Having marketed various products, programs and services online for a few years, I am continually amazed at some of the scams I see out on the web and increasingly now on infomercials regarding how to make money online. It bothered me so much we created a section on our Online Advertising Agency regarding how not to get scammed by some of these crooks.

Can you make money online? Absolutely, though it does take work, dedication and a can do attitude.

I read the resources about scams and on the other hand there are some that will say some things are scams when they are not. These are usually people that sign up for a program, don’t do anything and wonder why they are not being successful. So they say it is a scam. There are those that say read the disclaimers and it will tell you it is a scam just by that. This is correct in many instances, though more and more people have to have disclaimers because of the people that expect or demand to much without doing anything.

I know on our site we have these just to not let the crooks try to scam us, as protection. You just have to do this to protect yourself.

So there is a catch 22 on disclaimers.

A good example of people that cry scam when are not a lot of times are:

People that buy a fat loss pill then don’t exercise, eat more then say it is a scam because they did not loose weight. Guaranteed on the bottle it says you will loose weight in combination with exercise and diet program. A lot of these pills do help your metabolism though you have to contribute to.

Another example is the person that signs up for a MLM program or other business opportunity then doesn’t do anything, doesn’t make any money and starts saying it is a scam.

Now there are MLM, Business Opportunities, Infomercials that are scams, so you do have to do a little research.

Here is what I have found and it seems to work overall:

If it is to good to be true it probably is

If opportunity is on a website and they show lots of flash as in fancy cars, mansions, boats, etc. then stay away

If they tell you they are making thousands of dollars a day to get you to join…most likely not.

If they give you a lot of testimonials with a bunch of people saying they make thousands of dollars a day, you probably wont.

If they get you to order Cds and want you to pay shipping and handling then say if you don’t return within two weeks they will change your credit card. It is probably a scam

If they say is free to join then try to convince you to spend thousands of dollars to be in a certain elite club, etc. then run away as fast as you can.

If when somebody is trying to sell you something and they have to call into their office and then want you to speak to their manager, this is high pressure sales, and most likely is a fly by night company.

If program you join says to get your family to join and borrow money from them to join their business if you don’t have it, then it is a scam.

If somebody you see in person is all flash, meaning they have to flash expensive things to you or to everybody, they are probably not legitimate or a crook.

And these are just a few.

Again you can make money online with many programs and many are legit, though it does take work.

After all, how many people do you know or knew that owned businesses, didn’t do anything and just flashed materialist things to everybody? I would say none

The very successful and wealthy have these things, though don’t have to flash them to impress or to be with them.

Jeff

Online Advertising Agency