Don't Get Scammed

By Richard Dwen

DON'T GET SCAMMED is for everyone of working age whether a high school graduate or university graduate starting in the workplace or a mature worker. If you have an idea for starting your own business whether full time or part time, you will probably need working or startup capital. And this is where the scammers lie in wait.

If you don't have the resources or personal connections, you may have to go into the venture capital market and there, problems can arise. With the advent of the internet, the financing market has become full of scammers. Advance fees, fake bond fees, fake processing fees and fake insurance coverage fees are just a few of the scams that feast on novice business people looking for money for their businesses.

DON'T GET SCAMMED helps you become aware of scams. The book may not cover all scams as there are new ones popping up every day. If nothing else, it will cause you to become more cautious in your business dealings and ensure you carry out due diligence on all offers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Dwen
• Release date: Mar 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463086698

Richard Dwen

Forty years of experience in many types of businesses from automotive to insurance to publishing to TV production. Written 10 books and several movie scripts. Nearly always have been self employed.

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DON'T GET SCAMMED

Raising Money and Keeping Yours

A Common Sense Guide for Entrepreneurs

And Investors

by

Richard Dwen

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2

Common Sense

Chapter 3

Due Diligence

Chapter 4

Getting It Down On paper

Chapter 5

State of Mind

Chapter 6

Instinct

Chapter 7

Additional Questions

ADDENDUM

THE END

Chapter 1

Introduction

Thank you for being here. You are reading DON'T GET SCAMMED possibly out of curiosity, possibly because you have an idea for a business, a product, a service or perhaps a new way of doing something that is already commonplace but doing it in a new and better way - and, here you are stuck and though your enthusiasm is sky high, the reality of raising the financing for what you wish to accomplish appears daunting in the cold clear light of day. However, you can realize your dreams and you can do it in a manner that is both cost efficient and time efficient and you can reach your goal without going through the trial and error process that most people seem to go through. Why do people take the trial and error route? Very simply they do not use Common Sense or CS. When excitement, enthusiasm and adrenalin take over, CS often flies out the window.

All CS entails is doing what some people call "doing