The Online Career Journal is a fake news website template used to promote a host of make money online opportunities. This site uses many deceptive tricks and sales tactics to convince unsuspecting customers to click through and purchase their recommended programs.
For starters the site is designed to mimic a real online news site like CNN or MSNBC, however if you actually take the time to explore it you’ll quickly realize that it’s nothing more than a one page advertorial.
There are no news stories, none of the links in the navigation work, and the “comments” section is completely fabricated. On top of that they use an IP reading script to customize the title of the article to fit your geographic location.
This is a very effective sales technique as the article profiles a young woman who’s making a fortune using their work at home kit. This sense of familiarity helps people believe that if someone from their town is doing it then they can too.
This template is very effective and for that reason it’s constantly being recycled and only slightly altered. In this case the title of the site is the online career journal found at www.careeronline.biz, but there are hundreds of different variation floating around under different names and urls.
So who is Melissa Johnson?
Again this is another fabrication that these marketers have come up with. Her story is not real and the name used changes just as often as the site itself. Melissa Johnson is not a real person and you should not fall for her “success” story.
The danger with these fake news sites is that they are constantly changing and promoting various dubious offers. They’re so easy to put together that it makes no sense for the owners to keep them around longer then they need to.
In this case the Online Career Journal is promoting some program called Online Home Careers. You can rest assured that as soon as this one stops making them money or generates enough bad press they’ll simply move on to the next hot get rich quick scheme.
The best thing that you can do to protect yourself is to stay away any product that is promoted through these deceptive measures. If the product was legitimate and produced honest results then they wouldn’t have to go through all the tricks to sell it.
Another point to mention, they even admit that their comment section is pure fabrication in the small print at the bottom of the page -
"Consistent with the advertorial concept, the comments posted in the comment section are also representative of typical comments and experiences which have been compiled into a comment format to illustrate a dialogue, however, the comments are not actual posts to this webpage and have been compiled or generated for illustrative purposes only."
Well no. You wouldn't. especially as Career Journal Australia, a scam website using hired cheapo actors to play the part of 'Andrew Durham, journalist and news presenter' and the amazing 'Emma Coleman, single Mom from Sydney who makes a staggering $7,650 a month and you won't believe how she does it'.
Absolutely right. It is unbelievable that despite the different countries and currencies, here are two single Moms who make the exact same amount each month. Allegedly.
Both Career Journal UK and Career Journal Australia feed the unsuspecting to a ramp site -- SearchingProfits in the UK, Collecting Profits in Australia -- which then launch the punter into the arms of an online trading brokerage called EZTrader, a Cyprus-registered outfit that claims for itself a host of international awards and has a sponsorship deal with Everton FC.
That EZTrader is innocently unaware of how much traffic is shifted into its waiting arms by the fake Career Journal and the SearchingProfits launcher is something it has yet to convincingly explain to the regulators and indeed, to anyone else.
Everton FC, of course, knows only how to play football.
I will now be contacting my professional body; as it appears that these dodgy characters are scrapping our status pages. I believe that anyone, like me, who deletes the previous name of an employer and leaves the field blank will be targetted.
I have now framed "Robert Wood"'s email from "Career Journal UK" alongside my winning lottery notifications from Nigeria and Spain.
Tregenza or Clutterbuck which maybe easy to checkout with areas mentioned.
'If it seems too good to be true it usually is' he said dauntingly
Thanks for sharing!!, i was about to process my paymant but i realized to check the website first but it was all blank!. . please ccheck it out!.
I saw right through it as the story with a Danish twist is really not well done. The picture of the car is clearly not taken in Denmark. Both the light, the trees and the houses are wrong. Additional not many Danes "thank God" for everything. Not out loud anyway.
But the rather sad thing is that what really conviced me it was a hoax is that there are no bad comments.
When have you last read a story where the comments are all positive?
Normally there are at least a couple of complains and minimum one troll. :o(