I Hate Scams....

Where can scams occur? Just about anywhere, you can receive scams by Mail, which means postal mail as a letter. You can even receive it by phone calls which are rarely but it happens from time to time. And then there are the good old way that lures many of us into scams, the online scams.

Now the question is how to spot one? Many of the time your Bulk or Spam Inbox folder will catch many of them. Some like Yahoo, MSN, GMail already have anti-spam features, but they don't catch all, that's when it comes to you and figuring out what is fake and real. Now the first step to do if they provide a website is to visit a website WITH a Anti-Exploit and Anti-Phishing tool. One you can use is LinkScanner. This will make it a lot more easier for you to spot them. Anti-Phishing tools will tell you if the site has been reported as a phishing website and then you will know that the whole thing is a scam. The other is the phone number and address provided. A nifty little tool that I found a while back is Reverse Phone Detective. This allows you to see where the number is located (by city only, you can get more by getting the paid features). If the letter says the address is like in Los Angeles and the number is located in China or some other place, then you know that the letter is a scam.

Keep in mind that scammers will come up with new ways to go around Anti-Spam programs to give you Spam emails that will lure you into Scams. While many of my friends have been scammed before, I told them the same I'm going to tell you: "Don't Let Them Win, Fight Back".

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