How Not to Make Money on the Internet

This paper is to hopefully help those lost housewives, job-seekers with bad luck, and others seeking extra income make mistakes and waste both time and money. I hope it is insightful and I hope my experience can help those from wasting their time like I did. I wrote this to inform because there is an endless barrage of people misleading the public into thinking there's a great wealth waiting for them when there's not. Hopefully whoever reads this will save time, money, and a little bit of his or her sanity. What's written here is from my own experiences in trying to make money and from crossing paths with others trying to do the same. This guide is for the beginner and novice who's not a big player but wants information to keep him or her from losing money in an effort to make it.

Every year millions if not billions of dollars are lost by people hoping to find work online only to find nothing. The FBI, the postal service, and other government agencies vigorously go after the fraudulent means of taking your money, but new scams always pop up in large quantities anyway. For the legitimate means of earning money, the competition usually tends to be too fierce for you to earn a decent living.

There are also many legitimate and honest means of earning money online that I do not wish to disrespect, but the issue with those tends to be the same with lots of people just like you trying to earn some honest money, which drives down what you can earn.

1. Online surveys.

We've seen the offers to pay us for taking online surveys. The truth is that they never ever materialize into cash. They're just scams intended to bombard you with a page full of sponsors. After you answer the questions, you get spam in your e-mail, and sometimes even get unsolicited calls, to get you to buy the stuff you selected in the surveys. They basically function the same way spyware does with collecting personal information, buying habits, and what items your buying tendencies lean toward in order to more effectively market more stuff towards you.

2. Get paid to click on pop-up ads.