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\"angryjayne\"<\/a>I’ve been online since the early 1990s, and I have\u00a0a bit of Internet fame because I’ve been researching and promoting virtual volunteering \/ e-volunteering \/ digital volunteering since the 90s as well. So, of course, I get hate mail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You’re going to get negative comments<\/a> online if you dare to\u00a0post an opinion of any kind online<\/strong>.\u00a0And my hate mail comes mostly because of blog posts I’ve made regarding\u00a0companies that are selling community service hours<\/strong>\u00a0for online activities that are NOT online volunteering. The companies are called Community Service Help, Inc., Community Service 101, Community Service Help,\u00a0Logan Social Services, Court Ordered Community Service and the Terra Research Foundation. I’m sure there are more.<\/p>\n

The latest hate mail is from “Kyle”, who listed his email as Jajalacrosse@yahoo.com<\/a>. It’s representative of the kind I get regularly. On 2014\/11\/19 at 19:48, “Kyle” submitted this comment to this blog about these community service scammers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You\u2019re an idiot lady. Sorry you can\u2019t relate to being given an unrealistic number of community service for a petty \u201ccrime\u201d but someday you\u2019ll understand. Keep your nose out of programs that you don\u2019t find \u201csuiting\u201d for you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the negative comments I get are like this – they imply, or outright say, that I’m opposed to online volunteering. I’m not, of course – I’ve been promoting virtual volunteering since the 1990s. My latest gig to promote it was a trip to Warsaw, Poland<\/a>\u00a0this month. I wrote a book about virtual volunteering<\/a>! I’m guessing that Community Service, Inc. tells people to write me, as a representative called me at home, outraged, when I published my first blog about his company, and the comments are always on the same blog<\/a> – the company\u00a0must also encourage writers\u00a0to not read my blogs because, if they did, these folks\u00a0would understand that I have been promoting online volunteering since the 1990s, and that most online volunteering is FREE and there is NO NEED to pay a company like Community Service, Inc. for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m sure these companies also really don’t want their prospective customers to read\u00a0these comments by a person who paid for online community service from one of these companies and had it rejected by the court<\/a>. Or to see all of the TV stations that have investigated these schemes (links to these stories in the blogs at the end of this blog).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s free information on\u00a0Finding Online Volunteering \/ Virtual Volunteering & Home-Based Volunteering<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0legitimate<\/em>\u00a0organizations.<\/p>\n

Back in 2011, and again at least once since then, I wrote the\u00a0Florida State Attorney General\u2019s cyberfraud division<\/a>, the Consumer Services Department of Miami-Dade County,\u00a0numerous parole and probation associations<\/a>, the\u00a0Corporation for National Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0AL!VE<\/a>\u00a0to PLEASE investigate or, at least, take a stand regarding these scam companies \u2013 to date, they still have done nothing.<\/p>\n

Also see:<\/p>\n

Community Service Help Cons Another Person<\/a> – a first-person account by someone who paid for online community service and had it rejected by the court.<\/p>\n

Update on a virtual volunteering scam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What online community service is \u2013 and is not<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0the very first blog I wrote exposing this company, back in January 2011, that resulted in the founder of the company calling me at home to beg me to take the blog down<\/p>\n

Courts being fooled by online community service scams<\/a><\/p>\n

Online community service company tries to seem legit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Online volunteer scam goes global<\/a><\/p>\n

Could your organization be deceived by GOTCHA media?<\/a><\/p>\n

Social media: cutting both ways since the 1990s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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