BOOBIE-TRAPS!

'Ah!' you said this morning, when you started your internet in search for an ideal opportunity, 'now this looks like something good!'

Yeah, yeah, heard that one before! After spending about an hour completing the "IQ Test", (and you actually really didn't have the time for this but because you thought this might be something else and the name of a well-known University's link blinked non-stop on the screen, you thought, give it a go), they ask you if you want a copy of your results e-mailed to you. Obviously, that would be the ideal choice - eagerly you put down your e-mail address, and VIOLA! (Now they have your e-mail address too, and you will receive regular junk-mail!)

All of sudden your results, which they said they will e-mail, pops up on the screen. Hey, but what's this? An IQ of 124?? OH REALLY? (which is the name of my book I've written on these kind of issues!!) Wow! You must be clever, you think. They say all these nice things about you. Then they ask if you would like to receive the full 15 page result of your IQ Test....OF COURSE! (Nice title for a book!) Who wouldn't want the full results of someone with an IQ of 124? (Maybe the person with the real IQ of 124 will not want it - he / she would be too clever to fall for such a scam!)

So, naturally, you click on "CONTINUE". What do you get? (BONEY FINGERS!) No, seriously, you get not what you want, but this lovely page telling you that if you wish to acquire the very complete and informational 15-page test result of your IQ, you have to immediately pay $12.95 by means of credit card or whatever...!

THIS is where most people get caught. THIS is where most people lose their money. THIS is a lot of NONSENSE! How on earth does anyone get a legitimate chance out there?

Now, maybe I'm being harsh. I cannot say that this particular incident was connected to a scam. But what I am saying is, I have been caught several times, spending hundreds of dollars, thinking and believing that this is the one opportunity not to be missed...and what happened. NOTHING. NIKS. NYET. ZILCH! I lost my money (my husband's actually).

Isn't there a way that all these so-called opportunities on the web can be regulated? A body or something that they should belong to (like in the antiques business, where you belong to a body ensuring that your antiques are the real stuff) to ensure that it is a legitimate opportunity?

I believe that all over the world, people will benefit from such a body. It's just, well, 99% of all people reading this article would probably laugh out loud now, because - it's too difficult, too much hard work, too complicated, not possible, not my problem, etcetera, etcetera...

In the meantime, millions of people are scammed out of their hard-earned money, which they really cannot afford losing.

Just a thought. Hopefully someone might see the light and try and do something about it. If someone does, I'm willing to help.