypto mining scams include: Innova Mine, Avelon.

4. Friendly Hacker

The way this scam works is, someone posts a comment or sends you a message or an email. About a friendly hacker who can make you money – by hacking into a number of accounts for you. Most of them present themselves as your guardian angel. Don’t fall for this guys! They’ll have you send them money with a purpose of hacking accounts for you. But once you send the money, guess what! You’ll never hear from them again and your money is gone.

5. Fake Gurus

These are people who are teaching one way to make money, but they never actually made their money that way. That’s kind of lying, because if you are teaching something and don’t abide by those principles. It really doesn’t work out like that. For example; a number of people on the internet will try and sell you courses. Do your research before indulging.

6. Comment Spams

These are business models that are just built around posting comments on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram etc.

7. Surveys

Now, the confusing thing about this is that, there are legit companies that will pay you to take surveys online. Companies like notioncash.com, use2earn.co, elitezap.com will have you take part in paid offers. Have you spend your money and they’ll never pay you anything in return. The biggest red flag you should look out for while choosing your survey site is the welcome bonus. The 3 websites I just mentioned will promise you $20 to $35 welcome bonus. When you sign up, the amount is going to reflect on your dashboard but you can never withdraw any money from these sites. Seriously guys, nobody pays you $20 or even $35 just to sign up. That is a scam.

Online scams are very popular and daunting these days. Because scammers know that people are trying to make money online. So, they are maximizing on your desperation and lack of knowledge. Be wary people! Online scams are everywhere.