How to Spot Internet Business Scams

We all get them, probably hundreds of times a week, especially if we show any interest in making money online.  They promise us lucrative pay offs with all of these "proof" videos, screen shots, statistics, etc.  The truth of the matter is, they're all internet business scams.  Being a victim of so many of these scams, along with the cookie-cutter type of formats just about every one of these con artists use, I've learned to, for the most part, spot these scams right off the bat.

It all started when I lost my job.  You know the saying, "desperate times call for desperate measures?"  Well that became my life story.  Every single email I'd get with the non sense about making 6 figures in just a few short weeks I'd read from top to bottom and do research on it, hoping to make sense of it, have it click in my head, and find a majority support of it.  Coming from a marketing company, I had a good understanding of legit marketing plans and what not.  After months of reading and researching, I've compiled a sort of check list to follow when deciding whether a page is promoting an internet business scam.  I also learned how, from trial and error how to create a good and strong revenue from the internet, you can learn it all at my site, Quick Cash School.

1. Your own judgment is probably the best judgment- If you don't feel confident with the offer, your gut is probably right.  I know as a society today we tend to be more negative and weary towards what is presented to us but we still are blessed with a great eye towards the skeptical and the scams.
2. Is the page full of yellow or green highlighted words?  For some reason these internet business scam sites enjoy filling their pages with highlighted words.  However, look at the most reputable sites on the net.  These sites rarely, if ever, have any highlighted text on their sites.  These scam sites highlight the "$3,000 in a week" claims or the "Make money over night" claims.  My experience has taught me, if there is highlighted words, they're trying to artificially lead you on because the actual facts aren't very convincing.
3. Is this a bait and catch site?   You'll see a lot of these scam sites have a lead generating page that will have tons of content not mentioning the name of the product, the price, or how it works.  I've been on a page once that I read for an entire hour only to find out the product was $300 for what boiled down to an eBook.  If the page just seems to be filled with a lot of fluff consisting of success stories and how much money you'll make, its probably a scam.
4. Is there support for the product?  If you can search for half hour through search engines and find that the majority of the results about the product show disapproving reviews, well the proof is in the pudding.  This is how I found out about BANS at first.  I went through hundreds of site and realized that a good 90% of the sites had nothing but good things to say about it.  
5. Does it promise you tons of money for little effort?  When it comes to anything (besides lotto), there is no such thing as easy money.  If this money that is promised was that easy to make, everyone would be doing it.  I know you'll probably think "oh, maybe no one knows about this program yet" or "no, I'm different."  Truth of the matter is, we love to brag about our successes, so if the program is easy and successful, a person is going to brag about it and, if he's like me, he's going to try and help out his fellow marketers.

Well, that just about covers my basic check list of how to decipher internet business scams.  I hope this proves helpful for those of you that may be currently teetering on a potential scam.