I really enjoyed your article on Fake News is Big Business. I almost placed an order to get the Home Income Profit System. After reading your article I realize that I have be saved from being scammed. I am desperately seeking a online business to help bring in funds that will help me support myself and son while I am in school. I really would like to know if you have any suggest what kind of home base businesses are honest. Thank you.

I signed up after reading the Kelly Richards story. I have paid to take an online course and I have a coach that calls on Tuesdays and I have unlimited access through live chat. What's going on? Please let me know.

I am "Undercover Scam Patrol." I love learning and studying the methods that scammers use to draw, seduce and victimize the many innocents who fall prey to such activity. I am, however, not a law enforcement official; no fine print there. I don't hate much, but I truly hate scams and think that scammers are ruthless in their strategies, attempts and intentions to dupe unsuspecting innocents. Some even use a legitimate disguise to sucker their victims: delivering a potentially useful or valuable good or service at the front (the lure), gaining the victim's trust, baiting them into the loop through intentional deception, then delivering useless and/or worthless information or material objects furthering the relationship. If and when the scammer's cover is blown, scammers have methods of dealing with those discoveries and findings, too. For example, "Oh no, you are mistaken. Let me get you on the phone with some other clients (fellow scammers and scam team players) so they can tell you how wonderful you are for letting me steal your blood, sweat, tears, pride, joy, heart, soul, emotion, etc." Anyone want to buy a prayer cloth? Sadly, though, it doesn't stop with those methods, but psychology also plays a mad role in scam methodology. The shame of it all is that there are many people, who even after discovering that they have been scammed, become attached and thereby justify, or credit, the scammers deception and methodology having no idea how to get out of the trap. They continue on being scammed because scammers are good at making victims feel like they deserve what they got (or got taken for). A naive victim may likely leave one scam in hopes that the next scam is more promising until the victims who get that far become reliant on being scammed, finally learn their expensive lesson(s) or even become scammers themselves. Be not deceived, however, as scams are not only present online or by scammers themselves, but deeper thought and watchfulness into retail methodology and psychology, even in the big box stores, can also reveal a fine line between legitimacy in sales and scam methodology within. It is to be left to an individual's own level of labeling what is and is not scam. Then "Who do you trust, hubba, hubba, hubba, money, money, money, who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money! And where, is the Batman?" Thus asks the Joker in the 1989 version of Batman starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton. Who do you trust? Well, for starters, the BBB has been in the business of informing consumers for a long time and is an invaluable source of trust and awareness in such matters. Additionally, word of mouth is next to the most trustworthy form of determining which goods, services and their providers are worthy, which may not be worthy and which are to be stayed away from. It cannot be said enough: Don't open unsolicited emails and don't indulge in desperate measures that promise riches and royalty, even if there is a claim that the programs were seen or even endorsed by noteworthy agencies and media. A scammer's likely targets are those desperate for money, whether they lost a job, have excessive medical bills, want to make more money, or whatever. And scammers do not care that Aunt Virginia needs a medical treatment if she is to stay alive. Do your homework, but beware, too, of the scammers homework tactics. Many a scammer will create a scam, work it until it has been exposed, then turn on their own creations, discredit them under the guise of their newest scam, hoping again to entrap more and the same unsuspecting and experienced victims into their newest schemes. Many review sites and scam watch sites have been created by scammers themselves, just like many radar detectors may have been created by the companies who created police radars. Words, themes and twisted paragraphs can catch potential victims by surprise such as the one listed in the BBB President's Blog, "not to be taken literally or as a non-fiction story." Scammers are thieves. They will take anything and everything they can, even this blog post, in some form of attempt to build their "scampires." They will steal your thoughts, your contributions, your words. They will twist them making them pretty and alluring. And when you think you have escaped their ups and downs, they'll turn you around right back into the vile of their evil. There is no good scammer. I, however, am a genius; invest in me. Send me your money. I will create a personal scam just for you, but my twist will be that I will tell you of the scam, how I will work it on you and lead you to believe that your money is nothing but a very appreciated gift to me. Truth or scam? Thanks in advance for making me rich quick; your contributions are worthy and appreciated. Ryan M. Bruzan Business Owner Scam Victim

Seems there are endless scams on the internet. What is not clear here, is how does she make money? anybody know? Her web designed did a great job.