Have you been a victim an Internet scam or an unscrupulous online "business opportunity"?

Do You want to warn others about what’s really going on online?

Here is your chance to tell your story and possibly help others avoid being ripped off by these Charlatans.

I’ve never been the victim because I guess I can just spot those things coming at me over the horizon.

Here’s something that you might not know. The fraudsters are right here on Yahoo Answers. Seriously.

There’s a whole bunch of fake job sites at the moment, and they are all related. Often, people post here to ask "is this site OK?" and then a whole bunch of people turn up and say "yes!". But it’s ALWAYS the same bunch of people, and sometimes they ask the questions and then wait for their friends to turn up, it might even be just an alternate account, get some answers and then close the question. On eBay, this would be called shill bidding, on Y!A you could call it "shill Q&A" I guess.

That isn’t the end of it it, oh no. Let’s say that you ask a question "is web site x for real?" and these same shills then report the question as not appropriate to try to get it removed. They don’t like anyone asking honest questions to find honest answers.

You may find that this question is deleted by Y!A, and if you do you should appeal against it. Also watch for thumbs down on useful posts from the shills.

Yah, I sound paranoid. But if you research my Q&As, especially in Careers & Employment and then look at the other people who answer the question, then you can piece it all together yourself.