Entrepreneurship: Scams

It is the summer of “09” and summer time is one of the best times of the year. You could sleep, have fun, sleep, and did I mention sleep? Well besides one of those, teenagers are seeking summer jobs like I have.
Every one wants money and summer jobs happen to be one of the first things that come to a teen’s mind. Summer jobs get filled up pretty quick, especially local grocery stores. So some possible alternatives there are happen to be selling your stuff in a local Farmer’s Market or getting money online. I once believe you could get money for free online but it takes hard work and the correct service.
Unfortunately, I have fallen to bad services. Some online services claim you could get money from them in minutes by looking at ads at 2 cents per ad or timing period at a 10 dollar payout in check form. I had not been able to get my check and I couldn’t do a thing about it so I tried another type of service.
I tried to perform online surveys and I got in trouble by my parents. Apparently the service requires you to use your real information based upon their terms or you will get in trouble for fraud. (We at Tubes4cheese do not encourage fraud or identity theft or such in such; illegal nature.) So then onwards I got phone calls left and right and piles of junk mail that wasn’t in the mailbox was now being filled by these random services. So to solve this problem, my parents had to change our phone number and everything is back to normal.
Making money online is quite difficult but most of them are scams. The surfing of ads happened to be a scam because the company would never give you your money while they get money from the advertisers for using their domain page for ads.
The surveys on the other hand, I have little or no trust with them. I had once tried to contact an Admin on the website and there was no response. So then I waited hopefully maybe he was busy. I waited about 1 month and there wasn’t a reply.

This article isn’t about how to get money. It is how to tell if your service is trustable so you could get your money.

Morally, I believe scams just make you seem a disfunctional being in society. Scams come in almost every form. It comes in an intellectual form or a strong vocal form or in short, big words. Scams could also come by the use “control of the flow”.
The “Ad Scam” I talked above was a kind of a Wall Street scam. It was pretty clever once a being takes the time to observe the actions and benefits.
Most scams have the following in its blueprint:
Some sort of a value figure or goal.
A benefactor, source or distributor.
Someone who will finish your service for you.

In the “Ad Scam” or whatever you call it does follow this list. The one controlling the scam wants money and will do a lot of work to get to the source or benefactor to do what they want to do but at most situations it is the source looking for the controller. After the search, the controller will have a source of revenue from advertisers who will do what they will do but through a negotiation, the controller must perform a service in order to get what they want which would be the drafting of customers. So then the controller will perform another task to satisfy the source or benefactor by promising others that if they do the work for them, they will get money.
By keeping things as they are would be pretty good service but the one controlling would never share its wealth. So thus the controller will not fulfill his or her promise to the worker and “YAY!!!” the scam is successful. The controller has continuous revenue and will get constant revenue until things get wrong.
When things get suspicious, the worker will question and then from there it can go into a bad or good direction for the controller.
A bad direction would be that the controller doesn’t see it as a threat and will simply ignore it. By ignoring that, the increase chance of a revolt will occur.
The good direction would be that the controller would simply perform a small bit of his or her promise and then stop doing it thus controlling such a flow of revenue with little sacrifice.
Another form of a scam would be like a false cause group. I happen to know of such a group and terrible damage was caused to my family.
The false cause group plan is very different since it doesn’t include a middle man. A middle man would be for example the one who distributes. Without a middle man, the controller will get their values faster and the workers will not be actually working but will rather donate because it is a group that promises a cause. So basically it would be less work in control. And to finish the scam, the controller would always have to continue making promises and then finally run away when it gets too much to handle.
Scams could come not only from the internet; it could be from the TV!!!
It can be anything as long as it could be communicated,

So how can you not fall for a scam? Here is some stuff you can do to avoid damage:1. RESEARCH!!! – I’ll tell you what, by doing this will guarantee that you will not be scammed by a cut of 50 out of 100.
2. make sure you know someone who performed the service. By hearing their testimony, you will know better.
3. Never ever trust deals that are beyond real!!! An example would be “Get an Xbox 360, a PS3, and a Wii for just $30!!! Checks preferred!!!” For what you know, you are not sure you would get the items and why only pay with a check? For what you know, the scammer would change your “$30.00” to “$30,000” by adding a “0” and changing the decimal or dot to a coma.
4. Never perform deals on to phone numbers that include multiple “5’s” like (555) 789 – 5555. They are not real phone numbers and were only used for fictional services.
5. Never give ANY service with the Power of Attorney. If a service is able to do such a thing, it could be catastrophic because the power of Attorney gives the service to control you.

Give yourself a pat on the back! You learned something today about a life of a control freak and how to avoid scams!!! YAY!!!

Tubes4cheese does not encourage illegal action. Tubes4cheese again does not encourage the use of fraud or identity theft. Tubes4cheese created this article to not to create illegal behavior but was to educate the common man to avoid scams. Copyrighted to Tubes4Cheese June 15, 2009.