Are the schemes to make money worthwhile?
On the Net you are continually bombarded with schemes for you to make money from the Net. Some come via email and some come via web pages. Ask yourself, if they are so great why are they trying to get you involved for a fee. In Australia people tend to believe what they see in print because we have laws about trade practices and about false or misleading advertising. Much of the world does not have such protection and what you see on the net could be from overseas. The internet is a great leveler, a well prepared set of pages by a con-man from a third world country will look as impressive and respectable as pages of a major corporation. This is good for you setting up a small business – it can be made to look big, but it is bad in that it is easy to get suckered into poor deals that looked good on the web site. Domain names that end in .com are not necessarily US companies, and even those that are operate under much looser internet regulations than here. It is common for web sites to l
