{"id":72,"date":"2008-08-13T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-08-13T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T19:05:22","slug":"how-to-spot-an-internet-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/08\/how-to-spot-an-internet-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to spot an internet scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like the guys in Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Blink that could just look at a supposedly 3,000 year-old statue and say &#8220;fake&#8221;. But I&#8217;m beginning to see that there are a lot of people still falling for fake promises made by websites.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick test that helps me when I have any doubt: go to Google, type in the url of the website (like internetscam.com for example) and look at the results.<\/p>\n<p>People who claim to be big players can be found out very easily with this method. Not a lot of results? Probably haven&#8217;t been around too long.<\/p>\n<p>Are all the results directory listings or otherwise neutral? Are they all ads? They&#8217;ve probably done some SEO but still not a definitive result.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot is really blog and forum results where somebody writes quite clearly &#8220;so-and-so is a rip off&#8221; or even &#8220;so-and-so is legitimate&#8221;. Look for real people giving real reviews and unsolicited feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like the guys in Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Blink that could just look at a supposedly 3,000 year-old statue and say &#8220;fake&#8221;. But I&#8217;m beginning to see that there are a lot of people still falling for fake promises made by websites. Here&#8217;s a quick test that helps me when I have any doubt: go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[80,81,20,82,111,79,58,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}