I decided to write this post because too many of you are getting caught up in internet business scams.

Internet business scams are rife on the internet today. Many people will try and get money out of you and you will find what they are selling is a load of rubbish or you have been had.

There are certain things you can do to ensure you do not get caught up in an internet business scam. These are:

1. Thoroughly check out the internet business first.

If this was an offline opportunity you would make sure you fully checked out the business you were buying into. Just because this is an online internet business does not mean you do not have to fully investigate the opportunity. How Do I do this?

1. Google Search for reviews on the program
2. Google search the persons name who is selling you this program
3. Go to forums and asks questions about this business
4. Contact others who are also selling this program or business for information
5. Read between the lines

If you do the above you will get an accurate representation of what the internet business is all about.

1. Email and ask questions of the person whose name is advertising the business to see if you get a response.

An example of this is where you have affiliates promoting business opportunities. Stone Evans and the plug in profit site is a good example. There are over 15000 affiliates to this program all promoting the same online business, you do not know who you will be placed under. You can check out the program in forums and even contact Stone Evans himself. He is a real person and it is a real business called the Plug-In Profit Site. If you do a search you will find thousands or reviews and information on him. However the opportunity you are currently looking at may not have any information on it yet if it is too new. In this case you would investigate the people promoting the business.

1. There is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme

Anyone who is trying to sell you a get rich quick scheme is scamming you there is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme or else everyone would be doing it wouldn’t they?

Be very wary of plans where you only need to work a few minutes a day. These will either cost you a lot of money to outsource duties or you will have to spend a lot of time doing the jobs to keep the costs down.

There is no real way to avoid getting scammed!

There really is no real way to avoid getting scammed but if you at least follow these points you will minimize the risk of being scammed. Just as in the offline world the online world is full of people who want to rip you off. You just need to be careful and follow your instincts. Instincts are usually right you just need to listen to them.

WOW it really is amazing how much money can be made on the internet isn’t it. I find it rather inspiring to learn about how much money people have actually made on the internet. Some of these people chose to drop out of college and they became millionaires, you have to ask yourself from time to time do I have what it takes. These people often think outside of the square. They come up with ideas and website no one else has come up with. They put in numerous hours to achieve what they were passionate about. Now they are on one of the lists that most of us strive to get onto.

So without further ado lets see who is on the list and what their sites are:
Rank     Name        Website     Age     NetWorth
1 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 23 $700 million
2 Andrew Gower Runescape 28 $650 million
3 Chad Hurley Youtube 30 $300 million
4 B. Ross and D. Hyatt Mozilla 22 $120 million
5 Andrew Michael Fast Hosts 29 $110 million
6 Angelo Sotira Deviant ART 26 $75 million
7 John Vechey PopCap Games 28 $60 million
8 Alexander Levin Image Shack 23 $56 million
9 Jake Nickell Threadless 28 $50 million
10 Greg Tseng and
Johann Schleier-Smith Tagged 28 $45 million
11 Sean Belnick Biz Chair 20 $42 million
12 Matt Mullenweg WordPress 23 $40 million
13 Kevin Rose Digg 30 $31 million
14 Aodhan Cullen Stat Counter 24 $25 million
15 Markus Frind Plenty Of Fish 29 $23 million
16 Robert Small MiniClips 24 $23 million
17 Ryan Block Engadget 25 $20 million
18 Matt Mickiewicz Sitepoint 24 $18 million
19 Tom Fulp Newgrounds 29 $15 million
20 Rishi Kacker and
Matt Pauker Voltage 24 $12 million
21 Catherine and
David Cook My Year Book 17 & 19 $10 million
22 Fredrik Neij The Pirate Bay 28 $10 million
23 David Levich Iced Out Gear 25 $10 million
24 Jeremy Stoppelman
and Russel Simmons Yelp 30 and 29 $10 million
25 David Hauser &
Siamak Taghaddos GotvMail 24 $8 million
26 Rand Fishkin SEOmoz 29 $6.5 million
27 Jermaine Griggs Hear and Play 23 $5 million
28 Jay Westerdal Domain Tools 29 $5 million
29 Ashley Qualls What Ever Life 17 $4 million
30 Ben Way Rain Makers 27 $4 million

To get the complete list of the top 50 internet millionaires go to Top Young Entrepreneurs.

I think many of us strive to be on this list. What makes these people different from you? Do you have what it takes to be an internet millionaire?

Microsoft said on Monday that it has wrapped up development of its long-awaited Service Pack 3 update to Windows XP, its been awhile but finally its here!

The update, which consists of previously released updates and a few new bug fixes and changes, will be available for download via the Web on April 29. Microsoft said it plans to start pushing out XP SP3 this summer to “home users” who have Automatic Updates turned on.

Large computer makers have until June to sell computers with microsoft XP standard operating system. However some low cost, low memory machines can be sold until 2010. A microsoft representative said they wouldnt update boxed copies of windows XP with the update.