Protect yourself against Internet fraud!
The vast majority of ads are posted by honest trustworthy people. Despite this, it is important to follow a few common sense rules to prevent any attempt of a scam happening
Our advice
- Do business only with people you can meet in person and take somebody with you and let others know where your going and what your doing, meet in public places only.
- Never send money by Western Union, MoneyGram or other anonymous payment systems.
- Never send money or products abroad.
- Do not accept checks.
- Ask lots of questions about the person you're dealing with, try to confirm some info ie: name, address and telephone number.
- Keep copies of all correspondence (emails, listings, letters, etc.) and details of the person.
- If a deal seems too good to be true, there is every chance that this is the case.
Recognize attempted scam
- The majority of scams have one or more of these characteristics:
- The person is abroad or traveling abroad.
- The person refuses to meet you in person.
- Payment is made through Western Union, Money Gram or check.
- The messages are in broken english, quite possibly signalling a person in a forgein country trying to setup a scam, beware!
- The texts seem to be copied and pasted.
- The deal seems to be too good to be true . . . well you know what they say about that!
