Among seemingly endless options for iPod music downloads on the web, there are genuine websites and there are outright scams. Fortunately, the latter are less common. They primarily aim at the first-time users, who are just exploring the option of iPod music downloads on the Internet and in all the excitement are likely to part with their money easily.

By now, if you ever used a free iPod music site, you would have known that the last thing to expect from such a site is excellent service. It is rare to see them providing support since it is free. So the next time your computer gets hit by a virus or malware when you download a song, or you realize that the iPod music downloads are of poor unclear acoustics, do not complain.

Needless to say, if you have to make a payment for your songs, you expect a certain level of good service. Membership sites for unlimited iPod music downloads are known to run professional services and come with a wide collection of music and videos. But even amongst them, there are black sheep. So watch out!

One example is sites that make false claims of containing unlimited number of iPod music downloads of many genres. But in actual fact, you are only getting a couple of thousands of media files and the variety of music genres is not as many as what the site claims.

Several of these sites have been blacklisted for not delivering their promise. Instead of providing you with millions of files to download, you pay $40 for only a few thousand iPod music downloads. And from there, you are left hanging alone.

Other possible scams include low quality and poor selection of songs (though advertised as the next best thing), charging your credit card and disappearing forever with no downloads available in reality, and poor maintained websites with no money back guarantee. Some scammers make you pay for p2p share software that is actually available for free. The list of possible scam variants is frightfully long.

In order to protect yourself, your computer, and your money, it is highly recommended that you carry out a proper research before joining any music downloading site. Forums and independent blogs on iPod music downloads as well as website reviews should give you an idea what to look for.

Check out a detailed review of the most popular services for iPod music downloads used by millions of users at my entertainment blog now.