You need to make money on the Internet – call for caution!
Before someone can be successful in this life, they will have to go through the learning process. This learning process can be smooth or rough. I want to use this medium to tell people about my experience of needing to earn money online.
My paid job is nothing to write home about because I barely pay the rent on my house and I pay the utility bills. We cannot feed ourselves well at home, not to mention my children’s school fees that are crying out to be paid.
I was totally despondent and frustrated! My wife had just recovered from a major surgery not too long ago and this was happening to me. I was thinking of moving to the suburbs when I noticed a small ad in a local newspaper with the headline “Learn how to make money online.”
I sold the Pentium II computer my kids use with a few other items I can sell and subscribed to the e-book. After reading the e-book, I discovered many ways one can earn money on the web. Some of the ways are:
affiliate marketing
paid surveys
pay per click ads
Sale of goods and services and many others
I opted for pay per click ads and paid surveys because I felt they require little startup capital. I went to open a home account, get online, open a Liberty Reserve account, and also sign up for three survey sites as well as three pay per click sites. I started working online and my morale is very high and with one goal in mind, make money online fast.
The pay per click sites I signed up with offered fantastic rewards ranging from $0.01 to $5 per click, but I was limited to getting to a certain level before I could redeem my money, except I upgraded! Paid survey sites also didn’t help as I need to upgrade as well.
After much thought, I decided to forgo the paid survey and focus on pay per click sites which I thought had generated around $2,678 with $139 to upgrade, €16,700 with €159 to upgrade, and $16.79 with $45 to upgrade.
I decided to go with the minimum which is $16.79 with $45 to upgrade due to how much I have in my Liberty Reserve account so I can hit the minimum payout point of $75 quickly and more clicks around $25 per day. I then went to the upgrade page and selected Liberty Reserve as my upgrade method. I was directed to the payment page on the Liberty Reserve site and after filling in the required information and waiting to be updated, I got a message that the transaction was unsuccessful. To my amazement, when I checked my Liberty Reserve account, my money was deleted. I got scammed! All efforts to trace where my money went were unsuccessful. But at the end of it all, Liberty Reserve asked me to install a plugin that will prevent this from happening in the future, as the plugin will tell you if I’m on the wrong site and that whenever you want to transact with Liberty Reserve, you shouldn’t open any other website in the same browser.
Remember I told you my situation. I was completely down but I have to keep going because now I am more than desperate to make money on the web. This desperation led me to be scammed again by another person I met in a public cafe who said he wanted to help me.
At the end of it all, I met a good and trustworthy person who put me through. Live! It has started to pay off and I know that very soon I will be a household name. We all have to start somewhere and somehow, it is quite unfortunate that many people learn the hard way what not to do online and as such give up early enough and never get to experience the joy of online success. I want to say here that you must not let this discourage you; making money on the web is quite interesting!