Posted on February 13, 2010 by jia zhou

During our economic worst time, and people who are struggling with their living on a daily basis, the worst and the most despicable is that, those con artists, and scamsters are still trying to make the situation worst. They are continuously taking advantages of other people who are in desperate situation, especially those who are unemployed. No matter at what situation you are at, you have to be beware certain scams, and don’t be a victim of them.

One of the notorious scam is government grants and stimulus package which aim to help small business owners. Those con artists set up a scheme to mislead consumers and business owners into believe that they can get assistance from our government, and so they can get financial support. Eventually, they never get any of these.

There is a common scam which victims need to claim the prize from a lottery or a winning sweepstakes from mail. If you get one of these, never fall into trap. The scammer might tell you that you win a big prize or a lottery of some million of dollars. There might be a bogus check attached to the letter. The scammer ask you to deposit the check. For taxes or other handling fees purpose, you will need to wire some money back to the scammer to cover those costs. At the end, the prize never arrived; and you lost some hundred of dollars.

Work for google scam is common too. You might find millions of web searches on work for google, and they will send you a trial kit to experiment it. But google never offer jobs to people to work at home for easy $1,000 per week. Eventually, the victim was charged with monthly fee from their credit card month after month.

After all, I think we should train ourselves to be smart, and not to be fall into victim of those scams.