Learning On-Line About Internet Rip-Offs

Learning on-line and distance learning took a big hit from the BBC this morning. The news programme reported on the number of people paying out money – in some cases £”,000s – for rubbish training courses. The package went to some lengths explaining “most distance learning offers are genuine” but that was just the producers covering their rear ends. On-line learning or distance learning is a very big deal these days. But it focused on some poor souls who spent their life savings buying some scam which promised new careers and implied wealth.

One poor guy had obviously been promised a software development job when he’d completed the course. Another paid nearly £100 for a book he could have bought, on the Internet, for £20. Somebody else had paid out £4,000 for what turned out to be just another Internet scam.

This “learning on-line” thing has been bubbling away for the last couple of years.

I remember reading an article written by one of these expert Internet Marketeers. He explained how the Multi Level Marketing scams weren’t working any more. It was time to move on to distance learning. At the time this didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it does now.

Over the last six months there’s been an explosion in the number of “join our club” and “buy my course” offers from so called expert bloggers who’ve built large followings by giving away their “secrets”. Now is the time to harvest the gold hiding in those “lists”. Only $49.50 per month and you get to hang out with a group of expert bloggers, learning their secrets so you too can join the exclusive club.

Talk about low hanging fruit! How many people are out there wanting to make a bucket load of cash working 2 hours a day from home? Retirees, stay at home Moms, Job Seekers? There must be no end.

Happily this learning on-line thing will be shown to be the scam it is soon enough. It will go the same way as MLM. Nobody will trust on-line learning and distance learning pitches anymore.

Unfortunately a whole new community will, in the process, have learned about being ripped off on the Internet.

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