There are many ways to make extra money online. Hundreds of people do it every day. As time is passing by, more and more people are seeking online money-making opportunities. All thanks to the Internet that made it easy. In this digital world, the internet has become the place to be. The online world’s attraction comes from its capacity to fulfill as both a social gathering place and a powerful sales and marketing network.

Working online requires little or no startup cost. Besides that, it gives you the comfort of working from home or wherever you are comfortable working on a flexible schedule. To start working online, you only need a laptop or computer and a strong internet connection. If you don’t have one, we recommend you check out Mediacom Internet. One of the best Internet service providers in the USA and offers high-speed internet plans at affordable rates.

However, beyond buying and selling old items and doing surveys, there are many more innovative methods to earn money online. To assist you, we have gathered ideas to make online money. This article will go through popular online money-making schemes. Let us dig in without any delay.

1. Dropshipping

One of the famous ways to make online money is Dropshipping. It is a B2C business model where products are sold via an online store and orders are fulfilled by a third-party supplier. This practice is known as Dropshipping. It offers a low startup cost and is becoming a more popular way for both beginners and experts to earn money online. You can sell goods without keeping them in stock by using this model. Dropshippers allow you to make good money but its needs effort and persistence.

2. Print On Demand

Another well-liked method of generating money online is POD or print-on-demand. This business model has a lower overhead than other types of businesses and is popular with many people. Print-on-demand enables suppliers to customize products with their own designs and sell them only after a customer purchases them, removing the need to stock inventory. Print-on-demand companies produce the product, add your design to it, and ship it to the customer after the order is placed.

Print-on-demand and drop shipping are quite similar because neither requires inventory storage nor client shipments. However, there are two distinctions. One is that you can create your own products, which is great for branding. In addition, you can select a specific item rather than a wide range of products. Print-on-demand businesses frequently offer T-shirts and mugs, two items that may be readily printed on.

3. Sell Online courses

A lot of people are interested in online courses for a reason. The costs of delivering the product to more customers are essentially zero once a course is created, with the exception of hosting costs.

One of the most effective ways to earn money online is to sell courses. If you are an expert in a line of work, you can make money by selling your knowledge by creating online courses. Also, you can make use of certain online platforms, such as Udemy and Skillshare thrive, to promote your course. The platform on which you market your course will decide how much money you make. You don’t need to do much to promote your course if you sell it on a famous platform like Udemy. On the other hand, you can use various other social media platforms to sell and promote it.

If you want to create a successful and popular course, take inspiration from trending courses in your niche and then look at what others have said about those courses. In your opinion, what are the things that people praise, and what are the things that they dislike? Is there anything you can do to improve upon what has already been done? Furthermore, you must focus on producing content that solves the biggest fuss while imitating the positive aspects people rave about.

4. Create a blog

One of the numerous methods to earn money online is blogging. Blogging is a great way to express yourself through writing, and you will be able to make a much more successful blog if you focus on a specific niche audience and market. It can be a food blog, movie review blog, travel blog, fashion blog, and many more like that. Exploring popular blog ideas can assist you in tracking down a profitable niche. The most well-liked ways to make money blogging are through advertising, affiliate marketing, and brand sponsorships.

You will be able to build a huge blog by focusing on very specific keywords and expanding into other relevant categories as you grow and overwhelm new spaces as you build your blog.

Conclusion

Earning money online can help you manage these challenging times and may even enable you to leave the routine of a 9-to-5 job and become a full-time company owner. Your options include freelancing, dropshipping, creating your own products, blogging about others’ products, and a lot more. It provides you with more money, flexibility, financial security, and freedom. The above-listed ideas can help you achieve a steady income stream that can help you live your life more easily.

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The news that Justice Chizoba Oji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa be arrested and committed to the Kuje prison for contempt of court was quite unbelievable to many people. 

Some people have raised the issue of; “whether a high-profile executive like the chairman of the EFCC can be sent to jail while still in office or if a judge has the power to send to prison a high-profile executive like a serving chairman of the EFCC”? 

Readers should therefore note that the office of the chairman of the EFCC is not shielded by “executive immunity” by the constitution or by any other subsisting law, hence, a judge has the power in the exercise of his judicial function to send the occupant of that office to jail if need so be. 

The reason why the Honorable justice ordered that the chairman of the anti-graft agency be committed at the Kuje prison is because the chairman neglected and willfully disobeyed the order of the court; On the 21st Day of November 2018, the court in a judgment ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja to return to the Plaintiff/applicant his Range Rover (Supercharge) and the sum of N40, 000,000.00 (Forty Million Naira) which was taken and confiscated by the EFCC. The Efcc failed to honor that order of the court and that amounts to contempt of the court. (Do check our previous essay on contempt of court to fully understand what contempt of court means).

In reading today’s judgement, the court held inter Alia; “Having continued wilfully in disobedience to the order of this court, he should be committed to prison at Kuje Correctional Centre for his disobedience, and continued disobedience of the said order of court made on November 21st, 2018, until he purges himself of the contempt”.

The judge further mandated that the Inspector General of police ensure that the order so given that the EFCC chairman be arrested and sent to the Kuje prison is executed with immediate effect. 

One can posit that this judgment of the court to send the chairman to jail is an attempt to embarrass and ridicule the person of the chairman and the office he occupies but the chairman first ridiculed the court by willfully disobeying and refusing to honor the order of the court and if everybody disobeys the order of the court the judiciary as an institution will collapse. 

This judgment will stand as a litmus test to show that nobody is above the law and the judiciary is always there with long “koboko” to lash out at anybody despite your status in society if you fail to act accordingly.

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, who became an established international fraudster in June 2020 after he was arrested by the Dubai Police, has been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a US court.

Hushpuppi was busted with his co-conspirators that include the now detained “super cop” Abba Kyari, a Nigerian Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), with a hero tag – who was recently busted for leading a narcotic gang.

Hushpuppy, 40, led a series of online scams and flaunted a luxurious lifestyle on social media, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison by a US judge.

A press statement issued after his sentence reads:

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, a 40-year-old Nigerian national, also known by his Instagram handle, “Ray Hushpuppi,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II, who also ordered Abbas to pay $1,732,841 in restitution to two fraud victims.

Abbas pleaded guilty in April 2021 to one count of conspiracy to engage in money laundering. He was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in June 2020 and has remained in federal custody since his expulsion from the UAE.

“Abbas bragged on social media about his lavish lifestyle – a lifestyle funded by his involvement in transnational fraud and money laundering conspiracies targeting victims around the world,” said United States Attorney Martin Estrada. “Money laundering and business email compromise scams are a massive international crime problem, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement and international partners to identify and prosecute those involved, wherever they may be.”

“Ramon Abbas, a.k.a. ‘Hushpuppi,’ targeted both American and international victims, becoming one of the most prolific money launderers in the world,” said Don Alway, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “Abbas leveraged his social media platforms – where he amassed a considerable following – to gain notoriety and to brag about the immense wealth he acquired by conducting business email compromise scams, online bank heists and other cyber-enabled fraud that financially ruined scores of victims and provided assistance to the North Korean regime. This significant sentence is the result of years’ worth of collaboration among law enforcement in multiple countries and should send a clear warning to international fraudsters that the FBI will seek justice for victims, regardless of whether criminals operate within or outside United States borders.”

Abbas conspired with Ghaleb Alaumary, 37, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, a convicted money launderer, to launder funds derived from various crimes, including bank cyber-heists, business email compromise (BEC) schemes and other online frauds.  BEC schemes typically involve gaining unauthorized access to a business email account and attempting to trick a victim business into making an unauthorized wire transfer.

In January 2019, Abbas conspired with Alaumary to launder funds stolen from a bank in Malta by providing account information for banks in Romania and Bulgaria. The United States has charged North Korean hackers with committing the bank cyber-heist in Malta, and alleged that those funds were destined for the North Korean government. Abbas has admitted that the intended loss with respect to the Maltese bank was approximately $14.7 million.

In May 2019, Abbas conspired with Alaumary to launder millions of pounds stolen from a professional soccer club in the United Kingdom as well as a British company. In connection with that scheme, Abbas provided Alaumary with details for a bank account in Mexico that “could handle millions and not block,” according to court documents.

Abbas also fraudulently induced a New York-based law firm in October 2019 to transfer approximately $922,857 to an account that a co-conspirator controlled under someone else’s name.

Alaumary was charged separately and pleaded guilty in November 2020 to one count of conspiracy to engage in money laundering. He is serving a 140-month federal prison sentence and was ordered to pay more than $30 million in restitution.

Abbas also admitted in his plea agreement to conspiring with others to defraud an individual in Qatar who sought a loan of $15 million to build a school.

At today’s sentencing hearing, Judge Wright ordered Abbas to pay $922,857 in restitution to the law firm victim and $809,983 in restitution to the businessperson in Qatar.

Abbas and another conspirator duped the victim businessperson into paying approximately $330,000 to fund an “investor’s account” to facilitate the loan. Abbas specifically directed the victim to send $100,000 to a bank account controlled by a co-conspirator, and $230,000 to the bank account of a luxury watch seller. Abbas used those funds for his personal benefit, including purchasing a $230,000 Richard Mille RM11-03 watch, which he arranged to have brought to him from New York to Dubai.  The watch made numerous appearances on Abbas’ wrist on his now-defunct Instagram account, often with the hashtag #RichardMille.

Approximately $50,000 of proceeds from the scheme were used to fraudulently acquire a St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis citizenship and a passport for Abbas through a sham marriage to a St. Kitts citizen.

In January and February 2020, Abbas and another conspirator corresponded with the victim businessperson, attempting to fraudulently induce a further payment of $575,000 in purported taxes to release the $15 million loan. In February 2020, the victim sent approximately $299,983 to Kenyan bank accounts specified by another conspirator. In March 2020, Abbas fraudulently induced the victim to send another $180,000 to U.S.-based bank accounts; those funds were subsequently laundered with assistance from several co-conspirators.

“By his own admission, during just an 18-month period defendant conspired to launder over $300 million,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. “While much of this intended loss did not ultimately materialize, [Abbas’] willingness and ability to participate in large-scale money laundering highlights the seriousness of his criminal conduct.”

The FBI investigated this matter as part of Operation Top Dog. The FBI thanks the government of the United Arab Emirates and the Dubai Police Department for their substantial assistance in this matter.

Assistant United States Attorney Khaldoun Shobaki of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section prosecuted this case. The Justice Department Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in this matter.