SCAMMER ALERT! Part 2

Guys, beware of this cosplayer scammer. His name is Rowie Tarroza A.K.A. Rowie Zilla. He's 17 years old (Nov. 20, 1994 is his birthday), an SK Councilor in their Barangay in Parañaque and studying at Olivarez College taking up BS in Tourism. Wow, I didn't notice that I've made a good introduction of him >.< I didn't know how true is this, I just saw it in his Facebook Profile. Anyway, it's been 4 months since I asked him to do some commissioned costume of Lina Inverse from the anime, The Slayers. That's what I'm planning to cosplay for June or July events. But since, it got delayed for so many months, I've got annoyed by this little brat because he got the time to be active and changing his primary pic in Facebook instead of attending to his customer's needs and he doesn't even respond to some of his customers. He doesn't even give us some proofs that our costume was being made. He just tells us that it's being made at the moment. Most of us (customers), wants a refund from him but too bad, he doesn't want to give us what we want because his main reason was that he already bought some materials for our costume and another reason was that there's a problem in school, seamstress, etc.etc. He also got a poor craftsmanship because one of his customer was complaining that it wasn't exactly the way he want it. I just wish that this guy would get 100x karma from the things that he have done to us and I just hope that he won't show his fugly face during conventions because I don't know what I'll do to him if ever I'll see his shitty bastard face.

Facebook Accounts: Rowie Tarroza (Personal Account)
Rowie Zilla Üü (Cosplay Account)

Avoiding GPT Program Scams

Get-Paid-To (GPT) sites (e.g. paid surveys, get paid to click, get paid to read e-mails, get paid to surf, get to post, get paid to complete offers, get paid to blog, get paid to socialize, etc.) are the most attractive money-making opportunities to internet users, especially to starters. I, too, had several experiences with paid-to programs when I was just learning that the internet promises real money through these programs. Even now, I am a member of some GPT programs.

Paid-to programs are appealing because most of these do not require payment for registration and you can spend any amount of time at your convenience. With numerous paid-to sites coming out, you can hardly distinguish which are worth trying (and is really paying) and which are plain scams.

Most of these programs require you to pay a certain amount to be a premium members. Being a premium member entitles you to earn more with your account. Who wouldn't want to earn more, right? So you pay for the premium package. During the first days, you were elated because you see your earnings getting bigger and bigger. Then suddenly, you wake up one day losing everything. You were scammed! There is an increasing number of user who succumb to this kind of easy money but wake up one day getting scammed because they forgot the most important step before joining and putting money in these programs - they failed to investigate.

1. Before joining a program, throughly evaluate the GPT opportunity and the site as a whole. Read the About, Help/FAQs, TOS, and Privacy Policy of the sites. These pages may contain and answer every information you needed about the site.

2. Is the GPT site a scam? Do a search. Type the GPT opportunity (website url or name) plus the word "scam".

3. Visit scam listings and see if a site is listed as scam.

4. Read reviews and recommendations from members, Most importantly, read the complaints. GPTBoycott.com is a good source to read complaints from members about GPT opportunities/sites.

5. Assess how much money you will earn and if it's worth your time. Spending your time clicking ads and completing offers for a small compensation is also a form of scam. You may not be spending a dime for clicking ads or completing offers and tasks but you should also consider how much do you pay for your internet connection. It sounds simply ridiculous to spend three hours (worth almost a $1.00 if you are using the service of an internet cafe in the Philippines) yet earning few cents for completed offer.

There are other ways to make money online - through blogging (through ads), promoting and selling products, being an affiliate, etc. which are legitimate one. However, many users do not opt to choose them because they can be a hard task. But nothing is more rewarding than seeing your efforts getting well compensated.