New affiliate or internet users may not be aware that there are so many fraud cases floating in the internet waiting for an opportunity to cheat them. The popular scams are email lottery, Nigerian internet scams, money doubling scams etc., These scammers misuse the popular company names like yahoo, Microsoft or freelotto and deceive the users. The fraudsters collect personal information and bank account details and swindle the money from them without their knowledge and vanish.

Apart from email lottery scams, there are also websites which promise a huge income for doing data entry jobs from home or MLM (Multi Level Marketing) tricks. Other type of scam may be asking the affiliates to browse website, read emails, take out surveys and they will commit higher rates for paid members and collect money from them but in return they will not pay any thing. They allure the affiliate telling them that they will get $25 for signup bonus, but keep the pay out amount as high as $75 so that by that time the affiliate reaches that amount they may terminate the affiliate’s account by stating some silly reasons.

In general, the affiliates must understand that the money does not come without any effort or by simply typing few lines or browsing some sites or reading emails. Consistent effort required to make good money. Affiliates can trust well known programs like Google’s adsense, Clickbank, Commission Junction etc., The affiliates also must be careful while dealing with credit card payment in online such as domain registration or webhosting or other services and ensure that the payment link takes them to a encrypted secure site. The URL must start with https:// instead of just http:// the s after http indicates, it is a secured site. The affiliate can also checkout for verisign seal which is an added security feature for the website. It is also advisable to use payment gateway services such as paypal to prevent the personal information being misused by the vendor.