#30 - How to avoid online scammers?

𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭! 😊 ⁣
With a click of a finger, you get access to the whole world! ⁣
The convenience of the internet has now profoundly rooted in our human societies, and I can’t imagine life without the internet! ⁣

And of course, the internet also becomes the #1 place to learn, to review, and to buy/sell! ⁣
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Unfortunately, just like how the majority of us are good people but with only 5% of bad people out there - the internet is also full of 5% of people with bad intentions, particularly the scammers! 😖⁣
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Scamming used to be a tough business because they have to scam people one by one through door knocking, cold calling, but now with the help of the internet, even scammers can scale up their business! 😫⁣
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Since financial education is so unavailable in our school system 🙄😵, people can only learn it from somewhere else. The internet becomes the best place for people to share their value, sell their products, and also, unfortunately, scam other people! 😱⁣
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When I first started trading, I’ve pretty much made all the mistakes you could’ve made - I was fearful, greedy, and merely ignorant and didn’t know better! I fell in every kind of traps, and that’s why years later, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 🤬𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐦 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲! ⁣
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I've listed in my post a few things to watch out for scammers, and be sure always to educate yourself and ask questions! 🤓⁣
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𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞? 🥺