Greetings, dear blog visitors. As always, Dmitry Smirnov is in touch with you, and in this article I want to tell you about Internet fraud, types and common methods of Internet fraud.

Internet Fraud

The article is devoted to how to avoid unjustified, and often significant funds, at the first attempts of users and just ordinary people who want to earn some money in the open part of the Internet, we will immediately focus on the words “a little” and “open”. For those who wish, there are many and instantly there are other ways and directions.

The emergence of electronic fraud to take money from ordinary people.

If during the period when the global network was available only to a certain number of citizens, this is approximately the beginning of the nineties, and people used it mainly for professional activities, then by the end of the decade the situation changed dramatically - the Internet became practically public. Accordingly, the qualitative composition of the participants, acting both as users and people who earn money professionally in the network, has changed, and has changed not for the better. In the beginning, about fifty percent of the proposals for earning money were quite real, at worst futile, but, as a rule, their goal was not to extort money from a person. Gradually, the goals and objectives of such proposals changed in the direction of outright deception. This happened for the following reasons:

The psychology and moral concepts of the members of society have changed greatly;

Most of the country's citizens had virtually no knowledge of the opportunities and moral principles that people who create job offers in this area have;
A large reserve of trust among people in what is seen on the screen, and it doesn’t matter what screen, developed over decades of the Soviet era;
Lack of a clear legislative framework in this direction;
Lack of technical, and often legal, ability of supervisory authorities to prevent fraudsters;
The opportunities provided by providers (and the providers themselves), including for all sorts of adventurers and just scammers, have grown significantly;
The emergence of a huge number of electronic payment systems with fast and anonymous transfer of payments, including fictitious ones.
The developed electronic deception schemes are almost always based on the weaknesses of human psychology. Many developers who are just duplicating others with little additions and changes. But there are very talented people (if in the universal human sense they can be called that). As a rule, they work in a team consisting of specialists from different areas - psychologists, marketers, technical specialists, etc.
Deception remotely using the Internet is based on the following human weaknesses:
A large number of people are almost sure that they must be lucky, and not only in real life, but also in virtual life;
Not everyone can stop even if he has already received some income, and when he simply spent the money to no avail, and the chance of getting it back is minimal. This doesn't just apply to gambling;
People tend not to listen to the opinions of others who have already been in similar situations;
A person finds himself in a difficult financial situation, for example, during an unexpected dismissal and seeks to fix it as soon as possible, often being in a state of nervous breakdown, in which it is difficult to make informed decisions;
Consider the basic, rather simple and widely used method of obtaining money by scammers.

Sending messages about the emergence of a new or original way of earning

This is actually a scam, but an informational business! And such people cannot be punished! You pay money for the course, you get the course, and it is impossible to prove something!!! Messages can come to all types of e-mail, social networks, digital communication systems. As a rule, these messages are aimed at receiving a one-time payment from the subscriber, but a multi-stage payment scheme may also be provided. The most common of them are offers to buy either a special program or a technique that allows you to receive money into your account with practically no costs, no time, no effort. Moreover, oddly enough, almost all of them talk about significant or very large earnings. Usually, when opening and viewing the messages themselves, or links to them, you are invited to watch a video or colorful promotional template pages (often both) with explanations of the principles of the technology, reviews of people who have already mastered the method and have earned different amounts over time .
Computer screen shots are shown, or even videos showing how the sender of the message, or simply the project participants, transfer money to electronic accounts. The subject line may indicate that the person receiving the information is one of ten to one hundred lucky people chosen, either by chance or for some other reason. A demo version of the program can be presented with the help of which a person or even you is simply enriched before our eyes. Often a timer appears on the screen, counting down the time remaining until the end of the offer or the number of vacancies.

And usually only at the end of the advertisement (it is not visible on the first pages), when you saw this kind of advertisement for the first time and are already calculating income in your thoughts, it is written about the amount of payment, usually not very large, often payment is offered for a certain time at a significant discount. This is motivated by many reasons, ranging from ephemeral taxes, paying for the rent of servers, communication channels, buying a certain key, certificate, etc., ending with the developer's remuneration (which is simply ridiculous) and charity. After the transfer of money, the proposed method, in the best case, you will receive a link to some electronic article by e-mail or to another left contact, it may be on a completely different topic. Further reminders and additional discounts, extensions of payment terms may take some time if the person stops halfway through the payment process.
For interest, you can check the received electronic information in the following simple ways:
Write a small question or call the suggested details. Either they will not answer you, or the answer will be generated automatically, which is immediately noticeable, especially after several attempts;

Try to check the reality of the people involved in the reviews;
Just check the reviews on the Internet using the details from the advertisement and the return mailing address;
Look at the number of mailing list subscribers. It can reach several tens and even hundreds of thousands, with the involvement of several systems.
Check for changes on the timer in the offer advertisement.
And most importantly, you should always think that if this type of income were so affordable, few people would even get a job. But in fact, fraud on the Internet can be different, there are many ways!