Do you think that Cheating can make money for long? I don't think so.

@aliasad (1567)
Pakistan
November 1, 2007 8:33am CST
There are so many sites and so called paying sites that claim for prompt payment and some of them really pay. But sometimes we come across such events that would not only catch the attention but also tempt one to just invest the money for multiplication. This is not a wise decision at all. Here one of my friends did so and he even lost the principal amount. I think one must try to think before investment and if getting online, this would be the wrong decision to go. On the other hand, scams and cheaters cannot make fool for long. What do you think?
6 responses
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Nov 07
I think "if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is" is the most important motto to live by on the internet. All you have is their "word" to go by. Cheaters lie, scammers lie - and you don't know the difference. I have gotten so many times in the mail, a notice that I "won" a huge amount of money and if I will "cash" it for them, send them a money order for half of it, they wlll let me keep the balance.I have been contacted like this over little things I put for sale in local newspapers. So I cash their check, send them half back in a money order and I get to keep the rest. What part of this DOESN'T SCREAM to you - Stupid stupid stupid thing to do!!! Why would anyone pay double for something. Why is their check good enough for you, but they require a money order fro you? and oh yeah, it is always from some other country. Ireland is a common place. I just saw a news clip on TV about a women renting a house someplace. A guy (out of USA or course) said he wanted it. No phone communication at all, just a letter. He said he'd pay 1 years rent up front At this same time of saying he wanted it, he enclosed a check for full years rent PLUS another $10,000- total of like $40,000, and told her to cash the check, refund him X amount and use the rest for "expenses" she might need to make the deal go through. She thought she was making a quick and easy $4,000! Okay, which of the many clues there did she not get that this was screaming SCAM!!! She did no backgroun check on him like all landlords do, just cashed the check, never spoke to the guy, nothing but a check in her hand in this day of scam, fraud and ID theft. So she cashed the check, sent him a money order for half and thought she'd made a cool $4. Until the $40k check bounced, and since money orders don't bounce, she was out not only that money order amount of her own money, but money of the "extra" that she'd spent. And no renter. She had to make good on that $40k check she cashed! She said she lost about $20k - that she had to pay back to the bank I just have to ask how can anyone be so greedy as to believe this kind of thing?
@aliasad (1567)
• Pakistan
2 Nov 07
OMG .... Coffeebreak you have made all of us so concious, isn't it! Well, mails like that are so frequent & most of the net users realize the same but inspite of all facts this is really shocking to learn that people innocently being cheated. Thanks for your real life experience narrated here. Have a good day~ Aliasad
@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
2 Nov 07
That is true, my friend. I knew lots of people who invested their money believeing that they can make quick cash on it, most of them are in huge amounts and in the end they got scammed so the money they earned hard for turned to waste. Be it in reality or here on the net, I cannot imagine myself indulging in these types of cheap scams.
• Canada
1 Nov 07
We have to be very carefull of what we do on the internet. the moment they ask you for money, walk away.
• Kottayam, India
1 Nov 07
A big NO
@deserve40 (1656)
• India
1 Nov 07
It depends on what do you call as "Long time". I know few people who have been doing scams. I have been receiving their mails quite frequently. Even I had responded to some mails in quite rude manners, but they seem to be thick skinned people. Ultimately I had to put their mais on spam list. I have seen maximum scams while looking for the online/ off line data entry jobs. They tell you that you will be getting a list of companies with which you can work. However, you have to apply to those companies and the answer you get is "No vacancy right now". Or even sometimes you do not get any response from so called companies. But they are able to catch their preys fairly regularly.
@ck0098 (88)
• China
2 Nov 07
Absolutely NO! In these days I am looking for some websites for making money. But I found that many of these websites pay little money to me and I have to work for a long time such as 6 months to get the pay. I cannot wait for so long. I am confused which website is true. Could anyone give me advice?