As you all know, I am trying to find scam free ways of earning money at home on the internet.  So far, all I have come across is a load of crap.  The standard lines are:

Paid surveys

Search the net and get paid

Get paid to read emails

blah blah blah - you've all heard about them and that you can join for free but then when you do and get through all the rubbish - there it is again, asking for your $29.95 or $39.95 all on special though!  Oh you can pay by paypal in some of them.........FAT CHANCE!

Others are just link farms or webrings (see Wikepedia for these definitions). 

So instead of doing a google search for "earn online", I decided to do a search on "scams online" and came up with the reputable pcworld magazine article which describes a perfect scenario on phishing and now I think I've been phished out many a time - although luckily, I never put my credit card online, I usually use paypal, especially on ebay, not that I go to ebay all that often now.

Here's a link to the article http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116186-page,1/article.html .  It's definitely worth a read and if you are registering your name and email on sites for surveys and all the crap I'm experimenting with, make sure you are using a separate free email.  I use my hotmail one for that as then all the extra stuff that comes through will not clog up my personal email where I get genuine emails from friends etc.

If anyone finds any sites that really are worth a look like Emailcash, which I'm already on, please reply to my blog.  I'm very interested.  I really want to know if it is possible to make money online other than via affiliate marketing or by having an actual business online.