Let’s face it, easy money scams are a dime a dozen. By promising you the world on a silver platter, they work you into a buying frenzy. Now don’t get me wrong, there are some legitimate work from home opportunities. But, the kicker is in picking out the real opportunities from the fake ones. Here’s a few random examples of the most popular,heinous money making scams on the net today.

Easy money scams that just won’t die include the “Make Money Fast Chain Email.” It’s a classic pyramid scheme where you are given a list of names, told to a certain amount of money to the person at the top of the list, and add your own name to the bottom. Then you are instructed to forward the “updated” list to other people. The scam in this is that the person who created the list or his or her friends reside at the top of the list permanently!

Here’s another scam you or someone you know may have fallen victim to – the Nigerian Email Scams. It begins with a desperate email from a member of wealthy Nigerian family. They are trying with all their might to move a large amount of cash out of Nigeria. In exchange for your help they promise outrageous amounts of money. They even go so far as to send you a phony check to cash if you will wire a certain amount of money to them via Western Union or Money Gram. Remember easy money scams use the oldest trick in the book – emotion – to make you drool at the idea of getting rick quick. Be careful, because if history tells us anything, it tells us if something appears too good to be true, more than likely it is.

Surveys for money are very popular on the Internet these days. These surveys promise you financial rewards in exchange for a few minutes of your time while you complete an online survey. But it’s important to know that while there are many legitimate paid online surveys, there are also countless survey scams. These scams only want you to fill out a survey or worse, they want access to your personal information. So before you start filling out survey after survey, here’s how you can tell the difference.

Survey Scams Will Promise You a Great Income

One of the best ways to tell that a survey for money is a scam is that they will promise you can make hundreds or thousands of dollars in a very short time. Legitimate online surveys are a great way to make pocket change but truthfully, that’s probably all it will ever be. Legitimate surveys usually pay $1 – $3 per survey filled out, and they’ll probably only send you one or two surveys a week. Any site that is promising you more than this is most likely a scam.

Survey Scams Will Want Your Personal Information

The only personal information a legitimate survey site will ever ask you for is your personal opinion, and perhaps your street address or PayPal address so they can make payments to you. But if a company ever asks you for your banking information or your credit card information, you can be sure it’s a scam, and one of the worst kinds! These sites only want access to your financial information so they can empty your accounts. These sites are actually looking to take your money, not to give you more.

Do Your Research

To tell the difference between survey scams and legitimate survey sites, you’ll definitely want to do your research. Research the company by Googling them, or go onto forums and see what people are saying. There are many forums set up for just this purpose and users will relate their experiences here and you can find out if it’s a company you want to work with, or stay away from!

Because so many people are prone to jump at the idea of a home business there has become trend amongst online scams. In many cases, the scammers will send out mass emails to people that they found through various spyware programs, phishing schemes on legitimate sits and various other email lists. These emails sound like they could be the answers to all of your problems and many people are sucked into the pitch that is thrown at them because they have become desperate to make money.

After reading these emails you will be asked to follow a link to a website. Once there you will be prompted to watch videos or read through long pages, at the end of which you will be asked for your credit card information in return for products or supplies or to have an expert call you. Once done, you may or may not get the product promised and the communication will likely cease. These scams have become effective because of people’s desperation to work and put food on the table. In most cases, this desperation can simply overpower common sense and what would have looked like a blatant scam not long ago, will look like a great opportunity to someone now in dire straits.

Another common scam is for people to send emails from various countries, generally European and African, to get you to cash a check for them. This check is supposed to be payment for services of yours and send the balance to someone else or back to them. This particular ploy comes in many forms, including what appear to be legitimate jobs. Be wary of anyone who asks you to transfer money to someone else and keep the difference, once you cash the check, you’ve committed felony fraud.

Anytime some person or organization makes any kind of offer that results in my getting some amount of money for very little effort or risk I become skeptical. People just don’t give away money.

If I choose to help those less fortunate than I, I make the first call. I initiate the process. There are lots of charitable agencies and organizations to take care of people in dire straits, and I help them whenever I can. Any legitimate group doing this kind of work is going to be agreeable to a background check. Most will give you a few references, and there are many other means to use to verify legitimacy as well. It is just a matter of making a few phone calls to determine which is the right one for any potential donor.

The most obvious place to start checking is the local Better Business Bureau; another is the local Chamber of Commerce. Businesses are called upon regularly to donate to a variety of causes. Any time a scam gets started the word usually gets around quickly. Most District Attorney’s Offices have a consumer crime division who will be aware of any scam that has been running for very long. Even if they haven’t heard of a specific scam, they are aware of many forms that circulate from time to time.

The bottom line for me is, no one is going to get any of my money until I know what is being done with it and I approve of it. And if I have to jump through any hoops or get involved in any scheme, forget about it!

These days everyone is after money. Everyone wants to make money from home and scammers know this. When using the internet it is best to be cautious who you talk to, who you give your information to, and where you click. One wrong move can land you in a bad situation. I suppose you’ve heard about sites that claim you can make money working from home. While some companies are valid, others are not really companies. There are so many money scams out there it can be hard for police to know where and who is committing money scams on others. If the scammer is in another country you may never get your money back and they may never be caught. Every day someone is trying to scam you out of your money.

What can you do about money scams? First, don’t believe everything you read. If an advertisement on the side of the page says you’ve won a million dollars or a new game console it is probably a lie. Next, when you receive an email or instant message from someone you don’t personally know be cautious. If they are telling you a story about how they lost a member of the family and inherited a great deal of money they are probably working a scam on you. They will probably ask if you can help them by giving them your information. Someone may even commit a crime and try to have it blamed on you by making you the middle man. Though you are unaware of what’s going on, the police may question you.

In your modern world with a great number of different troubles and problems at every turn (including money problems) we need to be very careful and attentive. A high percent of all frauds and forgeries occupy various money scams. Probably, you are aware of it because you have become a victim of money scams. Unluckily, quite many people have faced the problem of having been cheated. And the more pity is that usually the victims appear to be desperate, na

Given the current state of the economy, it should come as no surprise that people are looking for ways to increase their income or decrease their financial burden. Although there are always people out there who try to scam money from others, when times get hard like they are now, it’s almost guaranteed that the amount of money scams targeted unsuspecting people will rise.

Currently, one money scam that is increasing rapidly is the government stimulus money scam. Although the government has legitimately allocated billions of dollars for their various stimulus plans, this doesn’t mean that every mention of government stimulus money that you see is actually legitimate.

The most common form of the current government stimulus money scam begins with an email or even postcard that guarantees recipients a piece of the $700 billion stimulus package. All the recipient needs to do is call a 1-800 number. However, this is where things go from legitimate to the scam. Once you call the 1-800 number, the individual you speak to will attempt to persuade you to give them your credit card number. If you give them your credit card number, you can expect a hefty charge with absolutely nothing in return.

As an example of someone who has been targeted by this money scam, Scottsdale resident Jeffery Sadow was recently scammed for $1,100 by this exact scheme. He received a post card in the mail, and after calling the 1-800 number and giving up his credit card number, a $1,100 charge was posted to his credit card.

There are many money scams out in the world. Unfortunately you may know someone close to you who has been the victim of a money scam. These vicious crimes are aimed at the poor and desperate, usually as a “get rich quick” scheme. Many of them involve the transfer of monetary funds to some undisclosed account while there are many others that depend on a ponzi type scheme. If there is a way to make money by tricking innocent people it probably exists.

In the past these types of scams were perpetrated over the telephone or by way of correspondence. With the advent of the Internet money scams are now more prevalent than they have ever been. Phishing and spamming are two new high-tech ways that scammers are fleecing people out of their money. These types of scams recall the days of the chain letter where people would be promised wealth and riches by “not breaking the chain” and sending money to a stranger.

Unreported claims of fraud number in the billions of dollars, as victims feel ashamed and embarrassed that they fell for such a con. The millions of people who do report money scam frauds can become frustrated with the law’s inability to prosecute criminal activity that crosses international borders. This is the reason why most that commit money scams favor doing so over the Internet. It is clear that this rising problem will only escalate if quick actions aren’t taken to successfully prosecute fraud over the Internet.