Protect Yourself on Craigslist
Can You Have More Sales, Too?
Helping over 75,000 businesses like yours raise profits and build customer relationships using AWeber's opt-in email marketing software for over 10 years.
A warning from the Better Business Bureau, particularly to those of you that use Craigslist. There’s a scam out there that offers something called a “B.B.B. Purchase Protection Program.” The Better Business Bureau has received more than 2,075 complaints from people saying that they were scammed.
Here’s how the scam works. When you’re shopping on Craigslist, you make a purchase, then get an email asking you to buy a B.B.B. Purchase Protection Program.
As thousands of people have already found out, the protection program does not exist.
You can protect yourself though when making a purchase by going to www.bbb.org, and review the B.B.B. reliability report. Also, if your buying off Craigslist, they recommend that you deal locally – with folks you can meet in person. This usually avoids 99% of the scam attempts on the site. And, never give yout financial information, like a bank account number or your social security number.
Similar Posts:
- Marketing Your Business on Craigslist
- Advertising Scams Hit Businesses
- How to avoid Internet stock scams
- Work-at-Home Scams: They Just Don’t Pay
- Thumb shopping
- It’s Never Too Early to Invent
- Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon
- eBay CEO Says Web Scams Hurt Business
- Meat and Potatoes for Your Affiliate Diet
- Top 5 Signs You May Be Charging Too Little
- NeonClick
- How to rank the quality of your leads
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
