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What constitutes a scam?In common layman's terms, an Internet scam is simply a ploy for unscrupulous people to get your money. They do this by either pyramid schemes (inviting people to sign up others for "downstream" profits), offering cut-rate prices on goods and then not delivering them, making grandious claims about future profits for investments, and much more. The old adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" certainly applies in this case. Have you ever received email that is addressed to friend@anywhere.com or someone other than yourself? Ever wonder why you received it, if your name doesn't appear? With today's technology, it's easy to doctor up the email headers to make it appear it's coming from a completely different person and sent to a completely different address. Why would people choose to do this? The most popular reason is because these emails will generate a lot of hate mail in response. Using a bogus return address ensures the sender won't be bombarded with complaints. And by using a fake To: address, naive recipients might think they had received it by mistake, and not complain. Anyone who doesn't stand behind their product is a vendor worth ignoring. Scams range from the "Make Money Fast" to "send out these recipies to 30,000,000 people and watch the money roll in!" to pyramid schemes, crooked Internet Web site design, to many more things. In a pinch, anything which spout unrealistic promises righ up until you part with your money is a scam. |
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