TERM PAPER: OUTLINE
Outline
Psychology of fraud
Emotional blackmail
How to spot a scammer
Introduction
To understand the psychology of fraud on the internet you must understand how these
scammers work they use any means of persuasion they can, and they do not care about anyone or
let anything get in their way. Their motto is to use honey-sweet words in order to get all of your
savings and leave you high and dry while they live in the lap of luxury. The increasing number
of online scams to take people’s money on the internet starts to seriously affect many families
not only in their pocketbooks but emotionally that extends from the person being scammed to
their immediate family members
There are various ways that these internet scammers use to scam you out of your money,
they use people’s emotions or greed in order to get what they want out of you. The most
amazing part is that they do it in a civilized manner without the use of force or violence. The
funny thing is that most of the people that are getting scammed wanted to give their money over
to the scammers, so they were willing participants and they do not realize that they are being
victimized until it is too late.
Conclusion
In conclusion, everyone must learn the keywords that these scammers use and the
psychology they use in order to tug at your heartstrings in order to take what does not belong to
them. The clues to look for are grammar errors because most of the scammers come from
countries that their first language is not English, so they make major mistakes when it comes to
spelling. Make sure you meet the person face to face. Do a google search on the person to make
sure they're legit. Remember if it seems too good to be true it usually is.
