Friday, November 2, 2007

Scammers - the Internet Villains

As we strive to be heroes of the internet, there are villains who have the motives of getting money through deceit.

They are the computer manipulators involved in making SCAM also known as CONFIDENCE TRICK or GAME, CON, SWINDLE, GRIFT, BUNKO, and FLIM FLAM.


SCAM is an attempt to swindle a person by gaining his or her confidence. It is basically a scheme for making money by dishonest means. Thus, when money was given by the victim to a scammer in whatever manner, transactions previously made in a very good agreement would turn to be nothing as the said scammer, who got the money of the victim, would be found nowhere.

I consider these scammers as villains in the real stories of life in the internet world. They can deceive people of any level of intelligence as they exploit human weaknesses like greed, dishonesty, and vanity.

One example is when the scammer requests the victim to dishonestly act as business partner of her rich father who died but had left millions of dollars she could not get as heir or next to kin because she is too young. After assuring safe transactions and documentary proofs regarding the money and connecting the victim to a stated bank, an amount then would be asked by the mentioned person who acted as bank manager (connivance) for the processing of the release or transfer of the money in the bank account of the victim which would be discovered later on as just a trick.

Thus, people can be victims if they will allow themselves to commit falsification or cheating just to get the percentage of money in millions of dollars. Reflectively, greed and dishonesty of a victim is exploited. In the stated scenario, honest men could not be cheated.

But wait, there is something more explained in Wikipedia. Some scams depend on the honesty of the victim. A scammer may use legitimate transaction wherein the victim would receive a check and be deposited in the bank afterwards. The scammer then would urge the victim to forward the apparent value of the check with good amount deducted as a good commission to the victim. But this would happen before the discovery of a worthless or bouncing check.

There are more situations wherein scammers can do their dirty tricks just to have money through fraudulent schemes and dishonesty. Thus, I personally recommend this certain blogsite which could provide us valuable information about the bad schemes of scammers and about tips on how to fight against scamming. Here it is - http://419mail.blogspot.com.

Let's us remember that we can only start conquering the scammers by knowing them and
disclosing their strategies...








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