How to tell if it is a scam or failure in 30 seconds!

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Have you ever wondered if there was a quick simple way to eliminate over 90% of scams/failures?

Did you know you can tell a failure/scam within 30 seconds in most cases right from the email?

Warning: Never click links!

Well. you can and I am here to show you!

1. Email/Website says matrix or doubler
1A. Also on the FTC's shut down list are anything you have to get people to join to get paid, powerlines, downline clubs, etc
2. Any program where you have to be put on a list to be paid out or it relies on people
3. Any program FTC deems illegal www.ftc.gov
4. It boasts of high percentages, quick payouts or unrealistic income
5. The info you got was not requested by you (spam-offers) are 99%-scams
6. Any program who requests personal, sensitive info, financial institutions
7. Any company run by admin who has failed more then 2 times
8. Any admin using a failed formula whom says they tweaked it
9. Any admin who hides his info, will not verify himself or wont let you contact him/her
10. If it sounds too good to be true
11. Emails/Websites claiming your account has been suspended or asks your password or personal info. Real companies will call you by phone
12. Sales initiated via messenger services or chatrooms, even if you have known them online for a long time and they have called you before, don't give out personal information to anyone!
13. Offers to help transfer money or want you to transfer for them
14. Sad stories about death/pain/kid napping claims asking you to help
15. Dating Sites/Love Interests/Online People who say they are away on business
16. Criminals are getting cell phones from USA, always trying to buy mine for sale, so the phone number looks like it is from America, but it is really someone sitting at a Nigerian cafe, so don't buy their stories!
17. Chairties, Lotteries (ETC) even if it looks like it came from Yahoo or a major known company it IS NOT them it is a scam
18. Emails/Websites asking you to click on links for any reason that you did not request
19. Emails/Websites with downloads/attachments (even txt attachments and pictures can be dangerous)
20. Contact email is from a free-email account or bounces when you write it.
21. Make money just by signing up IS a known scam
22. Pay this person, move this person up "chainletter or chainletter website" IS a scam and illegal! 99% of the time the persons email is on the list in all the spots!
23. Sign this many people up
24. We will pay you to sign up IS a scam and illegal
25. Any email or website where you have to pay an upper or lower person to sign up IS a scam
26. Just spend or buy and we will do the work
27. We will send you so many buying customers or sign ups is a failed formula that wont work, but is still being peddled, don't fall for it
28. Distribution Catalogs-Usually from foreign countries IS a scam
29. Any site hosted on free webspace that charges you to join IS 90% chance of being a scam!
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Note: It is illegal to guarantee income, fake testimonials and contact people you have not previously done business with or who have requested to be removed from your list.
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So what and who can you trust?
1. Stick with people you have met in person
2. Deal Locally ONLY! If you can't drive to the place to do business, then don't do it!
FACT: The number one way of getting personal info is social hacking. 100% of people have been socially hacked!
3. Don't give out the name of your financial institution ever!
All it takes is a simple "What are you up to today?" conversation to lead to giving out too much information. (I.E. You: What are you doing today? Scammer: Ahh just paying bills" and that is how it starts...

Bottom Line:
Deal Locally
Get-Cash. All paper forms of payments including cashiers checks and money orders can be faked!
No wire transfers, because with just your number they can funnel money in and out and in most banks you are responsible for it!
Don't tell anyone personal, sensitive or financial info..
Don't share the name of your financial institution
Don't share passwords and usernames of any kind, not even simple ones that you dont think matter!

If someone starts talking about bills, banks or financial things of any kind, just tell them you dont talk about that stuff. Even if you think you are talking to your friend you know in real life, because hackers are incredible actors and many people thought they were talking to their friend and ends up it was an email or IM of a hacker who stole their account, studied their sent folders and are now talking to you! Not to mention, keyloggers and such can collect the information even if it is a real friend, so it is just best to never talk anything to do with financial or personal info online!

One HUGE scam- is a love interest acting jealous and asking for you to prove something to them by giving your username and password to email, dating site, etc. You think it's harmless, but since you use the same password or username in multiple places over time through social hacking he can get all he needs!

---------------------Don't be fooled! Use Common Sense!------------------

Scam: Simon Stepsys Home Business Coach

Scam: Simon Stepsys Home Business Coach
This entry was posted on 3/3/2006 11:12 AM and is filed under Scam-Alerts.

Recently entered into my inbox was the extreme2ndincome scam run by no other then notorious UK scammer Simon Stepsys! Reading his emails IF YOU JUST READ THEM! You will know he is a scammer:

Let's point out some quick hints he is a scammer from his email:

1. Become a Home Business Coach <--says right on his lahd website he is a high school graduate NOT a College Graduate and gives hints to needing a fax machine, email and this over 90% of the time is how ponzis are run!
2. Claims to teach you how to become a home business coach, but upon further reading of email and websites he TEACHES YOU TO RECRUIT OTHERS FOR A FEE "CAN YOU SAY PONZI?"
3. Click here for more info links on him are cleverly disquised email get more info on business links
4. Site says fax machine and emails are used <--over 90% of the time anything done with a fax or combo of IS a PONZI
5. Claims He Six Figure Income Article, but when you click the link it is just his own site and a bio page
6. Upon check of the link simonstepsys.com doesn't work!

AND IF THAT ISNT ENOUGH TO CONVINCE YOU HE HAS BEEN IN TROUBLE SINCE 1998 BY THE OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING AND HIS OWN STUDENTS HAVE POSTED SCAM REPORTS AGAINST HIM. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A MULTIMILLIONDOLLAR GURU TO YOU?
Simon Stepsys in trouble since 1998 (read all the way to the bottom)
Misleading Advertisements and Publications
Also has one of his customers who he scammed on there
http://www.homeworking.com/library/bizban.htm

1999-2005: Court for misleading ads AGAIN Simon Stepsys and Steven Gilruth
Further down the page in purple are the court case articles and other scams
People ordered products and never received them
http://www.homeworking.com/discus/messages/17/49.html?1134059881

According to the The Board Magazine the Stepsys Home Business Coach and related links in that email began circulation in 2003 with every victim looking for big money fast! http://www.homebusiness.org.uk/board.htm

Has anyone out there ever listened when I say RUN NAMES AND PAGES THROUGH GOOGLE

All I did to find this info was scam, simon stepsys and I found 1 ad and 10 sites reporting it was a scam with proof! Why, why can't you just do this simple thing to protect yourself?

For the sake of idiots I have not posted the links to this scam and since the email changes so often I havent posted it either, because people have been known to click links and join scams even from scam report pages!!!

Stormpay vs 12dailypro

Stormpay vs 12dailypro
This entry was posted on 2/26/2006 2:40 AM and is filed under Internet Cat Fights.

Update March 02, 2006: Everything has returned to normal at Stormpay. Withdrawals are being honored, site is always in an uptime state, errors have been corrected and commissions are being doubled every week!
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Charis Johnson pretty much wrote her own demise when she agreesively argued with Stormpay over their latest dictatorship policy of our payment processor or no payment processor mandating that you must choose to use only stormpay on your website or remove Stormpay altogether.

Charis pushes the issue with them, agreesively protesting and Stormpay's claws come out with the end result in 12dailypro barely legal business being investigated, her stormpay account closed and all funds distributed to members including commissions from spends for Stormpay affiliates being reversed and charged back.

Charis scratches back with a post on her site forum that Stormpay is stealing members funds and lawyers are getting involved.

To Which Stormpay hisses " We are working with authorities to investigate and a stormpay audit is being done."

Another rabid kitty enters the mix: A supposid angry member starts a DDOS attack on Stormpay and rumor emails fly about how Stormpay is stealing money and Stormpay is closing down (etc)

Members panic! Losing their minds over the loss of money. Commission accounts go -thousands from the reversals of commissions and withdrawals of any 12dailypro members via Stormpay are haulted!

ALL AFFILIATES REFUSE TO PAY THE -THOUSANDS REMOVED FROM THEM, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT CREATE THIS MESS!

Unverified info: Approximately 85% of members were supposidly affected in one way or another by this whole fiasco.

Stormpay recovers with a month later everyone still seeing reversals and chargebacks, that are finally slowing
and for the lucky a positive figure is restored inside their Stormpay accounts.

Neither ever mentioned exactly who the authorities and lawyers were investigating this incident???

Who were the authorities and Lawyers? We know when Police, FTC or any government authority investigates the site is taken off the net immediately, but 12dailypro and Stormpay both remained online, so my opinion is it was a bunch of words used to make themselves look good!

How were you affected by the Stormpay vs 12dailypro Fiasco? What do you think would have been a better solution to all of this? Post your comments below.

Guru scams you one chapter at a time!

Guru scams you one chapter at a time!
This entry was posted on 2/26/2006 3:42 AM and is filed under Guru-NoNo's.

Guru's out there on the net only sell you a chapter at a time to a never ending novel. By the time you get some real points out of these people, they stuff they have sold you is outdated and doesn't work! Worse off they are charging 30.00-2000.00 per chapter!!

I ask: Would you spend 30.00-2000.00 per chapter on a book at your local bookstore and would you buy the book one chapter at a time?

Answer: NO, SO STOP LETTING GURU'S SCREW YOU OVER THIS WAY ON THE NET AND TV!