You may wonder how they swindle people.

There are various ways that crooks rip off their victims. Some of most commons ones of them are described below:

They will ask you to open a bank account under their name. On their second step, they will ask you to deposit a sum of say US$ 10000 to that account, explaining if account does not have any decent amount, officials those who are responsible for transferring promised millions of dollars would become suspicious and won’t authorize transaction. Once you deposited asked sum, they simply withdraw it and disappear. Usually they choose a bank where they might have some connections. So you, after losing your money, do not get any help from bank either.

They will ask you to send some merchandize or gifts for officials they need to bribe in order to make transactions of assumed millions of dollars smoothly. Naturally, you never hear from them once you sent requested gifts to their address.

We even heard stories like this one: A man was persuaded to come to Nigeria to look after transaction by himself. Over there he was kept hostage until he shifted all his liquid assets to thugs.

Looking at increasing quantity of scam emails that we receive, this only convinces that many fall for this seemingly simple trap. According to FBI these swindlers have defrauded millions of dollars from gullible people.

There could be other variations of this scam, next time you read an email that feels suspicious, just delete it! There are other ways of making money!

Some words of cautions! Although most of these scams originate from African countries, please do not generalize and consider that all companies form these countries are bad. As usual a few people are responsible for tarnishing reputation of a country.

Different Payment Methods Although credit cards are by far most acceptable means of payments on Internet, you should definitely consider other methods as well. For small payments, Paypal is becoming increasingly a popular mode. All e-commerce sites should integrate this to their payment methods. More options include: Electronic checks, e-bullion, Offline bank transfer etc.

Shopping Cart with Tax Calculation In your search for shopping carts look for ones, which have different tax calculation mechanisms inbuilt. If you are located in a province or state where your regional tax gets calculated on top of federal or vice versa, your shopping cart should have ability to calculate them correctly.

Guarantees As money back guarantees are becoming increasingly common on online sales you should consider prominently posting your money back guarantee on you website. Be sure to make your money back guarantee generous! Customers are becoming pickier on this issue. For example if you sell knowledge base products like e-books, reports etc. make your hundred percent guarantees at least of two months. For tangible products, after sales warrantees should be also considerably generous. Customers should feel completely secured to buy at your website.

Privacy Policy Your website must have a privacy policy. Customers are very concerned about information that they are relaying to you. You must clearly explain them what you plan to do with various information that you collect from your customers. If your site is planning to use cookies, make sure that you covered this aspect in your privacy policy too.

Security If your website collects sensitive information from your customers, you should use security systems like SSL (Secure Socket Layer). This guarantees that data provided by your customer will not fall into hand of a malicious hacker while transferring from his computer to web server. This also will reassure your customers that you are truly concerned about security of their personal and sensitive information.

Once you know how to handle all above mentioned aspects, go ahead and look for a great tool to build your dream e-commerce website and make money online!