Mosse-institute

This is my impression of Mosse as I paid $450 USD and have gone through some 81%+ (their tracking is seriously broken) of the OSINT course. I have previously written a full review elsewhere, however instead of re-linking or copy/paste I'll relay this.

Be very very careful about purchasing a course here! Seriously explore your options, what you need, and what you can afford. You are very fortunate in this particular field as it is very popular.

I have delt directly with Benjamin Moss also, my initial encounter I almost dropped the course and forfeited my money reasonably early on (which I probably should have). I made a comment about a couple tools that were used in the course (one which was/is broken, one was no longer updated for several years, etc.). For some reason they felt like this was some sort of personal attack on their platform. I did not find their initial response particularly professional and it made me question if my projects moving forward would be objectively reviewed from that point. I had to clarify that my comments were an FYI, not an attack and had to get his personal assurance that my projects moving forward would not be met with bias/revenge.

Interestingly enough after that point any feedback from then on was more informative and in general encouraging. This of course is great, though getting there should have never gone that way, especially from the individual who's name is on the platform!

As previously mentioned you may run into tools that are years old and haven't been update in years. You may also run into broken tools or in general tools that are inefficient with no choice to use an alternative.

The assignments are practical, meaning you will actually be executing certain tasks and/or report writing. This is an excellent approach, however it may take weeks to get feedback. If you are tasked to show how you did something, you will be required to have screen recording software and post to Youtube (which obviously you will need to register for an account). There is no option to upload to their page.

In terms of getting feedback on your work you may find yourself in the vicious circle that I found myself in at the end of the course. You submit your assignment, rejected with feedback, you make the corrections that were asked for and resubmit, rejected with new feedback, you realize the newly rejected content was previously acceptable before, fix and resubmit, something NEW is wrong now even though it was previously OK. This comes from the fact they have "a few" reviewers who, of course have their own opinions. The issue here is there is apparently no guidance or direction in how they re-grade something. This means content that was previously acceptable may be rejected by another leading you into a endless loop to get a pass on your project. No names are attached so you will never know who is grading your project. For all you know it could be the same person deciding to constantly change their mind on your submission.

Not all assignments may be available meaning you may outpace the course itself. I ran into this issue a couple times as I attempted to start a new section only to find it was not available yet. Supposedly they were "created", however for some reason they decided not to post them yet. I had to wait a week or 2 before they started to appear.

If you get stuck, you will likely be directed to get help from their forums. Their forums are VERY dead... If you are lucky, you will find a handful of posts or replies, most of which are of no help. Their Facebook page is also dead with a handful of self promotions from September 2001, and LinkedIn is riddled with the same self promotions, which as slowly died out also. And for what it may be worth a low site traffic: https://www.scamvoid.net/check/mosse-institute.com/

All in all you should be careful of basing your decision on a couple free, carefully selected modules. I would avoid paying for this site and spend your hard earned money elsewhere. The concept is good, the execution is terrible.