How to Know if a Website is a Scam? HD

https://www.quora.com/Is-a-digital-profit-course-fake-or-a-scam/answer/Arun-Sarathy-5 9 Tips to Find if a Website is Fake or Genuine. In this video, we will take the example of a website that claims to offer a course known as Digital Profit Course. Is Digital profit course a scam, real or fake? Here are 9 tips to find it is genuine or fake. Website in question: https://www.careertimes.org/in/00-dpc-in-74new.php?cid=62910&http%3A%2F%2Fwww_com-kdfskf834n94n_net%2Fbase_php%3Fc=404 and http://www.careertimes.org/news/mom-makes-rs-300000-per-month.php?s=view014 A couple of months ago, I found this question on Quora. Intrigued, I went ahead and did some site auditing and found a lot of interesting stuff that was worth sharing. This video is a visual version of the answer I already wrote on Quora. If you want to read that instead, please do so from the link given in the show notes below. The site you are seeing on the screen is quite famous that is being circulated online. This webpage has details for an online course called as "Digital Profit Course". Since perception is mostly our reality, whether the site’s content is fake or real boils down to the timing, needs, motives and emotions of a user who is reading these articles. And as a matter of fact, to really answer the question - I don’t know if the course is fake, scam or real. But I can definitely say their website is not something a professional team would create. Following are 9 observations and proofs that this site or its intent is not a professional one: 1. It has the heading with an upfront mention of “Advertorial” - meaning it’s an advertisement in the form of an editorial. 2. Well, no harm in that. But let’s go further. Go ahead and mouseover on all the menu items you see on the blue menu bar: Home, Finance, Tech……..all those and notice they are all not menu items but a single image, which when clicked, all takes to just one webpage. 3. Sharing buttons: I noticed this page was shared on social media in huge numbers. Intrigued, I wanted to click to see the share buttons myself. Alas, the entire sharing set is a single image! There are no individual ‘Like’ or ‘Tweet’ buttons there. Notice how my mouse arrow turned into a hand arrow icon, meaning the entire frame is a hyperlink. You can see the hyperlink in the footer. 4. URL: What kind of a professional marketing course company would have a URL like that? Of course, it redirects to a professionally named one like Learn Digital Marketing From Home but the base URL is made of some random characters. Why should the real name hide behind that gibberish URL? 5. Featured in the media: Go ahead and click on the YouTube video they claim to have got featured in. Wait, is there even a video?? 6. Timeline: This yellow highlighted text (I didn’t highlight, it’s highlighted on the site) uses the FOMO principle (Fear of missing out). To investigate this, I opened this a week ago. Then waited and opened today to see the date updated to to