I'm referring to communication on Internet. There are essentially two ways to move information on web.

There is push technology and there is pull technology. E-mail can be labeled as a form of push technology. How?

Let's say you subscribe to an ezine or electronic newsletter. Well publisher sends (pushes) it out to subscribers via e-mail on a set schedule.

And once your e-mail is out there ... well, you know rest.

As we all know, growing problem with sp^am has caused our inboxes to be so clogged we might miss or even delete that ezine from our favorite publisher...

... or that product inquiry from a customer, a new product announcement, and an important notice from an affiliate upline.

Then we have our ISPs. They have tightened filters to point that we are not even getting all our messages.

According to US Securities and Exchange Commission internet is an extremely easy place to promote a scam. The internet allows people to reach a large populace with a very small amount of money. "Anyone can reach tens of thousands of people by building an Internet web site, posting a message on an online bulletin board, entering a discussion in a live "chat" room, or sending mass e-mails."

It's extremely hard to spot fraudulent opportunities from real ones and you can end up losing a large sum of money.

Message boards are an extremely easy way to post a scam. All you need is an alias. The scamster simply creates a post under a false name. He then starts creating a thread. For instance, "Has any one heard of xyz company, I heard they offer a great opportunity." A bit later, he'll follow up with something like this. "Yes, I heard of them. I've only been an associate for a month and have already made $2,000 dollars."

He'll keep on creating threads with different aliases to create false credibility.