Does Kelly Richards from Brooklyn really make $8,000 a month online?

Most email and social media users have seen the claims. Stay at home Mom earns $8000 a month, just using this amazing work-from-home kit!

But are the claims actually true? Or is this just a scam aimed at getting you to fork over your hard earned cash?
Sadly and inevitably the latter is the reality. Being able to make substantial cash from the comfort of your own home is the dream shared by many but only achieved by the small minority. And because the idea of working from home is so popular it is one of the most prolifically used lures to entice victims into online traps.

It’s right up there with miracle slimming supplements and penis enlargement pills.

These scams work on the falsehood that making money online working from your armchair is easy, providing you sign up for the right opportunity or kit. Enticing as it sounds this is just a fallacy.

So who is Kelly Richards? Is she real, and how is she making all this money?

As you may have suspected, Kelly Richards is not a real person. That is not her photo and the news article you’re reading detailing her success story isn’t really a news article at all, it’s just an advertisement, cunningly disguised to fool a reader into thinking it’s some sort of online news editorial.

There is no reporter, no story, no Kelly Richards and certainly no miracle work-from-home kit. It’s all a ruse aimed at getting you to part with your cash.

In fact a closer examination of the Kelly Richards page shows fake testimonials, fake links, borrowed stock photos, a fake news website and locations dynamically changed depending on the location of the visitor. The target websites use fake videos, fake “limited availability” claims and fabricated stories.

So what can you expect if you sign up to work from home? Most reports show that these websites sell information on Internet marketing that can be found elsewhere on the Internet. It’s not the information on offer that is necessarily the scam but the way in which that information is dressed up.

To understand how the scam works think of the stock market. To make money from the stock market you need to understand trading, investments and be able to accurately analyse a number of prevailing factors, and to do this well can take years. Simply reading a book on how the stock market works isn’t going to suffice.

And this is how these scams work. They give you a guide, some information, and assert that this is all you need to make $8000 a month. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like this. If reading a book on the stock market would allow us to become successful traders then we’d all do it. The same applies to making good money from the Internet.

It is important to realise that sites like this are nothing more than scams, working with the bait of easy money from home. If you’re looking to make money from the Internet quickly and with little effort then the sad reality is that you’re chasing a dream. Making a good income from the Internet takes time, patience, dedication and involves learning lots of information.

Of course that is not to say that it is impossible or even unlikely that it could happen. With the right attitude and information anyone can make money from the Internet and even enjoy doing it! But it is important to avoid hyped or deceitful websites that will ultimately make it much harder.

There are legitimate sites that are great for helping people make money online by providing lots of useful information in one place and providing a course like structure to help learning, and do so without being deceptive, hyped or misleading. We get plenty of questions about making money online legitimately so we have a section of our site dedicated to answering the question about making money online legitimately and safely. Click here to take a look.