How can you detect and avoid being scammed? Any advice?

Hi Sir Tore,
Thank you for your advice. It's always 'too good to be true' .
Also because of so many Online "opportunities" you seemed to ignore or never to try to check if those are really true and legitimate programs.

A few guidelines and advice springs to mind - mostly obvious but here goes:

1 - The all present truth that states ' if it seems too good to be true, it probably is'
2 - Normal behaviour for Joe average is that its impossible to do an outstanding job, if u got too many chores to handle. So instead of spreading urself too thin - by joining everything under the sun -- focus on one MAX two that has a proven record and preferrably isnt a 'startup' company as such.
3 - ReRead item #2 :)