[HOW TO] Not get scammed (or decrease the chance of it)

[theRevolt]

Ok, I am really getting annoyed buy so many scammers, fake gurus, etc. here these days. In order not to add to the drama I am NOT going to mention names, links to threads, and will forego using any screenshots.
I ask you to please not start the drama on this thread.

TLDR
Use common sense. Too good to be true = almost always true. Stay safe, and best of success on your journeys.


Let's get started, shall we? Just simple ways to protect yourself

• Is it a trusted member (and we will get into the cons of it later)?
  • No? Then why do you trust this person to sell you X?
  • Yes they will say I am new here but have done this for XX years and it is all working

--> NO, just no. Don't do it,

• Do they have any proof of their claims?
  • We are not talking screenshots here (inspect element is your friend)
  • Do they have multiple videos? (ANd I won't go into detail here but even then be suspicious as can be faked, not saying the video itself but the source to get the content for the video to be fake...)
    
    

Again, why make it so easy for them to steal your money just by seeing $1 Million on a screenshot?

• Does it sound too good to be true?
  • GUARANTEED income
  • Guaranteed $XXX/day no work involved
  • Cannot get saturated
  • All legal

Again, you may know the saying: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
If it is all so easy, legal etc, why not hire a VA for low $ and bank? Again it cannot get saturated they say, so why would they sell it? Or just create a bot, remember it cannot get saturated so even if the bot maker did it , it would not matter.

• Look through their threads here. Are they hyping up what they are trying to sell to you in tons of threads before?
  • Example, someone asking about "a true BH section", then goes on to get PMs and trying to sell his scam method via another forum

If all they contributed is linked to what they are selling, or they just post very random advice:

- Never give up
- Create X to make Y
- This is how I Made X by doing Y (Y is what they are trying to sell indirectly), again likely with screenshots that can be edited showing tons of money to get the gullible people to PM them

• Are they actually knowledgeable about what they are selling?
  • Ok, now an exception to above. If all their posts are simply helpful tips when someone asks questions about let's say Facebook, and they are more than copy&paste, and neither are "yes that is how it works" kind of replies then we can at least assume they know how Facebook works

If they now sell a FB service, at least you know they could do the work and may also be easy for them which means fulfilling the service is easy money, not worth as much to scam. On the other hand if they do not know what they are doing, they will either resell at best or just scamming at worst as it is the easiest way to make money without knowing anything about Facebook.

• Trying too hard to take the conversation off BHW
  • So any Jr Vip cannot sell in a thread , but can of course reply to hire Freelancer threads. So no reason to take it off BHW for more than a quicker convo

Often, they will try to keep the whole conversation, including the actual deal off BHW so there is no paper trail later directly on BHW. Yes, you can SL them and post screenshots of Skype etc. but someone that keeps it all on here will think twice vs. just once..

• Ask them if they are a reseller
  • Of course, they can just lie and say no, but some just do not respond which means --> Run
  • If it is their product they should be able to answer your specific questions, like how are ordered fulfilled? Through an API? How does bot X do Y? Browser-based or just http requests ?? etc..

Now, we all know reselling itself is not a scam or necessarily bad. However, the problem arises when you buy from a reseller, then have an issue.

Imagine you buy a Bot. Said bot was just bought source code then being resold here.

You now have a problem, obviously, the seller was not smart enough to create the bot, so will he be able to help you with simple questions?


And many many more scenarios...

 

[IG Professor]

good content. I am pretty sure it will help many people out there watch themselves from dirty vendors

Thank you

 

[ContentExpert]

Common sense would avoid 99% of scams.

Unfortunately, sense is a rarity nowadays.

 

[perrymason]

"Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation"

Albert Einstein.

 

[TheVigilante]

Surely inspired by the latest stuff centered around BHW

Good one!

 

[Leader777]

Good guide for newbies here.

 

[theRevolt]

good content. I am pretty sure it will help many people out there watch themselves from dirty vendors

Thank you

Common sense would avoid 99% of scams.

Unfortunately, sense is a rarity nowadays.

Yeah, that is the TLDR version... but some need specific examples so hopefully, that will lessen the same old threads popping up recently.

"Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation"

Albert Einstein.

Surely inspired by the latest stuff centered around BHW

Good one!

Wait, there was anything recent?

Good guide for newbies here.

Hopefully. Too many that could have been prevented and it gets tiring and these scammers need to be cut off from all their money sources.

 

[TheVigilante]

Yeah, that is the TLDR version... but some need specific examples so hopefully, that will lessen the same old threads popping up recently.





Wait, there was anything recent?



Hopefully. Too many that could have been prevented and it gets tiring and these scammers need to be cut off from all their money sources.

royce and all lol

 

[Social God]

Thank you for this!

I’m getting annoyed of joining these Facebook marketing and blogging groups. I see like 90% of these posts saying things like:
“Make $3000 a week from PayPal”
“Make $1000 a day if you have a Cash App or PayPal account, comment INFO”

Sheesh, the amount of people commenting mind boggles me!

 

[theRevolt]

royce and all lol

mh talking about this royce?

Thank you for this!

I’m getting annoyed of joining these Facebook marketing and blogging groups. I see like 90% of these posts saying things like:
“Make $3000 a week from PayPal”
“Make $1000 a day if you have a Cash App or PayPal account, comment INFO”

Sheesh, the amount of people commenting mind boggles me!

Yes, people are blinded by shiny objects, they do not see the object they are blinded by just has tin foil on top of the crap...

Just do your digging. Most gurus are dumb...you look you shall find.

 

[BapeWars]

You just shut down every YouTube guru

 

[Illang]

Common sense would avoid 99% of scams.

Unfortunately, sense is a rarity nowadays.

Aren't you that guy that took like 3 months to write 2 articles and still didn't get it done?

 

[ContentExpert]

Aren't you that guy that took like 3 months to write 2 articles and still didn't get it done?

Educate yourself. If I didn't fulfill my obligation I wouldn't be here.

 

[Illang]

Educate yourself. If I didn't fulfill my obligation I wouldn't be speaking to you right now.

Tells others to educate themselves, takes weeks to write like 1000 words

 

[ContentExpert]

Tells others to educate themselves, takes weeks to write like 1000 words

I told you to educate yourself because your statement was blatantly inaccurate.

Aren't you that guy that took like 3 months to write 2 articles and still didn't get it done?

It did get done, verify your facts before making accusations.

 

[Illang]

I told you to educate yourself because your statement was blatantly inaccurate.


It did get done, verify your facts before making accusations.

OK, OK - I don't know what happens behind the scenes or at what point you got unbanned but among a number of posts from you recently criticizing other's for poor service etc you now rather conceitedly said:

Common sense would avoid 99% of scams.

Unfortunately, sense is a rarity nowadays.

So if someone with deadlines, bills to pay etc hires a writer who takes ages to write a few lines, feels they got fleeced, you're saying that's because they lacked common sense, or what?