Scams and rip-offs that target home-based business owners like YOU

Ever get the feeling that the Internet is a dangerous place, full of sleazy criminals and con artists waiting to steal your money, your identity, your web sites, your life?

It’s perfectly understandable. Like any place where large numbers of people congregate to do business, mingle socially and generally connect with others, online or offline, there are miserable, motherless morons and miscreants who value nothing and nobody and are willing to lie, steal, cheat and rob to take advantage of anyone gullible enough or careless enough to fall for their scams and schemes.

Whether it’s the low life who steals your Facebook or Twitter account to your PayPal or bank account, your web site, blog, email access or anything else that can give them an advantage, whether it’s a bored kid trying out some new-learned computer programming skills, a Russian mafia spam, phishing or cracking gang, political activists, illegal pyramid selling scheme promoters, or any of the thousands of other unprincipled, anti-social misfits that abound online, this site exists to alert you to the most common forms of “Sucker Bait” designed to take advantage of the Five Fatal Failure Factors that every scam in history targets in its intended victims…

• Fear of loss
• Ignorance
• Greed
• Laziness
• Gullibility (or, if you keep falling for it, Stupidity)

That’s the starting point in spotting any scam, offline or online. If what’s being offered targets these powerful emotional appeals, chances are very high that you’re being targeted as a potential victim.

More dangerous for home-based business owners, though, are the “Guru” scams and rip-offs that suck them in and bleed them dry, every day.

In coming weeks we’ll add articles, alerts and exposés of common scams and cons, especially from the latest crop of self-appointed “Gurus”.

Use the search facility to find the information you want. And subscribe to email, RSS or Twitter alerts so that you’re aware of the boobytraps being laid for you, right NOW!

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How does Scambusters differ from SuckerBait.info?

Scambusters is a lot more comprehensive and wide ranging. We’re more focused — our audience is primarily home-based business owners, so our coverage is much narrower and more specific to our target audience.

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