I am absolutely amazed at how the same old internet scams continue to work year after year after year. The question is why do they continue to work?
Why with a communication medium like the internet, where news both good and bad travels instantly do people keep getting ripped-off by same old scams?
There can only be one answer. Too many gullible individuals functioning with their eyes wide shut.
And while Barack Obama proved that America is still the land of opportunity where anything is possible, the internet has proven itself to be the ultimate realm of gullibility.
People, you have to open your eyes and start exercising a little common sense. Don't believe everything you see and hear. Be skeptical. Check things out with the authorities. Ask Questions. And above all remember:
"If something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true!"
Unfortunately, there's not much I can do to help those of you who've already been victimized. However, I can try to save others from the same fate.
So what I'm going to do is list the five most common internet scams that people keep falling for. Watch out for these, and when you see them run in the opposite direction.
1. (Scam) "We'll Submit Your Site to 2500 Search Engines for $39.95!"
First of all, there aren't 2500 search engines out there. Second, there are really only five top tier search engines worth submitting to and you don't need to pay anyone to submit your site because those search engines will find your site on their own.
However, if you want to submit to them you can do it yourself. The five search engines are:
Yahoo
MSN Live
AOL (Powered by Google)
Ask (Powered by Teoma)
2. (Scam) "Achieve Top 10 Search Engine Rankings Guaranteed!"
No legitimate SEO company will guarantee you a top 10 search engine ranking. Why? Because they can't. No one controls the search engines - no one! And since no one controls the search engines, it only stands to reason that no one can legitimately guarantee you a top 10 ranking. Again, exercise common sense.
Now it is possible for you to get a top 10 ranking for certain keyword phrases that are less popular - keywords that aren't heavily searched? Yes. But again, no one can guarantee you a top 10 ranking.
And even if you do manage to get in the top 10 for certain keywords, there's no guarantee you'll be able to stay there, because the search engines are fickle have a mind of their own.
For example, you can be on page 1 today and just as easily be on page 100 tomorrow. It can happen just that quickly, and often does.
3. (Scam) "Generate 10,000 to 1,000,000 Visitors to your Site Guaranteed!"
Don't waste your time with guaranteed traffic programs. Yes, you'll receive plenty of traffic, but they won't buy anything. Why? Because the traffic is of poor quality. It isn't targeted. The people visiting your site through these programs aren't interested in what you're selling. They only clicked-through to your site because they get traffic credits to do so.
In other words, the people visiting your site are starving for traffic just like you. So they joined a guaranteed traffic program like you did. Don't waste your time with guaranteed traffic programs.
4. (Scam) "Blast Your E-mail Ads to Millions of Targeted Prospects and Watch Your Sales Explode!"
I'm going to make this short and sweet. E-mail blasts are spam, plain and simple. And spam is illegal. If your company is associated with sending out spam, your ISP will drop you like a bad habit, and your company will be blacklisted.! Believe me, that's one headache you can do without.
Don't ever send anyone you don't know an e-mail solicitation without their permission. Don't do it!
5. (Scam) You know all of those e-mails that flood your inbox on a daily basis. They come from e-mail blasting software, and they're scams. Legitimate companies don't send out e-mail solicitations without permission, for the exact same reasons I just mentioned.
Unless you signed up to receive e-mail solicitations from a particular company, delete all spam. Don't open it, and don't send these scam artists your hard-earned money. And don't ever respond to any e-mail that asks you to login to your account to confirm your personal information.
Anyway, that's it. Those are the five most common internet scams that people continue to fall for over and over again.
Like I said earlier, there's not much I can do to help those of you who've already been victimized by these programs. Hopefully, you'll be more careful in the future.
And I sincerely hope that those reading this article won't be as gullible and will see these scam programs for what they really are, and avoid them like the plague!
One last thing: If you decide to ignore my advice and end up getting burned, you can't say you weren't warned!
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