Why You Should Be Careful In Giving Your Information Online

For internet marketers, one of the most important tasks they can achieve is obtaining personal information from netizens. The more information they can get from people everywhere, the higher their earning potential will be.

In the case of get-rich-quick gurus, the concept remains the same. It is one of the reasons why you shouldn’t be too quick in giving away your personal information. Even outside the field of online scams, there is an online marketing method called “Boiler Rooms.”

Companies that belong to that category are established for one reason – they are crafted to obtain leads, process them, and make a commodity out of them. Workers within the company are given a set of scripts that they can read repeatedly as they deal with people, urge to buy the companies services, and whenever possible, exploit them into whatever financial gain that can be derived from them.

How other marketers are victimized

Some online boiler rooms would pitch their services to bloggers and website owners by sending them an email that typically goes like this: “Hello. You have established a very good website, but our company seems to notice that your website isn’t getting the number of viewers that it should really have. If you want, we can help you grow your traffic so you can have more viewers.”

The conversation would go on. Now, boiler room staff notices some interest or desperation on the client’s part, it is when the barrage of shady tactics will then be unleashed. Just like in MLMs and pyramiding schemes, aggressiveness in selling can surely be noticed.

The boiler room staff will deal with the client just as the script tells, which will speak a lot about the earning potential, but not too much on what to do exactly to attain those earnings. It is because explaining too much about the money-making process will result in the client figuring out that the whole thing is a scam or would figure out that it would be very difficult, or the client will lose interest and turn away.

When the client asks how much would the company’s service would cost him, the staff would then say “We actually have a lot of marketing packages you can choose from. Let’s see at what level can we fill you in.”

That dialog is crafted so that the client (the victim) can be stalled from turning away. When the staff senses that the person on the other line is about to turn away, he will do whatever it takes to make that person stay.

Whatever happens, the client must be lured into biting the bait, so that the scamming company can really attain some financial gain from the victim. And when the client finally agrees to decide to pay for like $100 claiming that it’s the only amount he can afford, the boiler room staff would then try to push the client into paying more twice over.

The latter would then add statements like, “Our lowest service category is actually priced at $200. If you can produce that amount, we can establish a more secure flow of investment because it’s the best amount in which we can provide better security with our business deal.”

If the staff can mix it up with further psychological methods that can manipulate the client, the deal can really proceed, and many clients have really fallen into that trap.

How online-job hunters are exploited

The scenario mentioned above is actually just one in which online boiler rooms are exploiting people. Another effective strategy used by scammers is in the field of online job-hunting. As mentioned in the other pages, the best scams are those that don’t look like one, and there are some online companies that are so good at playing that trick.

Some scammers would go as far as launching a web portal just for the sake of obtaining people’s contact information, as well as some data that can reveal their habits. You may not realize it or notice it, but some online job-hunting websites actually exist just to make people key in their personal information, so that scammers can profit from them.

For instance, you might get to see a Facebook ad that says, “COVID-19 has removed a lot of livelihood from people. Learn how to stay productive in the midst of this great crisis the world is currently suffering from.”

Now, if you’re someone who lost your job due to the COVID pandemic, you might be tempted to click on the ad which would prompt you to select on a list of work from home jobs that you might be interested in. Next, you might be asked to key in your e-mail address or phone number.

The next thing you know, or might not notice immediately is that there is already a set of unsolicited messages from your inbox, or from your social messenger apps urging you to visit some websites that can allegedly improve your way of living.

You’ve just been lured into helping a bogus website grow its viewership, and you didn’t even notice you’ve already been victimized. You were supposed to look for a job, but you’ve been played with to participate in some really greedy online marketing strategy.

This is not to say that all online marketers who do that are really scammers. Sure, there are really marketers who utilize clickbaits and attention-grabbing media just to get our attention. But when you get to visit their blogs or video channels, you can indeed see some helpful information that can in fact give you the career you want.

But the sad thing is that online content providers who do that are only very few. You have to think about this ratio and percentage: for every 10 of the online marketing ads that you can see on the web, only 3 of them can really give you the kind of help that you need.

Sometimes, it could even be less, since you could be very picky as well on the kind of job or method that you want to attain. To avoid becoming a victim of online job scammers, just focus on what you really want to achieve, and make a decision based on logic and rational thinking. It might slow you down a bit, but it will surely prevent you from falling into the traps laid out ahead of you.