Category: Warning

Warning – Surrey Roadside Scam

Some friends of Sarah’s were nearly caught out by this roadside scam.

Sarah’s friends were driving down the slip road onto the A3 near Esher and saw by the roadside that something had happened. A person was lying by the road and a stopped car. A man flagged them down.

He claimed he was a company director and had run out of fuel. He offered to give them his ring in return for money for petrol.

Sarah’s friends had been scammed before and knew to take no chances so they drove off.

If you are stopped and asked for money or even asked to get out and help – think carefully and examine the situation.

Why haven’t they got a phone?

Is there something not quite right about the scene?

If you are worried – DO NOT STOP.  You can find a place to park a safe distance away and ring the police, tell them what has happened and they can and go and see if there is really anything wrong.

A similar roadside scam to this has been reported recently in Copsem Lane near Esher.

Being a Good Samaritan is natural to many of us but be careful as things may not be what they seem.

Do not get caught out.

Warning: e-Dinar Cyber Currency

E-Dinar is a cyber currency and it’s also described as an Internet community of people who use the e-Dinar   currency.

It is also an investment which people choose because of the promise that they will get 20% growth per month.

Is e-Dinar a ‘real’ cyber currency?

That is difficult to answer as there isn’t an agreed definition for a cyber currency. However, as with all cyber currencies there is a set limit to the number of coins available. In this case it was 22 million e-Dinars initially then last year after some changes to the currency, including an exchange to rename the currency as EDR, the value of people’s holdings dropped dramatically and the business now say the new limit is 22 billion e-Dinar  coins.

That’s an enormous increase and potentially devalues the e-Dinar dramatically.

If you want to get e-Dinars, you can buy them on the trading exchanges.

Can the Promised Growth Rate of 20% Be True?

They say that e-Dinar is the currency with a growth rate of 20% per month. Therefore, buying e-Dinar for the first two years of its existence, you will earn with the same rate, but you have to rely on that promise.

E-Dinar had delivered 0.65% per day for 3 months on the EDR but they recently changed everything  to EDC which shows very little trading volume.

The E-Dinar Compensation Plan

People are paid commission on the 20% monthly return. If you recruit people into e-Dinar then you get a share of their benefits and if they recruit further member then you also get a share (a little smaller) of their benefits and so on for up to 7 levels.  This is typical multi-level Marketing.

Is e-Dinar a Pyramid or Ponzi scheme?

E-Dinar’s only business activity seems to be the recruiting of people into e-Dinar.

The only source of revenue for the members is affiliate investment, made on the promise of a 20% monthly return

The promise of 20% ROI for two years may keep people in the currency for that period, but after two years – they may drop out. If a lot of people do that, then that’s when life becomes difficult. Will the scheme  pay out or stop?

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If you know anything about this currency and how it works, let me know by email.

Warning: Face Replen Free Samples Can Cost You

It looks quite straightforward – the advert says you pay just $5 for cosmetic samples that are supposedly worth a great deal more.

So, people order the samples and pay the $5 by credit card.

Then comes the bombshell – 2 weeks later your credit card  is charged for $161.35 and $154.23

Unknowingly, you’ve signed up to buy their products every month.

These figures are for Face Replen Image Revive anti-aging products, but this technique is used by other companies as well.

Lucy was caught out by this and was understandably angry as she hadn’t agreed to any such charges. On contacting the company about this – their reply stated that as she hadn’t returned the samples unused she must pay the real cost.

Lucy’s situation is difficult as the company does warn in very tiny letters that you are charged after 14 days.

To make matters worse, the company continues to take money each month until you cancel and it is basically impossible to get that money back.

Be very careful on any supposedly “free” offers that you take up. Once companies have got your credit card details – some are not concerned whether you intended to sign up to keep paying them every month.

If you check the Internet for information of whether Face Replen is a scam, the result is interesting as Face Replen has clearly created a number of posts on various sites asking that question but then simply putting their advertising material in as the post. This is to make it more difficult for people to find true  information about Face Replen and how they operate.

It appears that the company base for face Replen is called Digby Investments located in Ireland. Whether that’s just a shell company or the real thing is unknown.

This kind of trick is called the subscription trap and Chancellor Phillip Hammond has plans to stop this scam.

Be careful what you sign up for and always read the very small print.

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Warning: Binary Trading is Not for Amateurs

There are thousands of professionals who trade on the stock market and currency markets  (including binary trades)  for a living and many do very well. There are also thousands if not millions of people around the world who do this from home to try to make a living or some extra money.

Binary Trading appears simple but it isn’t. You essentially bet on whether a currency or stock will go up or down in price – It’s risky and needs a lot of skill to make money. Only a small percentage of those who try  make money – the rest do not.

But scammers don’t care about that – they try to push Binary Trading as if it were so easy you can’t fail to make money and they often use enticements such as guaranteed no loss trades to get people hooked.

The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated one such company EzTrader and found that only 3% of people trying binary betting from Eztrader made a profit.

Clearly it is possible for some people to make profits but in the end all but a tiny minority make losses and have to give up.

In gambling – the House always wins. Unless you have the requisite expert knowledge, you’re just gambling.

Binary Trading Robots or Auto Trade Software

There are companies offering automated binary trading but many are just scams.

A Binary Options Robot is automated trading software. You give the software access to your trading account and it does the buying and selling automatically for you.

You can see why scammers love this idea as once they can access your account they can try to empty it.

The theory is that the software makes trades on your account.

WhateverRobot.com is an automated signal service provider and binary options robot. This website is a service for binary traders that places trades automatically into their accounts. But it’s hard to tell the scammers from the real thing.

Usually, only the company offering the service makes any money.

Binary trading is best left for the experts.

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The Penny Matrix Pyramid Scheme

Penny Matrix is a money making scheme that you may have seen on Facebook or you may have been asked by a friend to join the scheme.

The idea is simple – you pay a subscription of $7 per month to get you into the scheme.

To make money, you introduce two new people to the scheme. Of the $7 per month they pay – you get 30 cents for each. Then they recruit two people each and so on. Down the line you continue to get more money from the subscriptions and in theory you can make many thousands of dollars profit.

Of course this a simple pyramid scheme dressed up to look real. For the subscription you get access to a list of ebooks of which many are available free or nearly free on the Internet as they are out of copyright. It’s irrelevant really as participants join the scheme to make money not to get the ebooks.

Penny Matrix tries to legitimize the whole system by including the ebooks but it doesn’t work.

Is Penny Matrix a Pyramid Scheme Marketed As Multi Level Marketing?

The defining characteristic of a pyramid scheme is that to make money recruits must recruit more people and they recruit more people and so on. This certainly applies to Penny matrix.

The biggest issue is that in order to make money, there has to be a constant flow of new members. That might happen for a while, but it doesn’t keep happening. All these schemes run out of people then everyone loses except for the few who started it.

Penny Matrix is one of those sites that sounds far too good to be true, yet, far too many people end up falling for the scam simply because they want it to be real. According to the site, you can theoretically earn as much as $19,659.60 every single month through the system – and all it costs you is $7.

Making money with this program is all about recruiting other people – a lot of other people.

You won’t get rich with Penny Matrix.

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