Before spending money on any kind of program, book, or business opportunity check it out on a popular search engine. What I like to do is type in the name of the program in the search bar. Then add the word 'scam' at the end before clicking the search button. If other people have been scammed by that particular program you'll usually find a bunch of comments quickly about how bad it is. This is a wonderful, fast, effective way to save your money.

I do that too, and yes it is!
However, sometimes there will be people who claim something is a scam because they didn't follow directions right, or misunderstood something or whatever. But usually if there are a whole bunch of people saying it's a scam, and not just one or two pissed off people, it's a safe bet that it's a scam. You also have to make sure to filter out the people who chime in with "Yeah, it's probably a scam" when they don't actually know anything about the thing specifically.

Hey, I know this is off topic but, Lili, I liked that tread yesterday, I really agreed with it.

My principles of avoiding scams are 1)only buy from reputable websites and 2) if it sounds too good to be true, it is

I notice one of the biggest scam on the market today is the Fee base tactic. Spend a small amount of money on every offer, and before you catch yourself in the fee base race $300-$400 dollars maybe more has disappeared out of your pocket.

Oh My God, Thankyou thankyou thankyou, you have just saved me £3,000.00 by not signing up to an online distance learning course. By following your advice, I have discovered the company has recently been featured on "watchdog", where the quality of the course did not live up to expectations. Thanks again, you have really saved my bacon