Have you ever been scammed on internet?

India
December 16, 2009 12:00pm CST
Well, most of us who are using internet with a view to make some extra money have been scammed some time or the other. But the big question is how many times have you been scammed and how much have you lost? I would really appreciate if you share your experience as it will be beneficial for the other mylot users, too.
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15 responses
@ronnyb (6113)
• Jamaica
16 Dec 09
I have never been scammed on the internet and I dont intend to be ,well atleast I am sticking to whats been tested and proven .I am sticking with premise that if its too good to be true then it usually is and avoiding all those site that promise unrealistic return on investments or for work done .So for now its mylot
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@hatimyal (1516)
• India
16 Dec 09
my friend they say to earn money you have to take risk. higher the risk higher will be your profit. thats the theory people follow in business. btw even if you stuck to mylot. how much did you make till now. in mylot i made $4 in 2 years and i tried more than 300 sites and got scammed in more than 250 sites. but the 50 sites which i found was worth taking all that risk you know. i made around 600$-800$ in 1 year from those 50 sites. but those sites are no more right now. but still m looking for new sites. mind you one thing. i never invested a penny from my pocket. just invested back wat ever i earned from them. Regards
@chulce (1537)
• United States
16 Dec 09
I was scammed once while looking for a small business loan, the supposed company got $3,000 from me. I was told that the money was to cover the administrative costs, I took the paperwork to an accountant and a lawyer, both stated that the information looked legitimate. Boy, were we all wrong. I was so upset. I could not believe that I fell for that.
@hatimyal (1516)
• India
16 Dec 09
Lol thats a funny question you asking. IF you try to earn online you will definetly get scammed atleast once. actually i have been scammed more than 100 times till now. but now i have got a good idea about which sites to join and which not to. but still wen i join some sites i get scammed. there is no way you can avoid that. but from my experience i have learnt that you should always invest in sites the amount of money which you have earned from them. actually if you have earned 2$ from them invest back 1.5.. so even they scam you you will always be in $0.5 in profit. visit my blog for regular updates abt scam sites and good sites to earn money from. Regards
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
19 Dec 09
So far, among all the sites I have joined, it's myLot where I really got stuck and found all the other sites to be boring or too chaotic if I should say. One site however, somebody tipped me that it was a scam so I stopped before I got hooked into it. I was only starting out.
@audrey7 (232)
• Jamaica
22 Dec 09
I have been scammed a year ago but it was by a site called mininvestment. They were very skillful. It was a money investment scheme where you could see growth on investment. A number of persons got their money even a young man from my country had to get approval to get the 18m that he received. Other got there but three months before I received mine 16m they came off the site. I had invested one thousand us dollars. As a result I do not place money on any type of site.My policy is if there is an offering that is good and you have to work let the worked money pay for whatever that it is to pay for. ment approval
• India
7 Aug 10
No i have never been i really search a lot before joining a site and devoting my time to the particular site...but ya i have joined Cashcrate and i think that was my mistake..
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
17 Dec 09
When I first started on the Net yes a few times but fortunately never lost anything now I am certainly very careful and if I get Mail or anything and I do not know the Addy I will not even open it but there are still so many innocent People falling for them and a lot loose Money because of it
• India
17 Dec 09
Yes, I have been scammed, so many times, whenever I thought about earning money online. Especially those data entry scams. They make you work like a donkey for a full month and then inform that all the work was wrong, etc., etc. So keep away at least from those sites that asks money from you as joining up fees.
• India
17 Dec 09
I feel it doesn't matter if your really want to make many. Not only in internet, its a basic for life. You can learn more lesson if you loss, and you can get the right way to earn more. I am facing a lot of losses in internet but I can manage by the way. By the losses, I have some good paying site in my hand. The big key is neobux. and some other freelancers sites.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
18 Dec 09
Yeah, over 10 years ago, I bought a box lot of HDD off of Ebay, for a few hundred dollars. Half didn't work. The other half were smaller drives than the "average" size was listed as. Big huge massive mistake. Couldn't use any of them. Basically wasted all the money.
@Jakywoo (102)
• China
17 Dec 09
That is the most awful experience on the internet~!I hate that.And I think many many people have ever been scammed on internet.For me,maybe I haven't experienced a so bad one.Most important,we should learn to hold our desires.
@diwaker0 (46)
• India
18 Dec 09
Yes i Have been Scammed many times. But now i am using many websites Which have Really paid me thousands. You can PM me & i will tell u how to earn money online.
@heejihn (34)
• Malaysia
17 Dec 09
I have been scammed once but luckily I did not invest money in the scam site.But the most important thing I lost is the time I used to participate in that site.At first I feel very bad but after that I revealed because I did not invest money I it.
@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
17 Dec 09
I often receive attempts of scamming. But I always see to it I will not fall victim to these scammers. Most of them through emails. The most common type is the "Nigerian Money Scam style". The second most common type is the "Data Entry Scam". I call this scam because, as far as I know, if you are an employer and you want to hire a data encoder, you do not have to charge the applicant a fee like $49. Why are they asking for a fee? It's a crazy idea. I think it's a scam. Another type of scam that I often encounter is, a phishing or pharming scam, done with Yahoo mail. Someone sent me a message impersonating he is a staff of Yahoo requesting to confirm my email account by replying to him my full name, occupation, address, and password so they will know my account is active and they won't delete it. It sounded like a scam designed to get my personal info. I did not reply to the message. The deadline have passed, Yahoo did not delete my account. So I came to conclusion that it was a phishing and pharming scam done through email. There are a lot of scams online. Some are blatant scams while some are disguised as legitimate. Be careful. It is an advantage if you educate yourself and seek the advice of government agencies before you go into a transaction. Take care my friends.
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
16 Dec 09
Yes, I have been scammed on the internet, and many times and not sure of the dollar amount, but it was enough that is for sure. I got tired of being scammed, so when I was looking for things to do earlier this year, I made up my mind that if any program asked for money, I wasn't going to pay a thing, as they are usually scams anyway. I am doing sites where I didn't have to pay anything, and I am earning some money, albeit not a lot, but it does add up in the end. I just decided that I was going to keep looking until I found something that didn't ask for money, so when I foudd the sites that pay me, I have stayed with them, and I will continue to do so. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.