Topic Have you ever been scammed?

harvcr

I like affiliate Programs a lot and I'm currently using some of them. However, this one time I paid to become affiliate to a company that was supposed to have a great program and it would help me make tons of money... Well I ended up wasting my money, it was just a scammed and I never got my money back since it was impossible to contact them...

The point is that if someone asks you to pay to become an affiliate, DON'T Do it... it is scammed!

Have you ever been scammed this way?

Rannek

Never been in your sort of situation before. However, if your looking for great revenue off websites, just try Google Adsense. This is a affiliate program and all you have to do is put the ads on your website and get money everyday lol. I used to have it on my old website and made almost $200 every month .

mmarsh

I came close, when I was younger.

I was studying for difficult exams and not thinking completely straight when I got a call saying I had *won* a cruise. Now it wasn't a complete cold call because I had entered a contest for a cruise just a few days earlier in a raffle. The cleveat was that I had won a cruise, just not a *FREE* cruise (tricky, eh???). Instead, I had won a discount OFF a cruise for the tune of about $700. Which would have been $850 as the air-fair to Florida wasn't included. Still in Exam-mode I stupidly gave my credit card and it only took about 10 minutes for me to realize how badly screwed I had been. Fortunately I called both them and the Credit card company back and declined all the charges.

A tour agent friend told me later that the cost of the Cruise I had won costs exactly $700
so as you can see, I had won exactly nothing. Its a very basic scam that makes you *think* you won something by using a bogus raffle which they use to collect names and addresses, but instead tricks you into buying something you didn't want. I can only wonder who many others *won* that day.

If its not the illegal "bait and switch" tactic its a least a very dishonest business practice.

eshana27

well the first and the last golden rule is: Never join any program where they ask you to pay first. They are bound to be scam. I was scammed before also twice by those data entry jobs. Ehh, why don't anybody can take some action against them. They hit the new innocent users.

There are so many companies to join for an affiliation all without giving a any money. Good luck.

jnjsarauer

I haven't ever been scammed, but I'm super careful. I've heeded the warnings about not paying to be an affiliate, and I've never gotten into trouble. My money and I are not easily parted

AzraelValley

I never was scammed this way before. Always remember the general rule; if a site that is saying that you would earn from it, and ask you to pay for membership, it has a pretty chance of being a scam.