How To Avoid Being Scammed.

Thailand – “The Land of Smiles”. A country abounds with pristine beaches in the South and lush, green mountains in the North. In the central region is Bangkok. The most well known vibrant city in South East Asia. It is a shoppers’ paradise. But behind the facade, is the gem scams since the 1950s. A piece of advice, though, for your security, it is sensible to home stay with a Thai family . They know the local places, the authenticity or price of goods and the sellers’ reputation. Being with a local, you are protected. Right, this blog is not about home stay, its more for awareness, when you are traveling by yourself, particularly in Bangkok.

How the scam is conducted.

It often occurs in or near popular tourist attractions. A friendly chap (tout) or tuk-tuk (taxi) driver approaches the tourist, indicating wherever you are going is closed for some reasons or offers to take you to other places in their tuk-tuk for a very low fare. The driver will find some excuses to stop at a point to do something, then “accidentally” some well dressed young/old or male/female persons claims he is a student and the older one claims he works for the government and shows the ID (fake). They will independently confirms the tuk-tuk driver story and convinced you to go to the “government gem shop” because there is a Big sale going.

The ploy is to take you to a “government” gem stone shop, where the tourist is convinced that he/she can resell the gem at a handsome profit (100% to 150%) back home. Visit http://2bangkok.com (on the left hand column, click for pictures and scam shops location). The gems are often genuine, randomly recommended and sold in a shop-lot (not a kiosk) but at an overly inflated prices. The scam seller writes and stamp on the clause to this effect – “If everything is not ok, we will offer a full refund”. Very pleased (got a deal of a life time) and convinced (offer a full refund). You made the payment by card or cash.

The conclusion is – You Have Been Scammed By One of The Oldest and Most Openly Practiced Scams in Thailand since the 50’s.

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The Internet has million of sites and SCAMS, which promise to reward or pay you to complete various tasks online. These sites promised to share a portion of their advertising revenue with the members whom are paid to surf; play games; take surveys; read email; visit sites; click links; sign up to free offers; participate in investment programs, etc, etc.

While many users have found that by joining and participating in these “get paid” programs, one can earn some extra money. Hence, there are some honest sites that pay their members. BUT there are other sites that took advantage of the members’ ignorance by acting dishonestly, fraudulently, avoid paying what is owned to the members or totally ignore emails/phone calls.

If you are tired of companies stealing your time; money; suspect fraudulent online behavior, or if you want to know which sites to avoid before you join, take a look around these helpful sites, or even report the “scum bags” here – http://www.gptboycott.com and to this forum – http://www.ptctalk.com

Avoid The Scummy Scammers.

Unprofessional designed websites.
Look at the site design, is it professionally done?
If it is haphazardly designed, most probably the program owner is not in for the long haul. Naturally, it gives an impression that this site is a fly-by-night.Your work and time may be wasted. Avoid sites that are brand new with no real members or even payment proofs.
Do not join sites that has past scam records.
This is why you must do some research in GPTBoycott or PTCtalk forums before you sign-up. Avoid the sites that says they have "changed program owners or another new designed site" because if they have scammed once, it can be repeated.
Do not buy or pay.
Most sites claims to pay out huge sum of money to attract you to join. If they do pay, sustainability is a question, because they are not able to sustain the business operation when they are paying you more than the advertising revenue collected. So, allow the site to accumulate some good records before you pay/buy anything from them.

This is one typical example of a scam site.
Total members: 4,453
Total payouts: 1,227,600,000 (In Billions and no specific indication of dollars or points)
Mails in queue: 0
Ads in rotation: 145
Sites without support forums/system - No confidence.
Support forums/system are the members channel of communications to/with the site administration. If it does not exist, the chances of contacting them or to inquire on your payment status is nil.

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How To Avoid Being Scammed.

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