You donat have to look hard to find an internet marketing guru that claims to have all the secrets to acquire internet wealth fast and easy. The gurus give an appealing presentation that are geared to anyone who dreams of wealth or at least become debt free. Nice idea, right? These gurus will however never deliver on their claims and promises and therefore are ripping people off.

See, here’s the thing. Buying Stuff from the gurus doesn’t make you wealthy. Stuff doesn’t even pay the bills. Stuff costs you money and makes your wallet lighter while collecting dust on your hard drive. Make sure not to buy every new product the gurus are promoting to you.

Many people have run across an internet marketing website or have received an email from a so called internet marketing guru that promises riches or easy profits, but have been unsure what to do. The offer sounds so attractive, but can this be true?

It actually seems to good to be true. Nevertheless most people discard their concerns hoping to make fast profits. They go for one of the gurus offers just to sadly make the experience that the only person who gets rich is the guru himself.

Here are a few pointers about how most internet marketing gurus are ripping off people, so that you can watch for signs of these scams and avoid them in the future. First, the scams almost always promise too much. They tell you that it’s very easy to make money using their secrets or techniques. They will try to convince you that this is your last chance to make money online and if you don’t take action now then you will never will.

These internet marketing gurus know no bounds and will try anything to get a sale. They will beg, pled and offer fake bonuses. The only way to deal with these internet marketing gurus attempts to rip you off is to avoid their sites and delete their emails.

Another red flag to look for is if you are being targeted by relentless internet marketing gurus. If the gurus are loading your inbox with all kind of offers, they are scamming you. Also, if there is a vast amount of testimonials on their websites, this is a red flag too. You can check the badguruscams.com website for more information on how these gurus are ripping people off and how you can protect yourself.

If you follow the information provided in the article and by badguruscams.com website, you will be able to spot these scams and protect yourself from becoming the gurus next victim. You will also learn how to tell the difference between a legitimate business opportunity and a scam. Remember that online ventures that will prove successful will require hard work, but generally they are worth it. Good luck!

I received another scam email asking foreign partnership to transfer a big amount of money. I publish the whole email on this post to notify you about the scams. You will find more details in the Internet scams section of this blog. And please have a look at the video below.

FROM THE DESK OF :ADAMU  DANLADI

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING

SECTION,

BANK OF AFRICA(BOA),

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,WEST

AFRICA.

EMAI -adamu_danladi50@yahoo.fr Private 

(PLEASE SEND ALL INFORMATION BY mail FOR THE SECRET

 OF THE TRANSITIONS /

(CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS)

.DearFriend,

 This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it’s just my

 urgent  need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this 

transaction.  I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west 

Africa and currently  holding the post of Director Auditing and 

Accounting unit of the bank.I  have the opportunitytransferring the

 left over funds ($5.5million) of  one of my bank clients who died 

along with his entire family on 31ST October 2000 in a plane  crash.

You can confirm the genuine of the deceased death by clicking on 

 this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can 

be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 5% will be mapped 

out for  expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further 

details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive 

your return mail and phone call. have a great day.

N.B

As you know this is a great business chance between me and you, 

Please as soon as you got this mail if you are interested,

1,You must make sure You will be calling me on phone all the time

 once the transaction started and once you receive this my first mail, 

Make sure that You have money for telephone calls, i will also ready

 with money on my side,

2, Please if you are not able to communicate with telephone forget 

about the business,

3, Expenses inside the bank here i will do it by myself, But anything 

bank needed from you in your country You will take responsibility 

of it, take note of this please to avoid at the end you will say  to 

me i did not tell you,

4, My promise to you is 100% no risk, i will cover everything here 

and the transaction will move very 100% OK;

5, Again My coming to your country once the money transferred, 

Me and you will exchange our photos, For you to know me in your 

country airport,

6, Now if you are interested  i need urgent and fast reply, because

 we have only  14 working days to tackle this business this year,  

We need to be fast over it,

THIS IS THE NUMBER YOU WILL USE

TO CALL ME ONCE YOU GOT MY MAIL-0022676634733

With Best Regard

 MR ADAMU  DANLADI

And this video explains more

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I received an email regarding that I have won a lottery. I have added the whole email below. The email has been sent from an email address ending “uklottery.co.uk”. I checked for the website. I typed www.uklottery.co.uk and I was taken to a parked domain which is on the sale. Then I searched through in the internet using the search phrase as

“UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS

The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England REF No: UK/9420X2/68 BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369 (Customer Services)”

The first result I saw was an warning about a scam. Following is the email I received.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS

The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England REF No: UK/9420X2/68 BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369 (Customer Services)

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!

FROM: THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY \\\\\\\”A\\\\\\\”

WINNER BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNINGNOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of 1,450,000 (One million,Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling) held on the 9th March, 2008 in London Uk.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email election system(ess) from a database of over 210,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.

The UK. Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board. To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduaciary claims department for more infomation as regards procedures to claim your prize.

Name: Mr. Michael Field

Email:unl.claimsdepartment@hotmail.com

Tel:+44 7031 966 287

Contact him by sending him with the underlisted informations:

(1)FULL NAME

(2)FULL ADDRESS

(3)NATIONALITY.

(4)DATE OF BIRTH

(5)OCCUPATION

(6)WINNING EMAIL

(7)TELEPHONE NUMBER

(8)DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION

(9)SEX

(10)TOTAL AMOUNT WON

(11)MARITAL STATUE

(12)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENT

Sincerely,

Mrs.

You will receive these kinds of emails and sometimes you will get in to trouble by responding them without further investigation. If you receive these kinds of emails, stating that a huge offer is awaiting for you, always do some internet search, which will save your hardly earned money.

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I was wandering what to post today. When I was thinking about the topic, I received another interesting email to my admin email address of this blog. That email is added below. Read it carefully.

From: CitiBusiness [mailto:csupport.id26701-9565967340CBF@citibank.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:03 PM
To: Admin
Subject: CitiBusiness: please update your data.

Dear CitiBusiness customer,

CitiBusiness new Scheduled Maintenance Program protects your data from unauthorized access. CitiBusiness Online Form is important addition to our scheduled maintenance program.
Please use the link below to access CitiBusiness Online Form:

CitiBusiness Online Form

Please do not reply to this auto-generated email. Follow instructions above.

When you read this, you will get an idea that the real Citi bank customer service has written this. You will definitely click the link and impatiently wait until the web page loads. I don’t have any connection with the citi bank. Therefore I suspected that this is a scam. What I did was, I checked the URL in the link given in the email I received. Here it is and have a close look at it. Check whether you notice anything.

http://citibusiness.citibank.com.losao1.es/businessdir/cbof/start.do/

?ref=89359052406999261772635660432086023000757642467292293

1377109&session=7632008

You won’t notice much difference most probably. Because you will see the first few words as http://citibusiness.citibank.com and you will ignore the rest and continue with the instruction in the web page that you will see next. But if you have a closer look at it, you’ll find that the web address ends with .es (Not the whole URL). The web address is highlighted below.

http://citibusiness.citibank.com.losao1.es/businessdir/cbof/start.do/

?ref=89359052406999261772635660432086023000757642467292293

1377109&session=7632008

This is not the real web address of Citi bank. I have given the real web address beow.

http://www.citibank.com/us/index.htm

The people who are behind this scam are more intelligent than the PayPal scam I explained in an earlier post. Because they have used the citibank.com part in their web address as a sub domain. The actual web address is losao1.es which is a web address of Spain. When you click the URL in the email, you will be directed to a page like below.

You won’t think that this page is not an original one when you see it. I’m not quite sure about the Citi bank business code. If it is something important and confidential like a credit card number and if you have a code, you will definitely enter it. Then they have your id and they can use it for their evil intentions. I just put a random number with an English letter and hit enter.

There was no error given and directed to another page. Therefore I feel that there is no much usage of pirating this id. The next page I saw is given below.

It is a login form and I entered random values again. No error was thrown and I was directed to another page as shown below.

The details you have to enter here must be important to these people. Because a normal user will enter their real data believing that this is a real. The people who are behind this scam most probably contact you by using the details provided in this form and definitely ask for financial data like account number, pin number and credit card details. They will give you a good excuse for it like upgrade of the system. If you do this, you are doomed.

As I did earlier, I added random values and clicked “Confirm” button. Then a popup message box was shown as below.

If you look carefully, you will see the above mentioned fake Citi bank web address in the title of the message box. The only truth they have told, I could find here. When I clicked “OK” I was directed to the real Citi bank website. So I’m pretty confident that their needed information was in the form I mentioned above.

If you have a Citi bank id, you will definitely put your real data in that form and there is a very good chance that you will be caught into trouble. What I wanted to emphasis by revealing this scam is to ask you to be more careful when you receive these kinds of emails. Any bank or other monetary organization won’t ask your private details in a way like this. Therefore you must inquire about this from the real business entity. And you must also carefully examine the URLs given in the email and data validation in the pages you will be directed after clicking that link. By doing this you will be able to get rid off from your worst nightmares.

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I just received another email asking for help to transfer a big amount of money. I thought that it is very good to inform you about this email request. Here is the email that I received.

FROM THE DESK OF :MOHAMED ADAMS
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION,
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA),
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,WEST AFRICA.

Private E-mail:(mohamed_adams200@yahoo.fr )

(PLEASE SEND ALL INFORMATION BY EMAIL FOR THE SECRET OF THE TRANSITIONS / THE BANK INFORMATION’S PHONE NUMBER - 0022676634733)
( CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS)

.Dear Friend,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.I have the opportunity transferring the left over funds ($5.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31ST October 1999 in a plane crash.

You can confirm the genuine of the deceased death by clicking on this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail and phone call. have a great day.

With Best Regard.

MR MOHAMED ADAMS