Internet Scams

Let me distinguish internet scams from internet frauds. Internet scams involve internet sites or internet companies that promise you something but do not fulfill the claim they make despite charging money for their service. Even if they do not charge money they gobble up your precious time. Internet frauds on the other hand are actually internet crimes like credit card fraud, password fraud, SSN fraud, and similar other frauds when some one steals away your information to make illegal gains at your expense. Internet technology has facilitated such frauds.

Let me come back to internet scams first and also confess this article is about my experience with internet scams. My experience has been that internet scams are not as prevalent as discussed and feared. As a rule of thumb, I believe all the sites that accept payment along with refundable policy are credible. And most of them do.

It is the easiest thing for someone to accuse sites of indulging in internet scams through blog posts because you are neither responsible nor accountable for the allegations you make but you might have deliberately or inadvertently damaged their reputation and business.

As a newbie internet writer I used to be gullible enough to trust those unknown and distant bloggers. However, with experience I learned often but not always they used to be inexperienced and dissatisfied customers. No business has ever satisfied all their customers. There will always be dissatified clients who will go raving, ranting, and shouting all over internet space.

In my personal dealings, I found those internet scam sites by and large fulfilled what they claimed. They paid me on time according to my earning.

Also, many sites I initially believed were internet scams and actually left them losing several dollars in membership (not more than $100 in all) may not actually have been internet scams. Let me tell you why.

It takes not just time and patience to earn, but you also need to learn to earn. A business doesn't become an internet scam simply because I fail to meet my target through it. A site for instance, promised me they will give me clients and charged around $15 every month for their service. They did. Their part of the deal was over. If I did not go very far with clients, I should have revisited my strategy and drawbacks as well - my level of expertise, my ability to research the subject matter, my ability to meet the deadline, my grammar, typos, and a lot of other things.

Let me admit, often I didn't follow what the project I was expected to do was all about. How could I claim those sites as internet scams? This is of course not to deny that there are internet scams.