Most would agree that as little as ten years ago, people who worked at home (i.e. earned their living) were a very rare bunch indeed. They were a ‘lucky few’ that had somehow managed to get themselves into a position where they could manage their business and/or market their products from comfort and convenience of their own home. Of course, communication and immediate access to information wasn’t available in average home ten years ago nor were people spending billions of dollars purchasing any and every product imaginable at a fledgling ‘nerd’ hangout called ‘Internet’.

Now, of course, we all know story. Thanks mainly to those ‘nerds’ we are here in millions, all over world, chasing same thing. A Home Based Business (as they’ve become known), hoping to realize that dream of total self-sufficiency. We flock in droves to websites touting how simple and how utterly effortless it is to make it to this workingman’s Shangri-La. How simple it is for anyone to escape ‘rat-race’ and live comfy lifestyle, virtually naming our own hours and incomes. Nobody has been left out. The unemployed, unemployable, disabled, uneducated, computer illiterate and completely illiterate all have same chance, according to these promises and guarantees.

Unfortunately, if history has taught us nothing else (and it rarely teaches us because we rarely learn), it teaches us that wherever human-kind is searching for a dream, especially one involving things financial, there you will find shysters, scammers and frauds. If ever there was an opportunity for them to come crawling out of woodwork, Internet is that opportunity. They promise world and not only that, they promise it in three weeks or less!

According to them you can: * Replace your architect’s income in a month. * Earn ‘six figures’ without selling anything or promoting anything. * Replace your wife’s income with two hours work per week. * Sit back while your unborn child brings in $10,000 per month.

OK, last one is a bit of an exaggeration but not by much! The promises and guarantees are so obviously impossible for average person, in any business, that I simply can't believe that so many are willing to part with good money in order to have a go. But they do it in droves and then come back for more or go somewhere else and try same thing with a different ‘label’ after giving it their 'best' shot..........for a month!