About three years ago, right before I graduated from high school, My dad passed away. It had been a difficult time for me, my brother and my mom. There was barely any money since my dad was the main breadwinner. After he passed, my mom struggled alot, and seeing that really made me want to do something about it.
I’d always been good with computers, but not to the level my mom now imagines. After my dad passed I became desperate for money. I tried all sorts of stuff from freelancing to web dev to video editing to music production, but I wasn’t really making any real money to improve me or my families situation. I looked deeper and got more desperate and tried selling drugs on Tor sites since I was too scared to do it in person. That didn’t work out either. During all that web surfing I found some darkhat/greyhat communities and got into stuff that’s more grey area than straight dark hat
(running view botnets, Clickbots, etc etc) and I would mostly receive money for services and I made quite the amount of money. Alot of this stuff isn’t explicitly illegal and there haven’t really been alot of people that have got in trouble for it since it kinda dances between the lines of legal and illegal depending on what you’re doing. It’s not likely I get in trouble for it, but it’s still a possibility and I believe I can take the risk and I’m not very paranoid about getting in trouble.
The money has been great, I’ve been able to help my mother out alot, but the issue is she’s gotten alarmed at the amount I’m making and I’ve repeatedly lied to her that I’ve made this money freelancing online. I’ve showed her website templates and lied that I built them and I’ve even now gone as far as to edit invoices of how much I got paid because I think she’s getting worried. It’s honestly eating me up inside having to lie to my mother this much. Hearing her telling her sisters and stuff that I’m so good with computers and I’m making good clean money just makes me sad. Do I come clean? Do I keep lying?
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Honestly, it totally depends. If you want to continue doing something illegal for a while, you increase your chances of getting caught. Get in Get out. If you’re in college and you’re really making alot of money, save Now, invest Now and go to school. Create a safety net for you and your family and make sure you have a target to quit whatever you’re doing (If you’re really viewbotting it’s not like the FBI is knocking down doors for that but you can still get in trouble). I’d say if you reckon your mom will keep your secret then tell her even if she will be disappointed at first, but if she’s the type to freak out then I’d say just keep a low profile and save your money
You mentioned a brother. Does he know?
I don’t think you should tell her. I also think you should quit while you’re ahead