Wilfried F. Voss, Making Money From Home
This blog has recently become more visited due to the exposing of the featured online ‘work from home’ scams, it is not hugely complex but it outlines that there are no get rich quick schemes but that there is money to be made from the internet through these scams, but they will always have a victim. I searched for this blog after I myself stumbled upon the Kelly Richards scam, which I initially did not recognise as a scam but which appeared to me to be a genuine news article, on what appeared at first glance to be a legitimate website, which is worrying as I don’t consider myself to be in ignorance of such things, and I think of myself of one of the more informed when it comes to safety online. http://newsdaily7.com/workonline.html?&t202id=73184&t202kw=1295000021
It is only upon reading the small print at the end of the page that the deception can be uncovered, although there are a few other signs. This disclaimer is explicit and doesn’t skirt around anything and pretty much tells you that it is a scam. When read, even the most ignorant of people would not be fooled. We have spoken in tutes about online crime, and this should fall into this category, the way they get around it is by making you give them permission to take advantage of you.
Notice that Kelly has not now only lived in every city in America but Brisbane too!
The blog is not necessarily discussing these issues but it brought two things to my attention:
1. We have talked about parental control, but perhaps it is the parents who need controlling. We tell our children to be careful and aware of the dangers of the internet but are we so aware of them ourselves. In my family we were always very wary of giving out credit card details, putting them on forms, incase the post was to be intercepted for example or it fell into the wrong hands. However since the internet has become more widely used, these details seem to be given much more freely. Shopping is a regular occurrence online, to sign up to some online services there may be a small charge, we book holidays and hotels and often we don’t think twice about it. Although everyone knows that the internet is for public use and is extremely difficult to police, I believe that we are sometimes deceived, by being in a small enclosed room, with just us and the computer, into believing that the risk is minute.
2. Secondly, my attention is brought to the existence of a virtual word. It is no longer simply cyberspace, the space is now becoming filled by us as we begin to create in it a new world for ourselves. We shop online, read e-books, e-comics, watch movies, pay bills, make friends in virtual communities, date online, we Skype, we can complete degrees online, rip people off and expose them. People are now seeking out ways to work at home from their computers, hoping that they will be able to bring in a sustainable income. I believe that it is completely possible to live your life by your computer and never have to leave your home.
As this is a blog, the author is not necessarily credible or too well informed and hence, to be certain of the information, you would have to research into the sources/scams yourself. Luckily for me I stumbled upon them first, so I knew that the things that he was saying were true. He claims that the intention of his blog is to expose these scams and prevent people from falling into their traps, however there are several links advertising his book: “A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog”, so even he is out to get money from you and only exposing the scams so you can use his book to find alternative ways of making money online. I cannot find a date on this particular article but the links to the more specific stories are all dated to recent months in 2010, and this issue is one that we are currently facing. He only talks about America, so I am not sure if he realises how far reaching Kelly Richards is, as shown by my Brisbane example.
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