CONS AND SCAMS

Internet fraudsters, cons and scams!

Soap boxes were an ideal platform from which to raise your voice in the days of old. Town criers were few and far between, communities were smaller and the word got around much faster. 

Today, we have the Internet in place and the world has become a global village. If your internet voice is not loud enough to be heard globally, you are bound to get drowned in the millions of conflicting voices shouting at the same time.

Network packets are speeding off in all directions globally and virtually everyone in suffering some sort of information overload. Everyone vies for a higher ranking web page, many of which sells vapour-ware (non existent products). The Internet has really became everything to everyone. Firstly it has become the toilet wall of the world, as well as the place to have your say, from which to do business or chase after entertainment, to buy and sell and trade in general. 

Disappointed by the Internet

You can even date online, find love online, find a partner or find a bride online. Bar most of all, the Internet has become the a haven for fraudsters, a market to sell snake oil  and a paradise to the scam artist. Hardly a day goes by that I don't receive some sort of spam from some fool trying to part me with my money. Especially the Nigerian 419 scams and Ponzi schemes. The myriad of e-books promising instant wealth and the multitudes of get rich quick schemes are endless.

However, there is also hoards of legitimacy along with hoards of money changing hands by the second. Just look at Forex for example. First second and third tier ISP's are cleaning up with bandwidth sales yet bandwidth cost still comes at a premium in certain places on the face of the earth. Thank God for free services like Google and Yahoo for email and blogs. Without them, the small like me guy would not even have a voice.

That said, it should also be understood that the paradox of the internet lies not in its successes but in its failures. Millions if not billions of people turned to the internet as a means of making money. Websites were mushrooming globally flaunting every business idea imaginable only to be abandoned when it wasn't attracting clients or making money. 

For some the cost of paying and ISP and the cost of an internet connection exceeded the return of a website investment. As such demotivation kicked in and these people jumped ship. However, many of the sites were incomplete and under construction resulting in a HTTP 404 response. This collective failure loudly shouts-out the failure of the internet as a whole.