MOUTHSHUT WEBSITE
In the fast evolving and unfolding cyber world there is a lot of chicanery and sleaze. The World
Wide Web (WWW) is also an important money spinner for different category of users.
The websites which make money at the cost of its users by deceiving them through promises and advertisements is one category which needs special attention and deserves to be avoided.
The Mouthshut website is in this genre. It has a highly deceptive and attractive public relations wing. Users have to register their profile to access the website. They are made all kinds of promises including free air tickets to Dubai and back.
The users are tempted to use the website for various reasons. In the process they get an identity, which they may not otherwise have. The website flaunts their photographs, and a brief profile of them. They are invited to rate all kinds of goods and services and write about them. They get the satisfaction of getting their
contributions published.
Those who slog more are tempted by the
possibility of entering the Haden of this website, which is its Hall of Fame. Once a contribution is made, unlike many other websites, there is no possibility of deleting it. It becomes the property of the website. What is worse, the website promotes itself with the help of the Google Search Engine, which drags each and every piece of the contributions.
When the contributors do not get any of the promised returns, in exasperation they stop contributing. Still, the website chases them through emails. This is one website which is fit to get into the list of Cyber crime for making fast buck by using its users.