Have you fallen for a scam site before?

nomad

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I have landed on scam sites multiple times. If you have been working online for a long time, you will surely fall for a scam site one day, no matter how hard you mtry to avoid it.
 
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gammarays

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Yeah. And the authorities has a lot to investigate on, that's why some of the cases are taking years. Thus, many scammers got away with it.
It's usually difficult to trace online scams. Fake identity can be created, temporary bank details or payment processor accounts can be opened and verified using these fake profiles.
 

Heatman

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No doubt, many of have experienced online fraud one way or the other. Mine was a forum that waited for it's members to accumulate a lot of money then folded up. Waste of time, energy and resources. Have you ever been scammed before?
MMM was the first Ponzi website that I fell to its scam some years ago and I lost a very huge amount of money in the Ponzi scheme as well as so many other Nigerians who participated in it.
 

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I think most people especially in the beginning of using the internet will have been scammed in one form or another, it's about seeing how you were caught out and making sure you avoid falling for those scams again. I know I was scammed at least a few times when I first started using the internet before I learned what to look out for. As long as you learn from it and avoid it in the future, you should be good.
 

Niyi Briggs

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The one I got very close to being a victim was one that was demanding for payment to be able to earn from there. And so many people paid to be part of it. They absconded and ran.
 

AruneBend

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Most people did since there are so many scammy sites where they are claiming that you can earn hundreds of dollars wich is completely false it takes time and effort to do that
 

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I have been scammed by a local site that was saying they pay for surveys. So many people rushed in to answer survey questions and accumulated points but the admin of the site became incommunicado shortly after.
 

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I always wonder where do the perpetrators for cyber crimes get the tactics and skills to trick people from. They however emerge each and everyday with different ways on how to robbe from the people.
 

cherry123

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We all do since there are so many scamming sites that we are not aware of their antics Some sites claims that you can earn so much and we fall for them
 

Bisolami

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Most people did since there are so many scammy sites where they are claiming that you can earn hundreds of dollars wich is completely false it takes time and effort to do that
I think one of the highest red flags online is when they are promising you too much money that you find hard to be true. It will be better to stay away from that kind of website.
 

AruneBend

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We all do since there are so many scamming sites that we are not aware of their antics Some sites claims that you can earn so much and we fall for them
Your right there are so many scammy sites on the internet it doesn't take any work to get scammed it's very easy it's hard to find legit apps or sites these days we always need payment proof to know if it's legit or not
 

Bisolami

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Your right there are so many scammy sites on the internet it doesn't take any work to get scammed it's very easy it's hard to find legit apps or sites these days we always need payment proof to know if it's legit or not
You know there was a time when we all were still novices so we could not tell if a platform was legit or scam so we were able to fall for those platforms back then
 

astutimeliana723

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Once. More precisely, the application that I downloaded from the playstore is not the site. There are some apps that tricked me, but I can't remember the names. Except for a fake application that claims to be Swagbucks, after I checked it turned out that the logo was different from the original site.
 
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