{"id":588,"date":"2010-09-28T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:52:02","slug":"what-characterize-a-scam-website-or-scam-online-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/comments-spam\/what-characterize-a-scam-website-or-scam-online-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"What characterize a scam website or scam online offer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no specific evidence constructive of a scam, but if a website reveals these characteristics, it’s likely a scam<\/a><\/strong>. Here are some of those:<\/p>\n

1. Contacts<\/strong> – A good reputable transactional website, that is trading something, will have contact details, including company names, including their registered business name (“inc’, “llc”, “plc”, ltd”, etc.), a physical address, a mailing address, an email address or contact form and a phone number. They won\u2019t hide anything.<\/p>\n

2. Can you get in touch with them? <\/strong>Call the contact phone number<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0check whether you could reach them during normal business hours in their time zone? Did you get a person or a recording? If you reached into voicemail, were you could reach a live person?<\/p>\n

3. Where are they located? <\/strong>Check their company domain name<\/a><\/strong>. Are they located in the U.S., UK, or another western country, or in a country that has poor consumer security laws or enforcement, such as Eastern European countries or China, Russia or Asia?<\/p>\n

4. Private listing<\/strong> – A private listing is good for a personal website, a blog, or an information-website, but if your business is promoting something, the private listing entry should spot the company that owns the domain.<\/p>\n

5. Do the links on the website function? <\/strong>If the majority links are broken, that may point out a website that was whacked together promptly.<\/p>\n

6. Irrelevant Photos or Content<\/strong> – Do the images, links and content on the pages are related to the theme and purpose of the page and website?<\/p>\n

7. Indistinct or Imprecise information<\/strong> – Reputable merchants have access to the product details and know you will want them.\u00a0 Scammers<\/a><\/strong> just cut and paste what they can quickly find.<\/p>\n

8. Duplicated content <\/strong>– Are the photos and text copied from other websites?<\/p>\n

9. Misdirection<\/strong> –\u00a0 If you type in a web address, but it redirects to a varied web address, which can be a sign of a scam.<\/p>\n

10. Falsification<\/strong> – Do the terms and conditions or product and services match the advertising and content on their pages?<\/p>\n

11. Hidden or Tough to locate terms and conditions <\/strong>– If the terms are basic and not probably to force the use of the product or costs, it may be a not issue.\u00a0But if their terms comprise hidden necessities that cost you money or create the product or service less useful, that’s a scam!<\/p>\n

12. Links in Search engines<\/strong> – If you search in Google<\/strong>, Yahoo<\/strong> and other foremost search engines but get few or no results to their domain, they are either new, not accepted or a scam.<\/p>\n

13. No citations in related collective websites,<\/strong> like the Better Business Bureau, or associated website reviews (like Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Bizrate).\u00a0 The superior and more trustworthy firms will confirm up elsewhere in listings for their business. (tramadol<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no specific evidence constructive of a scam, but if a website reveals these characteristics, it’s likely a scam. Here are some of those: 1. Contacts – A good reputable transactional website, that is trading something, will have contact details, including company names, including their registered business name (“inc’, “llc”, “plc”, ltd”, etc.), a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,5,21,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-business-scams","category-comments-spam","category-information","category-news","category-security-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}