How to Spot a Scam

Scams are there, lurking in every corner, waiting for the next victim to prey on.

High unemployment rates and in this country’s state, (extreme) poverty, one would think scams don’t exist.

Well, bad news, they do. Scammers tell the poor rural folks and everyone that seem to fall easily as victims that they are needed as household help supervisor or drivers or machine operators or high-speed sewers (of all kinds of clothes, maybe even sferra linens, baby clothes, etc) in so and so countries. They sell their possessions which include the carabao that is the sole help in the farm they till.

Worse news, no jobs exist and they have been scammed.

So how can you spot a scam?

1. The offers are too good to be true. 12-25% interest for your monetary investment? Come on.
2. Unsolicited email, text messages, phone calls, and mail. Yes, when you feel these are fishy, these probably are fishy.
3. Money to be paid upfront? No thanks.
4. So when you asked how the money will be earned which will enable you to earn a profit and you get blank stares? Forget it.
5. Secret knowledge and secret deals is highly suspect and would probably remain as such: secret.
6. If you ask yourself: “Why have they chosen me?” and can’t find the answer? You probably won’t.

Little effort for huge profit = SCAM. Have you ever wondered why SCAM is almost the same as SCUM?

You have been warned.

LOL.