When you are going to hire someone online to perform some task for you, maybe website design or seo, make absolutely sure you make basic checks to ensure they can be trusted. The web is suited to scams and rippoffs to a greater degree than offline, all kinds of scam websites and seemingly helpful people turn out to be just trying to scam you. Its still a minority of course, but it happens more and more. Dont signing anything or agree to anything until a number of simple steps are followed to ensure you know they are a trustworthy organisation or individual. Ask them to supply customer references or samples. Try contacting those who wrote the references to see if they are genuine. The search engines can help you find genuine positive or negative comments. Finally check up on a person online using a reverse number lookup site which can supply huge amounts of background info about most people.

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