In real world it matters who you are and what your background is. Admittedly, due to discrimination, this can often be unfair but at least we know who and what we are up against. Not so on Internet. Everyone is a faceless, nameless ‘non-entity’. Someone can take hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a product or service and simply not be there tomorrow, leaving ‘out of pocket’ very little recourse when it comes to recovering their money or even justice.

When you combine faceless dishonest with millions seeking a way to make a Home Based Business a reality or maintain an existing one, you have a recipe for many tears. Consequently, people have become far less trusting and, in turn, dishonest have become more cunning. The result is that those who are honestly seeking to make a living online are having to invent more genuine and convincing ways to assure their prospective customers that their website is one of ‘good’ ones, that their product is genuine and worthwhile. They have to use testimonials, money back guarantees and expensive memberships of associations to vouch for their trustworthiness. But dishonest use exactly same things, so where do we all stand? In a ‘faceless crowd’, not knowing who is honest and who is not. Not knowing if we are dealing with, or even communicating with who we think we are, if we have any idea at all.

There is no solution other than for law enforcement people and ‘watchdog agencies’ to do what they can do with their limited powers. For penalties for such behavior to be severe enough as to serve as a deterrent, but that will probably work as well as it does in real world, where at least, we have more of a chance to face and judge for ourselves, level of a person’s sincerity or reliability.

The only other means to combat dishonest is awareness. There is advice aplenty for how people should go about starting, maintaining and succeeding in their Home Based Business. I am one of those who give that advice via an affiliate guide ebook, but I am inclined to place one particular tenet above all others, one that I have placed in my book however, I fear perhaps I have not expressed it well enough or pressed point home solidly. I’ll do it here – PLEASE BE CAREFUL, BEWARE – we are each one in a crowd of millions of faceless, nameless, for all intents and purposes unaccountable entities and even though I know in my heart that ninety nine percent are honest and genuine, sadly, it’s not enough.

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