"~BD~" wrote:

> At that link, there is an advertisement for working at home which I
> followed. I then elected to proceed to
> http://myincomeconnection.com/landing-bcv195/ and completed false detail
> so that I could watch the video presentation.


Why? Don't you know that "work at home" schemes are ripoffs/scams?

> I was then asked to complete detailed information on this 'secure' site:-
>
> https://myincomeconnection.com/promobcv195/?[...]
> OR
> http://preview.************/2us8mbl
>
> I've always been led to believe that 'https' (padlocked) sites are safe
> to use,


It just means that traffic between you and the site is encrypted but
says nothing about the goodness or badness of the site.

> but on this occasion I received yet another warning (from the
> Browser, I think - Sea Monkey) which said ........


"You have requested an encrypted page that contains some unencrypted
info...".

That's true because the video link there is hosted on screencast.com
which is fetched by http rather than https.