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.
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and go to bottom of page, choose domain lookup, type in career journal online, and read what comes back, even if you are not a computerspeak savvy individual, you should be able to discern panama is not NZ, or whichever country you have seen this from.
The fbi scam list is a great read too, there are lots of traps for the gullible, and if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is. full stop.
Omg. Its going to be a lot of work... should i?
You are a great site for people to access, even it just for the entertainment as well as education. It's great to read the different ways the scam is shredded by you.
I think most will never admit to getting past the register page and paying, but I'd really love to hear what the heck it is that you end up getting from them??? Has to be something , or the site can be traced quickly and the scum arrested. Some cheesy layout of work to do....
I stared at that check copy they show, and the blurred out name and address on it---I'm pretty sure the actual address says " Mesa New Mexico " ---- I think anyway!