Prevent,Yourself,From,Being,Sc DIY Prevent Yourself From Being Scammed

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With the economy in its current state and with people stillbeing tight on money and losing their jobs online scams are more dangerous thanever.  Despite their vast dangers scamsare actually easily prevented. I’m going to go over the signs that you arepotentially being scammed so you can stop it before its too late. It’s toogood to be true: If you see an ad for something that sounds too good tobe true than it probably is. This is a saying that most people know but itdoesn’t mean that we see an offer that good we aren’t curious. And often timeswe act on that curiosity. The problem is there are some “to good to be trueoffers” that are actually true. But how do you tell the difference? If it is anoffer that you have to pay money for first or give out some vital informationavoid it at all costs. Nothing is worth potentially losing all the money youhave.  However, if it’s in a situationwhere you can e-mail the person placing the ad and talk to them about it firstthan I recommend that. As long as you aren’t in danger of them getting vitalinformation there is no harm in talking to them. InformationDoesn’t Add Up: Let’s say you saw an incredible offer from an ad andyou have the option to e-mail first, through craigslist for example, you need tocarefully read all the details of the e-mails that are being sent to you andsee if it all adds up. For example I saw an ad on craigslist for a one-bedroomapartment for $450 a month. Where I live that is unheard of so I was curious. Iimmediately e-mailed the person behind the ad and exchanged e-mails with themfor over a week, all the while coming to the conclusion that this was a scam. It was the little details that gave them away. They gave methe wrong zip-code over and over again despite having “lived” in the area for anumber of years. Through the e-mails the address changed, it was something like1539 at first but after driving there and informing them that what they told mewould be there wasn’t the address, surprise, changed. It changed to 1511-1539which was the address of an apartment complex. Okay, well first she said thatthe apartment wasn’t part of a complex. Needless to say none of the informationwas adding up. I even went as far as to talk to the apartment complex who toldme it was a scam because they didn’t let renters rent the apartments to anyoneelse.  If any simple detail doesn’t addup, call them on it, and if they still can’t give you the answers you need thanyou know for sure it’s a scam.They usereligion and health problems to gain your trust: I’m areligious person, I have nothing against it. What I do have a problem with iswhen someone constantly brings up their “religion” as a means of getting mytrust, it’s disrespectful to those who are actually religious. In regards to theapartment ad I used as an example above the scammer was constantly usingreligion to try and gain my trust. She would say things like, “I know there area lot of scams out there but I’m a Christian so the thought of scamming someoneelse makes me sick”. But she kept repeating it, every time I called her on anew discrepancy I found, she kept telling me the same thing. Remember ifsomeone feels the need to keep repeating something like that to you there hasto be reason, i.e. they are lying.  If a person is using health problems, telling you their lifestory regarding their health problems, and constantly giving repeating how withreligion they couldn’t scam you, then watch out. I find that by reading the waythe e-mail is worded you can usually tell if they are lying or actually tellingthe truth.They can’tmeet with you first: If the person behind the ad is a few states away forbusiness or a family reunion than tell them you will wait until you can meetthem in person. If they say that isn’t possible, they need to sell the item andget the money right away than watch out. Whenever you buy something online itneeds to be something you can see with your own eyes and bought from a personyou can meet. Anything else screams scam. Speaking of which.Money Transfers:Money transfers especially through companies like the Western Union are abig flashing sign that this is scam. Keep in mind Western Union itself isn’tactually a bad company, it’s just that a lot of scams are done through them.Anyway if the person you are communicating with says they want the money firstand then they will send you the item, the keys to the apartment/ the car,whatever the case may be then  you knowfor sure this is a scam. Even if they are only asking for half the payment onceyou send them the money it’s gone and you won’t have anything to show for it.Craigslist itself strongly advises against money transfers.If you feel like you are getting into a potential scam thantake a good look at all of these signs and if anything seems off don’t gothrough with it. I would however advise you that if you are being scammed orpotentially being scammed you report it. I even went as far as to tell them Iwas going to take the apartment so I could get their Western Union information.Simply not going through with it is great but it doesn’t stop the scammers fromdoing it to someone else. It just takes a few minutes to report it toCraigslist and the fraud companies.