Let me repeat the title of this blog, “cheating cases set to rise amid spiralling cost of living” and add this phrase to it, “including on the Internet.”
Desperate times
These are desperate times and there will be more people wanting to make extra income to cope with the spiralling cost of living, which is not a bad thing if the measures taken are still within what is acceptable as norms.
But it becomes something else when people eager to make income turn to prey on others by offering quick, easy and just-shake-legs way to make money, that turn out to be a scam.
Make money blogging newbies more vulnerable
Those who have been blogging, and have heard about the success stories of bloggers who make decent money online, would be tempted to try out blogging for money and inevitably they will come across people offering “secrets” to making money blogging.
Let me tell you I’ve been through some of those.
In the past one year of trying to make money online, I’ve entered into deals — mostly paying monthly fees purportedly to make me eligible to be part of the inner circle of money-making elite — but gained nothing in return in terms of monetary profit.
The problems is, as many as there are tricksters online, there are also many others who are genuine, offering real opportunities to make money online.
The tricky part is, it’s quite difficult to spot right away which one is genuine and which one is not. And if you are new, it will be more difficult to spot a scam.
The key is research
… and interactions with other bloggers who have been into make money blogging for at least a couple of years. Experienced make-money-online bloggers should be able to tell a scam from the genuine ones.
Research is another great way of saving oneself from being swindled of his or her hard-earned money.
The thing with the Internet is, while it is easy to spread scams online, it is also easy to expose them.
The next time you are presented with too-good-to-be-true offer to make money online, just Google the source of the offer and add the word “scam” in it. It is very likely that others have written about the offer and posted online what they think about it.
When it is too good to be true
… it probably isn’t true. That has been my philosophy each time I see an advertisement offering easy way of making money online.
Let me tell you this — making money is never easy, online or offline. You have to sweat it out or if you are working in air-conditioned room, you have to shiver it out!
One last word for this entry… the internet is full of trickster; the last thing we want to happen in this era of rising costs is to be swindled of our hard earned money. So do be careful, will you?
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