The Internet is a great place for anyone to get some extra money to boost their income.
There are, however, many unscrupulous individuals and outright criminals who are dedicated to nabbing your money.
These are the basics of Internet money scams and threats, but you would be surprised at how many people fall prey to them: Buy-and-Run Small time thieves can easily be caught with the aid of police, but these thieves operating in the digital world are a whole lot harder to deal with.
This is perhaps one of the biggest problems beginners face in the online money making business.
A mere $20 article or commission is just not worth spending hundreds of dollars for a lengthy legal battle.
You won't gain that $20 back, and you may even be blackmailed into silence by threats of negative reviews and customer feedback from anonymous accounts.
Weigh your options, and see if whether reporting the problem is worth the potential losses you will incur.
A simple solution to this would be to find a third party to hold payments in escrow.
The buyer hands the money to the third party, you proceed to handle the transactions, and the third party hands the money to you once the client receives the goods.
Just make sure to use a reliable third party to hold the payments in escrow for you.
Malicious Programs The Internet's ease of communication and file transferring makes earning money easier and more convenient, yet this also makes it easy for malicious programs to get into your PC.
Anyone is vulnerable to these programs, but this is an especially dangerous task for people who make a living off the Internet.
Frequent exchanges of mails and surfing the web for information has its risks, and you should be well aware of these risks if you want to make money instead of lose it.
This makes it essential for you to keep a dependable computer firewall up at all times, updated antivirus software, and above all else some surfing savvy to protect yourself from these malicious programs.
No matter how friendly a client may be, always scan whatever files they send your way.
Any executable program can carry a Trojan, and even your antivirus may not be enough if you actually open the infected program.
Phishing Online crooks don't even need to get into your PC.
They can simply trick you into giving your bank account details, and it is a lot simpler than it sounds.
Frauds can pose as your bank, your attorney, or any other entity you are working with.
The modus operandi, though, is to pose as your bank requesting you to make a bonus claim, pay an upcoming fee or any other 'problem' that may occur.
The common point of it all is to fool you into giving your bank account details, which they will promptly drain the second you give it to them.
The experienced Internet surfer may laugh this risk off, but this is still a very real problem for the beginning Internet money makers.
If you receive any mail like this and are concerned about the content, contact the bank yourself and ask for details regarding the matter.
If there is one thing that you must not forget when it comes to the quick money of the Internet, it is that you should always be careful with whatever you do.
Double check everything, and triple check if you smell even the faintest scent of fraud.