There are lots and lots of opportunities available to you online and with these opportunities there are lots and lots of scams online as well. With the growing use of internet, online scams are also increasing.
The main purpose of such scams is to trick online users innocent and make them fall in his trap. The main objective of the scammers will be made to take the hard earned money of innocent users of goods and services that never existed or have no existence.
There is no specific category of people who want to catch, but his main focus is to catch business people because they are so busy they are given less importance to check the details displayed. The other categories of older people and those whose usual language is not English language. The scammers are coming up repeatedly with a new type of fraud to deceive people and take their money.
Nigerian Letter Scam
Nigerian Letter Scam is known scams online, but is still able to catch people in and out of their hard earned money. In this type, you will receive an e-mail, which will be written in capital letters. Such messages are displayed either in a good position of ministers or business and are now seeking your help to transfer funds abroad.
You will be asked to travel abroad to meet the person and the concern to get the amount of funds. But before all this they are forced to pay thousands of dollars in “taxes,” “attorney costs,” “bribery” or other charges in advance. However, the presence of that person is zero and there would be a very different from the amount paid. This type of scam is also known as Nigeria Letter 419, which recognizes the 419 section of Nigeria’s criminal code that scammers use to rape.
Lottery Scams
In this type, you will receive an email to indicate that it has won this or that amount in a contest or sweepstakes lottery ABC Company. Besides this he insists to claim the amount by providing your account details to them and asked to pay the amount to release the funds. A point to remember before you believe that there is a lottery company or luck called to work this way.
The popular online scams are online auctions, surveys, employment opportunities, investment and ask him to go out. Mission of Nigeria Nigerian spam scam is to cease treating innocent Internet users.