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You Think You've Been Scammed?
By Pamela Geiss, Thu Dec 8th
Boy was I scammed! It was my first try at an Internet business.I saw an ad that you could get your own casino. Please do notconfuse this with one that is going around new where you cansign up to be an affiliate at a group of casinos. This one wasone where you paid them to make your casino. You chose your owncasino name. They registered it and made the casino on a themethat went with the name you chose. I paid them a pretty penny todo it, too. In return, I would advertise it
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and collect 55% ofthe profits. I spoke with them, we emailed, we did a contract. I saved everyemail that they sent and I sent to them. I felt I had coveredeverything, reading every word in the contract, etc. and asking25 zillion questions. So, I went to the bank and borrowed themoney, as according to statistics, I should be able to pay itback the first year. Well, the first thing that happened was it took a lot longer toget the site finished than they had said it would. But, in themeantime I went about scouring the Net for places to advertiseso I would know where the best places were when the site wasready. By the time they had it up, I already had had to make myfirst payment on my loan; so I set about advertising with avengeance! I found ways that worked well and by the 3rd month,we had made a profit and I got my first check! Not a large one,but the exciting thing was we had made a profit! (Article continued below)
The fourth month came and my check was larger and just aboutcovered my loan payment. The casino was growing all the time andI was one excited person! The fifth month, I was due to get acheck for over $8000! Now I was REALLY excited! What happened?It never came. Oh, there was this excuse and that excuse, but Inever got my check. Did I ever get anymore money from them? No.Did I want to sue them? You bet! But did I sue them? No. Why?Because they are in and I am in the United States.Attorneys said their laws are different than ours, plus I had achoice of hiring a Costa Rican attorney and hoping he was honestand would do his job or paying someone from the States to goover there. It was going to be very expensive and there was noguarantee whatsoever that we would prevail. Their advice? Don'tput bad money behind bad money. Cut your losses now. Why have I told you this? I have several reasons for sharingthis with you. 1.First of all, be EXTREMELY careful about who you do businesswith. If you do business with someone in another country, besure to check out their laws and be sure you are covered ifthings don't go the way they are supposed to. Things are betternow, but in there are still many scammers out there. 2.See ifthey have testimonials. If they do, write to the people who gavetestimonials. They should be linked on the site. If they are NOTlinked and you don't see a way to contact them, be wary. Theymay not be real. 3.See if the business has a contact. See ifthey give you an address and phone number. If they have noaddress and phone or just list a post office box, go somewhereelse. Post office boxes can easily be closed, and there goesyour money and your contact with them. 4.If you have beenscammed (and I think there are few of us who haven't beenscammed), don't think that everyone on the Internet is dishonestand give up. The Internet is just like the rest of the world:there are honest and dishonest people everywhere. Take what youlearned and make something good come out of it. I learned somuch about advertising online that I decided to start my ownbusiness for marketing and advertising. In other words, makelemonade out of the lemons you got. It IS realistic that you can be successful online. I'm proofpositive of that. All you have to do is be determined and don'tlet the "bad boys" get you down. If you get scammed, just focuson your goals and work that much harder. We need all the honestbusiness people we can get! About the author:Pamela Geiss owns LotsaPerks, an online advertising agency.Visit her today at http://www.lotsaperks.com and sign up for herfree newsletter. | Sign In |
