If he is not too tech savvy, Consolidate stuff that he can read, rather than letting him loose on the forum. It can be extremely confusing processing the amount of information that he will come across. Actually that applies to most starters referred into this. The younger ones have more time to learn, as they grow older they need results.
So sit down and figure out what would you classify as the easiest thing to do with great results.
One thing which should be considered for quick money is designing websites, outsource the work. Help him out its no big deal to get a couple of grand a month. And in the mean time you can keep teaching him some basics, and yes expose him to the forums eventually, he'll surely at least check what e-whoring is all about, even if he does not try it. But as Harro said never say never.
Reminds me of a friend who got curious as to his grandfathers hushed up activities and the reason he was always holed up in his room.. So i checked it out for him one day.. He was running an Adult Website, pirating porn and had a website dedicated to his magazine collection (all playboy editions from the early 50's to 2001). It was 2001. Could have never guessed that he would even think about it.. and yeah in his case it was never... until that day of course!!
Cheers!!
edit: and yes, no offense intended, so just ignore the part of the e-whoring as it already been talked about a lot.
