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Published on 2 Comments on Binary Options

There are so many Binary Options platforms out there, and most of the Binary Option claimed that you can use that to get rich fast!!!.

The platform is cashing in on the human greed, to lure people to the platform, basing on the basic human desire of Who Does Not Want To Get Rich.

How many people have been using Binary Options?

and learned a painful lesson that they will never forget?

There are Binary Options who claimed you can make a lot of money, and easy to get your investment back.

FREEBIE IN BINARY OPTION

Some Binary Options even provide one for one investment.

  • That is if you invest USD $2,000,
  • they will top up the account with USD $2,000 and
  • you have $ 4,000 Capital to trade using Binary Option,

What did not the platform administrator tell you in the beginning?

  • if you take the option of getting the free top up,
  • you are not able to withdraw your initial Capital,
  • until you make certain numbers of transactions.

In the internet, there are so many advertisements about Binary Option, and video showing how people have made a million within a short time, using the same actors or actress to lure you to believe this is THE WAY to make money.

photo by Chee Shi

WHAT IS BINARY OPTION?

According to Wikipedia definition

"A binary option is a financial exotic option in which the payoff is either some fixed monetary amount or nothing at all.[1][2]

The two main types of binary options are:

  • the cash-or-nothing binary option and
  • the asset-or-nothing binary option

The former pays some fixed amount of cash if the option expires in-the-money.

While the latter pays the value of the underlying security.

They are also called all-or-nothing options, digital options, (more common in forex/interest rate markets), and fixed return options (FROs) (on the American Stock Exchange)  "

So in layman term:

  • it is a yes or no, and
  • head and tail type of game,
  • it is like a game of chance, right or wrong.

When you want to find out more about the platform, initially, the customer service is so friendly and helpful.

However when you are winning using the Binary Option, they will have people making calls to you.

They are so eager to show you how to make more money, and encourage you to trade more, and in no time, you find out your winnings are gone.

As a result of which, they will call you to put in more money and tell you again, if you put in USD $5,000, they will top up USD $ 5,000 and here you are, you have now USD $ 10,000 to trade.

What Do Binary Option Platform Offer in Their Website?

Some websites even offered training on trading of binary option, and claimed to provide good trading support.

A lot of these websites even claimed to offer good tips, and sure win trade if you pay certain amounts of money.

Therefore I would suggest if you really want to trade binary option, do so with the local platform.

Where you can meet the administrator of the platform in person, and understand more about their operation.

Even that also may not be good enough, however do trade with good conscience.

DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH IN BINARY OPTION?

The main issue is -- the trader does not know who he is trading with, and how many players/traders are involving in this platform.

For all you know, you may be trading with the platform's software, and the platform operator is manipulating you.

You may think what  you see on screen is the real trade in the financial market.

Actually  there may be some lag in the data, which indicates you may be trading with the platform back end, who is just eating up your money/capital slowly.

WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU GUESSED RIGHT AND WIN?

If you happened to trade right and win, then the customer service will call you the next day, and tell you to trade more or play more.

Depending on what you are trading, whether it is forex, stock, indices or metals.

Someone will call and tell you that they have done some research, and it is a good time to do certain trades, and they would guide you and so on.

The next thing was you realize after a few trades, you have lost all your previous winnings money,.

Since the trades were for few minutes, you would know your trade results within minutes, and

Then they would call and advised you to bet in certain amount as the probability was higher with higher amount and so on.

WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU WANTED TO CASH OUT YOUR WINNINGS?

When you called or log in to your account, and indicated you wanted to withdraw your winning, you would not get any reply at all.

subsequently when you called or emailed them, they would inform that since you had taken the top up from the platform, you could not withdraw your winnings.

because they said you had not done enough trade transactions

They would ask you to continue trading, and you soon knew the game was a scam ,as there was no chance you could win, since it was just a program set up by them to ensure you put in money.

Are Binary Options Regulated?

If you go to their websites, that they claimed that the authorities in their country of residence are regulating their platform.

What are the tricks of the fraudsters?

  • They offered you to check their credential with the relevant authorities,
  • however, if you really check and read the reviews by some other who always monitor the scam and fraud,
  • you would find that a lot of them are really scam, and
  • operated by some fraudsters
  • who hide behind the internet and computer to thrive on human nature of greed of money and get rich quick.

Binary Option

Conclusion

If you really want to trade:

  • do so with the local platform
  • where you can meet up with the administrator and
  • with a company in your location, and
  • understand their operation and get some assurance and
  • check with the local relevant regulatory authorities.

If you are not good in financial market, do stay away from this instrument.

It will be better to trade in something which you know well, instead of looking for some quick short term gain.

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic.

Please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback space below.

I would be glad to get back to you and

thank you for your feedback, comments and sharing of your experience.

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Published on 2 Comments on We Live Once But Live It Right

In our life, we only live once and it is important that we live it right, thus, we need to make sure we live once but live it right.

Since we were born, we learned a lot of things from baby until we graduated and started working life and family life..

It is important that we get it right, especially when we reach the retirement age, and there are bills and commitment to be met.

There are people who are still hesitant of what to do, and what need to be done, in order to have a financial worry free retirement life.

A. Why do people put off their decision?

Just share one of my experience of encountering one person who keeps asking me what to do, as he is getting on his life and worry about his life for the next decade when he is in retirement.

I told him to try out online business, and if he can get on with it, he does not have to worry about his retirement life.

The last I heard from him was he was still thinking about it, and I told him "we only live once and we need to get it right."

His excuse was - there were so many people who had tried that and did not seem to be successful.

My answer to him was he needed to find out how many times these so called many people had put in, and how many hours of their efforts to really work on the online business.

It appeared that majority of people were looking for get-rich-quick type of scheme, and have the impression that online business is a get-rich-quick scheme with instant success without putting in much effort.

Why do people put off their decision?

Because they were not certain whether they could be successful, and most importantly was they were not willing to put in their effort.

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B. What do we do when we need to take a decisive step in life.

We tend to be hesitant when we face with some decisions to make, a lot of people put off making the decision to a later date and let the opportunity passed by.

You know you only live once, hence it is important you live it right, and grab the opportunity, since hardly there is a second chance.

Therefore, if there is an opportunity to move forward and make your life better, why don't you grab it and live it the fullest?

A lot of people regret that they did not take the chance offered when they were offered the opportunity to better their life, we should remember no risk no gain, after assessing the opportunity on hand, take it and move on.

We will not be an expert if we do not fail to achieve our goal.

Some people are great and appear successful, but

  • we never know how much and how hard they had tried, in order to reach what they are now,
  • how often have they failed,
  • and how difficult their situation was before they become great.

C. You Only Live Once, So How Do You Intend To Have A Financial Worry Free Retirement Life?

To be financial worry free during retirement life, we need to ensure we are independent, and decisive in making decision, when we have to decide how to live our retirement life happy and free of financial worry.

One of the way to make it is to do some online business ,and none better than using Wealthy Affiliate

We can use Wealthy Affiliate to learn and make money at the same time.

Even when you are in Old Folk Home living out your remaining life, you still have the ability to earn some money and live a good life there

So for those who are serious in making it online, and ensuring having a good retirement life, do the right thing and make the right decision.

Benefit Of Doing It Our Own Way To Achieve Financial Freedom

You do not have to depend on your offspring for support in your retirement life, if you are able to make some income from online business.

Do realize that having some handsome online business income will be good to finance your lifestyle in retirement, and can even bring you money even when you are on holiday enjoying your retirement.

Just imagine the best of the world when you are holidaying and your bank account still shows money keep coming in? This is the dream quite a lot of people like to have.

photo by Chee Shi

For those who work full time on employment, they only have their monthly wages to look forward to when on holiday, whereas if you are self reliance in internet business, you do not have to worry about your money, as it still earns you handsome income when you are sleeping.

Then you can really brag about You Only Live Once but Live Right.

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic, please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback space below and I would be glad to get back to you and thank you for your feedback, comments and sharing of your experience.

Published on Leave a comment on How To Avoid Online Financial Scams – 4

Series 4 of the online financial scams

Today I am going to continue my online financial scams series, as highlighted by the China Public Security Bureau earlier this year.

We should share this knowledge about how to avoid online financial scams so that more people are aware of the scams.

5. Fictitious Claims Scams

a. Fictitious car accident scam

Acting as the relatives or friends of the victims of the car accidents, the scammers claim that

  • the victims need to settle the accidents settled immediately,
  • demand the other party to transfer the compensation money.
b. Scammed kidnap plot

The Scammer informed the victims' relative that the victims have been kidnapped.

They then asked the victim to pay ransom to a specific bank account.

The relative is warned not report to the police, if not, they will kill the victims.

c. Surgery Scam

Scammer informs the victim's parents or children that:

  • the kids or the parents need surgery immediately, due to sudden attack of sickness,
  • demand the victims remit the money before treatment can be made immediately.
d. Dire Strait Situation Scam

Scammer act as if he is  in serious financial, life threatening sickness .

He then appeals to the public via social media pleading to secure some donations.

With this in mind, the scammers will hope to get as much as possible.

e. Reported parcel with drug scam

Scammer informs the victim that:

  • the parcel addressed to the victims
  • they found drugs in the parcel, and
  • required the victim to pay some money to the National Security Account,
  • before they carry out a proper investigation.

f. photo shopped obscene and lewd photos scam

Scammers collect the photos of public servants:

  • use the computer to photoshop into obscene pictures, and
  • mail to the victim, attached with the bank account number,
  • threatening and blackmailing the public servants to pay up or risk being exposed.
g. Abortion Cost Scam

Scammer impersonating as the children:

  • to send short messaging to the parents,
  • knowing very well how the parents love their children,
  • convince the parents to transfer money for abortion cost.

6. Daily Living Scam

a. Impersonating as Land Lord Scam

Scammer impersonates the land lord:

  • send short messaging to the tenants,
  • informing the tenant, that
  • the landlord had changed the bank card and account numbers, and
  • advise the tenants to pay their rental to a specified account.
b. Telephone Bill Scam

Scammer acted as they are from the telco, calls the consumers, or using the pre-recorded voice message, informing the consumer to pay their outstanding bills to a designated bank account.

c. Tax Rebate On Goods Purchase Scam

After obtaining the particulars and information about the victims' recent purchases of houses or cars, the scammers calls the victims to informs the victims, that

  • due to the changes in tax policies,
  • hence they are entitled for rebate of tax and duties,
  • ask the victims to go to ATM to execute the transfer in order to enable them to get paid.
d. Change of Air Tickets Scam

Scammer act as official from the airline customer service,

  • the scammers inform the victim,
  • due to the cancellation of flights, refund of air ticket and changes of services,
  • they are entitled to have the refund.
How does the customer can get his refund?

However, for the purpose of getting the refund of their money, now they require the victims to make payments as processing fees.

e. Online Ticket Booking Scam

Scammers created a fake website for ticket booking,

  • using a much lower ticket prices to attract victims to purchase tickets online.
  • If any victim used the platform, they will discover something amiss.
  • The Scammer calls the victim to inform that the transaction was not successful.

As a result of it, the victim is  required to keep making payment online.

f. ATM Scam

Scammer jams the ATM cash dispenser slot, and

  • paste a fake phone hot line service number at the ATM,
  • after the victim used the number to call,
  • they then obtain the necessary details of the victims.
  • After waiting for the victim to go away, then
  • they retrieve the card from the ATM and
  • withdraw the money using the cards.

g. Credit Card Scam

Scammer calls the victim informing the victim that their credit cards details have been exposed.

As a result of that, they now required the victim to provide the necessary information to scam the victim, to enable them to check and rectify.

h. Remittance Scam

Scammers using the group chat short messaging method to require the victims to remit money to certain bank accounts, normally this happen when the victim was in the process of making remittance to banks.

Without checking, they will just act on the information and make the remittance to the bank account of the scammers.

With this, the scammers will be receiving money without the victims knowing.

Pointes to Ponder

With so much scams going on, it would be good every one of us stay alert and share the experience.

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic, please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback space below

I would be glad to get back to you and thank you for your feedback, comments and sharing of your experience.

Published on Leave a comment on How To Avoids Online Financial Scams – 3

This is my third series on the Online Financial Scams. I hope this series can create some awareness to avoid online financial scams.

In the second series, I quoted some online financial scams as published and advised by the Public Security Bureau of China.

In this, I elaborate more on the advice given by The Public Security Bureau of China

2. Purchasing Scams

a. Impersonating supplier to scam

The scammers act like the real online suppliers, using attractive discounts, helping to purchase from overseas as bait, once the buyers remit the money.

The scammer will tell the victim that Customs have detained the goods, therefore the victim needs to pay additional tax, ask the buyers to pay additional amounts to carry out their scams.

b. Refund scam.

The scammers impersonate the online merchants like Taobao or JD customers services, call or message the buyers, to inform them that the goods purchased are out of stock and they need to refund the money remitted and ask the buyers to provide the bank card numbers and password and other information, to carry out their scam.

c. Online purchase scam

The scammers open online platform, once the buyers place orders, they inform that the buyers that the platform faced some problem and need to reboot. After that using messaging system to send fictitious activation code, getting the buyers to fill in their particulars, to carry out their scam

d. rock bottom price goods scam

Scammers published message such as they have second hands goods, like vehicles, computers and goods confiscated by Custom Department ready to be sold, once intended buyers contact them, and get the innocent buyers pay the necessary deposit and processing fees and scammed the buyers.

e. Termination of installment payment scam

The scammer impersonate the website workers and informed the customers that due to bank system error, require the victims to go to the ATM to terminate the installment payment plan and execute a cash transfer.

f. Collector scam

Scammers impersonating officer from the Collector Association, print invitations to all places claiming they are holding auction of collectors items and leave the contact number. Once the victims contact them, they will ask the victims to pay for valuation and assessment fees and require the victims to remit the amounts to designated bank account.

g. Courier receipt scam.

This scam works in the following manner:

  • Scammer impersonating they are from courier company, and
  • call the victim that there is a courier item to be delivered,
  • however the address and information are not clear,
  • hence require the victim to provide clearer information, before goods are delivered,
  • once the victim signed receipt,
  • they will call and inform that the victim
  • Victim will be asked to acknowledge for prepayment of money,
  • if they do not do so, the debt collection company will look for them.

3. Events/ Activities Scams

a. Promoting fictitious charities' message

Scammers put up a missing person poster and ask good Samaritan will help to spread the news about the missing person without realizing that the contact number posted is a scamming phone number.

b. "like" scam

Scammer post as merchants who promote the 'click like' will win prize campaign, requiring participants to provide their name, contact number and other personal data to a social media platform, after securing enough data, they call the victim and inform them that they have won a prize, however to claim their prize, they need to pay certain amount to guarantee their prize.

4. Incentive Inducement Scams

a. Impersonating well-known corporate for lottery won.

Scammers impersonating a well-known enterprise, and printed a lot of high resolution lottery tickets and mail to targets, after that will inform the victims that they need to pay personal income tax for the winnings, and ask the victims to disclose their main bank accounts numbers to remit the money.

b. Win prizes in entertainment program.

Scammers use the popular entertainment program to message the victims that they had won the lucky draw prize, however to get the prize, they need to furnish their income tax number or pay a guarantee amount to secure the prize.

c. Bonus Points Scam

Scammer call the victims telling the victim that their phone points are entitled to convert to cash, seducing the victims to click on the phishing link, if the victims click on the link and input their bank details and passwords, their account balance will be transferred away.

d. QR Code Scam

Using discount, incentive as bait, ask the victim to scan the QR Code to be a member, the QR Code has a Trojan Horse in it and once scanned, the scammer will use that Trojan Horse to steal the particulars of the victims' bank details.

e. Paying huge sum for a kid scam

The scammer tell the victim that he is willing to pay huge sum to have a kid, and is prepared to pay the sum to show is sincerity

f. Highly Paid Job Scam

The tricks of the Scammers, via social media, are as follows:

  • advertise that they are hiring professional
  • with attractive salary, and
  • request any victims to be at the designated place for interviews,
  • after that demanding the victims to pay for training, uniform and guarantee fees.

g. Email Scam

The Email Scam of the Scammers works as below:

  • use email to inform victims that they have won lucky prizes and
  • once the victim contacts the scammer,
  • scammer tell victim that they need to pay for the income tax for winning the prize,
  • ask the winner to pay  guarantee fees for the prizes and
  • demand the victim to remit money to secure their prizes

In Summary

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic, please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback space below.

I would be glad to get back to you

Thank you for your feedback, comments and sharing of your experience.

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Published on 2 Comments on How To Avoid Online Financial Scams- 2

The China Public Security Bureau last month published a list of the online scams on their website to warn people of the usual scammers' tricks and how to avoid online financial scams if we happen to encounter it.

The report was a very comprehensive list consisting of 60 methods used by the scammers.

The methods used were summarized by the China Public Security Bureau into the followings categories:

  1. Impersonating officials.
  2. Purchase scams.
  3. Events/Activities scams.
  4. Incentive inducement scams.
  5. Fictitious claims scams.
  6. Daily living scams.
  7. Trojan Horse, phishing scams.
  8. Other new illegal cheating scams

1. Impersonating officials/ other people identities.

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a. Impersonating some leaders to cheat:

The scammers impersonate some leaders to make calls to some heads of departments on the pretext of selling books; or some memorial coins to scam the departments concerned to remit money to the designated bank accounts.

b. Impersonating relatives to scam:

Using Trojan Horse malware to obtain target internet user names and passwords. After obtaining the required IM information, following that, they use the targeted user's ID and password to inform the relatives that there has been an emergency or accident and thereafter requested the relatives to remit money to some accounts.

c. Impersonating CEO s of companies:

Scammers use the companies internal communication system to understand the communication between the CEO and the employees. After that they impersonate the CEO to instruct the staff to transfer some money to their accounts.

d. Scam on subsidies, scholarships and study grants:

Impersonating education officials, relevant authority or officials to call or send short messages to parents or students, claiming they can help to get the money needed by them. After that they then ask the victims to provide the necessary cards' numbers, then instruct the victim to transfer some money in order to receive the main money.

e. Impersonating police officers:

The scammers call the victims and inform them that they are from the police department and tell the victims that their personal data has been used in some illegal money laundering transactions, therefore they need to transfer the money to the national bank accounts in order for them to assist in some investigations.

f. Impersonating identity:

Scammers act like they are some rich and highly qualified persons. After gaining the trust and confidence of those they call, they will then pretend there are some financial issues or their relatives badly need some financial assistance and so try and scam their friends.

g. Medical insurance and social security scams: 

The Scammers act like they are from the Medical insurance or Social Security departments and inform the victims that there are some irregularities in their accounts , because of this they need to do some investigations. Afterwards they use their new status to convince the victims to give them the necessary information.

h. Guess who I am:

Scammers call the victims and ask them to guess who they are. They pretend they know each other very well, after which they will proceed to borrow money from their unsuspecting victims. Because of that, some victims fail to verify the identity of the callers and straight away remit the money to the bank account provided by the scammers.

The above is the first series of the information on Online Financial Scams

Don't fall for the online financial scams, and to understand more about financial scams, you may want to read this book, to gain more insight of it

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic, please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback space below.

I would be glad to get back to you and thank you for your feedback, comments and sharing of your experience.

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Published on 12 Comments on How To Avoid Online Financial Scams- 1

What Is Online Financial Scams?

If you talk to anyone whom you know very well, it is likely that they will tell you they don't believe about online financial scams, and they could be targeted by the online scammers or they will ever get (caught or) scammed (by scammers).

It is human nature to think that this will only happen to others and not us, it is a myth to believe that negative incidents and bad luck only happen to others.

There are a lot of online scams nowadays, as technology gets more sophisticated and advanced.

Any invention is a double edged sword. It depends on the users and the creators whether it is put to good use or otherwise.

What Are Some Common Online Scams?

  1. Email Scams
  2. Credit Cards Scams
  3. FaceBook Scams
  4. Job Offer Scams
  5. Investment Scams
  6. Financial Training Scams
  7. Wechat IM scams

1. Email Scams

There have been a lot of scams using emails.

I have received a fair number of these emails, from people claiming they worked in certain banks, and the bank customers had passed away. Hence their funds were sitting idle in the bank, and they could help to get the funds out.

Example of the email scam

2. Credit Cards Scams

At the back of the credit card, there is a Card Verification Code, commonly known as CVC number.

Banks tell us that the CVC number is unique,  we are not supposed to let anyone know this number, as this is one of the safety features of the credit cards, besides the chip on the card.

However every time we do an online purchase, the merchant requires us to fill in the CVC number.

Previously when there was no CVC number, we only had to fill in the credit card 16 digit numbers.

Due to various credit cards fraud cases, the banks decided to create the CVC as a security measure, and to verify that the user is the legal card holder.

So, if you pay for something online, you are required to key in the CVC number.

How do you know the number will not be captured by any malware? or whatever if the online system is hacked?.

3. Facebook Scams

There are a lot of fake Facebook accounts.

Facebook does not ensure that those who register for the accounts are legitimate.

Users can use any names to register and open an account.

As such, it is difficult to determine whether the person you befriend or connect with on Facebook, are really who they say they are ,even though they use photos in their profiles.

It can be quite dangerous, especially with online transactions, cyber bullying and even false "friends".

What the Mass Media Reported?

On 16th February 2019, The Straits Times of Singapore reported, that at least SGD $ 1 m lost to Facebook impersonation scams between January 2018 and February 2019, according to the Singapore Police Force.

It was further reported that the Police had received at least 42 reports where victims were contacted on Facebook and duped into transferring money to the scammers.

To read more of this, you may want to access the Straits Times of Singapore for more details.

4. Job Offers Scam

Another big scam which i came across is the job offers scam.

You may receive an email informing you, that you have been offered a job or selected to work for a certain company overseas and so on.

Then they send you a contract and tell you to contact an "authorized" travel agent, to process your work visa and whatever paperwork you may need to work in the country where the job is.

They tell you to pay for the cost of the permit or visa and remit the money to certain bank account. If you bank in any money, it will be gone.

If you try to query them on the legibility of the procedure, they will not bother to reply to your email. Your money will just be lost.

Example of job offers scam

5. Investment Scams

There are aplenty online investment scams where many claim to get rich, making at least a thousand dollars per day by signing up for the offer.

A lot of Option Trading platforms claim to make their investors rich within minutes.

If people fall for this, they soon discover they are not able to withdraw their capital, and their so called winnings. After a while, the platform will no longer be available.

It has been reported (discovered) that a group residing in certain countries in the Middle East is operating and specializing in this scam.

6. Financial Training Scams

This is another scam which claims to be legitimate, and provides financial training for people, who want to learn how to invest or trade online. (They offer to conduct the necessary training so that you are able to trade online).

During the course of the training, they ask you to open an account with a trading platform, so that they can guide you in your investments. The platform is similar to the platform mentioned in No. 5 above.

If you check the caller ID, it may look like the phone call is made from the country you are residing in. However, when you call back, you discover that the number is not a local number and cannot be reached. Before you know it, any money you put in is completely lost!

7. Wechat IM scams

Currently there are a lot of scams using the Wechat IM system.

Usually in these scams, the culprits try to trick the victims into giving them their online credits or gift cards for making purchases, usually in exchange for sexual favors

Above are some online financial scams now commonly used to try to scam people who are ignorant.

Summary

They usually work on the greed of people who want to get rich quickly and easily.

(You Know You Only Live Once ) and if we are not alert and prudent, we can easily fall for these scams.

Many have lost their hard-earned life savings and have had their retirement plans shattered.

If you have doubts on how to detect online financial scams, you may want to check out Federal Trade Commission Scam Alerts

You may also want to make sure of the search function below here to find out more 

 

Last but no least, I find this FTC site has very useful information to help in our effort to detect online financial scams, and save us from any unnecessary financial losses.

In conclusion, we need to stay vigilant in our daily usage of online transactions, and beware of the scams.

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Published on 10 Comments on The Myths of Retirements and Reality

During retirement or when preparing for retirement, one of the questions people like to ask - how much is enough for us to retire without any financial worry and independent?

Then the next thing is the myths of retirements, and the reality of it, how do we handle these issues?

So what are the myths of retirements?

  1. We can start preparing for our retirement later.
  2. Our Savings is enough for our retirement.
  3. We will spend less in our retirement life.
  4. We will have a lot of free times during our retirement.
  5. Health issues do not slow down a person until much later.
  6. We can start our savings plan for retirement later.
  7. We can take care of our health insurance.
  8. Invest in safe and stable financial instruments to lower risk and preserve capital.
  9. The Retirement Fund is sufficient for retirement.
  10. Still, can work during retirement.

1. We can start preparing for our retirement later.

People like to put off what they intend to do to a later date especially on retirement. And this is quite a serious problem, if we do that, as the longer we put off our retirement financial plan or wealth plan, the less we will have accumulated for our targeted funding for retirement.

The power of compound interest will come into play in our wealth plan, and the later we start savings for our wealth plan, the less amount we will have in term of compounded interests accumulated. Which will be quite a substantial amount, which we may regret later for not starting earlier.

2. Our savings will be enough for our retirement.

Enough Money for Retirement?

Whether the amount saved for retirement is enough or not, is anybody guess, there does not seem to be an amount which is the right amount for retirement, as there are so many variable involved; and also very much depend on where one is residing; and the lifestyle one has and hoping to have upon retired.

3. We will spend less when we are retired.

Nice Food For Retirement

I hear a lot of this when I talk to people about retirement,  the usual norm is one will spend less when one retired. Is it really the case? some may have more to spend on health and medical, others may have to spend more when they move to a new place to retire, instead of staying put at the place they used to live during the working life.

4. Having a lot of free time during our retirement.

Relaxing on Retirement

Conversation I have with people going to retire is - they currently put off whatever they want to do until retirement because they have the impression that they will have a lot of free time during retirement, and they can do whatever they plan to do.

The reality is -- do you really have a lot of free time during retirement?

It will be a shock to some people when they find out they need to adjust their retirement plan, as they go along and realize they are busier than their working life!!! as when they are getting into retirement life and find out they have planned a lot of activities and not able to cope with.

5. Health issue does not slow a person until much later.

There is a possibility that once a person retires and suddenly there is no much pressure and stress, the body takes time to adjust to relax mood, and all of a sudden, those problems in the body start surfacing and the person will face a lot of sickness such as hearing issue, movement problem, pain and aches and so on, and this will surely mean we need to incur more to solve these health's issues.

6. We can start our saving plan for retirement much later.

A lot of people decide to delay the start of saving for retirement, and prefer to pay off the house mortgage, children education loan and so on, without realizing that the more we delay the start of the savings plan, the more we need to save in the later years in order to have a bigger nest of funds for retirement and we may have to adopt a more aggressive method to accumulate the fund/money required.

As mentioned earlier, the power of compound returns which can help to achieve financial security.

7. The health insurance will be taken care of.

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Quite a lot of people depend on the health insurance for the golden year, most of the time we purchase the insurance policies in our younger day, and we later find out the policies  do not seem to be the right policies for the purpose., and if we go for a new health policy to meet the requirement, it will be very costly.

The next question one needs to ask is, what are really covered in the health insurance?

8. Invest in safe and stable financial instruments to lower risk and preserve capital.

This is a big headache for a retiree to consider:

  • to move to a stable and low risk investment,
  • the return may not be as high,
  • this will affect the growth of your savings fund,
  • the immediate problem one needs to face will be the rate of inflation will be higher than the return on investment.

If the rate of inflation is higher than the growth and return on investment of the fund, sooner or later it will affect the availability of the fund for sustaining the lifestyle of retirement.

The situation will become more acute if one's life expectancy is more than 90 years old.

9. The retirement fund is sufficient for retirement.

People may have set aside some fund specifically for retirement, besides the savings they have.

The main question one needs to ask is -

  • whether the money in total set aside for retirement is sufficient, and
  • if it is not, what do we need to do to ensure we have enough for retirement?
How do we determine the retirement fund is sufficient?

There is no any hard and fast rules on this:

  • it all very much depends on the needs and
  • requirement of each individual.

10. Still, can work during retirement.

Plant Durian in Retirement

A lot of people have the idea that retirement means stop working, which will actually cause a lot of issues and problems,

Are we retiring from work or from life?

There is a different between the two and we have to make sure we are not retired from life and do nothing.

If we work every day and we are active, when suddenly we drop every thing we are doing and declare " I retire!!", that is the end of it, a lot of problems will arise

And you will be facing a lot of issues if you are not able to adjust to the retired lifestyle.

Sooner or later, the mind may be as sharp as before, because suddenly one stops using the mind.

As we know, our mind stays sharp the more we use our brain and our mental will stay healthy if we consider using it.

Likewise, our body also stays healthy and mobile if we consider to exercise and move around more often, instead of just sitting around and lazying away.

We may want to start a second career which is less taxing than our first, and enjoy retirement at the same time.

Not to mention it may generate and supplement our income for retirement.

So, what can we do to mitigate the impact on retirement and at the same time enjoy our retirement?

For those people whom I have had discussion with, I always encourage them:

  • to start a second career, or
  • do something less taxing, and
  • which can generate income for their retirement,
  • at the same time can learn some new skills.

With the advancement of technology and availability of internet, it will be good for those who want to retire, or soon to retire can start learning some skills about online business.

Why I found that Wealthy Affiliate is a good platform for a person to learn/

  • a person can learn a lot from Wealthy Affiliate, such as
  • learning how to create a website of your own,
  • how to use the internet in a more productive way,
  • getting to know how to link with other social media and so on, some basic computer skills which will come handy when one retired and have ample time to learn in this WA community.

By doing so, it can also help to keep a person's mind sharp and in a healthy state.

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic.

Please feel free to leave your comments and questions and your experience in the feedback space below.

I would be glad to get back to you and thank you for your feedback and comments and sharing of your experience.

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Healthy SupplementIs There Some Secret Ways To Have Happy Retirement?

When a person thinks of his retirement, normally people will only ask: -

Do  we have enough to last the duration of the retirement?

Assuming you retire at the age of 55, the normal life span of a person may be 90,

As a result of which, you will have 35 years to enjoy or suffer when you start your retirement.

Hence, the question arises, in order to be able to live out this 35 years,

How are we going to ensure we have a happy and healthy retirement life?

  • People tend to think of ensuring money in the bank, or
  • in hand to live out the 35 years, will be fine already, and
  • neglect the health in body and mind.

As can be expected, If we do not have a healthy body and mind, we will not have a healthy and happy retirement.

To have a happy retirement, what are we really looking at ?

In view of this,  we have to take care of the three important issues as follows:

1. Financially independent.

2. Healthy body.

3. Happy mindset.

I have already covered some points in my previous posts

Mainly concerning financially independent to enjoy a good retirement.

Now I am trying to talk about the need to have a healthy body and happy mindset.

Healthy Body

If we want to remain healthy, and ensure our body stays active for many years to come.

Generally, we need to do the followings:

  1. Take good care of our body,
  2. Eat right,
  3. Exercise correctly
  4. and if possible, take some good vitamins and minerals or supplement,
  5. This is to maintain and supplement the vital nutrients we lost over the years as we age, and
  6. Help our body to function and maintain at certain level.

Nowadays, people are very conscious of the food intake.

People now always go for healthy food, preferably eat some natural food.

Instead of processed food, and

Some even go to the extent of having a dietitian to prepare their food.

The dietitian also maps out a menu for them to follow.

What do we normally think of when come to food?
  • Take simple and natural action,
  • like taking fruits,
  • vegetables and
  • whole grains
  • as the key to maintain a good healthy diet, and
  • trying to avoid meats, as we are trying to be thrifty in our retirement, and
  • still manage to get enough nutrients and the necessary minerals required by our body.

Other than the food intake, it is important also we have adequate exercise.

Whatever exercise we do,

Generally speaking, exercise correctly is to maintain a certain level of fitness for our body.

This is to enable us to have the necessary metabolism of our body.

Brisk walking is one form of exercise.

It can be done anytime during our retirement.

Further more this exercise is free, as long as you have a good pair of shoe for walking.

Thus, we need to ensure we spend certain times per day to walk briskly.

Happy Mind Set

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As long as we are happy, and we have a positive mind set.

Naturally, we will definitely lead a very happy and healthy retirement life.

Benefits of happy mindset:
  • Lead to a healthy body
  • If one is happy always
  • Will have positive attitude,
  • Things will look up positively,
  • Can brighten up everybody surrounding him,
  • Spread the good energy around.

Therefore if we exercise right, keep a healthy lifestyle and as long as we eat healthily.

All the things considered,  we will have a healthy and happy retirement

In summary

In order to have a healthy and happy retirement:

  • We must eat healthily
  • Having a happy mindset
  • lastly, exercise correctly

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic.

Please feel free to leave your comments, questions and your experience in the feedback.

I would be glad to get back to you.

Thank you for your feedback and comments and sharing of your experience.

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Published on 8 Comments on Making Money Online For Retirement Purpose

It is easy to say Making Money Online For Retirement Purpose is than getting it done.

Making Money Online For Retirement Purpose

I am sure a lot of people must be wondering, and worried whether they can sustain their retirement, especially when they outlive their expected lifespan.

Hence the importance of make money online for retirement purpose.

As I mentioned in my previous posts on retirement, and the need to get prepared for retirement.

One of the most important thing, we need to address - is to have continuous income during our retirement.

People in the oriental part of the World have the culture ingrained from long time ago, is to raise a family so that the sons or daughters will look after them, after they get old and retired.

It was the duties of the sons and daughters to look after the parents, however this type of thinking may not work in the modern world.

So, what can the old folks do, in the event when the children are not able to take care of them?

  • I would suggest the children to teach their parents to be computer savvy, and
  • learn some skills in online business, and
  • start them on the right footing if they do not bother to take care of their parents in the future.

This is the least they can do to show their filial piety gratitude to their parent.

What do you do when you reach retirement age?

It will be good, if those who are reaching retirement age

  • can start learning,
  • how to make some money doing online business, and
  • be financial independent, and
  • Financial free during the retirement.

What Can A Retiree Do In Online Business To Be Financial Free?

There are so many ways a person can achieve financial freedom, especially using the technology available now on internet, so in a way, the retiree nowadays are more fortunate than those who retired, said in the early 1970s

In the 1970s, when there was not internet, and to have passive income, a person might have to engage in some business and made sure the business would bring him good income in his retirement.

In the modern age, with the readily available internet, and the advancement of technology, it is easier for anyone to make a living online, especially for those who want to retire and not to worry about money.

There are so many avenues to make money online, some people have been spending hours online in the social media nowadays, and if they can spend the  times in generating income, it will be better and good for retirement.

Among the most common methods being used are:

1. Setting up a store online selling physical goods/products.

2. Engaging in affiliate marketing earning affiliate commissions.

3. Using internet to do online trading of shares, forex and other financial instrument.

4. Contents creation and proofreading of contents.

5. Provide online training courses using experience and expertise gained before retirement.

What To Avoid When Trying To Do Internet Business Online.

A lot of people may think it is just setting up a website, and that is it, Money will come in to you.

People will eventually fall to prey of those scammers online, who prey on ignorance and naive of people, and I believe there are a lot of people, who have tried internet business but ended up being cheated of their hard-earned money.

Therefore, before you decide to embark on this course of action, it will be better for you to do a bit more research, and look at the reviews of whatever you come across.

Online Stock/share trading

Take for example, you have decided to do online stock trading, using the available software and platform, what do you need to do:

  • I would suggest you really understand the software/platform provider,
  • to be on the safe side, it will be better if you can go along with those platforms
  • provided by the banks or stock brokers
  • whom you may have been using to buy your stock or build up your investment portfolio.

Likewise, if you decide to get involved in forex trading or option, do understand the mechanism of it, and select the right platform for you to perform the necessary work.

There are a lot of people offering courses in how to make money online, and claimed to have ample success in doing so.

What do you encounter usually on enrolling for courses?
  • Most of the time, after you have enrolled in the courses, and
  • attended the courses which is normally conducted over the weekend,
  • you suddenly find out you learn very little from the two days courses, and
  • was informed by the seminar host that if you wanted to learn more,
  • you needed to enroll in the more in depth courses they have available, and
  • you recalled when you attended the briefing,
  • they claimed they would reveal the secrets' method they used to achieve their success
  • if you signed up for the two days courses!!!.

For affiliate marketing, there are quite a lot of affiliates program available, here again we have to really study, and find out which one really can get you good money, some claimed they pay well if you are able to promote their products.

Another business model people will use to make money online which the retirees may want to consider is the publication of e-book, since retirees may have quite a lot of times and rich wealth of experiences, you may want to start writing e book to share your experience on topics you may have encountered.

Sample of ebook 

What if you are not good at writing?
  • You may want to get some ghost writers to write for you,
  • Tell them what topics you want to talk about, and
  • You vet and edit the work produced.
  • Next get a graphic designer
  • He will design your e book cover
  • After that, publish your e book in Amazon or
  • other platform which you think you may have a better audience.

You may want to sell your e book in Amazon Kindle Store,

What Will I Recommend To Start and Prepare for Internet Income For Retirement?

If you are not in a hurry, and have ample times to prepare for your retirement and if you wish to learn and enrich your knowledge about online business, I would strongly recommend you have a look at Wealthy Affiliate.

In this Wealthy Affiliate community, if you really follow the training outlined in the website, and actively participate in the discussion and posting questions, you will be surprised to learn that there are a lot of people in this community who are willing and readily available, to share their experience and knowledge on making a success in online internet business.

If you have any questions or wish to share your experience on this topic.

Please feel free to leave your comments and questions and your experience in the feedback space below.

I would be glad to get back to you and thank you for your feedback.

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