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"Earn $4,000 a month at home," boasts the e-mail in my mailbox. Others promise a cure for heart disease, get-rich-quick investme
"Earn $4,000 a month at home," boasts the e-mail in my mailbox. Others promise a cure for heart disease, get-rich-quick investme
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2014-01-07
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"Earn $4,000 a month at home," boasts the e-mail in my mailbox. Others promise a cure for heart disease, get-rich-quick investments or free travel. All these scams require consumers to send money. Scammers use commercially available software to "harvest" thousands of e-mail addresses from information on web-site records or from people signing up for on-line contests. Their sole purpose is to generate e-mail lists that are often sold to other scammers and immoral marketers. "Victims of these scams are most often those who can least afford it," says Laforge.
When her mother became ill, Linda Russell, 58, found it hard to make ends meet. The teacher from Tennessee was a good typist and searched Internet sites offering assistance in finding work-at-home employment. She found Friends From Home, an Ontario company. For a $40 fee, they promised her clerk work. She sent the check, which was cashed. When she heard nothing further, she e-mailed the company half a dozen times without response.
"Work-at-home schemes are among the most common frauds we see," says an official of the Better Business Bureau. "Be suspicious of offers of $4 for stuffing an envelope. They just don’t make sense."
Pyramid schemes, chain letters and false diplomas are other classic scams that have moved from telephones and later fax machines to the Internet.
Travel scams are an old way of cheating now showing up on the Net. The assistant director of consumer affairs with the American Society of Travel Agents says: "Avoid paying a company for travel that won’t be ticketed or take place for 12 to 18 months. When it comes time to get your tickets, the dates you want are often not available, restrictions may make it more expensive or the company has disappeared."
Another costly fraud is the telephone scam. An e-mail congratulates you on winning a prize, or offers urgent information about a family member and asks you to call a phone number for details. As they call the number and are put on hold, the victims are unaware that their call charges are up to $25 a minute. Often, charges of hundreds of dollars appear on next month’s phone bill.
Beware too of on-line games of chance. "Type ’lotteries’ into a search engine if you want to see how many such scams are out on the Internet," says Gordon Board, corporate security investigator at the B.C. Lottery Corporation. "People buy tickets on their credit cards at these false sites, but there is no prize money."
Never call a 900 number—it’s not a free call—to collect a prize. And never send bank information for the deposit of "winnings" into your account.
Rule No. 1 for avoiding scams on-line: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Which of the following is not done by an honest travel agency?
选项
A、Offering a long-term travel plan.
B、Ticketing you when you need it.
C、Setting up ticketing restrictions.
D、Precharging for future services.
答案
D
解析
本题的题干问“诚实的旅行社不会做什么”,反过来说,也就是问“不诚实的旅行社会做什么”,从第5段最后两句话可以推断,骗子旅行社会要求顾客为将来才兑现的服务先付款,而这些服务在付款之后再也难以兑现,由此可见,D就是骗子常做的事。
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