We’ve had some readers who visit our site for scam reports ask about adultfriendfinder and whether or not it really works or if its actually some kind of scam.
Well I can safely say that it is not a scam. The site has been around for a very long time and they have a lot of subscribers, in fact they are the largest online dating adult site. There are also no reports of them scamming subscribers with out of the blue credit card charges or overcharging or anything like that.
But, if you think you can just sign up and instantly hook up with someone, that’s just not the case, unless of course you are a halfway decent looking woman. Then it’s easy. But if you are just a regular looking guy then you are going to need some skills in conversing online in order to get someone to meet.
If some of their advertising is misleading and makes you think anyone that signs up will be hooking up like a madman then I would say its just misleading but you definetly have a chance of meeting someone there.
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You can also create a profile and do some limited browsing around for free. They charge I believe $20 to try it for a month if you want full access to contact other members and test your skills!
You’ve probably seen the vistaprint ads online on the net before claiming to offer 250 free business cards and wondered if its a scam or not. It’s actually not a scam but you do have to be a little careful.
First, the offer is not completely free, you do have to pay for shipping and handling, which is usually around 7-8 dollars, but they state that upfront and its on your bill when you checkout.
I’ve actually ordered the cards before and they turn out really nice, and they have some nice professional templates you can choose from. But you do have to be careful when going through the checkout process that you make sure you check or uncheck all the little extra boxes to make sure you are not signing up for any other services. You just gotta be careful is all.
Perhaps the most insidious and simple facebook scam is the phishing scam from facebook. Since pretty much everyone has a facebook account these days its pretty easy for spammers to get people to notice emails from facebook. The tricky part is that facebook does send its users emails, emails about friend adds, emails about messages and so on.
What spammers do is also send emails that mimic these emails or they send you a email about some kind of update where you can click on a link to login and update your information. You NEVER need to do this. If you click on a link to get to facebook that is in the email you will not be taken to your facebook account but to another site that looks like facebook but is designed to only steal your information. Any info you enter on this site you will be stolen from you.
What you can do is always go to facebook directly via your browser. Just open up another tab and type in the facebook url to access your account, that way you can’t fall into the trap of entering a fake site.
One of the ways people get scammed on facebook is from the ads that they let advertisers show on facebook pages. Facebook has tried to root out all of the scammy and misleading advertising on their site, but with so many advertisers, they have a self-service platform where anyone can place an ad, they can’t get rid of all of them.
One of the most popular scams that advertisers run is called the IQ Quiz scam and variants thereof. BTW they run this because its so profitable for them as the number of people that are tricked is so high. Basically, the user will click on an ad that entices them with a tagline like “See if you are smarter than your friends?” or “Find out how smart you really are!”. Anything that gets you to click on this ad that prepares you to answer some questions.
Once the user clicks on the ad, he or she will answer a series of questions, usually they are pretty basic, and at the end of the questions you have to enter your phone number to see the results. This is the scam part, once you enter your phone number you are agreeing to purchase some kind of reoccuring service where you will be billed weekly or monthly, usually around $10 to $20 dollars. If you read the fine print on the page where you are supposed to enter the phone number you will probably find some terms and conditions that describe exactly this, but most people don’t bother to read the fine print, you know that and the companies know this too!
Usually the companies will refund you if you complain and its your first time canceling this kind of service, but they won’t be so nice afterwards because these kind of services are very profitable for them too! Just to be clear here the phone companies themselves don’t run these advertisements or run the companies that offer the services, but they do basically let it slide since its not illegal, just pretty misleading.
One of the more common scams on facebook is something some people call clickjacking. It basically involves enticing viewers with something of interest. For instance, after Osama Bin Laden’s death, there were many ads on facebook that after you clicked on them, asked you to copy and paste a url into your browser in order for you to see his death photo.
Never ever copy and paste a url into your browser, once the unsuspecting person did this, this can unleash a software virus that can hijack your computer, normally this causes your computer to send out tons and tons of spam, spam that makes the hijacker money in some way. You probably won’t be blamed for the spam but it will seriously mess up your computer as well as slowing down to a crawl. Sometimes the only way to recover your computer is to completely wipe out your harddrive resulting in the loss of all your data.
Remember, if there are offers of something thats a little to interesting on facebook, and especially if its from someone you don’t know, DON’T DO IT!
This scam recieved a lot of newspress not just in Thailand but internationally as well probably because it was taking place INSIDE the airport by one of the official companies that won a bidding contract to provide retail services inside the airport.
Basically people were shopping in one of the duty free shops that are in every international airport in the world and had picked out an item which they were carrying around with them when they were arrested for shoplifting. Basically it was not allowed to take an item from one part of the store to another part of the store! That was considered shoplifting! Im not sure if there were signs posted or not, but irregardless, this kind of behavior is unacceptable.
But this is where the scam just starts unfortunately. Because in Thailand getting oneself out of legal trouble is not a straightforward process like it is in the West, and is typically where the profit is made during the scam. Needless to say, it requires much wrangling with authorities, shady third parties who intervene on your behalf for large sums of money in order to avoid the threat of a lengthy prison sentence.
Now to be fair there was a counterpoint made by the company involved claiming they had videotape of the person putting something in their purse, but this was not the only person who had complained about the scam so its hard to believe the company in this case, as well as, who the heck shoplifts in the duty free of an international terminal anyway!?!
