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• jobucks

  mr. why should tell anyone not to buy from theme, do hate those guys,

• aaron

  awesome article. I knew it was a scam but this is really clear and well written, awesome stuff! clearly shows that it is a scam, nice one.

• Adam

  jobuck, No I don’t hate them, I just can’t condone shady sales tactics. Who knows how many other guys are using this exact same website to get people to sign up. I think we all need to stand up and fight for business ethics and high morals.

• Daniel

  Thanks for clearing this up!

• Alberta Washington

  Thank you so very muc. I thought it was to good to be true but it was very convincing.
  May God Bless You
  Alberta

• seecurb

  Check-out two more sites I just found touting the same scam:

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  or

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• A Robertson

  Google search engine is full of these links, so why does Google not actually de-list the sites that run the scams or at least have a big banner on them saying “SCAM by SCUM” or something similar.

• Adam

  A Robertson, believe me that none of these websites rank in Google. Also I could have been wrong when I said that I found them through a Google ad on a website. It might have just been a regular banner ad.

• Adam

  seecurb, nice find. I think these are everywhere. I had to remove the links because Im not linking out to these scammers.

• Angel

  If we did get duped; how do we get the money back?

• Adam

  Angel, I really don’t know. You will have to go to the source to try and get it back.

• Bill

  Adam, I found the exact same “newlywed, Range Rover” site you referenced above by clicking on a Facebook ad looking for NY Mets fans or NY Giants fans looking to make some money by taking a survey. Sound familiar to anyone?

  While this does seem to be a scam and btw, the checks are for some Citibank Europe bank/account, what about the so-called legitimate ways to make money with Google Adsense?

• Adam

  You absolutely can make legitimate money with Google adsense. Our buddies Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle over at TheKeyWordAcademy.com do a great job of legitimately teaching you how to make money with Adsense.

• Mike

  How did you capture those entire web pages to post them here? What tools did you use?

• Adam

  Mike, I used a Firefox addon called Screengrab and then edited them with Macromedia Fireworks.

• Jeff

  How can these guys sleep at nite?

• Jacob

  Wow, nice examination!

  I have met these kinds of scams too, and they are plentiful EVERYWHERE.All the ones I see claim to be from my hometown, and 3 of them have the same images but different names! 2 have same names but different images! One of them even had the same picture of the range rover as your picture showed!

  Sometimes I just visit those sites just to make fun of how many holes their little scams have.

  These horrible, evil people… How can they even show their faces in public?

• Steve

  thought i would check out the ad for goole to make money from home. DON”T DO IT!!! They will take your information and start charging on your credit card. Live and learn

• john Griffin

  I found an add on ISOHUNT.COM thank you it was to good to be true they wanted 70 dollars a month to post on google I never jump untill I check it out.
  thanks for the posting.

  John From Deltona Fl.

• Michael Murray

  I don’t know what to say to this one other than Google is the man at the momemnt and if they tell you to jump……… i am learning seo at the moment lot to learn too much for the brain sometimes.

  Just joined hope to meet some like minded people here and learn something

• scott

  Nlce work adam. Scammers should be exposed for all to see. However, people need to use commonsense. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.

• scott p glasser

  Does anyone remember those newspaper ads “make $5000 a week stuffing envelopes”? lol

• michael murray

  k i am just wondering why my last post hasn;t been posted don’t mean to cause any greive but i’ve been around long enough to know about double sites which i hope this is not!

  if the owner of this site doesn’t want me to post please let me know and i will move along……

• Adam

  Michael Murray, we appreciate your posts. I protect my weekends to spend time with my family otherwise I would be working all the time. :-)

• Clock

  I hate these articles. It would be one thing if the author had spent the $1.95 to check out the system, tell you how it works/is supposed to work, and then tells you why it would not. However, to just say “Hey, different copies of the website look the same – therefore it is a scam!” I want real information, what the program actually is, why it is really a scam (if it is at all) not “Hey, I don’t understand marketing tactics.”

• Michael Murray

  Hi Adam

  Just need to see if this is the right url that i am posting to,it seems when i click the url which i started posting to i can’t find my comments can you give me the right one please or tell me why this is .

  Thanks.

• Michael Murray

  Sorry for the trouble Adam i have the right url now silly me….. i understand about spending time with your family, it is quality time indeed hope you had a great weekend.

  Best regards

  Michael Murray

• Adam

  Clock, thanks for your passion. This post has everything to do with the fact the multiple people (not just these 2) are all touting to have made these amounts of money showing pictures of checks that aren’t real and pictures of cars that are not their cars. It is immoral, unethical and if you are trying to sell that way then regardless if the product may or may not work it is a scam in my eyes. If you have a problem with my assessment then feel free to buy the program and maybe you can send me the same picture of the Range Rover when you buy yours.

• Adam Kayslayed CLOCK

  Yo Adam..you ripped “Clock” a new {expletive} HAHAHAHAHAHA..”send me the same picture of the Range Rover when you buy yours” {expletive}…lol thanx for this site I almost got scammed by these characters.

• Adam

  Adam Kayslayed CLOCK,

  Thanks for your support. I had to edit the comment a little to keep this family friendly.

• Paul Gamache

  Just scroll down in those ads and click the terms and conditions links…..You’ll see what you have to pay per month as well….

  Always read the terms an conditions in anything you buy. I mean anything. It is very enlightening, to say the least. Most people just sign away without knowing the ramifications of that signature.

• Michael Murray

  Hi guys

  Well yeah i would like to put my 10 cents in on this subject of scammers. I remember purchasing a program taking surveys. It was early days and my hunger to make money online was too much and i ended up buying it.

  That was my first taste of avertising for the benifit of others and realising that i was merly a porn in their game, at the end of the day all i got was advertising spam that overloaded my inbox and the realisation of what i just paid for.

  Be aware of these survey sites it is not your business they are worried about…….

• Ironal Thompson

  Excactly how critical could this affect you if you happen to fall for it? Say for instance actually submitting your credit card information.

• Mommitude

  Just like our parents always told us, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. I found a completely different site with exact same pics, stories, etc. I read the fine print and thought “yep, there it is, the catch”. Don’t get hooked. THANKS FOR THIS ARTICLE. Hope lots of people read far enough down on their google search to find this!!

• Adam

  Ironal Thompson, no telling but I would try to cancel asap. If not you can always do a charge back.

• Jocelyne

  Facebook is where I found the same ad you speak of… my hometown, newly wed, etc etc etc. Lots of people on Facebook could get sucked up into this, I’m sure. The red flags for me were the poor english sentence structure and such… they try to look “down home simple” but are actually giving themselves away (to me, anyway). I finally decided to google search the sentence… “making money posting links?” and found you. Thank God for your time and care in doing this.

• Jocelyne Sade

  Another giveaway was when they show the checks/paperwork “proof”… they only show
  half their face. Duhhh, someone’s got something
  to hide. They sure should be hiding their faces.

• Billa

  Yep, same site I found. He was from C.C., Texas and now he is from San Fransico,LA. I saved it to favorites to remind me of the scam it really is. It even changed states while in favorites.LOL

  It went as far to have a colorful ad with cnn, and other stations on it claiming that it works. It says to pay $1.98 and when you try to leave… a fake person says they will talk to you where you pay .99 cents instead. You are asked to type hello but ask a question and it will not answer any question. LOL I reported the site to google.

• Tina

  Thank you so much for posting this. Came across the same website posting on my Facebook. As I was reading the story… it just looked too good to be true.

• Urja

  Came across same content with different name “JOSH”. HAHAHAH…

• Olu

  Wow! The guy is using a script to detect your IP and then claim that he lives in your area. I have just stumbled on the same scam website claiming that he lives in Abuja Area 11(Abuja is in Nigeria, West Africa) and was amazed that a “whiteman” is earning so much around my area. It will take me only 5minutes drive to get to Garki and i wanted to see his full address so that i could drive there and have a chat with him. Then i google the title “How to make money submitting links to google” and your site came up. The guy obviously uses a script to capture your IP address and that makes you think he is actually living in your area. This is obviously a scam.

• ewen

  Thanks Adam, during desperate times we all seem to jump on any opportunity in our faces. I was a sucker for a good minute there even after I’ve learnt from past experience not to trust such sites. $1 to get $5k? But this lady says you gotta WORK HARD for money which is always true. so it must be true! not until I popped these words into google search “make money posting links on google ….. SCAM”.. your site popped up. Much thanks dude, btw i think i’ll browse your site….

• rice

  (see image above)
  This one is the latest one, very fake
  and always appear when i try to watch movie online

• kimberly

  Thanks for exposing this scam. They mislead you into thinking that you are getting about making money on Google. In reality you are giving them rights to charge you for three different things so read your terms and conditions carefully. If you check their website googletreasurechest.com, it is not completely done and has very little information. The other
  thing is when you sign up, you may pay a dollar for shipping, but I have yet to receive my stuff which they were not clear on and you don’t get instant access. When you call their customer service you hear a recording over and over for a long period of time. I stayed on for what seemed like hours before I finally got a person because I wanted to cancel right away. This is a big scam and I can’t believe that Google is allowing this because they are so strict on their click policies.

• Gautam

  People who milk others in a shady way will never be able to digest the money. There’s a saying “theft goes in haste”. Stay away from this and focus on being a hard and honest worker.

• Mark

  Thanks for exposing these scams and potentially saving people from losing money.

  The Texas Attorney General is taking legal action against one of the companies behind this scam –
  http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2009/042209infusionmedia_pop.pdf –
  Google Money Tree aka Google Treasure Chest which currently has the ‘honour’ of achieving the ‘worst rating’ on complaintsboard.com :
  http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/google-treasure-chest-c152771.html

• Wicky

  The real scam hides within the terms and conditions. Once they have your approval to charge your Credit Card for the $1.95 shipping, they also have your approval to charge $70 after 7 days and monthly thereafter. Additionally, they are piggybacking something call “Grant Spring” for an additional $30/month. So you are one c-note deep if you dont cancel within 7 days. But when you get rich (ha :) its just a small investment.

• Matt

  Just use your head on stuff like this guys. All these stupid concepts are scams, even a lot of the stuff that is on paid programming late at night on tv…Think about it, they took the time to make up the whole bs story, post the phony pics, and are paying to host just to tell you how to get rich? If you found a legitimate way to make good money on the net, would you tell the entire internet about it? I know I wouldn’t, because the more people that start doing it, the less profitable it would become.I would probably only tell a few close friends or family members and keep it a secret. If it really worked, these ads wouldn’t exist… They would be making money doing what they claim to be so profitable. Instead, they are charging way more “for the knowledge and education” than the average person will make using their product and subscribing to their service. That is your lesson in capitalism for today folks. Obviously, getting paid to post links on google doesn’t pay well enough since they created a paid service to tell you how to do it (which further devalues the whole concept by reducing demand for such people)

• crazysamurai

  i think this website shows you who owns the website and where the scam website is generated.

  http://whois.domaintools.com/scottsmoneyblog.com

• Rum

  If people are stupid enough to fall for this then they deserve to have there money taken away from them. Hooray for scammers!

• jesse

  Rum, when I was 14 I lost $98 trying a ponzi scheme. I didn’t know what ponzi schemes were and I was so disappointed when I realized I had been scammed.

  Anyway, sometimes people’s emotions speak louder than their logic :)

• Bryan

  Hi people, yes i took the bait and got scammed for $72.21-£50.02, now trying to get money back, so do not pay and get scammed like i did, thanks for your site information, Bryan.

• Michael Murray

  I can safely say that if you are a beginner to the internet watch out for thoses sales letters , they are structured for a reason, and once you get sucked in by their words it will take you right to that pay now button!

• kronaldo

  Hey Great Article

  I was gonna sign up with these scamers but I actually read the terms and conditions and all the fine print then said hellllllllll no and then I came across your article and thought it was very informative for everyone sitting on the fence ,

• Roedy

  Hello there…

  Visiting here from Indonesia.
  Thank u very much for this scam information.

• Bob

  “My name is Kevin Hoeffer”
  from: kevins-money-blog.info

  I don’t think so:

  http://whois.domaintools.com/kevins-money-blog.info

  David Martin
  16 Dunadry Road
  Templepatrick
  Antrim
  BT41 2RR
  Northern Ireland
  Phone:+44. 07935323292
  Email: mediastar123@gmail.com

  From: http://whois.domaintools.com/kevins-money-blog.info

  So it’s David from Antrim not Kevin from your town!

• Brian

  Hey guys, I came across one of these websites and I actually (for some unknown reason) tried to order it. I filled in my actual full name, email and telephone. And then they asked for my credit card details, that’s when I had second thoughts. But I already had given them my name, email and telephone (but not my credit card, thankfully). So, do you have any idea if they might be able to use those information for bad purposes?

• Michael Murray

  Hey Guy’s

  Getting back to the start of this post (in the first place!) it seems very easy for webmasters to fool the average joe blog ….by putting up duplicate sites ….and fake testomonials .

  Therefore how are we to tell if these site are legit!! ..it is so easy to put up these flash sites, and have everyone beleive that if they push that pay now button their in!!

  Hello sorry don’t work like that !…. having total control of your online business is paramont! we want to know whats coming in or going out just like any business owner.

  If we read the url’s more than the title discriptions we will see the true location of these sites … which sorta brings up this sayiing that just come to mind….when it come’s to the net we really do need to read between the lines ….

  We all should have been around long enough to know this! that the more we get to know about scammers and their tacttics the more obvious they become.

  But still for me the journey continues…

• chill

  Hey now you guys are bashing a well known search engine host so be careful what you say. dont want haters on your butts, listen its a choice people make on their own and if it makes them happy… hey to each his own, but when you spend money you hardly have in hopes to make more you know that your taking a risk any way so why not go at it with a better mind set. think positive and dont stop short just because someone else got bord or confused with how to do the programe or its not as easyas they thought it was so they quit and call it a scam.

• Adam

  Brian, you may start to receive emails and phone calls from them trying to sell your more stuff but that will probably be the extent of it. I wouldn’t put it past them though to sell your contact info although I don’t think it is as likely.

• Adam

  chill, we are calling this a scam because the company or affiliates of the company are using misleading and shady sales tactics to try to sell you on a program. False claims are made and you are enrolled in a auto bill program which you have to read the fine print to find out. It’s a scam.

• Belva McKann

  It’s “lo and behold,” not “low and behold.” “Lo” is an archaic word for “look.”

• violet

  hi thank you. i ran across this and was disapointed when i shut the window by mistake. sounded interesting. yet your right, to good to be true. there was somthing that had me not do it right away. and i think one needs to trust that feeling. then i surched to find it again, and i found your info on the skam thank you!!

  its crazzy…. that they can get away with this!!

  v

• shear

  They are scammers. Why would someone let their financial success out of the bag for millions of other people? Another real tip-off was when a live operator is wanting to help you.
  Shame, shame on these people.

• tonya

  I never received what I order. You had to type in your name and other information and pay the $1.97 shipping charge. I paid it and next thing I looked on my bank statement, there was a charge of $72.21. Please look before you leap. This is a SCAM!!!

• Atasha

  I am so happy that I decided top do a google search on money posting links on google. I am happy because I found you. I would NOT give them my credit card info. I did give my email address and cell phone number. If I get strnge calls, I can always change that. When they had a fake person, trying to chat with me and then when they asked for credit card information, I knew it was a bunch of mess. Thank you so much for your exposure of this little scam. I, as well as many other people appreciate you for this.

  Atasha
  FL, USA

• Lora

  Can this be one of those sites too? It certainly seems like it…Smells like it, but doesn’t “Look” like it I posted an ad on craigslist to sell my boat and some guy sent me this link in response asking if I was selling me boat because I need money… Sounds like a scam, but looks like a news website…
  http://thenewyorktimesonline.net/finance/?showStory=gmh234&_r=1&hp

  They are getting awfully tricky…

• Kim

  Hey, I checked it out and now I know it’s a scam but i took the bait anyways, and put my info and cc number in, like how soon does it charge your account and is it too late to like cancel it, it’s only been like a day. I found this ad after the fact, please help, I’m in some serious trouble if this goes through.

• Kim

  Also how to i find like the phone number or website to cancel it

• zoza

  I saw this add on face book and I know it was to good to be true.
  I did some research and my suspicion was confirmed, damn crooks

• Michael Murray

  I belive the major search engines need to come into play and give these sites 3 strikes especially when it comes to refunds within the given time they specify.I would like to reply to Mr chill that ok it is a choice we make to sign up with these sites because of all the promises these sales letters make when making claims about these programs.If one does a Google search on sales letters you will know how they structure there sales letters and it may open your eyes a bit more to how they operate.

  Please do not justify a scammer their intentions are not to make you money!!

• alan

  they stole your money

• Gumph

  Thank you. I got the robot “live chat” person too. No questions answered, no further information. I am really glad I searched it further. Still, I feel like a bit of an idiot for even half believing it! Thanks for your help in researching it all for us.

• Christine

  I done paid for that {expletive} and you know what that {expletive} is a SCAM! I am very mad. I hope you guys aren’t on no {expletive}. Im a house wife I need to do something.

• Mike

  Adam. I was about to get into this program several weeks ago. I was filling out the on-line information. Upon giving my name and phone number etc. it then rolled to the next screen to inform me that the kit was only $1.97 and to enter my credit card info and so on. I had it all filled out and was ready to hit send when I got this gut feeling that something wasn’t right with this. I went to close out and saw a chat screen with someone trying to chat with me about the program and that they were willing to discount the $1.97 fee for the kit to just .99 cents. At this time I knew something was up. I mean you’re going to discount a $1.97 fee? Are you for real? I told the person that I had to investigate this further and she replied that the discount was only good while I was on-line with her. I closed it out ! I went on-line to google.com to attempt to find their phone number and I did. I called but they don’t have a prompt you can talk to anyone about such a program and they did not have a customer service at that time. Well I typed a letter and faxed it to google. I got absolutely no response. Several days later I received a phone call from some guy who said he was from Google and he gave me a toll free number for customer service and I told him the same thing I told the lady on the chat line, that I needed to investigate this further. Well as things happen I called the customer service toll free number which is 1-888-248-9285 and I did indeed get a customer service agent. HOWEVER ! When I asked to what company was this customer service representing I heard her go into a mexican dialect and at that point she told that this was a customer service for many different companies. I told I had the wrong number and hung up. Then I found this article on-line and was convinced that this was truly a SCAM. I read in your article how they take your IP address and say that there is this person in your home town doing this. I decided to to research this person they said was in my home town and I could not find them. There were a lot of people by the name I was given but none in my area. OK maybe their number is unlisted…….maybe, but to many things don’t add up.

  Anyone that wants to do this please remember a few things. The so called kit may only be $1.97 but they have your credit card number or your debit card number and that $1.97 will most likely turn into complete financial distress. Second, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. Hey hitting the Lottery is hard to believe but at least you have proof of your winning right in you hand. Anyone can copy and paste a few logos such as MSNBC, AOL, USA Today and so on and paste it to a letter with some graphics such as this. People BEWARE! There are a lot of dishonest people out there who will dupe any and as many people as they can. Don’t be one of them. REMEMBER ! IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE IT PROBABLY IS !!!

• Mike

  Kim! Immediately contact your credit card company and cancel the card. If you have to tell them the card was stolen do it and do it now!!!.

• Mike

  Gumph ! No need to feel like an idiot. As you can see your in good company. Some times things can sound so enticing that we stop thinking what could happen. We’re human beings man! we all make mistakes but at least you had the good sense to check into it first. Take this as one of life’s many lessons and learn from it.

• cole

  thanks for letting me know i saw the add and clicked it i wasent shure right away so i looked around the web a bit and found this thanks for telling me lil if it wasent for u i wud have been scammed big time so thanks =D

• Jasper

  WOW…Finally someone who exposes the truth…i (like many of you) was about to try this stupid program and get scammed…Luckily i found an honest program that now does pretty good for me…Check it out…[removed]

• Bob

  @Lora, yes the fake news sites are scams too:

  See: http://electronplumber.com/the-los-angeles-tribune-news-scam/

• Rob P.

  Yes the scammers are very good at designing websites that tug at you little by little, overriding your natural inclination to say ‘THIS IS BS’.

  One reason they use such large type and such long web pages is that it inflates the importance of what they are selling.

  I didn’t get scammed, but found this excellent website through a Facebook ad that claims it goes to a completely different website – which when accessed manually leads to another website full of similar ‘Make $87/hr’ ads.

  IN THE FUTURE, everyone who got scammed needs to remember only one thing:

  IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY FAST, SEND ME $2 AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE SECRET!
  Answer: get a bunch of people to send you $2. :)

  TO FIX THE PROBLEM IS YOU GOT SCAMMED:
  Cancel your credit cards and put a block on any withdrawal attempts to your bank account except those you specifically authorize….or just close the bank account and open a new one.

• jordan

  hey thanks so much. i almost fell into the google links spam today and couldnt find my wallet to give them my card number. well, i finally found my card but had to leave when i got back i went to find the site again and stummbled across your website! thank you so much. i thought it might be a scam but i seen some reputable names like cnn and stuff that i htought were supporting their site and assumed if major bussinesses like that were supporting it, it must be alright. thanks for helping me no

• Iplop

  Looks like this scam has moved to craigslist. I posted a computer service and I received and e-mail about this.
  I didn’t post to get a job in the first place. =\

  Looks like this scam is using some sort of ad-hoc bot network… Basically, they’re hijacking peoples computers…
  The e-mails I received(within 2 seconds btw) were from a legit address.

• Jon

  The scams are legal unfortunately. They are just revamps of the old scam of “mailing envelopes”. As long as you provide a re-sellable item for the money sent, it’s legal. The FRAUD is NOT LEGAL! Showing fraudulent photos and information to lure someone into sending them a couple of bucks is totally illegal. It’s called “bait and switch”. But, unitl someone takes these kinds of people and scams into court and the law makes a judgement on at least one case, we will continue to be scammed until the end of time. There’s always someone somewhere that thinks life is an apple just waiting to pick and eat, even if the tree is on someone else’s property. A thief is a thief, no matter how one tried to color it. A thief is the scum of the Earth and the the main reason for most of the suffering in our world. These thieves that post these scams have no feelings or remorse for what they do, even if they manage to take the last two dollars of food out of the mouths of staving children. This is how low they really are. Like I said.. SCUM.. that’s the stuff on the bottom of your shoes. Peace

• Lori S.

  Wow! It’s so amazing, but apparently he is from my hometown too. I think I got to it from FaceBook too. I took one look, laughed and closed the screen.

• Dr.D

  Dude you are amazing. Taking your time and letting people know that this is a scam is a great thing you did! You know how much a was looking for to make sure if it was a scam or not. But you cleared it all up. And I saw all those pages you posted up to. What a lie! Thanks!

• Carol c.

  Yikes! I’m not very gullible but that scam almost got me. I figured $1.97 couldn’t hurt just to find out what the job really is about, then I saw the fine print on the very bottom of that website and it said an auto charge of $70.00 each month would get billed to my card until I cancelled! The big red flag finally popped up!!! I knew it was a scam at that point, then I did a search on “posting links for google” and found your website. Thank you for the info and confirmation that it’s a scam. It did occur to me too that if it was that easy to make that kind of fast money while sipping coffee at your favorite coffee house, hundreds of people would be sitting in there with me doing the same thing!!

  It is so true, there is no such thing as a quick buck. Only way to make a decent living is to work hard. So I guess I’ll keep my current job and be thankful I have one!

• Mike

  Thanks for your article!

  Found another one, LOL they disabled comments: “comments have been disabled to prevent spam”

• rp

  Just so you know, I came across several of the first-pictured sites containing the same exact pictures, but the young man’s name was different in each site. The blogs and everything else was duplicate. Very disappointing considering I was so close to actually falling for it. What a world, huh?

• DC

  I love how in all the pictures of the people holding checks, they cover just enough of their faces, so they can’t be positively identified. Also, if you compare their Google logo and the real one side by side, it really looks fake. What a joke!

• Orion

  Yeah, so last month I was really struggling for money and saw one of the ads you were talking about. “Only $1.97 and we’ll wire you your package, and you can make thousands of dollars a month.” What do I have to lose? Only a $1.97? We’ll like a sucker, I went for it. No package was sent to my e-mail. Oh well. Then, a month later, a random $24 charge on my credit card, then a week after, $38, then 2 days later, $72!!!! I had to close my bank account and set up a new one to get this to stop. What pond scum would lure a poor guy like me, in the middle of a recession, and trick them into thinking that their troubles are over, only to screw them over? Asians in Utah. I called the first company, and the woman barely spoke english. She finally said that she would void one of the charges to my card in 7-10 days. Well, what a surprise, 11 days later, the charge is still there. I hate parasites.

• ST

  Thank you for this article. I was duped by this scam and my first inkling that it was a scam was the “news article” was created and not real. I canceled my bank card immediately. Thank you so much.

• hamburgler

  I personally know a few of the people who were in the ads. For instance the guy named jason who claims to have bought a ferrari and lamborghini went to my school and a bunch of my friends know him. ANYWAYS google paid him and others to talk in front of a camera for a gift certificate at red robin!! for burgers and fries!!!!! Hell, I would have done it too for a free lunch.. any ways he claims to have come from the ghetto when he was born and raised in the suburbs. The guy was actin like a thug on camera when in real life he got beat up and made fun of by many people at school. ANyways this google thing is a hugge scam and I personally know 30 people who lost hundreds of dollars!!!! TRUE STORY

• H.S.

  Hi Adam,
  I saw one of these sites on the Yahoo Forex conversion page but when I read the small print decided to check it out and arrived on your page. The ad I saw has the same photo as one of yours but a different name – it says Jacob Marcy by the photo but Jacob Pellington in the write up ( which I didn’t notice till after reaching your page.)

  More power to you for exposing these scams!

• Renee

  I bought the google packages and didn’t read the fine print and got charged over $150 after week trial period. I just thought I was getting something int he mail. Idiot me, I will never dot hat again. One of them refunded me, I am having to go through my bank to do the other one.

• Denise

  Yup, I almost took the bait, too, a couple of days ago. Then I got an e-mail from one of my groups and it had the same ad at the bottom of the page. I clicked on it and lo and behold, the same ad with a different guy. The first ad had a video and sound and said that he was from a town near here – but I was suspicious because he had a distinctly American accent and I’m in Alberta. At first I thought maybe he immigrated here. Then I looked up his name in the telephone book for that town and couldn’t find it, again I thought maybe an unlisted number. I filled in all the information except my credit card number because I didn’t want to put that on-line. The “chat girl” told me that I could call a number and give it over the phone – that’s when thankfully, I just closed all the windows and decided to sleep on it. Today, when I found this other ad, then I really knew it was some sort of scam. So, I “Googled” the question and up came your blog – thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I can rest easy knowing my suspicions were confirmed.

• Ed

  Thanks for posting this article. Found the same ad on the left from ScottsMoneyBlog.com. Same guy, same photos, but different url.

• Jake

  How do I create this scam, so that I can make a ton of money?

• Marianne

  Hi,

  Wish I had have seen this site first! Ive went and signed up to this stupid Google scam that I saw on my Facebook page. I gave them my credit card details, although there is only about £20 on my card. What will happen though? Will they try and clean my card out even though there is nothing on it or will they try and steal my identity? What exactly are these people trying to do with their site then?

  Thanks

  Great site, Pity I was too late :o(

  Marianne

• Danielle

  Hey ,,, i think I just got cought with the scram of google make money by posting links with google … and don’t know if I will get my money back… didin’t think that I will get scram by google ,,, but the worst part is it not google it a compagni called blazingkeywords.com instand of google site … so i called the service and told me to wait for the kit for 1,95$ 10 to 14 days and so she said to go on the site blazingkeywords.com and start making money by posting links and can make money by doing other think to …
  So go on the site and you can’t do nothing and you don’t see something to do with posting links and nothing else either it’s all a big scam and I got cought dawm… so go on the site ( blazingkeywords.com) and you will see what it is…

  Thank you !!! should did more research before buying something .. this time i didn’t use my head …

• Lisa

  Shoot, I felt for it!

• Ashten

  I got suckered in too!! Please tell me how I can make it all stop!!? We cant afford them taking money off our credit card.. Please help

• Mark

  found this scam on another website with a female doing the scamming.

• Blake Dickens

  Boy, i thought i was slick but this takes the cake! I like many others have come across these blogs with the promise of making boo koo money with the google money kit. The blog i came across that caught my eye was very different looking than the scam blogs you have portrayed on this website, instead this was a hip hop blog that targeted the urban youth with fabricated tales of going from the hood life to the good life. In the end, the blog was just the same as any other google money kit blog with the promise of riches,” if you could just send us that measley $1.98 right? ” I have to admit, the idea of showing young successful guys flaunting cash, designer labels, and flawed diamonds from pakistan is almost enough to make a guy like myself ( Black ) scrape up two dollars for the cause! Almost!

• A.H.D.

  I was one of those idiots that purchased that scam- I guess I didn’t read the fine line good enough and was charged the full price at a later date which I couldn’t get back. I never realized that in order to receive any revenue you had to scam other people out of their hard earn money, I thought they would help you create your own web page and attach ad clicks you could earn money off of them but unfortunately it was a continous scam of their SCAM which I wanted no part of. They should be charged for fraud or something, they are just a bunch of crooked people in this world. Duhhhh to me!! Now I don’t trust any of those sites that will show a person how to earn money for fear they are crooks also.

• Chad

  Glad I found this site in time. Went back and read the FINE PRINT and sure enough its there! Looks like I will be cancelling my card today. Should have known by the bad grammar and the mispellings. Thank you for putting time into this site.

• simon

  just because there are different sites or pages with the same info or pics doesnt make it a scam does it? they cpuld jsut be advertising slightly differently on all the sites.

  If its a scam and so many people claim to have find out whi is behind it, how is this person still getting away with it and not been arrested? I mean, several people have posted deails of who was behind a particular site, so if its a scam and not legit, surely they would be in trouble and the things removed from the net?

  i do believe its a scam, but just think there are so many things that also say otherwise, purely that it either cant be a scam if these people have not been stopped, beuase their details are everywhere so why not??

• richard

  when i saw this i thought it may be a scam but for a couple bucks for the electronic info . i figured why not . i did not see any fine print about the 70 dollor monthly fee until i had already submitted my card . to cancel the service i have to call them ( which the office is closed ) or mail a request to some place in arizona. i was wondering if i did multiple mailings to be sure they cannot say it was not recieved and possiblly certified mail any ideas besides cancelling the card ?

• jackie

  I found link on a Weather Underground…
  The site had some of the same pictures (the woman holding her little girl), and a nice voice over as soon as it opened. “ONLY A DOLLAR” for the info….Such a deal!

  I did a search and your site was at the top of the google search list..so hopefully lots of other people will read here before they get scammed. Thanks for putting this up.
  I’ll have to find a safer way of working at home…maybe selling my chicken’s eggs! smile

• richard

  i had a lot of trouble getting this address ( the lady was from a call center in india and trying very hard not to give this to me . hope it helps
  grant springs
  51 center st
  box 621 orem utah
  84057

• JJ

  Has any heard anything about the blogtoolkit.com? I signed up for this thing 2 weeks ago and it sounds very similar to what a lot of people are saying here. But the website looked different than the one shown here. Anyway, a lot of the same stuff happened to me. The cost for the google kit was $1.97. It has been 2 weeks and guess what, nothing has arrived in the mail and no doubt never will. Also, after I made the online purchase, I got a chat window with some lady named Jennifer trying to sell me something else. I declined this offer and closed the chat window. I did read the terms and conditions carefully before I made the purchase and everything seemed ligit. I did not like the fact that there was a 14-day trial and then a monthly charge of $39.99 in order for me to use the blogtoolkit website. But I simply wanted to give it a try for a few months and if it didn’t work for me, I would cancel it. But I got really nervous when I found this website with comments posted that were very similar to my experence. Also, for the last week or so, some guy named Ryan has been trying to call me and leaving me messages on my machine. He finally got me last night and starts asking me if I would like to learn how to build an online website and business and earn $5,000 a month. I told him that I was only interested in trying out the blogtoolkit and that was it. But the fact that I received this call and that they got my credit card # when I made the purchase makes me very nervous. So yesterday, I called my credit card company and told them to notify me if they see any strange charges and I’m also monitoring my transactions online on a daily basis. If anything unauthorized charges are made, I will close the card immediately. But now I’m concerned about identify theft. Anyone have any type of positive experience with blogtoolkit.com? Should I cancel this thing now?

• JJ

  I also wanted to point out that I did an email from blogtoolkit.com which included the log in information and password to use the website. I posted a blog and did the initial set up. The next step involved Google Adsense and supposedly explains how to set up ad links so that people can click on and supposedly this is how you make money. But again, I skeptical that I will ever earn any money from Google and think that this website might be a scam for the more conservative person such as myself that was simply looking to make an extra $100-150 per month. After I complete the setup, I will post my experience here. Thanks for posting this on the net Adam. I too get very angry with people that are trying to rip people off with these types of scams.

• Robert W.

  interesting and a great gesture of legitimate concern…I was curious how mason from minooka lost his job and became a google poster chil also appreciate the web site address link for key word

• CJ

  Thanks for clearing this up. I have been looking for some real supportive background that this was fake.

• Candi

  Sorry for your loss guys! I was going on a bunch of sites trying to check these scammers out and kept coming up with someone else who wanted to get me RICH!! LOL, This is an excellent site…thanks Adam!

• mike

  I was sure it was a scam.. and if you read the disclaimer at the bottom of each page it says “This page is NOT affiliated with google” which proves it right there..

• Attourney

  Listen, This has been discussed to death and I probably am not adding much to the discussion but To those that rebuke and ask “why” Adam claims it a scam, here are your reason:
  1.) the checks comes from Citibank Europa. Citibank is an evil empire unto itself – a whole other topic – but google has an established office in the US. a check would not come from Europe to pay you in America. Its your first warning.
  2.) Scammers, 419 men (Nigerian internet criminals) have realised people got wise to their early schemes so they have created these new ones. Although, they still incorporate the same tactics. A legitimate company would not send you a check to deposit without any work done – your second major clue.
  3.) Lastly, but not least important read and educate yourself. If you read their terms of use, they use a very clear and keen phrase – “you can actually lose money”. If it was only a dollar to buy and it was a real job, how would u ever “lose” money? can you imagine at your next job interview at Starbucks the manager told you you were going to possibly end up paying them to work there? Use your brains people and stop dreaming of easy money. If you have any morality – it easy money doesnt exist.

• Sean

  BUSTED! I’ve seen about 100+ of these bogus sites…

• Janet

  Thank you for this info ~ so many of us are Sooooo stressed out about money and jobs we are looking for ANYTHING legal we can do to help ourselves out of this critical mess….
  criminals prey on us…

  what we all want to know is: Is there any legit way to make money on the internet? Or, rather, should we go green, turn our PCs off, and go ask our neighbors if they have any work for us…I could have mowed a lawn or two in the time I have spent reading about CRIMINALS from all over the WORLD scamming us! We DO need to wake up!

  Live for love

• hope

  I signed up with grants for citizens – looks like a link for additional $30 on scam mentioned above! Do you have any information about scams with Grants for Citizens?

• Michael Murray

  it is good to do a review on these scam sites before concidering if their trueblue…..and even then review sites can be just as bad!!

• Denis

  Thank you so much! thy always looked fishy to me!

• EM

  Nice article………you saved my day….i could have one of ‘em terrible nightmares. I almost fell prey to this scammers! Wow! Great research. Keep it up.

• Carlito

  Hey i just came across one of these but its called Kevins Road to riches. It was an audio recording and a pictures of people holding up cheques and stuff. I never get involved with these scams but it made laughable interest just listening to the rubbish.

• Danette

  Wow! My gut feeling was it was too good to be true. Unfortunately, it is a bad economy and for those of us without a job right now are easy prey to these scam artists. Just today, I saw the new version of the scam – “news website”. I thought to myself. This looks legitimate until I came across your website. Thank you for being so candid and honest about the GoogleCashKit scam.

• John Gunawan W

  Thanks for being there, I almost signed up since $ 1.95 won’t hurt people if it is scam though, but luckily the link didn’t work and I search on google and found your site, it was really funny that the site I just visited same as you described at your site. It makes me clear and will never pay any attention for such of this scam site. Thx alot.

• Vince

  Why dont google do something about all this? Since its their name these people are using to scam people.

• Antwan

  I fell for this scam but then i googled posting websites on google…go figure. I came across this information and cancelled my card the same day. Thank you to those who help find out the truth about these scams.

• Lew

  I almost fell for this…I started to sign up for the $1.95 charge but when I got to the Terms and Conditions page (I normally don’t read these very thoroughly when it’s a “reputable” company) I noticed in the first paragraph the statement that the payment is for a 7-day trial period and if the agreement is not cancelled by calling a phone number (which is probably never answered!), the purchaser is agreeing to a monthly charge of over $81 each month. WHAT A CROCK!

• Angel 2

  I got my money back and reported them to the FBI crime unit.
  No you dont have to loose your money..
  contact your VISa show them the website, the emails and best report them to the FBI, the more people do they get funds and kick these
  losers out of business..easy 1 2 3..

• Dharma Leggat

  These sites are not truly a scam in the full essence, as when you do spend the dollar and change to buy the “kit” you do get a 7-day trial membership to a site – it teaches you how to use sites like Blogger, Clickbank, Craigslist, and more, basically how to use Adsense, Adwords, and other sites to get you traffic and money. You probably won’t earn as much, and as quickly as advertised by all those “scam” sites, but there is legitimate money to be made. Its simply a very exaggerated scheme to get you into this. By the way, if you do not cancel within the 7-day trial, you will be charged about $75 a month. So if you ordered the “kit”, make sure you cancel within 7-days!

• Tommy H.

  Hey guys. I just wanted to say that you can make money through google. But like any legitimate business, it Takes money to Make money. I have a google account and I make real money with Adsense. I’m not going to post a screen shot of my account. I found a good web host, purchased a few domains, used FREE software to build websites, got them APPROVED by google, and get paid for advertising for legitimate businesses on my sites. It is alot of work, but it does indeed work. It takes time and MONEY!! Google is not fraudulant in any way, but some people are! Don’t waste your time or money!!!

• Lee

  I think the thing that tipped me off was the fact that they always have a comment submit button or text box that’s blocked for some reason (because it’s not real comments at all)

  It’s obvious that the “links” they are posting are there own pages.
  Yes, if you give a credit card, they can sign you up for auto-pay, and legally they are allowed to do so until you notify them. If they don’t reply, you have to talk to your card company, and then they can still submit to a third party company to get the money. At which point…. it’s a lawsuit you’ll have to file.

  Yes, there are ways to make sites and allow google ads, which gets you money…. but it’s not $25 a link. You have to get traffic and then it’s like so much cents a click. That can equal $25 a link…..

  However, they make their money by charging you monthly for a product that doesn’t deliver monthly.

• Leshelle

  These people are heartless. They are thieves in the best sense. I got scammed to. Thought as many of the above others did that 1.72 for a kit wasn’t too bad. Should have known & am old enough to know better that immediately I should have cancelled my debit card. Sure enough, several days later, they w/d 80.00 out of my account. It’s now cancelled but I have an overdrafted account which is a mess. Thankfully I have an account @ another bank that is in the plus. Not sure how to get money back (banks are heartless too have found out hard way in past when it comes to you willingly giving debit card # to anybody & then wanting money back cuz didn’t read FINE print. Very painful lesson. ;-(

• Donnie

  I want to thank you for this valuable information because I was just about to order this June 14, 2009. After reading your report thank God I did not.
  God Bless You

• JEAN

  thank you very much… i was thinking about this,, and i was ready to sign up for it(my credit card was ready, but then again had a second thought) thanks again

• janiceenberg

  Just saying hello to you all .. Still a bit confused about the goings on here, but I guess I’ll keep poking around.

• bob jones

  yeah i used to sell for google money master until i saw the fraud that they were doing i have the address and phone number of the place and i am trying to get them prosecuted.

• Bowler

  good journalism/investigation skills; it just confirms what’s always been true… there is no “quick and easy way to make money” as soon as you hear this, red flags should go up in your mind

• Heather

  Adam,
  I was just browsin the internet and ive seen these adds hundreds of times, but today something told me…why not? I almost did gave them my information, but I decided to actually check google and your site came up. Thank you so much for your site. It saved me a major headache.

• metalhaid

  Hahahahaha I love how in this woman’s website she claims she is in “France” when you can totally tell it is DISNEYLAND!!! She must think people are even stupider than they really are. I asked my 15 yr old daughter where that was and she said without hesitation, “Disneyland.” So if they lie in their ad about their family picture…what else are they lying about? Your website is a godsend to those who are smart enough to see through the hype and can forestall their greed long enough to check it out…remember folks, if it’s too good to be true…then it probably is. A lie, that is.

• Liz

  I was duped and mad at myself and furious with the crooks. I was charged 79.99 under Blazing Words..got a phone prompt which was bogus. However as stupid as I feel I am really upset with Google allowing this to be posted on AT&T home web page. Why didn’t Google stop this immediately and warn people???

• diana

  I almost, almost, almost fell for it. On Internet Explorer, Mary Steadman is from the next town over, so I looked her up and figured she has an unlisted number. On Firefox, Mary is from Rocky Hill, CT. The photo looks like a woman w/her kid at a flea market or something… whatever. This ad is the opening page when I open yahoo. Because the abc, CNN, USAToday, etc. logos are all here, I clicked on each logo and found a video clip of some woman talking about this great money making opportunity, but the web address was NOT abc, CNN, USAToday or any of the others they say endorsed this great job.

  I was thinking of trying it with a debit card with only $5 in it, so they can’t take any more, but thought better of it because they might be able to access my savings account for them to drain. When I started googling “making money posting google links” I did find a site that claims to have tested hundreds and found 3 or 4 legit sites… but who knows. Does anyone even know if there is such a job posting links? I’ve always wondered who posts all google’s links.

  Thanks to whoever started this dis board; kudos to all who didn’t fall for the scam; condolences to those who did.

• diana

  I just tried typing the following into my address bar: marysmoneyblog.com and got Mary Steadman’s story. stevesmoneyblog.com and guess what? His story is Mary’s story… verbatim (are these two people cosmically linked? Twins separated at birth and adopted out to two different people? But one is hispanic and one is caucasian!… too ironic, wouldn’t you say?)
  Well just start typing in any name you can think of, that’s what I did… kevinsmoneyblog.com; stevesmoneyblog.com, etc, etc, etc. And lo and behold… they ALL make the same amount of money and all had boring jobs and all had maxed out their credit cards… to the EXACT same amount!!!
  I’m being facetious… not serious… just fortifying the already posted statement that this is a scam!!! How do we teach our children that honesty is the best policy when they are exposed to lies at every turn!!!
  Shameful.

• Rick

  Shady business tactics? Isn’t this kind of thing illegal? I want to wring their frigging necks. Weasels.

• brian

  I was dumb enough to purchase the google thing. they charged me $1.97 and then 10 days later got hit for $70 dollars. I was able to call them and get a full refund. I’ll explain more if you want to know!

• diana

  I GOT SCAM IM FINDING OUT TODAY THEY TOOK WAY MORE THEN SHOULD OVER DRAWLED MY ACCOUNT WHAT DO I DO I CALLED THE BANK ,AND NOW IM READING ALL THIS I WISH 10 DAYS AGO I WOULDNT OF DONE THIS ALL OVER 1.95 FOR SHIPPING AND NO PACKAGE HOW DO I GET MY MONEY BACK

• dawn

  yes i fell for it paid the $1.98 then some how ended up on the site profitstudiolearning.com signed up for that how to create website and get goggle ads sense to publish on my website. so I realize the first part was a scam but is the is profitstudiolearning.com a scam as well. and if not what are the chances of really making money?

• Steve

  This is a sham. They got me good. Don’t do it.

• Denny

  I to fell for this scam, I read the terms and conditions and no where that I could see was there a “trial period” and then they were going to charge me a “monthly fee”. Wow I cannot believe that they get away with this stuff, I also called my bank and of course there was nothing they could do as well, their position was that I voluntarily gave my banking info to the company and therefore it was not “fraud”. About the only thing I learned that was useful from my bank is that is outfit is centered out of Greece. Even though the company originally promised to send me a “cd packed with info to help me make money” , somehow it still was not fraud that my bank could file a claim on.
  I as well canceled my debit card and called the company and of course they would not “refund my purchase” but they did in fact send me a cancellation number. I cannot believe that company’s like google and ebay allow companys to get away with using their names to scam normal everyday people like this. I am past being angry, I just feel dumb for having fallen into there trap. So I guess they really have found a way to make money using the internet, by scamming people out of their hard earned cash. Funny enough I asked the guy who answered the phone when I called them if he had trouble sleeping at night and he said “I sleep just fine and I love my job”. Well some people can justify just about anything to themselves and live with it.

• John Q.

  Thanks for saving me the time and effort, I’ll stick to my day job.

• Mercedes

  thank you for being real with the scam, when I tried to find out if it was a scam more sites that were scams came up to convince me it was legit I read the fine print and saw the fee, new it was a scam but I need a legit option anyone know of one?

• Jen

  I’ve seen this google site twice and I’ve been shady about it from the first time I’ve seen it. It had led me to research the site to find any articles proving their site is a scam. What made me become sketchy is when I read the article, it said something that in order to get the TRIAL kit for a buck and some change, it sent a red flag to me. The word TRIAL set me off. It led me to wonder if the trial kit is for a buck, then what else will they be charging me for. I believe that before you invest into something, it is always important to do the research.

• tevin

  Yes so i was just about to give them my credit info too..as commonly heard—struggling university student and I just felt I should google the webisite to see if it was real and found this site..Thank God!..was still on site and was bored to posed as FBI agent and said to the fakest operator that she had been caught and they would be arrested..lol..and here was the response
  You: ARE U SERIOUS?

  Karen: I don’t understand why you’re speaking like that. Please let me do my job!

  i even posted this link and she said..

  Karen: Please stop messing around and get serious! I’m here because I truly want to help you make money and I really mean that. CLICK HERE and let’s get you going right now!

  Karen: As I said a moment ago please rest assured that any concerns will be addressed with the unlimited support that is included. CLICK HERE and get started it’s easy!

  You: YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT

  Karen: Last chance! As a final offer to “sweeten” the deal we’ll give you a Free trial to our Grant Master and Network Agenda program as well! CLICK HERE to take advantage of this special offer now!

  Karen: As I said a moment ago please rest assured that any concerns will be addressed with the unlimited support that is included. CLICK HERE and get started it’s easy!

  You: YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT

  You: LIARSSSSSSSSSSSSS

  Karen: Okay it looks like you’re not interested! Hold On! Because I want to recommend you try it anyway! CLICK HERE to make money!

  You: FAKE

  You: FAKE

  Karen: It’s been great chatting with you and I have to go because it’s really busy right now. Sorry! Good luck and simply click on one of the links above to get started.

  no questions cud be answered or anything……….and so it goes..

• TheCount

  Adam, perhaps you misunderstood. Maybe they all made enought money to buy a picture of a Range Rover

• Steve

  I am so sick of these idiots trying to scam people I can puke, especially when the economy is in the shape it’s in right now and so many people have lost their jobs. I have seen many of these over the years in attempting to find an honest work at home opportunity and I’ll tell you, I’ll never buy one of these things again until I google it and find out if it is indeed a scam. In the search field, just type the company and then review or scam to see what others say about it. Just don’t give in to these guys. They all should go to that HOT place in the core of the earth if you know what I mean for doing this to innocent people.

• Kat

  I had recently signed up for this offer, thinking it was a good deal…..after this site kept declining my debit and credit cards (i tried both bc the website wasn’t “working” women’s intuition baded me to check it out with research…..sure enough after googling this so called deal, I found out it was a scam…I immediately cancelled my debit card and had my credit card froze (will call them later today to cancel card since that department is closed as of now)….so there will not be any charges made to any of my cards and I went and I went ahead and verified if any charges had been made to be on the safe side and luckily there were not………I feel like a complete idiot for falling for this but am relieved to have found out before any charges or withdrawals were placed on my cards…thank you so much for posting this information……..if it was not on here, I might have never known about this scam.

• Paul

  I thought the google thing was a crock to start with but luckily I did read the fine print at the bottom and saw the recurring charge so I closed out and yep…the fake live operator thing came up with the offer to reduce the price to .97
  Has anyone seen or have any info on the one where you supposedly get listings of millions of products that you can list auctions for on e-bay and the company selling the products will pay you $13 for each listing? They want $97 to get the site where the listings are so I left.

• Shy

  ITS A SCAM…RUN LIKE HELL

• dee

  i paid the $1.95 yesterday. but thanks to one of your post i realized that u can be charged after 7 days . so i just called and cancelled it. it u dont call after seven days u will continue to be charged. i rather lose $1.95 then to continue to be scammed thanks !

• christina

  I almost bought the google kit, then I read on and found this website…now that I look back at the ad, which I saw on Kijiji, it claims this guy is from my hometown, but says something about “all Americans” wanting to make this kind of money doing only a couple hours of web surfing a day…HELLO!!!! I live in Alberta. We are Canadian! How stupid. And I don’t have a credit card, was going to use a friend’s…thank goodness I found this site.

• grace

  And to think I was going to sign up to one of those. That is horrible.

• Theresa

  Well I did get scammed – and feel totally DUMB! I missed the 7 day cutoff by 1 day, and the “CSR” was rude and told me I would “have to get over it because the $69 had already been posted to my account.” I was looking at my account online at the time and I knew it hadn’t been posted. I called the bank and cancelled the credit card to stop any future charges. Too bad I didn’t investigate further.

• av

  Did anyone else notice in the fine print that if you have any problem, you have to agree to abide by the laws in Nicosia, Cyprus? I mapped it and Cyprus is an island in the Middle East. Run!

• Jossel

  As things in the intyernet are is very logical to untrust these kind of offers but it´s kinda strange that there is no official posture from google itself to avoid these kind of frauds using their name. In fact maybe can be making some money out of this by posting a serious website registered at the proper authorities in the US to inform people about all tne scam websites they could find un the net. These kind of blogs are cool but we are not dealing with the problem at the root. I´ve never seen any legal or official posture from google or aol etc, though they are using their official logo and commercial names.

• Ms. A

  Thanks! This is a wonder write up! I found the website and thought is was too good to be true! Thanks for clearing that up!!

• Scotty B!

  Wow thanks guys amazing stories, SO Interesting to know that the scam company behind this is based in Cyprus the middle eastern country island Scamming North Americans using the internet , that completely explains the total lack of remorse to the one’s who did get scammed and wanted their money back. Im calling Obama directly about this one.

• Artr

  Thx a ton guys! I almost bought it. Thx for clarification!

• Jo

  we all know it is a scam, taken by it also, and not affiliated with the actual GOOGLE search engine company why does GOOGLE keep it going on their search engine.
  The paperwork filed by the Texas attorney General states not affiliated wth GOOGLE and yet GOOGLE promotes it by having it in their search engine.
  Anyone have any thoughts to this?

• CarF

  I did order the make money on google kit for $2.29. After ordering it, I was surfing the web and came across your blog. I immediately called customer service and cancelled my order. I was assured by Rosalin the Supervisor that everything had been cancelled and my card would be refunded the $2.29. But how can I be sure that they will not use the number anyway? Should I request a new debit card from the bank? Please answer quickly.

• David D.

  Thank You For Taking The Time In Educating The Public In These “To Good To be True Scams” And, I thought ROBIN HOOD was just a fairytale.

• Andy

  Oh, there is another one from “Google” .It offers work for ebay. Do not get fooled by that one !!! It’s the same stuff.

• tito

  You’ll find something interesting if you read the whole BS and then take a look at the date on the check. SCAM!

• MAx

  I’d like to know why Google lets these ads run in their Google Ad links. I guess the money they get from the scammers is ok by them.

• VAS

  Hey Adam,

  add this link to your collection of snapshots above. New fella is called Kevin and he now owns a Mercedes.:)

• Scott

  CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO STOP THESE DAMN OFFERS FROM POPPING UP ON MY COMPUTER? I HAVE A POP UP BLOCKER TURNED ON AND IT STILL COMES ON!

• Q Jones

  A….they almost had me…they even called my phone actually BEGGING me to give them my credit card info for the kit….

• jason

  i would like to know how these people let scammers online anyway. so anyone can come up with a line of crap to sell you. hire people to take call, and make calls. that has to be not so cheap. they use your credit card # to rob you and start another site.. even that msc or what ever it is (with the guy from happydays) is part scam. you can make money but you have to pay or $400.00 first.. if you need to pay for job online it is crap… if anyone knows of real site to work for can you leave a post for me. i found one but you only get surveys 1 or 2 times a week. vindale.

• Ben Dover

  The bottom of the “News Article” format says: “THE STORY DEPICTED ON THIS SITE AND THE PERSON DEPICTED IN THE STORY ARE NOT REAL. RATHER, THIS STORY IS BASED ON THE RESULTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE USED THESE PRODUCTS HAVE ACHIEVED. THE RESULTS PORTRAYED IN THE STORY AND IN THE COMMENTS ARE ILLUSTRATIVE, AND MAY NOT BE THE RESULTS THAT YOU ACHIEVE WITH THESE PRODUCTS. THIS PAGE RECEIVES COMPENSATION FOR CLICKS ON OR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS FEATURED ON THIS SITE.”

• Jorge

  Man do i feel dumb i got so into the whole thing an went to this site:(hotbusinessmarket.com)And paid the $1.95 for s&h.Then tried login in and wasn’t able to then it hit me it might be a scam.I then found your site thru google and I called the customer service number that was on the email they send me with a receipt for the $1.95 and cancelled.The guy Gary gave me a cancellation auth #.He said i’d be billed for the $1.95 and not the $81.00 after the 7 day trial .let’s see !!!Thanks for the info !!!

• Mr. G

  you know i saw the same thing, they are on the job site to. (hotjobs, monster, etc.)

• Frank

  This website is now advertising on Facebook. Facebook is now being used as a medium to dupe hundreds of thousand of users.

• Dan

  I keep seeing these pages and I had to do some research on this before I signed up for anything and im glad I did find out more about it. In this life time most people work really hard to get to where they are at and with the way the country has been there has been a ton of lay offs and people losing there jobs so some people can only get a crappy job to make ends meet. It sucks big time. I have a lot of respect for people who have low paying jobs. They are great people who only want to live life and be happy.

• Silvia

  I also run into one of these website( it was the Job Jurnal that you have posted only it was from the city where i live) that promises money just by posting Google adds and went to sign up since the fee for getting the material on how to do everything was only $1.95. but for some reason before clicking ok I clicked on terms and conditions firs, and my oh my what did it say there..You pay $1.95 and within 7 days if you don’t cancel for some reason you will be charged $75.00 per month every month until you cancel the membership, and if you don’t have membership you can work in their program. Right then I knew it was a scam. And they advertise is free money just pay $1.95…yeah right

• adam from ohio

  All the way man, couldn’t have said it better. I had some feeling those were always a scam, but I never knew for sure. Well done. We should get this article around the internet as much as we can! Peace brother!

• Gaby

  DAMN!!! I fell for it as well. Gave my credit card number too!
  Have a question though, I did receive information and link to Google Resource Center, as well as AdWords and ClickBank affiliates.
  Are these scams as well?

• Genny

  Hey Adam, maybe u misunderstood cus,what if they just saved up all that money and bought that kinda car?….but then again u might be right cus my mom went across the same page of scottsmoneyblog.com and she saw that it was the same guy and girl from coreyhasmoney.com! It was the same girl and the same guy,check the internet if ya’ll want.datz it!
  PEACE!

• lucky

  hi! thanks so much for posting this. i almost got fooled by the scam. i thought it was real coz i saw it posted on WAHM.com. now i’m doubting if WAHM.com itself is real.

  the fact though that this “Scott” from the scam website wasn’t able to show which place he’s originally from, i was already skeptical about the legitimacy of the site. i didn’t understand at first when i read in prosperly.com that this “Scott” guy grew up in the same place where his/her office is because the address didn’t show up in my browser. when prosperly.com mentioned that the scam site gets your IP address and so on, that’s when i understood. i guess the scam site wasn’t able to acquire my IP coz i’m not from the US (i’m from Asia) and it would be very weird if he’d say that he originally grew up from my place. lol.

  i can’t thank you enough prosperly for posting this blog. you saved a lot of people like me who are desperate to look for online jobs but are very careful not to be scammed. again, thank you!

• jo

  if you put your area code or any area code that correlates with a city ie: EX: 816 area code and then 000-0000 for your phone number and then kansas city as your city and “any street or Abc Street or whatever with a number on an address line and etc etc and none@none.com for an email and hit enter when you want to explore these websites they will usually go on to the next page where you can see their spill.
  If it goes to the next page after putting fictituous info in I figure it is a scam and they just want your info and if it wont go on to the next page without correct info I figure it is for real although I maybe wrong.

• Jerry

  You just saved me from becoming a victim of a scam. I have been very internet savvy and thought I knew what I was doing. So far I have had good luck. I just about signed up and something told me to look it up first and sure enough, there in lay the very add I was looking at. Thank you for your help!

• Larson

  I was introduced to this scam via a facebook wall post.
  It was from a friend’s account, but they did not send it.
  Is there any way to figure out who did that?

• Cassandra Smith

  Please give me the number to call to cancell this because its taken money from my acct and I haven’t received any kit or I can’t log on to web sit please help!!!

• June Oehley

  I posted my resume on our local Craig’s List and received three emails regarding this exact thing just today. I was just about to click on the ad, but thought to google the issue on google first. This brought me to you. I am so glad I did, thanks, People need to watch the emails that are sent regarding this same thing. Thanks so much for the insight, you saved me.

• Shakeilah

  Yes, I have seen this same exact scam several different times. The best advice that I can give someone is to avoid any websites that ask you to give them your phone number before you can get any access to ordering. This is definitely a *red flag* and is one that is used with the site that you’ve mentioned. Also, when someone needs any personal information from you, just to give you some, then you should also avoid these sites too. Usually, cloned websites are very easy to spot because the site owner is usually too lazy to change up with the words that they use. So beware of all of these scams. Look for facts and proven & tested sites before you join!

• Shyee

  Thank goodness I saw this page…I just got laid off from my job and my husband found the google kit on line when he searched for making money on line…my husband kept saying I should order it because it was only 1.95…I read the terms and conditions and saw it was not just 1.95 for shipping fees…they charge your card 70 something dollars a month plus some other charges..its ridiculous…I had a feeling it was a scam…I’ve been scammed before…I’m so glad i came across this…but i have a question…do you get paid for people to post on your page? sorry for asking but I’m curious

• mascayo

  Today I found this scheme at alexa, and it made me curious.
  your explanation is very clear. Thx alot.

• Kierra

  I am all too familiar with this sort of scam. If you trace back the IP, it comes to a company in Florida. What is happening is that the website detects your IP Address and then inserts the state from which your IP originates onto the web page. If you copy down the URL and then access it on another computer in another state, you will get the same ad but it will use references from the new state.

• Deborah

  Thank you!!! I logged on tonight to order this kit because my boyfriend convinced me to try it by showing me the article of the guy with the range rover :0 Thank goodness i had second thoughts and decided to research!!! You just kept both of us from being scammed!!!

• Tic

  Hi I have just spent about a hour reading site/comments. This is not a scam just the same as clean eazy and all those other deliver catalogues earn £50 a hour all you have todo is shell out the upfront fees of like £50 scam? no!.

  This is the reason the police/google/fbi/ya mom wont do anything as they do offer you a product for your money that you can make money from they could charge you 1 penny for it and then 1 million after 7 days it would not make it any more or less legal.

  Anyone know of jamster on every summer when the kids break up from school all you do is text them and in the small print it then says your signed up for £4.50 a week recurring scam? no!.

  Have you ever seen a job earn 10-18k OTE(on target earnings) so if you only made 10k in a year would this be a scam because you didnt make 18k?

  If apples where selling for 1mill each and i sold you a pack of apple seeds for 10 mill and the tree didnt grow would i then be scamming you as i had said people who grow these trees make 50 million?. Also add the cost of a field and a tracktor etc etc which i didnt tell you about when i sold you the seeds which you can buy from me at a excelent members discount. So at the end your like 50 mill out of pocket dead apple tree and a tractor and a field to show for it all did i scam you? no!

  Now i normaly dont post on the internet as it is filled with enough rubbish as it is but i felt this needs to be pointed out you are not being scammed you are just not getting as much as fast as you want for the price you were paying or future costs involved. My advice to you guys who think you are being scammed is get together pool your funds start a business whatever just stop thinking your going to turn 2$ into 7k a month.

  There are plenty of ways to make money online but it takes time and effort possibly more time and effort than a normal job would for a possible lower return.

  I have made money from free to play online games and i have made money from paid to pay online games. There are mystery shopping companies out there who will pay you to eat out go shopping etc but it isnt going to make you rich.

  But on a serious note go do a rubbish job for 6 months save the money do a business plan goto bank ask them to match your investement supported by a well fleshed out business plan and then take proper control over your life instead of thinking these things will solve your troubles.

  This isnt meant to offend anyone who feels as though they have been scammed and you can take solace in the fact that you havnt you just paid alot of money to learn a way of making money on the net as a previous poster said they make money from adsense it takes time and effort todo he even told you what he did so if your smart and realy want to make money from adsense do that you will make money just not alot maybe.

  to all those that have signed up you can take a bit of comfort in the fact that even though the company has low businness morals they are still a legit company so you prolly have a little bit of time to change your info before it goes out the back door which i suspect happens after you cancle membership maybe.

  To those who say that the terms of service didnt state the extra fees well you need to find those terms of service screen shot print off and take to bank and say that the payment was a erronious transfer the bank will refund you instantly and chase the company for the money.

  And to those who think google should remove them from the wibly wobly web well tbh why would they bother it actually advertises a google product which they do make money from.

  So to conclude if you realy realy dont like how these guys opperate then you need to fight them using trading laws and legislation for example many people have said they never rrecieved the initial pack those people need to complain to trading standards etc if enough complaints get put forward then they will be investigated and dealt with as appropriate untill then they are a legit company.

  And for those wondering about having to abide by cyprus law dont to trade in other countries they as a company have to abide by international and your countries laws to trade there i.e you can sell certain things in some countries but not all like weed in amsterdam if they sent it into your country they are then breaking the laws of your country.

  Anyhows peace out all and dont believe everything you read.

• Brett

  Thank you, thank you, thank you !!! I nearly got caught by this SCAM until I read your posting on the subject. A lot of people I see are getting scammed by this ad due to our economy. Man’s inhumanity to man, will it ever cease?

  Great article. Thanks again for posting it.

• Jason

  THANK YOU

  i was seriously going to start this with high hopes…

  THANK GOODNESS THANK YOU

• Kelvin

  Our judicial system should get tough and blindfold these scam artist and put them before the firing squad. The economy is bad enough already and we certainly do not need these scum of the earth to add to our problem in life. Please let me know where they live if you do find them and post their address in this web site and we will all pay a social visit to their home with baseball bat and piano wire. Oh, please do not forget to bring some cement bags so the body stays under the water after the job is finished.

• Jordan

  All you’ve proven is that these websites use sleazy marketing tactics… You haven’t bothered to spend the $1.97 to prove whether or not the service that they promote is actually a scam.

  The people making these similar-looking websites are just affiliates for the service anyways; it’s not appropriate to judge the service based on the actions of the affiliates. You or me could quite easily sign up to be an affiliate and start marketing the service as ethically or as immorally as we wanted to…it would do nothing to change the service itself.

  I’m not saying that the service is or isn’t a scam…but you haven’t done sufficient research to say so either. You have little understanding of affiliate marketing if you think it’s reasonable to conclude that the Google Money Master product is a complete scam based on the fact that some of the websites promoting it look alike and lie about the life stories of their obviously fictional characters.

  Wouldn’t it have been easier to spend $1.97 to try out the service and report your findings?

  This article has really hurt the credibility of your website and could be considered slander of your competitor. (you’re both in the make money online business, right?)

  In fact, I’m pretty sure declaring that website a scam without having proven anything IS slander, 100%.

• Rey

  I’m glad I am not in US/CANADA OR UK coz I’m eager to join and willing to pay the $1++ shipping. Until I search to big G and land to this site and read this article. Thanks for clarifying this scam.:)

  Rey

• Juliana

  Wow, I had a feeling this was an incredible scam…I received this article link from some fake Vancouver Paper. At first I though it looked legitimate and I though, wow, that must be an incredibly stupid paper to post an article to such a scam… because, who the heck would profess they are making so much money and showing everyone and anyone how to do it on the net?

  There is still such a thing as offer and demand that predicts how much money your going to make. If there is too much of ‘you’, you’re going to make less money… Also, I want on that sign up page just to see… I entered my info, and bang! I qualify? Jeez, That was a difficult aptitude test. Why don;t we all quit our jobs and post ads on google???

• badbillybovine

  if you think these scams are real just try this, go to the site directly from your comp. wow the people are from your home town! next copy the URL and paste it into a proxy and WOW the person is from an undisclosed location!

• Joe_Cracker

  If it’s a scam being played at the level you described, then it’s plain and simple. “It’s not google, it’s someone else.” no fortune 500 company would be involved in such a scam and let themselves get caught.

• lisa

  WOW! the same for me i was looking for there site just now because i had lost it i was just going to join in.Thank you so much for letting us know . im so glad that i didn`t give my boyfriends credit card # (He would of been pissed at me oof) i was just telling him too not to woorie about it lol A BIG THANKS AGAIN

• GOT DUPED

  Well I did get duped. What I didn’t realize that its 1.97 for the first week and after that its supposedly $77 dollars a month (though they took 80.58 all together) Let me tell you there was no blinking lights saying it was a week trial. Another thing they dont mention that you will need a website to make your money until after you submit your cc info. so yep i got duped and yep i’m not taking it laying down i’m fighting lol whose with me!!

• Elaine

  I’m a bit to late usually I investigate things like this such as the Acia Berry scam. This time I gave my info its late and I’m tired. Hopefully they cant do anything with my info I’m get charged that $1.97 and call it a day. I am so sick of people trying to get rich on other people.

• richie

  lol u shud seriously get adsense crackin on here ! ure first on the search for make money lol

• PJ

  Good article, but surely your point about the range rover is a bit thin? He could easily put a deposit down and pay it off? Good stuff anyway

• razoredge

  Hi, thanks for the straight steer. I kinda doubted the site I came across anyways. Curiously, the blonde girl promoting the scam was from Dublin, my city, in the postal district of my ISP! Also, the picture of the cheque from Citigroup Europe, spelled cheque as check. Further, the Range Rover is a left hand drive, despite the fact that we drive right hand drives here. They usually fall down on the little things eh?

• andrew

  What the giveaway was for me were the comments at the bottom. They all sounded generic and totally superficial. One of the comments even said, “Geez, I made so much money from this.” I mean who the heck would say that it sounds retarded. lol

• GOT RICH BY GOOGLE

  I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT. I HAVE BEEN USING THIS SYSTEM FOR A LITTLE OVER 3 YEARS NOW. LET ME TELL YOU, I NET OVER 400K MY FIRST YEAR, AND I HAVE ALREADY PASSED THAT NUMBER AT THE HALFWAY MARK THIS YEAR. I USED TO HANG BY A STRING FINANCIALLY, BUT NOW IT SEEMS I’M JUST ALWAYS ON VACATION. BTW, THAT BLACK RANGE ROVER YOU SEE IN THE ADS, IT WAS ORIGINALLY MINE. ;)

• Jane

  Hey, Thanks for the awesome post. I saw the same thing just pop up (stupid pop up blocker didn’t do its job) and I was so nervous because I didn’t know how they knew where I live to mention someone that lives in my area making that money. I worked in banking so when they posted a pic of a check, red flag went up in my head (that’s just not a smart thing to do). Also, the routing number is 8 digits.. not a real check, people. Thanks for the clarification!

• HartHenry

  Hi Adam:
  About 20 Post from the top is a post from CLOCK whom allegedly “hates” this article because you (Adam) do not put any “information” into this article about the scam. If you could somehow just place MARKS post right under CLOCKs regarding litigation with Texas, every question that CLOCK has is explained in great detail. The Attorney General of Texas did a great job with the Claim. It is here:

  http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2009/042209infusionmedia_pop.pdf

  Thanks,
  HH

• Joe Joe the idiot pet

  Wow, I have seen it all! From crap on the web that warps your mind to people trying to rip you off and steal your money. Humanity, if you ask me faith is a load of #@$@! At the core of the human experience you find nothing but decay!

• Nhette

  oh wow! i was almost duped! i was kinda in doubt while reading that internet job, but i thought it may be true because it was a link from CNN.com.

  then i fill out the form, when i reach the Credit card info page, i started to feel something was wrong! so i googled it… and voila i found this webpage saying it’s a scam. =)

  thank you for posting this….

• John

  Google can’t do much about these scams. True, Google can sue them for using the name, but where to find them?

  2nd, remember what they are selling: The Scam. Your job is to go out and scam more people. The more people hook into your scheme, the more $ you make, your up line make. etc. Traditional MLM scheme.

  These things have been around for ages. They just modernized.

  J.

• DARREN1976

  How do we know you are not scamming people? dont mean to be rude but twice you have listed a website that leads to lessons in making “real money” from the web, and i have just been there, and quess what? that sitye is asking for 1 dollar to get 30 days of training through videos ….then a substantial fee every month after that if you stay with them!!! like i said, im not being rude, but if you really are caring enough to stop people being scammed by reporting on this google links thing then you will appreciate me asking this question….and i quote” If we can impress you enough during your $1 “first date” with The Keyword Crash Course Video Series, we’re going to ask you to maintain a membership in our community of learners for $33 per month.” from the website you posted on a couple of occasions above.

• Neal

  I’m not the best on computers yet was smart enough to find your site. Thanks, the lure of easy money during these times
  is tough. I need your kind of in-put. Thanks again for your energy. Neal

• PLS

  Yep, I just got hit by this. I sign up for this google crap for $1.95 and receive an email with information for Money Mastery. The email says if I don’t want it, to click edit next to my name after signing in, the click DO NOT RENEW… guess what… that option does not exist.

  It just took me 7 days to get a live person at the number listed, but in the meantime they have charged me almost $50.

  They actually called me a liar when I told them the website advertising Google information states NOTHING about Money Mastery… it did not. I sure wish I could recreate my route now. I plan on contacting the Utah Attorney General’s office, since according to my bank, they are based in Lehi, Utah.

  Beware of anything that costs so little money, there will be fine print whether you can actually see it or not.

• Chris

  Yes sadly to say I’m a victom to this as well.. Its nothing but a SCAM! They ended up charging me like 3 times for a kit I never got and once my wife read the statement I thought it was gonna cause divorce lol.. They all together charged me like $250 when it was only going to be $1.99… BEWARE THE GOOGLE SCAM!!

• Adam

  DARREN1976, thanks for your concern. I guess you never really know in life if something is a scam. Everything we have written on Prosperly could be a scam. Hopefully our readers can see that we do know what we are talking about and that we are honest and sincere in our effort to help others prosper online. So when we make a recommendation for a legitimate company we truly hope that our readers feel they can trust us. If you don’t feel that way then don’t sign up for the service. It is too bad that people have been cheated so many times that now they don’t want to trust anyone.

• JOY

  I just received a response from my listing on Craigslist. Saying that I might be interested in making money online with Google. Funny, It is the exact same ad that you have listed here except is states my city. So Glad i was smart enough to look into it. And Smart enough to know not to spend my $1.98 for moer info.

• Niall

  Classic Scam, I used a proxy ip address from Dubai (I’m from Ireland) and guess what…..Someone from my hometown of abu dhabi also makes over 9000 dollars a month. Brilliant

• jrnymn

  beware social tool kit

  i signed up for one of the $2 google info products, not realizing i was being automatically signed up with several other products/services that charge $35 – $45 a month, EACH!

  all the others have kindly reimbursed me, but socialtoolkit has taken the stance that if i agreed to the terms, wittingly or unwittingly, then they have every right to keep my money. they know full well that i am less than pleased, and that i plan on exposing their deceptive business practices, but apparently a quick $35 is more important to them than the reputation of their company; which they insist is legit!

  what i find annoying enough is this new business practice of signing people up for services they don’t even need, nor want, and then giving them a certain time period to cancel. but these guys have taken it to a whole new level of annoying! not only do you end up signed up for several services you don’t need, nor want, but you have no idea which services they are until your credit card gets charged!!! there’s no email sent, informing you of all the companies that now have you signed up, so that you can go and check them out and make an informed decision of whether or not you want to cancel. no, you’re just expected to pull their websites out of your ass!!! you’re just expected to know each and every company’s website and length of trial period. all the while, these same companies claim to be involved in improving social networking! are they so daft to not realize their deceptive business practices do nothing to improve their own reputation amongst the social networking community???

  moreover, google has done nothing to stop this sort of thing. clearly they are profiting from this, otherwise legal action would have been initiated a long time ago. shame on google for being part of, if not fully responsible for this sort of deceptive business practice.

• jrnymn

  here’s an example of how dishonest the folks at social tool kit are: when i contacted them, several times they mentioned my ‘signing up’ with them. i told them i never did sign up with them. their response was “we do not solicit our services, so you must have been signed up automatically thru one of the google money products, such as money masters”. interestingly, i just read a complaint regarding these hucksters, where the person asked how they ended up signed up with social tool kit, and was told “we’re not really sure”. this person said, oh, maybe it was thru the money masters site, seeing as i ordered something from them recently… to which the phone rep replied, “we’ve never heard of money masters, and have no affiliation with any such company of that name.”

  can you believe it?!?! they deny the very company that generates most, if not all of their business!!!

• Charles Palsa

  Well Adam,

  Thanks for the heads up, almost bought the package haha!
  Also to DARREN1976, Adam is at least responding to our messages rather than having an automated webpage sell it for him which is a rather supporting factor.

• Jenny

  I’ve been dooped!!! I’ve tried calling every phone number to cancel the membership and it leads to the same voicemail. I’m frustrated and stressed out!! How can I get them to stop taking money from my bank account???

• jrnymn

  here’s a note to anyone who still thinks these google money traps are legit.

  their privacy policies clearly state:

  Protecting personally identifiable information about our partners and clients is an essential cornerstone of our business. We share and disclose such information only as described below. 1) when we need to share your information with third parties, such as banks and credit card processors, to provide the product or service you have requested; 2) it is appropriate to comply with law; 3) it is necessary to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of our Terms of Service and/or other applicable agreements; or 4) it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our users, or others, which may include the exchange of information with other organizations for fraud protection and/or risk reduction. In the event that our company is acquired, customer account information may be one of the transferred assets.

  moreover, the sites that do address the purchase of additional products and services in their terms and conditions state this:

  Certain products or Services may be offered for sale on the Sites. In the event you wish to purchase or to subscribe for any of these products or Services, you will be asked by Money Search Today to supply certain information, including without limitation, your full name, address, telephone number and credit card information. You agree to provide Money Search Today with the foregoing information as well as any other mandatory information that is accurate, complete and current, and to comply with the terms and conditions of any agreement that you may enter into governing your purchases. You shall be responsible for all charges incurred through your account as well as for paying any applicable taxes.
  If you open a subscription account on any of the Sites, you hereby agree to pay all charges to your account, including any applicable taxes, in accordance with billing terms in effect at the time the fee or charge becomes payable. Money Search Today reserves the right to change the amount of, or basis for determining, any fees or charges, and to institute new fees, charges or terms effective upon notice to Members.

  now, where does it say you hereby agree to them passing on, or selling your personal banking information to other companies??? and where does it mention you are agreeing to be automatically signed up to several other monthly subscriptions???

  so, for example, where does it mention subscriptions to socialtoolkit, or eauctionlab, or resourseproducts, among many others??????

  of course google money traps are a scam!!!

• caroline

  does anybody out there actually think that anybody will come up wih a honest legal way of making money on Google without trying to rip people off??

• Michael

  its actually not a scam.. cause my mom is making $200 a day with google adsense when she order the software..

  maybe it just depend on the people who’s using it

• chris

  This should really be common sense. People seem to lack it these days. It’s simple economics folks; most people work full time (40 hours per week) and wages vary. As a result of demand for labor, market wages are set accordingly and vary as the supply of workers does. In short, if you find a job that’s paying some ridiculous amount equivalent to someone with their MBA it’s “too good to be true.” Sorry people, there is no easy way to make money. If you have to to be clicking on links like these you really should just go out and find another job.

• Vic Poirier

  Just had an identical “Google Easy Profit” link sent to me via CraigsList. Something didn’t smell right, so I googled a scam inquiry. Everything from the phony one page newspaper spread to the $1.97 free kit were used. Lucky for me, I didn’t bite.

• Robert

  If Google is so tech sophisticated, and CNN, let’s hope that the responsibility, or posting the scams, appears on their front pages as well…a simple SCAMS USING OUR LOGOS…would assist.

• Chana

  I’m a mom from Toronto, and I found the same ad and it was about a mom from Toronto. How convenient. At first I started to get exited, good thing I decided to take it easy and do more research. Also, the ad keeps talking about why this is safe, because you’re dealing with google, which is such a huge, reputable company, but in the fine print at the bottom of the page it sais “google does not endorse this ad and is not affiliated with this product.”

• Dan

  Something interesting to backup that this is a scam. The article talks about how succesful the girl is at making money on the internet. It says that she is from the same home town as me. I logged onto a VPN from another state. Guess what, when you click on the link again, she is now from the location of the VPN. The story is adjusted to read your location and customize it.

• Chana

  And here’s another one to watch out for- an ad popped up on facebook to take an iq quiz. I took it, and it said in order to view my results, I have to type in my cell phone #, they will text me a code, and once I type in the code I got, they will show me my test results. This is supposedly to avoid spam. Well, as soon as I did that I automatically subscribed to a service that sends me “interesting facts” to my cell phone via text 15 times a day. Not only was this @!#@#n annoying, it also costs $35 a month! It took me an hour to unsubscribe from it, thank G-d I managed to, but the first $35 of course will be on my cell phone bill. I must not have a very high iq to have fallen for that one…

• incorruptable

  Well I have read about this most interesting program of yours, and feel you will be definitely helping some of those restore their faith in something again, which is a good thing, and your approach is as about as good as i have seen anywhere to date, I commend you for your approach,.. as for some of the replies i have read, well, let me just remind everyone that this type of scam, in one form or another, has been going on since the dawn of humanity, and will continue, with plenty of victims unfortunately, I think the real focus her is this,.. if eveyone would really, really consider using “THE PUBLICATION ” to sucess in EVERY area of life, what a better place the world would become, at least on a small scale… and this publication I refer to is GOD’S word, HE will never fail you,mislead you, or disappoint,… JESUS must be the focal point in ones life, otherwise scammers like these will have their way with you,.., and maybe worse,.. think it over,.. GOD BLESS and have a great future,…

• Mike

  Happy to have found your website. Great way to shoot down the scams. Too many people out there trying to rip off honest people who need to make a living.

• Syed Hossian

  Thank you so much sharing this information. I paid $1.98, tried to see what this business really is and I quit in ten min. After 2 months later I received a bill on my Credit card $69.99 US dollar. There was a 800 number of the seller on the bill. I called, they are very rude when I asked to refund my money since I did not have any activity except the 10 min in the begining. The refused to refund my money.
  This is nothing but scam, they show he is making money from your same city.

• William

  I’ve seen the exact same thing that this person is talking about! You actually have to get a job DIRECTLY from Google to do something like this. And if you have common sense, then you’d know that Google wouldn’t charge you TO WORK FOR THEM! Thank you so much for this post! Hopefully people thinking about doing this will find this post.

• Becca

  That’s nice. I am a homemaker with a 5 month old baby, and a twelve yr. old stepdaughter. I am taking online classes for a college degree and that has taken years so far and I need money now. My husband is self employed and we need another income. How am I to find a job on the internet. Help. I don’t want scammed, to add on to my financial troubles.

• leejr.

  I hope this might be helpful to someone, When I buy or shop on line try a free trail offer no matter what company it is for, I have a PREPAID CARD for all online transactions. I will only put the amount on the card that was stated, or that i’m spending, That way when I cancel they can’t get any extra money.. I almost applied for one of those scams, Thanks for the advice..I’m about to give up on looking for a way to make money at home, EVERYTHING is a scam, Just for fun I do secret shop and make a few 100$ a month, I guess i’ll settle for that..

• eric

  lol i was gonna do this then i looked it up on google, and i come across this webpage. thanks for posting!!

• charles

  yea this is messed up, the worse part is these guys will go to people who post resume’s on job finders and will send them it in the mail, trying to screw people outta money they already dont have..

• charles

  chances are as the old saying goes.. if it sounds too good to be true, it is…

• charles

  the only way to make money online from your home is if your scamming people like them.. or go to ebay…

• Justin V

  hey i got ripped off im just a young man trying to find extra income but i didnt run across this site until after i “bought” this :( is my card going to be emptied im already falling behind trying to live on my own. i need help.

• kevin

  Thanks for exposing this. I really hate scammers. Just got scammed by zerocost4all.com and only lost 35 bucks. I knew it probably was a scam but I just wanted to see if the method worked without the company overseeing things. But you exposing them saved people some money. Obviously some of the people found this site because they were weary of the ad. I found it through facebook believe it or not. I personally don’t think they care about the adds people put on there because I’m reporting the scams all the time yet I see more and more.

• V

  Yes, these “people” have been running ads on Yahoo. However, your article did not identify what is the SCAM? Just because they are using various Landing Pages does not provide key information about the nature and/or contents of the program and whether or works – that’s the most important question.

• Randy

  I ran accross the same thing except mine led me to believe that I was going to work for Google and I thought I could trust Google. Well I went and payed the 2.95 thinking why not it’s Google right well after they got my credit card number and money the next page came up saying the aren’t affiliated with Google. This made me have to cancel that card. Really sucks that we have so many people taking advantage of people in this manner. I now have a hard time believeing anything I see now. Good thing they only got me for 2.95. Why can’t somebody do something about these people? This case is truly false advertisement.

• Randy

  O I forgot they had me signed up for 80.00 a month worth of prog. that they said I signed up for, I feel like a real sucker.

• Jean M Denis

  My little sister fell for this same scam. I told her don’t get the start up kit which was less then 2 dollers. Anyway the starter kit never came and she still got hit for the monthly payment of 70 ucks. Which is’nt fair. Lesson learned.

• liz

  hey i have a question they charge me $ 1 and then there were trying to get 48 dollars!! my bank stop it!! but can i cancel so that they wont do it again?? i was scam!!!!

• Tim

  Yep thats right i had the same thing done to me but luckily i got the number to the place and got my money back with sum slick talkin

• veinguite

  This looks cool so far, what’s up people?
  If it’s not just all bots here, let me know. I’m looking to network
  Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

  Peace,

• Jim Mooney

  Their page said to fill in what you wanted to make and how much time you wanted to spend and put in your zip code to see if you “qualify”. Well, you can put Anything in there, including a zip of “faker” and it still works. The form is a fake.

  Once you get to the next page, it’s hard to back out of it. You keep getting popups even if you cancel them.

• lily

  hi thanx a lot ! earlier i vas impressed by this of making money. but i had in my mind how 1 can make so much money through google , and i looking to find the truth behind it! now i hav found 1 . thanxxxxxxxxx

• Kayla

  Ah,
  i was just about to order it!
  THANKS!

• Christina

  Thanks for looking into this. I was getting ready to start typing in all my information to start working for Google and making some money. Thank goodness I searched for the google as scam before. You probably just saved me a lot of money. I am starting college and have been applying for jobs like crazy but the markets bad. I need the money. ;]

• AM

  The thing that I’m most curious about is this: Why would Google let their name be used in this ? If they’re a reputable firm (and I assume that they ARE!), seems to me that they would find some legal way to put an end to having their name dragged thru the mud !! They certainly can afford it !
  But then again, scammers are always out there, unfortunately, so I suppose there would never be an end to chasing them.

  Anyway, Adam, thanks so much for clarifying this. I would love to find some sort of HONEST work at home business, just glad I didn’t fall for this one !!

• Melvin

  Let me tell you about these guys. Somebody need to put a stop to this mess! Google is always coming out with rules on advertising (the google slap) – why can’t they ban these guys because it is not just “Overhyped” – it is A LIE! Because when I received the little software in the mail – I downloaded it and all it had on there were 6 year old junk ebooks on making money with Google Adwords. My Mcfee on my computer was screaming Adware and Virus all over the place! Then the customer service people sound like they are from outside the U.S. – in some foreign country. Please guys – lets spread the news about this site because it looks so Real and promising – and I don’t want innocent hardworking people to become a victim of this trash! Thank you so much for this blog!

• Maria

  I fell for this scam,I should of known it was Too Good to be true. I also noticed that they charged my creditcard again 2 weeks later for 45.00. Good thing my credit card company is taking care of it. I actually got a call from someone asking me if i wanted to really make more money etc..and that i would have to invest a little more,etc.. The site that I ordered the Google kit from was [removed]. When I went to the site to get a phone number I got this error messege- Oops! This link appears to be broken, and I also tried calling up the Guy that had called me a few days after I ordered the Google kit(that I Never recieved)was asking me to invest more money if I was Really serious, he left me a Free 1800 number, when I tried calling that number was disconnected LOL. I have 2 words to say- NEVER AGAIN

• Unfortunate

  I just signed up for this stupid scam yesterday by charging the $2.95 shipping and handling to my credit card. ThankfulIy, I just found this site and want to cancel this today! Can someone provide a phone number and will it be necessary to cancel the c.c. if ‘m cancelling within the first 7 days?

• ash

  thank you for this…me and my brother were 1 sec close to typing our credit card # in that little “register here” link! :| thank u so much!

• Demi

  THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A SCAM!! THEY STARTED CHARGING ME 80 BUCKS A MONTH FOR ACCESS TO A STUPID WEBSITE THAT DOEN’T INFORM YOU OF SQUAT. I TALKED TO THE “COMPANY” AND THE GUY ON THE PHONE WAS RUDE AND INCOMPETENT, AND SOUNDED LIKE A COMPLETE DOUCHE. RUN AWAY WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

• Tim

  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SITE! I was looking up stuff when a popup of the “scam site” came up, and I was interested from the start. I was cautious at first because I read the “Terms and Conditions” page (no one ever does that, right?!?) and it threw up a red flag because of the statement containing the $70 fee after 7 days, but I went to http://www.TheKeywordAcademy.com and downloaded the eBook and became interested again (but I wasn’t going to go to that “scam site” again because IT IS A SCAM). I read up and was doing research for the keywords I wanted to get. I wanted to do some final research before I went to either post articles or create a domain name, and I was sent to this site. Now I am a little cautious again, and I WILL MAKE SURE THAT IF I GO THROUGH WITH THIS, I WILL READ ALL THE FINE PRINT ON ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I SIGN UP FOR. Thank you so much for this site!!! God bless you for righting the wrongs of the world through your information! SCAMMING IS JUST AS BAD AS STEALING in my eyes, because that is what it is. You have my trust Prosperly.com!!! Once again, THANK YOU!!!!!

• Tim

  I never saw the sites you posted with the Land Rover or the check, though. The site I saw was the one you call the “Scam Sign Up Page”.

• Tim

  …Now that I read DARREN1976′s comment, I’m thinking it would be best to go it alone, Thanks for the comment about the website I put in my earlier comment (2 comments up).

• K V V SATYANARAYANA

  Hi. I want posting for google account. please tell about deatils and how get money from google adsences?????

  Thanq

• Savannah

  Not only are these Google money making ads a scam, there is another company that it links you to if you try to order the start up kit. Money Mastery. When you agree to the $1.95 that it says is all you will be charged for the shipping, it signs you up for recurring charges of about $50 that is a subscription fee. It takes you to the Money Mastery page next but even if you exit out of that page because it wasn’t what you were signing up for, it’s too late and they will charge your card.

• rob

  I knew it was a scam , but for those that fell for it call your credit card company and tell them about it, you might find they can help.
  good luck!

• Angel

  Hi,
  Thanks for the info. I have seen so many get rich quick ads and never fell for it..but this one almost got me. I always read the full disclosure…$69.99 charge monthly and the sign up fee for $1.98…well i still needed to know what exactly i had to post..basically more info. I was researching when I came across your site..Thank you very much. I already gave them my real name, email add and cell phone #…but did not provide the credit card #…I should’ve known better. I had seen it months ago but decided to give it a try…i figured in order to make money you have to spend money so i was actually willing to pay that $70 if I was going to be making at least 500 or more back…figured it was not a bad investment. Well, r u familiar with any legitimate home business that will actually earn you money…Pls let me know. Thanks in advance!!!!

• denyse

  i saw this website as my husband and i was looking for a work at home job . and i have to say as stupid as it will sound i try it and after i put in my c. card info they shot me out the website. and i could never get it back .any way after i submit my info for a $1.97 to recive the c.d in the mail ,which i never got by the way. they started billing my card .yesterday i try useing my c.card and come to find out my over my limit .when i call the c.card company the card was bill for all kind of stuff that i never even saw or get . this is not good i hope some one get these guys soon .thanks for putting this info up for every one to see. you will surely be bless.

• Oscar

  I was about to order this when I got my check the next day it was lucky that I ran across your site for the first time and it was talking about this scam. Can”t thank you enough.

• Trapped&Out

  Initially I saw the story from thestreet.com about a Lawrenceville GA couple the wife got laid off and the story sounded true so I decided to give it a try. I provided my card today and got user name and password. Some time afterwards got a call from a local phone number. It sounds liek the caller is in a noisy call center. She suggested 2 programs she can off 14 day trial (free) then she transferred me to a “coach”. It is in this conversation I realized it is not legitimate as he indicated there would be several thousands up front investment. I thought all I need to do is diligently posting links on Google platform …. So I decided to cancel. I called my bank and closed the card completely.

  I am glad it is a scam as there is no free lunch. I pride myself of being smart with financial decisions. I guess their story telling ability is not bad, they trapped me. But I am out.

• Nicole

  I signed up for this thinking it was a good way to make some extra cash but it just turned out to be a scam. They say its only $1 and some change but then I called and wanted to know where my kit was and they said “oh well we no longer use a kit, its now all online so you will have to purchase the download from us.” This is when I knew it was a scam. Especially when I read that after 14 days they would charge you like 70 bucks per month! When you call up to cancel before the 14 days make sure you tell them you want the whole thing cancelled! I cancelled it and found a charge for $7.95 on my credit card. When I called them they told me I only cancelled half of the package so they charged me for the other one. Don’t even waste you time with this! You just lose money, there’s no making money with this program!

• Ruth

  Thanks for this information, I almost signed up and scammed!!! Thanks for educating the public! And what does posting links mean? I’m dumb in this area. Enlighten us!!! Do you know of legitimate websites where folk can work from home?? Thanks again for helping us before we make a huge mistake!!!!!!

• Rey

  Majority of these online businesses are scams. Make sure to report to FTC so that thewy can investigate. This is the only way we can get them out of the web so that we can get the legal businesses thrive.

• Tevin

  Yes, i knew that was a scam from the get-go. i came across the same website, where they made it look like a news website….lord, those or nothing more than low down money hungry people!!!! “Too GOOD to be TRUE”!

• Lee

  So I signed up for this thing. Gotta be honest, not my best move ever. I’ve been called and harrassed 10-12 times in the last 2 days. Tonight they called and I asked if the call was being recorded and they indicated yes. So I said if you call me one more time you’ll be speaking with my lawyer. I’ve told them this twice now and nothing seems to stop the calls. So I called my local police and FBI. Hopefully this will end soon. Thanks!

• Shaggy Randy 808

  What I want to know is why does Google allow these people to miss represent who they are by leting people believe that they are Google untill they get your credit card info. Then they tell you after they got info. and your money that they are not affiliated. I feel like such a sucker. Needless to say when Google does something legit I probably wont believe it. Had to cancel credit card of 10 yrs. sucks and hate these scammers.

• Matthew

  Adam –

  Good, helpful insight on the Google scam. However, I must ask, is this just a pawn site/advertisement for thekeywordacademy.com? I see them touted a few times on here and I feel like this may just be another way to capitalize on the consumers’ inherent (and justified) fears about work at home scams to direct them to yet another one. If I am wrong, let me know. I just feel it would be fair to let us know, and maybe even explain how that site IS legitimate by comparison. Best Wishes.

• rob

  Yes, you will pay 1.99 for a cd or dvd and then your info will get sold to high pressure sales companies. You will also
  pay a monthly fee of 15.00 or more. You can call the company
  and cancel, but you better call your bank or credit card company as well and have them block future charges. Only you can decide if the program is worth it, but dealing with people over the internet and across different states is risky.

• Harry

  I’m afraid that it is actually worse than a scam. Google has begun to put fraudulent charges on peoples credit cards. In phone conversations when you say no I don’t want to go ahead with the scheme of getting you to actually BUY advertising the phone goes dead and they fraudulently charge your credit card anyway. DO NOT PAY any requests for $2.95 for further information!!!

• al_mega

  so, was this guy from your same “city that your office was in”?
  or the same “town that your office was in”?
  I Kinda caught that error and just wanna know.

• Robert

  GOD IS GOOD! I was about to order but I came across this page. Thanks man!!!!!

• John

  Funny, in my version of the last example, Mary Steadman is from the City where I am!! (not American Fork, Utah). Wow, she really moves around alot!

• MARK

  Dude love your site. My wife and I both got the link on craigslist, did some research, and found that both of the ads that we received were the same company, with different pics and url’s but took us to the same place. Defiantly a scam. But I agree with JAKE about half way up the page. How does one get started in the scam business? Seems that liars and thieves are the only ones getting rich quick! JK wouldn’t ever think of doing that I hope they all rot in HELL!

• Marisa

  I came across this also & he claimed to live in the same city. I also noticed the disclaimer on the bottom that they are not affiliated with Google! What a scam!

  I just recently joined a network marketing company that you can do part time. You can earn money & save big. Take the tour at 24hourtour.net/ourjourney

• N.Alexander

  If it’s a scam, what’s in it for the scammers? Is it another one of those pyramid things? Who is getting the monthly fees?

• HONEY

  i AM JUST HEARTBROKEN…JUST IMAGINE…PLAYING WITH SOMEONES DREAMS AND DESPERATION…

  -MISSISSAUGA, ON

• Kelly

  Yeah it’s a scam. I saw something that looks like a news story. Told my husband about it. Basically this is only useful if you own a business and want to learn how to make a business website, and you pay them so it doesn’t help you at all. He called and canceled and they called him 5 times a day for months trying to get him back and talk him back into it. It took several rounds of screaming at the phone to get them to go away and they were rude. They charged him alot before he could cancel and signed him up for multiple programs without his knowledge that also charged. He had to find and cancel several BS programs he didn’t even know he had signed up for. It was a nightmare.

• dodgedabullet

  Thank you for posting. This is a scam. Do you know how I can make money online from a legitimate opportunity?

• dodgedabullet

  Thank you for posting. Hope real opportunities surface for us all.

• TSS

  My BIG question is why hasn’t – or perhaps they have and I just didnt’ see it – but, why hasn’t CNN, ABC, etc. said more on this subject? I would think the last thing they want is for their names to be associated with these scam scums!

  The ads are very proud to point out that these and other networks apparently endorse and these lies and the site I saw even went so far as to use words like “As seen and trusted on CNN,…etc.”

  I found it all very interesting, but I remembered something that I read while researching these posting sites a few months ago – “If you are asked to give THEM money – then know that it is a scam.”

  There’s SO much wrong with this whole thing ’til it ain’t even funny!!

  It’s a real shame that this sort of thing can exist, especially during a time in our economic situation when smart and intelligent folk are looking for ways to supplement they family’s income.

  There’s a great deal of truth in the statement, “Buyer beware.”

• Scott

  Hi everyone, I just found this page, because I am constantly looking at businesses on the web and how to increase traffic to my website. Now get this, my website is 100% free, but I do ask people to sign up and log-in before they can use the site. It’s amazing how many people won’t sign-up and log-in because they think 100% FREE means a Scam or some kind of trick. The web is a tricky place. For 1.97, you probably are told to set up a website and place google adsense. Then they probably tell you, that the more times you post your website or pay google to advertise the site, the more people will come to your site and the more clicks you will get with google adsense. The truth is that these people are not making that kind of money just on google adsense, they are making money on the 1.97 that tells you how to use google adsense. I’ll bet thousands and thousands of people were sending in the 1.97 in the beginning of the internet. The original “1.97 scammers” were making “bank”. The truth is, you can set up any website and put google adsense on your site and make money, but the trick is to make a package to explain that to people for a fee, for lets say, “1.97.”. Anyways, this is the old trick of getting people to send you $1.00 in the mail to learn how to make a lot of money, and then after you send in your $1.00, you get a one page advertisement that says, “put ads in a newspaper and in the advertisement it should say,for $1.00 I’ll show you how to make 100′s and 100′s of dollars.” Then people send you $1.00 and then you send them back a one page advertisement to tell them to put ads in the newspaper. And this 1.97 Scam could definitely be to get your personal info on top of it, but more likely it’s just to get your 1.97.

• kimmy

  wow … i was just going to sign up for it …. the thing is that i fell for the news article one , cause it did really look real … thank god i had a gut feeling and went with it , thank you .

• PCFixerGuy

  So I actually DO use the google adsense program on my website. I did not go through this scam option though. I did it myself by logging onto the google website and researching adsense.

  Adam, I would like to attach the fine print I found at the bottom of one of these so people know what they’re getting themselves into as there are no copyrights on the website I took it from.

  Here is a partion of the fine print that is VERY important:
  By submitting this form you agree to the following: I give my authorization to immediately charge my credit card $1.97 for access to the Business Kit for Google. I hereby request that my account be activated and authorize funds to be advanced as indicated. Monthly Service fees will commence 7 days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the 7 day trial you will be billed $79.90 monthly for the continued access to the Business Kit for Google. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided product. We reserve the right to transfer your billing to a third party Merchant of Record. This authority will remain in effect until revoked by me. This agreement will remain in effect each month until cancelled by me. You may cancel at anytime by writing to 230 aaaaa 400 aaaaa, Suite 100 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 or calling 1-800-###-#### or 1-801-####-####.

  The whole $1.97, or $2, or $2.95 everyone is talking about is for the 7-day trial!!!

  Then they’re going to move the billing to a third-party merchant… OH and no refunds if you choose not to use the kit.

  Anyone else want to actually try this out? You’re nuts if you do.

  Do it the right way: http://www.google.com/adsense

  Good luck everyone!

  Paul

• Christina

  Hey! Thanks so much for your article. I got an e-mail after posting an ad on craigslist and the told me to go to methodsofincome.com Like the others it was repeat pictures of the checks, car, and much more. The comments and pictures were the same as well I couldn’t believe it! Once before, like another reader had stated, I entered my name, phone number, and such….they didn’t do any “harm” to my credit or anything, but they harassed me nonstop calling about 4-5 times a day for about 3 weeks…it was horrible!!

• Lynn

  Adam,
  I thank God for people like you. I was just getting ready to submit my credit card info. when something told me to do a google search re: links for google. I then came upon your website! Whew, that was a close one!!!
  Bless You,

• Adam

  Matthew, thanks for the question. People often ask us if there is a legitimate way to make money with adsense and so we point people to the keyword academy. We personally know the guys that run that site and can vouch for their legitimacy and integrity. They do charge a fee but you get more than what you pay for, it is definitely no scam.

• VINNIE

  THANKS FOR THE INFO!!! PEOPLE ARE SO SHADY ON THE NET!! THE GOOGLE THING IS A SCAM…CASH GIFTING IS A SCAM…..99.9% OF THE STUFF YOU SEE ONLINE MAKIN MONEY FROM HOME IS NOTHING BUT GARABE…STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM IT.

• Carissa

  Hey! I received a link to one of those sites from a woman (name provided), along with her story in response to an ad I’d placed on Craigslist to sell some antique furniture I’d inherited from my aunt! Thought that was an odd way to come about.

• Josh

  you might also notice that the comments placed below on the site, were all posted at about the same time. hmmmm.

• Norman

  I got caught. How do I stop it?

• Norman

  It takes 49 dollars out of my account. How do I stop it?

• Tim

  Found the same story from above but different news paper name. Has the same woman and everything.

• lala

  When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
  Thanks for taking the time to create this informative response to the make money google scam!
  I found a similar page this morning, and just knew it was FAKE!
  Makemoneywith-google(dot)com/ <- STAY AWAY FROM THIS LINK TOO~

• Francisco

  Thank you!!!!. I allways do this kind of analysis for my relatives and friends when i receive this elaborated scams.

  Now this “people” is spamming spanish websites.
  I have found your page “googling google make money scam”
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  keywords in spanish to find this page an alert honest people like you and me:

  “Google Make Money” SCAM FALSO Sitio web promueve un falso negocio para ganar dinero utilizando Google. es un engaño. Los falsos sitios web solicitan el envio de 2 dolares para pagar el “envio del kit”. Como se puede ver en esta pagina, se analiza y expone que es un ENGAÑO. No caiga en este truco.
  Repetimos, makemoneywith-google.com ES FALSO FAKE, son ESTAFADORES. No caiga en este engaño.

  Hay muchos sitios que replican este mismo web modificandolos ligeramente pero todos corresponden al mismo sistema de estafas por internet.

• Julia

  Thank you for pointing this out, I stumbled across the stay at home mom site with somebody called Maria Steadman. I’m glad I looked into it now! Unfortuanely I did give my contact details but no finanical information.

• Jason S

  I entered the initial info but not my credit card. I immediately received 12 e-mails for various products. The next day I received 4 phone calls from some Indian who I could not understand for the life of me. When I call the number back it doesn’t go through. GREAT

• franco

  yeah thats messed up that they scam people like that! especialy durring a reccession and everyone needs money, some people are selfish and are whilling to screw honest families that need the money.

• MsDay

  One Question…… Can you explain the difference between the websites that you say are scams and the website that you said is legit ? Both are asking for my cc information, both say I can start for small change, and both say that I have to pay something monthly for whatever membership they are offering. I understand that the “scammers” didn’t mention the monthly payments on the first page but they do mention it (always read before you sign) in their terms and conditions. Not to be a jerk….. but I want to be sure that I am investing my hard earned money into something concrete. I guess my question is how do I know the difference between a scam and a legitimate way to make money?

• rik

  i fell for this scam, i read that i only had to pay just over $1 for the package and it would take 10 working days for shipping…. well after about 1 week they took a further $80 from my account……..Bastards!!!!!! deserves me right for falling for it…..

• David Silva

  nice man i was just about to buy this product. One of my friends facebooked me today and was like “David im making crazy money on that “posting links on google”, you should do it. She signed off before i could talk to her about it. So i looked around for Info scam pages and came across yours. DUDE these people are insane. If i eventually gave into the scam and later on figured out it was a scam i probably commit sucide. But thnx man i pretty much hate that girl that told me about it now.

• Lily WHite

  Just like the old saying,,If it sounds to good to be true ,,run the other way…..Thank you..
  BajaBecky

• Matt

  I saw this make money with google blah blah actually posted on google hot jobs, surprised they would actually list such a scam

• Chris

  This is on the Wall Street Journal website posted as a story from them as a success story in the recession.

• Star

  I got linked to one of these sites from someone on Twitter. I was lead to a “CNN” news page with comments at the bottom of everyone saying how well it worked. I’m a college student and my family is struggling with money so the idea of making money from home excited me so much I didn’t listen to my better sense. I clicked on “Get Instant Access to Kit” and filled out my name, e-mail, and phone number, but after I clicked Submit it led me to a page saying “This page is not directly accessible.
  If you feel you reached this page in error please contact our technical support”

  So it did not ask for my credit card information, but I’m wondering if they had access to anything anyway? The thing here is that I signed up under MY name, but I have no credit cards or bank account. Only my parents do. Can they gain access to my parents’ information even though I didn’t put their info in? Please respond!

• cleatus

  I just came across this same sight in a trusted local job search engine. Figured it had to be a scam when they asked for my credit card info. Thats when I did a search and found your sight, thanx for the confermation.

• aundrea

  well i also fell for the scam and they tried to charge me for all kinds of stuff. so it took some research but i got the number for customer service and gave them a chewing and got it all canceled. i hope this number will help out.1-877-402-2666.

• killscammers

  Amazing.these people running these scams are make a ton of money. It’s just a clever way to steal.

• Jennifer

  Does anyone know if we cancel our credit card like the same day if it can still bill us?

• Jennifer

  Hello all,

  I too fell for this scam, blah, isn’t it terrible. Even though this is a scam, you basis is true. You can in fact join affiliate programs and advertise and make a profit….there are companies that do this for big bucks..Google does allow you to join their advertising and work for free but of course, its difficult to make thousands of dollars a month, especially by yourself. It would actually require hours and hours of work and its a bit of a gamble since you have to be able to chose products that people actually want to buy…and then they actually have to buy them for you to get any money! Anyhow, does anyone know the actual number i’m supposed to call to cancel this crap?

  Thanks guys!

• ahhhhhh

  I just signed up on one of those website .. shoot

• P-diddy

  I signed up to receive the goolgekit last night. After realizing what was going on and this is nothing more than a scam I immediately called my bank and cancelled my credit-card and had a new one, with new number issued. In addition, I called the “company” or scammers and cancelled my subscription on Day 2. They gave me a confirmation number which settles my nerves, as well as the fact that they can’t charge my card because the card # I gave them no longer exists, i.e. its inactive.

  Can someone please reassure me that I will be okay here? Or, let me know what the worst possible thing that could happen is?

• dj

  thank you very much for your research.

• Guzman

  Thank you for debunking this! It’s true, I don’t usually even give scams a second blink, but this one goes to extreme lengths to make you pay attention. But I always do my research! Thank you again!

• Alfredo

  I was seriously looking into doing this to get some extra money, because I have a baby on the way. So I did a little reasearch and I found this website and after reading all this I figured its a SCAM. So I had a little free time and found the same pics and checks previously posted, i have previous banking and collection experience therefore I decided to dig a little deeper, there are various websites the will help you find the name of a bank by typing the routing number of a check so i did from one of their sam sites where the check clearly shows the bank name on top and the also clearly show the routing number and the account number. After I typed in the routing number from the check, oviously the bank was not found. Clearly showing that this was a SCAM.

  Thanks for all the good info

• Monica

  Thanks for this post,
  I found one of these sites because I posted an ad on craiglist for a legitimate information event going on in our city about a new social network and online rewards mall. Someone responded saying that I should check out their site and that they live “where I live”. It was the google profit scam. TO ME, I was very skeptical because I have made money off Adsense and never heard of this. Thx for the insight!

• DIAZ83

  MAN MAN MAN!!!! I WAS JUST BOUT TO SIGN UP FOR DAT CRAP SCAM THING 2 GOOD 2 B TRUE THANK GOODNESS IT DID NOT ACCEPT MY CARD CUZ IF NOT I WOULD OF BEEN SOL OR A SCAM VICTIM!!!THANKS GUY 4 THE INFO!!!

• anonymous

  I have been receiving calls from 661-295-9725. I have contacted the police and better business bureau as everyone now knows that people identifying themselves as “Google” rep through e-mail or phone states you “sent away for a package.” I did no such thing and my mother was scammed out of $70 on her credit card for some bogus website that had nothing to do with Google. Be smart people and hopefully these folks will soon be in jail where bottom feeders belong.

• Christine

  In addition: I never entered my info for a kit nor a credit card but the woman that called me said I better contact Google and I said I thought YOU were Google! She became aloof and would not tell me how she got my #. Could have been from anywhere. So now they are just making it up that you signed up for a website and must have forgotten (and they want to help me at 10pm at night when I am half asleep). When I call the number back there is no answer. I did not give my CC info out however I did alert my bank just in case. Very alarming how desperate people are getting. Need to watch your back constantly! My mom was able to get her bank to reverse the disputed charge but I have had others say it has been a nightmare. And Guthy Renker (who is supposed to be a reputable company)-DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING from TV. If they are involved, they make you subscribe to the product every month, make it impossible to get your money back and I had even been charged monthly for items I never authorized. Be careful people!!!

• dave

  I cant believe people would stoop so low to scamming innocent people like this i was about to fall for it, you cant trust anything anymore!

• doll

  Thank you, I got duped into thinking they were legit by the “news article”

• Dianne

  Just ordered make money with google yesterday, was charged 1.99 but in two seperate transactions. One for 1.00 and the other for .99. I never recieved an email confirmation of my payment and I never recieved any information on how to cancell. I hit the submit button, I was taken to another web page, thanking me for my purchase and that I’d recieve my pkg. in 3-5 days and offered me two more free trials for ebay and some teeth whitening crap, that’s when the red flag went up. Since there was no further information about contact to unsubscribe, what the h*#@ do I do now? I only have 3.00 left in my checking account and can’t afford a stop payment. Also, some helpful info: I thought I had checked it out when I came across a very clever site called “the work at home authorities” they assured me they had tried it out and it was an easy and legitimate way to make money at home with google. They recommended google and some survey thing. If you see it, it’s a scam to back up a scam. I feel like a desperate dumbass!!

• Katrina

  I agree with all the other people, that thanks to you all we have reassurance that this is a scam. I think it is straight Evil for people to scam hurting people out of their hard earned money. Preying ton the poor. God will surely take care of them when it is time for judgement. I 2 have been a victim of get rich scams and have learned from my mistakes. I read the Fine Print before I give out my financial info. This site was good though if you don’t read the fine print you would think it was a site sponsored by Google and come to find out Google doesn’t have anything to do with them. That is what cought my eye and caused me to do my reaserch. God Bless Prosperly for getting the word out.

• jo

  be cautious of other websites, like grant express and a few others as they operate the same type of ways that google adsense does and etc.

• Pamela

  thanks for saving me. i type 102 words per minute and could really use a real work from home job. if you or anyone on here find an honest to God online job please let me know at pameluv81@yahoo.com

• Randy

  It’s hard to feel any sympathy for those who got sucked in by these scammers. Did you not bother to read the fine print? It’s there in black and white about the additional charges unless you cancel – right there on the same page as your credit card info! C’mon people – stop being morons and investigate before you flash your credit card. You don’t then you have no one to blame but yourselves. Did any of you that got suckered search the web to see if this Google scam was legit? The smart ones are the ones that did before giving out their credit card numbers. Those that didn’t – shame on you and stop looking for sympathy – you won’t get it from me.

• Jessamie

  The deal with google adsense is that is it free you don”t have to pay anything you have to have a website so google can post ads to your site but i have had mine up for a month and had clicks and not been paid anything and they only pay you once a month you will not have a check in 48 hours like they claim

• Jerome Nickerson

  Thank you so much Grant, I will be on the look out for these guys.

  Jerome

• jachris

  hi thanks because i found your website because u show me the how to make money by posting link on google because i thought its a real! my husband and me were planning to buy the kit but i found your website so i change my mind to buy the kit.tahnks for showing this…

• Ang

  Funny, What a JOKE! Same pic’s just as I saw on here!

• barbara

  A good indication of a fake ad to me is whether the posters use correct spelling and grammar. On that note, it’s “lo, and behold,” not “low and behold.” Thanks for your diligence.

• Sean

  Me and several friends have created our own websites using google and make GReat money so its not a fake

• Sherry

  I ran across this ad several times, and it said this guy named tom so and so, who lives here where I do makes all this money with Google. The ad appeared like it had been written in our local news paper. So to investigate, I cleverly went to our local paper’s website and did a thorough search on the so – called fella’s name. Needless to say, no results what so ever. If this wonderful opportunity was legit, there would be a full blown scale news circus all over it telling everyone how to save their house and not to worry about losing their jobs. SCAM of the century!

• Dean

  How can these scam websites possibly be getting away with this still? This has beena round for ages along with other ones such as the roulette ‘system’ that can not fail…When it definately will leave you broke.

  Someone needs to have a clearup on the net cos this is just ridiculous! Especially when these ads are actually getting on to MASSIVE sites like Facebook.

  How can the owners of facebook allow these adverts on to their site? They should be fined as well…Its a joke and we shouldnt have to stand for it.

  There is no way to make SERIOUS cash on the internet easily, in fact the only way to do it is to be a scaming piece of s###

• Yoyo

  Hi, I’m a full time Medical student and a mom. I’m trying to get a part time job and it’s not easy because I go to school in the morning and I just moved to another county. I wanted to have time to study and spend time with my boy ecause I am at the top oy class. So I came across the money fortune kit Adwords for google which you pay the $1.97, I was happy. I am not a computer whiz but I can follow directions it is not easy like they say, I went back and forth on it and I could not set up my account properly. My trial was for 7 days and from what they you suld be able to make money in no time. Well, they charge my credit card the sixth days for $19.95, and I realized also that they harge you membership fees, in total they charged me for about $60 for three membership for stupid things that I don’t even know about, not only that you have to pay $59.95/mth to keep using the site. I call each one them and I got a refund. I’m desappointed because I’m not tring to make a lot of money, just enough to pay my rent and some bills. It is wrong on so many level I only had $60 on my acount and that happened last week. I am bumed because this is taking advantage of people misery. This is wrong, they should be accounted for.

• Nan

  I got as far as the $1.97…the I went looking for info..and found this site…

  to stop this cancel your credit card. or me it was my atm card ,,, and I’m enough to know better.

  thanks for supplying us with this info…much appreciate

• Nan

  OKAY I JUST CALLED THEM THEIR NUMBER IS: 877-883-2431. And I told him he better shut down…and did you notice that LifeLock is endorsing their site? “It’s identity theft” protection plan….can you believe it..

  CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!

• bob

  Wow…
  I was watching some videos and noticed a window open in the back ground and wondered what it was, so I read it. I was slightly interested, but no way I’d pay a buck for some kit when posting links for google is free. I was just curious to how you could post link on googles, since that didn’t make any sense to me.

  So obviously I decided to go TO GOOGLE to find out more. And then I find this site.

  I love how official they make the site work, and then they pressure you to decide to register quickly with some countdown I was like wtf? Then you sign up to post links for google on a site that ISNT GOOGLE?

  Yeah and then I went back and found their terms and conditions…

  Click Money DL for $2.29, and are also being enrolled in the 7 day trial membership. After the 7 day trial, you will be charged $59.95 a month thereafter if you do not cancel. You also agree to the 14 and 21 day bonus trials to Fast Gov Grants and Network Agenda for $14.95 and $9.95 a month thereafter should you choose not to cancel. Your credit/debit card will be used to pay for these membership programs.

  They literally charge you $84.85 A MONTH! And the first payments are after 7,14, and 21 days to throw you off!

• Phil

  I have looked at a lot of so called systems that appear “too good to be true” and then I remember two things that my dad would say: “If it sounds too good to be true, then It’s probably “NOT” true”! “You won’t get something for nothing”! So, when I see these advertisements, I consider what he always said.

  In my opinion, the only way to make an honest dollar on the internet is to sell a needed product. This is why I created my own website, to sell valuable informational cds. There are no scams connected to my site, you simply purchase products that will help to improve your life and that’s it! On one of these cds there are sixteen different e-books, some of which tell how to make money.

• kevin elroy

  That is false,I make 10k per month placing ads on google.

• Pshhyyep

  wow i thought advertising online was a waste of time cuz no one was dumb enough to even look at the ads let alone click them and now i see a full page of idiots who actually signed up! that just blows my mind i might have to get into internet marketing if the general population is really that dumb.

• Akira Takano

  thekeywordacadamy huh?
  if you ask me it looks like another scam. $1 to join, and their mostlikely takeing in about $100 worth of memberships each day right?
  if its a charge, its a scam.
  if its free and less than 1MB, its a virus.
  keep away from it all.

• Harry

  what is the company name or website that helps you make your 10k Kevin?? hmm?

• Agnes Yeung

  I think you are right, this is a scam…but i have already bought the Google kit yesterday for $1.95 =.= i kno it is going to charge me more later, but i want to give it a try……=( at least when i receive its Google kit and c how it works…..

• Kavita Tata

  I just saw the same website about a young man from raurkela, 21 area which is my town and there is no 21 area. So I immediately thought it as spam and your site confirmed this. Thankyou. One should be careful on internet.

• Mike

  you knock all the other sitesand then have links to the legitimate site that is the same offer as the sites you knock. You are a scam too. Hipocrit!!!

• Amy

  Thank you for clearing this up for me, i was skeptical, but now i really know!

• David F

  Got to CC part, thought I better check it out first, THANK YOU didn’t do it

• Adam

  Akira Takano, I have literally looked over the content of thekeywordacademy.com and know they are running a legitimate operation over there. I dont blame you for being skeptical but I can personally vouch for them.

• DENISE WRIGHT

  I WOULD LIKE THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA TO KNOW THAT SOCIALTOOL KIT TAKES YOU MONEY AND TRYS TO DOUBLE TALK U WHEN U SAY U DONT WANT IT AND THET SAY OK BUT THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY ANYWAY SOMEONE NEEDS TO PUT THIS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS

• Gwendolyn Woods

  Dear Sir/Madame

  I’m so glad I saw your website. I was just about to purchase this item to see if I could make some money, but I did a search on the product and your link came up.

  I’m glad I stopped to read it.

  Thank you,

  Gwendolyn Woods

• Jeaneen

  It’s a SCAM, look at the date from the comments, they are all the same day and time. Also if you look at the very bottom of their page it dark blue, and it will charge your credit card $99.00 and $ 47 after the 14 days if you do not call and cancel.

• Frank

  The scammers are now trolling Craigslist and sending email to people who are selling items Then sending an email saying how they know it is hard to have to sell stuff to make ends meet as they themselves had to sell their child’s X box or some other video game to make some money to help pay the mortgage before they found the internet way to riches

• Makara Hukutaki

  I think this whole site is built for advertise the thekeywordacademy.com…

• Adam

  Makara Hukutaki, if you could show us one other page where we advertise for the keyword academy then I would say your point is valid. Hundreds of people have asked where a legitimate place is to learn how to make money from Google Adsense. The keyword academy is the most legitimate site we know of. It’s as simple as that.

• Philpo

  I checked one of those sites out and it was hilarious! Not only did they promise that everyone will make $$$ every week, but there is a big monthly fee. I looked at the fine print of the legal agreement and it said users must agree to a monthly charge of $69.99 for some sort of special credit card verification!
  I really wonder how they get by using the Google name.

• Cruxado

  Right from the Start you can tell that those sites are totally bogus! First of all… the main URL page something.com, something.net or even something.org directly goes to their money making page… no other links or content.

  Then the links within them go to other “money making” sites.

  Don’t believe everything you see on the net… ;) Its good to be paranoid.

• Skidplate

  Harry, post a screenshot of a check, and a picture of your Ferrari please.

  My best friends wifes brothers ex-roomates cousins garbage man makes 10k a month doing this too!

  I swear!

• Mukesh

  Is Google doing something about this?

• Doreen

  I did this and lo and behold my credit card was charged an additional $97.00 and $47.00 which I successfully debated with my credit card company. At no point did they show me how to post links for Googles it just continued to give me all these screens stating I would receive Money Mastery books, etc. Which they charged my credit card, since they already had the information for the 1.95 (or whatever the charge was).

  Also the ad for the young girl above always stated that this girl was from my town of Gardner, Mass, coincidentally.

  I don’t know what the heck their problem is but I had to have my credit card blocked for all payments on the internet, as I ended up with 2 erroneous payments for almost $150.00

  WATCH OUT when you click on anything!

• Natalie

  Thanks for posting this article! A lady I work with just asked me today about the website with the single mom picture and asked me if I thought it was legit. I told her no. I’ll point her here too so she can read more.

• Michael

  I for one can tell you it’s a big scam i seined up for this before seeing your site i though to my self i’m only out a little over a buck for shipping so ill look.
  OMG 1 you never get your “package”
  2.in order to get it you have to sine up to 2 other websites with if you look real hard at the fine print will auto take 15.00$ and the other one 25.00$ a mo out of the card you use.(good thing it was a pre pay visa i used)
  3. to get out of the auto pay of the other 2 sites it will “cancel your get money fast with Google account”
  so please everyone don’t fall for this some ass is getting rich off of people @ a little over 1$ a pop “for shipping”

  thx michael

• Greg

  If you filled out forms with the $1.97 and $2.45 fee’s or whatever will these scam sites be able to withdraw more money then those fee’s? Or am I looking at only losing around 5 bucks?

• Stacey

  Under the Fees and Pricing it states:
  Subscriber agrees to pay a one time fee of $99.00, which will be billed on Day thirty one from the date of enrollment. The one time fee will be NON REFUNDABLE. In addition, the subscriber will be provided access to an online Resource Center which will bill at $47.50 on the fifteenth Day from the date of enrollment each month.
  If they have your credit card # they will charge you. So make sure you cancel before day 30.

  And the moral is…. Always read the fine print.

• Dette

  I clicked on an ad on facebook for mystery shoppers and the google link ad came up, which then took me to a page about for a membership on adwords and keywords listings. Alarm bells in stereo.
  Does facebook ever check their advertisers? I have clicked on so many only to end up with an ad totally unrelated to the initial subject.
  I’m so sick sick of crooks making us less trusting of each other, not to mention poorer.

• Shahid

  Luckily, I read the find prints and realized this was a scam and too good to be true. Then I found this website with detailed investigation and proofs. Good work!

• Trinity

  The fine print states “$79.00″ per month will be automatically debited from the card you use to sign up. The way it is placed, the average thinker will sign up without paying attention. I am really looking for a online job opportunity, but I try to read and research. It is such a turn-off…This indeed is a SCAM!!!!!!!!!!! but it’s designed to be so real, that even intelligent people can be easily fooled. Thanks Adam, for reiterating this for these people.

• ManGo

  ello right now im going to jobcorp I was just online looking for a job and that stupid website pops up. I start checking out It sounds pretty convincing , because its from google I thought it was true so i put in my name and stuff, then I then in the next page it ask me for my credit card number. That’s when it started becoming fishy. So i figured if google was hiring for that they would have some post themselves of some sort . But anywho I go to google it and i found this website I and I started to read all the comments that you guys put. I’m glad there’s people that show how much of a low life scumbags these people really are why don’t they just get a real job and work hard for there money. But anywho this is a good time consumer. I’m glad I read into this

• Jason

  Thanks for pointing this out. I almost was scammed by this.
  Corey changed his name to kevin.
  Ohh, how wonderful.
  I feel sorry for all you have fallen for this scam.
  The police are searching for these criminals. thank god.
  And soon no money will be sent to them, because they will be confiscated and the money will probably go to a good charity.

• mary

  WHY AREN’T THESE PEOPLE IN JAIL?????????????????

• heidijh

  I was almost sucked into this I was online today to apply for this and googled to try to find the link again and this is what I came across. THANK YOU

• Eric

  Heres the same thing, news9tonight(dot)com. I knew it was a fake as soon as I clicked on the news links at the top like sports, weather and they all sent me to the same sign up page for this google add stuff.

• Andrew

  I just lost my house to a foreclosure. I worked for GM for 10 years and they let me go. I used to make $150k a year, now I wait tables to keep the lights on and support my 3 kids. I started liquidating my assets on craigslist to get money fast to help me move and find a place. Someone responded to one of my listings emailing me “not to sell all of my stuff so cheep, keep it and buy a new house making $5000. a week posting links on google” when I clicked on it the same add you showed opened up, same guy, same check. Now there using Craigslist?? how can someone who all ready knows your broke try and sucker you in to take my “hurry now only .99 cents” last dollar. I almost did it, I miss making that type of money, and I said what can a $1.00 hurt. but after I filled out the form and clicked next. They wanted a $19.95 a month trial member ship.

  I knew it was a scam, but “googled” LOL “google scam” and found your sight. Heres how I knew:

  1. If your making so much money posting links, WHY tell me? WHY not make all the money for yourself? and keep the best kept business secret to yourself??!! What are we friends or something?

  2. I heard about this though someone responding to my Craiglist listing. If your making $5000. a week then why are you trying to buy used beat up lawn equipment?

  3. If your job is to be on your computer posting links for google then why are you waisting time telling everyone on Craigslist and not posting anouther link for that “$25-$300 per link”, you set up. because your advertising, thats why.

  4. The odds of you looking up my listing out of the millions of listing on Craigslist is what 1 out of a 1,000,000 so that just means your doing a email blast to every one. Because I have 15 different listing on Craiglist and you sent me the same email link to all of them. If you were really looking up my listings of crap and really felt bad for me to share this best kept secret then you would of noticed my name and email address over and over.

  5. You tell me your name over and over again but then black it out on the check? Why? black out the address or the bank account numbers, black the whole damb check out, I don’t care but leave your name. You allready told me it? Uhh Duhh

  6. And the best for last the “Closes” they use. Closes are sell terms used by the best in the car business and they are: Sense of Urgency (they hade a clock that ticks down, YOU BETTER HURRY) Fear of lose ( they told me, Limited time only and few available spots left) hope for gain (better life, cars, money, houses, ect…)

  When you hear all three of these closes used in a same add it’s always a scam…….. Thx and I hope you liked my input too..

  Now go check out my weblink..HURRY…JK

• Cyn

  The world may be flat due to the internet, but a larger can
  of worms has been opened as with all “good intention” endeavors. The availability for scam is amplified now.
  There should be consequences for these shysters!

• Robb

  Okay. .
  So maybe its a scam. .
  but you can call and cancel it, has anyone here actually used this product and can say something about it?? cuz it does seem pretty sketchy

• Sana

  Read the confirmation at the bottom were the card details are, i swear the site says only a small charge of $1,35 or something, but in the confirmation it says a charge will be taken out monthly its such a scam!!!!

• Dan

  Did not fall for it

• Ted

  Hi, Like most people who found this website I googled “make money posting links with google”.
  The reason I did this is because I think someone has hacked my sisters Facebook account. I got a message from her saying she had just earned $127 postig links with google and I should check out a certain website. So I did. Too good to be true, so I went searching for answers.
  What got me suspicious is that my sister doesn’t use here Facebook page. It is her photo. But in the last 3 months she hasn’t been on Facebook. The message was sent at 3.30AM on a Thursday from Mobile Web.Well she has a full time day job I can’t see her being up at 3.30 in the morning on a week day, and if she earned the money using the computer why did she send her facebook message via mobile web, oh and of course she isn’t very good with computers, if she wanted to make extra money she’d get a part time cleaning job.

  So beware, they are now using our trusted friends and family to scam us.

  Oh and thanks Adam for this fantastic website.

• Vanessa

  This type of scam should be a crime and these people should be put to jail! I was signing up for that google scam, but I decided to google it, and ask what other people think, I m glad I did so! Thank you for the post!

• James

  Thank you so much. I too came across the advert and was nearly foolish enough to have fallen for it myself. I got as far as putting my name down and everything, then decided to read it up when i found your article. Cheers.

• Grace

  I am shocked that there are still some who will lie about prospering from this scam. Just think, they’re the ones profiting from this scam and can’t bear to live without the money they steal from others. If you think earning 7k a month is a lot of money, I feel sorry for you. And, if you think earning 7k is going to get you a Land Rover, you’re even sadder than I thought. This is a lot of money for some people;however, it’s not much if you have to pay your mortgage, child care, and credit cards.

• Zach-D-

  always read the fine print to find a scam easily.

  Your Membership is the perfect tool to start making money on the Internet. We’ve helped thousands of people achieve their goals. By submitting this form you are ordering Creative Synergy Training and the trial membership for $1.00 Instant Access. If you do not cancel within the 3-day trial period, you will be charged a one-time amount of $129.95. In addition, you will be provided access to an online Learning Center which will bill at $39.98, unless you cancel, 30-days from the date of enrollment and you will be re-billed every 30 days at $39.98 per month until cancelled

• Chris Wright

  Hello,

  Don’t know if you noticed, its the first thing I thought was suss when I saw his site, the original/top pic of the cheque says Five thosand in words then $9000 in numbers, what a plonker.

  Chris

• Carla

  Hey all. I was one of the unlucky ones. I don’t even remember how I came across it, but it looked like a newspaper article from a New Jersey paper. I don’t know what newspapers New Jersey has and it had all of the “as seen on ABC, CBS, CNN, etc” posts as well as Google’s logo. It was called Google Profits and Google Profit Library. So I, in my infinite wisdom, decided it must be legit and I have PLENTY of time to hammer out a bunch of links for Google. On mine, there was a big box in the upper right hand corner that said something like “only 37 kits left”.

  I fell for it hook, line, and sinker. I signed up October 14, 2009. After I submitted my credit card info, I got a “thank you for subscribing page informing me of what I had signed up for. It wasn’t until this point that they mentioned a “trial”, though mine was supposed to be for 15 days. On this page they also listed other “trial” offers that they generously signed me up for cause I guess I wanted those and just didn’t realize it. EACH of those several programs also cost me $1.97 for a trial. (and monthly fees ranging from $39.99-$99 EACH after their trial periods were over.)

  So I called the numbers for all of the others and cancelled immediately. I wanted to get the program stuff in the mail to check it out for myself before canceling the original. 4 days later, they charged my card $79.99. Originally I called to find out why they had charged my card before my trial period was up, but when I called the first time, I was on hold for literally 45 minutes and 22 seconds before I had to hang up to take an important call. So I called back. This time I was on hold for 22 minutes before an operator came on. I told him I just wanted to cancel since the long wait on the phone made me thing that they were either A.) Keeping me on hold for an excruciating long time to get me to hang up B.) Have so many people calling to cancel or complain or with problems that I’d be stupid to deal with them or C.) Have HORRIBLE customer service. or any mix of the 3. He tried to talk me out of it and extend my trial period…blah, blah, blah.

  Anyway, I was charged by a third party payment processor so I called them first. They’re called Edynamicapay.com. I went to their website, called them and told them to cancel. They said they would refund and cancel. Well, instead, they charged ANOTHER $79.95 the next day!

  I called my bank and disputed the charges and cancelled my card. It was a hassle, but lesson learned.

  Here are some other numbers that are associated with them. If you call the number, just tell them you want to cancel- whatever it is they have you signed up for, and then cancel your card.

  Google Profit Library 877-484-8016 or international 00-1-646-205-0216
  Google Profits 1-866-995-9812
  Ebay Money Resource Center 1-800-215-1752
  DreamPro 1-888-228-8815
  Googleprofitresource.com 1-800-440-4397
  1-866-575-3991
  1-877-317-0193 One of these is Grant Pro and I don’t remember what the other is for…

  Use a landline when you call as they don’t answer the phone for a VERY long time and you don’t wanna waste your minutes on these people. Also, they have “regular” business hours so forget about 24 hour service.

• Pam

  Check the links on the so-called “screenshot”. They work.

• Oneesa

  i have received a call saying that i have to pay $1.99 and then i will be given a user name and password to post the links etc… i just avoided didn’t know how they got into my number.

• Carola

  Hi,

  I am glad I googled it first. I had filled in my name and so on and the to pay thing came up, so I decided to google it first and found this site. I closed the sighning up site straight away and emailed the person who emailed me it asking where they live but I dont think I will get a reply back.

  I am sure they will all end up in jail.
  carola

• ERIKA

  THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE INFO I WAS GOING TO SIGN UP AND PAY FOR ONE OF THESE ADS THAT YOU POSTED WERE FAKE AND IM GLAD I FOUND UR SITE AND READ THET WERE FAKE YOU JUST SAVED ME SOME CASH THANKS ALOT

• Moni

  The only thing I can say I THANK YOU !!! I am a single mother of 3 who would have loved the opportunity to work from home. I have been seeing these sites and ads for about a month now and thought I’ll buy it on my next paycheck luckily I decided to check it out first I am always skeptical about giving my cc info becuse mony is so tight these days. Thank God I found this site becuse if I had fallen for this scam it would have left 3 inoccent children w/out food. I hope these scum bucket get their asses thrown in jail what they’re doing is horrible they truly are parasites. I do beleive in KARMA and hope they get what’s coming to them soon before they scam more people, Anyway thank you again for exposing them and may God Bless You

• Don Sargent

  i tried to do this as well but after i noticed the massive payments i would have had to make and i stop it fast. thank you by the way for helping these people out. oh and if your interested to know there is something else that works. its a company i work for now and it works vary well its called world wide and we work with Amazon.com. i work with Tracy Eaton ex TX oilers safety and others anyway if anyone wants help making more money i would love to give you any info you would need.

• Greg S

  ANYONE CLAIMING GOOGLEFASTCASH is NOT a scam is working for that comapny. They will nNEVER be able to post any checks, because there are NONE. I belive it is only about 120.00 worth of a fine to go a beat the living daylights out of the head of this company. I can get there for about 250.00. anyone want to joint me and get a possy together and go pay a well deserved visit? It would be worth EVERY PENNY!

• elizabeth

  Yes, I joined this and paid a couple dollars and never heard anything back!

  Thanks for posting this, but I see you need my email address for me to leave this post, if you try to send me anything I will unsubscribe to your email, dont offer me any freebies either

• bx 3men2

  i dont know if i should believe any of the 2 pages bcause at the end of this page it tells u to sing up for some other stuff .. could it be that someone is trynna compete with google ??

• Sandy

  this guy has an addy in Raleigh, NC, he has changed domains twice since 9/29/09,the phone no and email addresses are phony when you get a receipt for the start up packet

• Chris

  wow.. my eyes were glued to the offers .. untill i found this site.. THANKS A BILLION.

• Heather

  My mom came across a “post links for google” article on a “news” website and wanted me to check it out and like you said, the guy grew up in the same city she works in! I had high hopes of make 5k a month. But it really makes me nervous to enter any personal info. So I did a littel research about it and came across a website telling me that the first website was a scam but if you want to make money posting links, join our website. There was the same girl on both websites holding a stack of cash where you enter your credit card info!!!! Plus on the first website ALL of the comments “from people making tons of money” posting links for google were all posted the the exact same time, down to the minute!!!! What gets me is, these scamsites have logos from reputible corporations on them…ABC,CNN,USAToday, MSNBC, ect. How can they use these names and logos and google for God sakes??? Why aren’t these comanies going after these guys????

• Heather

  Robb

  the sites for posting links for google say it only costs a 1.97…but if you click on the terms at the bottom of the page, once you put you credit card info in they will charge you a one time fee of $99 thirty days from the time you enroll and 47.50 fifteen days from the date you enroll and then every 30 day from then on!!!! Right there is like 200 bucks in just one month!!!

• timothy

  to make money you should not have to pay to make money thats a scam. i get chage .5 for every click i get on my web sets thats adds up to like 2500 and i dont see nothing how dose eany one make money on line its a scam. do not do this your u will be brock im teling you. you only get payd if someone byes form you its stupid.

• Pauley

  “THE STORY DEPICTED ON THIS SITE AND THE PERSON DEPICTED IN THE STORY ARE NOT REAL. RATHER, THIS STORY IS BASED ON THE RESULTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE USED THESE PRODUCTS HAVE ACHIEVED. THE RESULTS PORTRAYED IN THE STORY AND IN THE COMMENTS ARE ILLUSTRATIVE, AND MAY NOT BE THE RESULTS THAT YOU ACHIEVE WITH THESE PRODUCTS. THIS PAGE RECEIVES COMPENSATION FOR CLICKS ON OR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS FEATURED ON THIS SITE.”

  Copy and Paste from The Disclaimer last paragraph of the ads

• Anna

  Wow, thanks Adam for your information. This just happened to me tonight. I was just on Yahoo, looking at local news, when I saw an advertisement about a girl “in my home town”, making $5,000-$7,000 a month linking to websites for Google.
  There were also 6 or so comments below her ad, praising how easy it was to make the money, etc. I was on our remote laptop at that time, and attempted to sign up. I entered in one credit card (including the 3-digit number on the back of the card) and it said my card did not work. I proceeded to enter in yet another credit card, with the same information returned. I was beginning to wonder if they were just in this to get my credit information. After a third try, I quit. My husband wanted me to try again on our regular computer, and when I did, it “seemed” to take my credit information, yet did not confirm. So, I went on to another website referenced in the body of the advertisement “TheInternetProfitHouse.com”. There was a “disclaimer” and phone number to call. When I called, I was told I actually signed up for direction on how to make money on the Internet, and the $1.97 for shipping, which is the only amount referenced on the original ad, was only for a 7-day trial, at which time I would be billed $68.00+ each month, BUT I might qualify for their promotion of only $19.95/month. To add insult to injury, the Google information I signed up for would cost me an additional $29.95 to get. I ended up “cancelling” all my credit cards used and hope I don’t get billed. What an unscrupulous company……

• Boycletot

  How many Twitter followers is needed to get lots of traffic and business to your site?

• Henry

  Hi guys. Being from Guatemala but living in the USA for 20 years gave me the strenght to think I was “I know everything”. So, I got this flashy website and click on it. I got the famous package of $1.97. Enrolled, paid and 6 days later I called to cancel. They gave me a confirmation number which I lost because I am moving out of my apartment and today I notice on my credit card statement 2 charges, $1.97 on September 25 and $79.90 on October 1. They didn’t wait 7 days to charge me !!!. I was reading you guys and that’s when I had the feeling it was a scam I got into. I called my credit card company and they told me to call the scammers. Of course they don’t work after 10:00 PM, so I will keep in touch with you guys to let you know what I got into, hell I guess, isn’t it ?

• George Stevens

  You all have to get a life. YOU KNOW THIS IS ALL A SCAM!!!!!!

• Mike

  What does Google say? Are they using posting people?

• Sherri Lee

  Funny…the same thing happened to me trying it from a wireless laptop….only I gave up on the first try. I hope they don’t charge anything to my card.

• Parsippany New Jersey

  They do the ame thing with weightloss products. They insert your town from the IP address and people fall for it that someone local tried the diet and it works great. Beware you can check out some on bestweightlossdiet.com

• Jayson

  scam fill everything out but my cc # later that day i get a call 702 628 5049. This women tries to get my cc #, but i told her to call me back she did but i did not answer. This morning i called the number and wanted to talk to a customer rep but the automated voice just kept giving me the run around plus the qualty of the recording sounds like it came from an 8 trak

• Mary

  Gosh yeah! I almost belive it! Its too good to be true..Is there any company that offers real opportunity about this kind of job?

• Stevie

  Thank you so much for this info – I nearly left my card details and then just thought I’d check it out first!!!!!

  Thank God I did.

  I hope other poor unsuspecting souls come across your warning!!! Thank you.

• Roman

  Hi, i found out this website inetglobal and my mom wants to get into it, so i was wondering if this is also one of those SCAMS or its first normal site?
  Thanks

• Lia

  Great website!!!
  I was on Facebook and they are targeting “moms with cc debt qualify”.
  The link takes you to a website called: “Internet success – the South African edition.”
  I wonder how many South Africans are going to fall for this scam.
  Esp when it is a South African woman telling her story how she worked for Pam Golding, then ended up as a cashier for Shoprite Checkers. All sounds miraculous and amazing. I am just very worried how many will fall for this BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Thanks for the great site again!!!

• hank pretzel

  I clicked on a link posted on a Google blog group. It took me to “Make money writing links for Google”
  the site said “GOOGLE” really big, so you thought you were on a Google sight
  ** In this case, people, you need to look at the URL at the top of your page showing where you are at – if this web address doesnt say you are where what you are reading says you are (in this case, the web address at the top of my page did NOT say Google), then you are NOT There ! **
  and always search for a block about it before you do anything !
  BTW: this site asked you to fill in certain parametters: I was asked in one question how much I expected to make, and in another question how many hours I wanted to work – no matter what combinations i picked(including selecting the maximum amount of $500 in the minimum amonut of 1 hour), I ALWAYS qualified whrn I hit submit.
  Also remeber – they are good at asking for your personal info. 1 bit at a time so you don`t realize they are compiling it – the site i went to first asked me to enter my Zip Code to see if (online) jobs were available in “my area” (WTF !!)
  one last thing – I think the real way to make money this way is to use adsense to attach other`s ads to your pages – then if those products get clicked on – you get paid (or something like that)

• Adam

  Roman, you can read my write up of inetglobal here

• GB

  Im not surprised this CRAP turned out to be a scam…Same thing with Robert Allen…Once you plug in your phone number, they start hounding you like Telmarketers…I didnt even give my credit card info, but here they come….They even called from a 786 number…For my Miami people, we all know majority of the time a 786 number is not usually a business, but a cell nbr….They couldnt even use the 305 number…And to Chill, you have to be kidding me….You didnt come out the womb walking…You will always need someone for some type of guidance…Don’t HATE on people for trying to give some helpful info….How can you say “Hooray for the scammers?” What type of ignorant junk is that….Just appreciate this forum, b/c all you have to do is keep it moving..This is not meant for you…Anyways, I appreciate it Adam, b/c times are hard and sometimes we try to find a way to make an extra dollar…..But follow your gut..

• GB

  That goes for you too George Stevens (if thats your real name)

• Hasim Nahangi

  Nice Breakdown, you answered my question better then I could have hoped.

• Hasim Nahangi

  Also, I have noticed that in almost every “$5,000″ check photo, the guy holding the check is wearing a red plaid shirt. Keep an eye on that.

• chyna

  thanx so much for this site!!!!i would have snapped if i sent them my card info…i had a feelig it was fake because the article about maria had links from bing yahoo and google but they all led to the site requesting info so it made me pause. I have a baby coming soon so any money loss would be a big deal.I usually dont believe in these get rich quick schemes but this time time i wanted to believe it might be true im so glad i checked around first i even went straight to google on their business link and couldnt find it then i put it in the search bar and ur site came up….Again thanx soo much ur a savior to many because nonoe can afford to lose any money now adays

• Jason

  Well I just fell for the Search profit system as you said it starts out with the web page of a newspaper and sure enough it was local and even had a video of what seemed to be google workers with a big google sign in the background.
  I fell for it and they scamed $2 dollars off my creditcard. I logged in to my so called google money makin site and read the get started info and it did’nt take me long to realize that it was something I wanted no part of. I then searched about it and finally came across this blog or whatever and seen it was forsure a scam.
  I just called there contact number and a guy answered and I told him ” That I knew it was a scam and that I want my money back and that I want no part in ripping people off ” He said he would remove me and cancel my account but he could’nt give the $2 back because its a proscessing fee. They better not start charging my creditcard monthly . I feel like an idiot for falling for it too. Never again
  Thanks for the info .

• Amy

  Wicky is right in the charges that they incur…
  THEY SUCKED ME IN !!!!
  Had to cancel my check card to stop it got no money back never was able to talk to anyone at the number to ask why my info. packets had not ever come to me. was charged anyway… They don’t send you anything. I just wonder how they keep getting away with it. Is it not criminal enough for authorities everywhere to look into and post notice. Newspapers?
  The one that got me was the young Mother holding her “daughter” with the same white top that my child has. Now tonight I clicked onto one that said JASON HAVERLY, who happens to live right here in my town… then another one who lives right in my town. That is when i googled posting for google scam and found this site. Wish I found you sooner, but will thank you now for anyone you may keep from THROWING THEIR MONEY AWAY.

• chris mccracken

  okay, just for anyone who even thinks this is a viable business take my word for it it is a total scam!!!! I repeat.. A TOTAL SCAM. Luckly I read several blogs regarding this and did read the terms and conditions. Even though I called them, emailed them, and anything else I could do they would not return my mssg. I had to have my credit card co. call them with me on the line. Guess what????? FULL REFUND!!! RUN!

• Helen

  I just clicked an advert at the top of a lyrics website claiming there are local job vacancies with a potential income of £44 to £56 per hour. When I clicked it, I arrived at yet another scam page similar to the one’s mentioned above. It was a scam page disguised as a news article (like the one shown above) claiming you only have to pay £1.23 for a google kit (internet home business kit) teaching you how to earn cash from posting links with google . They claim their making money with google system has featured on the BBC, Sky, Fivetv, ITV and global. The same pictures of cheques were all over the article and of course, nobody’s face was shown. Like the sites above, there were loads of comments at the bottom of the article from FAKE people saying how they’ve earned lots of money for the small cost of £1.23. When I clicked to order the package, the “profits at home using google” payment page came up. I looked at the terms and conditions at the bottom of the page and it said you have to pay £70 every month after the 7 day trial has ended. They conveniently forgot to mention that beforehand! I then typed in google “google link posting scam” and came to this page. Thanks very much for taking the time to create this article. It saved me from paying over £70!

• Starfox

  The first thing I noticed on this ad was that she was from Belfast, Northern Ireland, my home town too. The first laughable thing that made me suspicious was the photograph. Sunglasses, hats in the background, we don’t get that much sun here lol. I checked the html source of the page, and found that within the body text is a javascript relaying, presumably, the location of my IP. That was the nail in the coffin for me. Nothings ever THAT easy!

• joshua

  got sucked into this a couple weeks ago. should’ve known to read the fine print that charges me close to $80 a month after the liitle trial period. funny how the trial period ends before you can expect your kit in the mail. my slick tongue got me my money back after several attempts with the very rude customer service rep. just be persistent that you did NOT authorize someone to use your cc and that you will take this issue up with your cc company and the courts. got a confirmation number but have not seen the refund because they say it wont be posted for 3-10 biz days. today is day 6 or 7 so i will keep you posted.

  lesson learned, i hope. many of us are on the search for an internet based opportunity and i will continue to explore them. but the fine print will be read thoroughly from here on out…

• Randol

  hey who made the scaming website things? shouldnt the police track it down or watever and arrest whos ever doing it?

• Randol

  o and thanks for the article about the scams. it looked real but i didnt try it cuz i kinda new it was fake

• Passerby

  I love it. Someone calling these jokers to the mat!! Great job!!

• PB

  So I am wondering if you really are not about scamming people, why did Russ Miller spam me with this info?

• Mariluccie

  I really not sure what to believe, it seems that there is no longer honest people out there. Please help me and help us get out of the recesion crisis. I’m looking for an honest business to work from home, in where I can start generating money, without making a large investment.

• Matos

  IF you read this closly, You will see how dumb these “scam artist” are. This is from the website about the posting links on google. I Work at Google and we do not support or even have anything to do with these scams….read this carfully. I wish I could get a job busting scams like this one…Was a “duh scam moment lol”

  Michelle Richardson from Madison, TN is your average American Citizen. Recently married, HE lost HER (Michelle is a womans name?) job as a boring account rep (Real companies do not use abbrvs when selling product) for a manufacturing company a few months back. (We also don’t have “run on” sentances) But instead of hunting for jobs and going back to the corporate environment, HE (I thought Michelle was a “she) chose to take matters into HER own hands. Michelle is one of many Americans working from home seeking out new business opportunities from the internet. Read her story in our feature article to the left.

• Matos

  Also if you look all over the website, These scam artist keep saying the same thing, as in the grammer..he/she and amongst other dumb mistakes

• Geraldine Fairbanks

  Thank u so much for the information because I was about to sign up… It’s a shame that people are doing this to people hopes and dreams especially in this type of economy..

  Lord Please forgive them for they no not what they do.

• Marianne Gregg

  How do we bring this scam to google’s attention? I explored this opportunity…my “fee” was supposed to be $6.45 ~ not bad, thought I’d try it & the next thing I know, my credit card is being charged $84 . This is TRULY a rip-off deal!

• Diana

  For all those who have been taken in by this scam (as I was taken in three months ago),

  BEWARE:
  Once you cancel your debit cards AT THE BANK (which I did, one hour after ordering the 1.97 packet from Google Fortune,” which was advertised on Time.com, and after I received an email cancel confirmation from the scammer, citing that my account would not be charged- a week later I was STILL charged 1.97, which led me to cancel my debit cards through the bank), the scammer can still somehow manage to charge your CANCELED DEBIT CARDS AT THE BANK, for months after YOU STOPPED ALL TRANSACTIONS ON THAT CANCELED CARD with your bank. This scam is twofold; the only reason the scammer gets away with it is that the banks (for some scary reason) continue to permit monthly charges that were set up prior to cancellation to be stolen from your completely, non-existent, destroyed and deleted old debit card. I have filed 6 or seven monthly affidavits since the original fiasco, and the NON-EXISTENT debit card still manages to be charged, every month, now 69.97, each and every month. After calling several supervisors at Citizen’s Bank, I was told that there are FULL-TIME personnel dealing with this kind of fraudulent activity, which the banks promote, and which they assure you that, once you fill out the nineteenth affidavit, they will remove the fraudulent charges every month, but without doing anything to delete the old card from their system so it can’t be charged; this means that the bank allows canceled cards to be charged (because the revolving charges were set up by the scammer immediately upon the original transaction, and even before the consumer knew it would be a monthly charge).
  If consumers can no longer be assured that a canceled debit card is truly a canceled debit card, through their own banks, then this country is not only in big trouble, it’s already beyond salvaging. Even if you’ve already assumed that the bank has canceled your debit card off their system, or even if the bank sends you new ones after a large-scale fraud or breach has occurred, check your statements, EVERY DAY. Report ALL fraudulent charges right away, after the cancellation, (especially because the statement won’t tell you if the charges to your account are coming from a canceled card or a new one), fill out the affidavits, and prepare to have no choice but to call your bank every day for weeks, and to become very angry and aggressive. For some reason, the banks permit the scammers to set things up so that the consumer can be charged for months fraudulently, long after they have canceled their compromised card, and all the bank will tell you is to fill out monthly affidavits, until such time that the bank decides to stop the activity from within their own system. In addition, be prepared to receive multiple calls from the bank; some of these will be from the scammer. Call the bank ONLY using the number that is in the phone book, and report all other calls coming from automated bank calls to the Do Not Call List.
  In addition, when you call, the bank representatives will not only know that this happens all the time, but they will try to tell you that the only way to stop the problem is to call the scammer to stop charging your canceled debit card, and to file your affidavit, so that you get your money back, which the bank is legally required to do, but only if you notice the fraudulent activity, and only if you fill out the affidavits, and if you submit all the voluminous proof, each and every time. The bank won’t take responsibility for the canceled debit problem, unless you talk to multiple representatives supervisors repeatedly, and even after they assure you the card has been deleted off their system, the scammer will still keep on charging the canceled card. Even worse, one supervisor told me that many people try to cancel their checking accounts as a means of stopping the fraudulent activity the bank allowed. When this happens, the scammer still charges the deleted card, and you will get overdraft fees as well as the original charges! Until the banks decide that it is in their best financial interest to fix this problem at their end, these problems are unsolvable. This scam, and the bank’s utter stupidity, have added up to an unrelenting nightmare for months. I’m hoping that people will not assume that once they cancel their cards, that the scammer can’t still hurt them, with the bank’s full encouragement and permission. I was told that, not only DOES this happen, that many full-time people work only to replenish accounts with moneys taken from accounts fraudulently, and that the bank doesn’t do anything to stop it for months after the fact.

  Good luck!

• Lee

  We should all wise up and search for legit sites and post them if they pass inspection or trial and error….That would be a great service to these people…..just an idea.

• Supplemental Income Advocate

  Before joining any money making schemes do research on the company and try to check on how long the company has been in the business.

  Do not fall prey on these work at home scams. Keep an eye out for these signs, and if you detect one, report it to the proper authorities right away. You not only need to protect yourself, you need to protect others as well.

• mark

  man i lost $900.00 bucks to these google con artist beware.

• Nicholas

  My mom asked me to look at one of their sites, it was “the post” and under it, it had our city (sioux falls, south dakota)

  Had the whole story – hi my name is Joe from “script” (sioux falls, south dakota) … blah blah blah i make 7k a month.

  It reminded me of something a long time ago. The Internet Treasure Chest. you make a website using the companies tools and layouts blah blah – u pay $90 to set it all up and sell their stuff that is in a warehouse. a relative got it for me for a present one year and yeah, it was total crap and a big lie.

  well just like that company, this is a SCAM. just seeing that the person was from my town, a news paper that isnt printed here (false advertising right from the start) – u lie before the story starts AND ITS A SCAM.

  word of advice – google whatever you’re looking to buy if its like this with the word “fraud” or the like and you will come across great sites like this one to tell you if its a scam or not.

  out of a million sites probably only 10 are real and legit like google ad sense.

  anyways, thank you Adam for your time in creating this post!

• Jose

  Hello i came across this web link and it looks convincing but i learn a good thing from a rich man that if it is to good to be true it is a scam. Life is hard and money is not easy to have unless you pay the price for it, by working hard saving and investing wisely is the key to success, if not then everybody would be rich by that matter. any way i googled it if it was legit and good enough i came across this website thanks for the blog its good to know their is good people out there like you.

• Kelly

  So, is there anyway to get your money back that was scammed out of you after you signed up for one of these things?

• Star

  I received a poorly written email from somebody “making all this money” and once you go to the website you’ll see at the bottom—- “Google is in no way associated with this website.” and then just “a big coincidence” that “Comments Closed Due To Spam (back soon)” so nobody will leave a comment about how this is a scam… and then what really got me was that when I tried to exit the page, it had a pop up saying are you sure??? dumb people!! they cant even write an email

• Ashaleen

  hello, i came across this ad as well and i thought it was true because all it said was that you can make money posting links on google and it only cost $1.95 so i decided to give it a try and then next thing i know i got charged with $43…..so my advice to anyone dont do it its a scam run…….

• Tim

  Are there any LEGITIMATE ways to make money on line?
  If anyone knows about any LEGITIMATE ways to EARN not SCAM money on line, I sure could use a clue, I am a divorced father that is being eaten alive by child support payments.

• Alistair Wiseman

  It’s not hard to take a screenshot! just press CTRL and PrtSc then open any art package and hit Paste!

  There is currently a scam on Facebook which takes over peoples accounts to post on friends walls a link to the whole Make money posting links on Google rubbish!

  What we need is, the information as to WHICH application it is carrying the BOT so it can be removed.

• jake

  yeah this helps… i was looking at one of these scam websites and i figured it had to be fake so i googled it and your article came up- very useful. i hope that others have the forethought to check it out before they fall for something stupid. gotta keep fightin the battle against those scams

• The Police

  Citizen,

  Leaving your name, address, and credit card with a scam website is no fun.
  Even if you get to save your credit rating, you are leaving the idea that “Stupid Person With Money Lives At [ Your Address ]“.
  That information is valuable to other confidence artists, and is easily sold of legitimately.

  Have you been approached by salespeople lately?

  The Police.

• Luci

  I knew It was a scam… Exactly what happened to you. The guys of the stories grew up in Gautier, MS, the place I am living now… oh yes!! and I believed!! no way!!! so fake…
  if it was true, people will not be unemployed or working hard for low salaries…
  SCAM

  thanks for your website

• dadwillguideu

  Good point. It IS a scam. Another far more easier way for ANYONE to check is by calling your bank with the account information provided by the “checks” in the pictures. I asked my wife to run the numbers (she works in banking) and they all came back as fake. Of course it only took her looking at the pic for not even a second before she said they were fake, major reson, they are ALL starter checks. Be cautious with adsense as well, I’m not sayin you wont get paid BUT there is a HEFTY service FEE. Along with alot of little “things” you have to do in order to get your money.

• Peter

  Hi, I have read with interest the scam report on your site. I was on Ebay (UK) looking for a cheap Mondeo and this came up. I can say that it took me in for a moment, I have used Google AdWords so I investigated and in doing so found you. Thanks for pointing out the scam so well and I hope other people find out before it’s too late!! Read this – Offer Details: When you place your order today with the Google Profit Kit, you will automatically become a part of our elite customer club. Upon acceptance of your activation fee, you will then be granted instant access to Member Services. After your two (2) day trial period you will be charged seventy-nine dollars and eighty-six cents ($79.86) per month for your Google Profit Kit Membership. Remember, you can chat with a live operator by calling 866-451-4235 within two (2) days to arrange instant cancellation, and you will not be charged. No obligation, CANCEL ANYTIME! – Thanks. Peter. London. UK

• Kim

  Thanks so much! I had almost did it but then decided to see if the story really was on cnn or msn’s website like the ad I saw claimed and it is not. So glad I ran across your site to confirm what I supected that it is a scam.

• megan

  I think there’s a similar new scam running at the moment, where people tout ‘free samples’ of two products that you can get just for the shipping ($2 or thereabouts). They seem to all say that you can get “great results” (whiter teeth, losing more weight) by combining these two free samples. Quite clever. Of course, you have to leave your credit card details…

• lt

  i am ashamed to say this, but i fell for it and then a friend looked into it and told me it was a scam. i quickly went to google to find out. Sure enough they use the google logo and television logos abc, nbc and fox…within a half hour they had charged me four times on my card. i looked at the terms and conditions window on the add which is a different window I had agreed to pay 88.00 a month – when the add clearly said just 1.95 was going to be it. i called the bank and they immediately cancelled my card and are going to charge the company with fraud on my behalf to try to get me back the 15.00 they already charged on it and no more of their charges will go through. they used four different company names to charge me those four charges and one of the”companies” names my hometown!!! this should be illegal. why is this allowed to happen when google is aware of it? I called the company and told them they are scammers and started to yell at them. i told them i was going to sue them. i asked for a supervisor. they hung up on me. i called back and every time i called back they picked up the phone and hung it up!!!

• DEVON

  HELLO I HAVE SEEN THIS TOO PEOPLE SAYING THEY LIVE WERE I LIVE AND THE SAME PICS OF CARS AND SAME STORY.A GOOGLE IS UP TO NO GOOD.AND ADAM I HAVE SOMETHING TO ASK WHY WOULD GOOGLE WANT TO DO SUCH A LOW THING TO US.I mean if we are fired and need a jobe and we are hoping for somethng the a ad pops up saying all this stuff and we think yes just what i needed and get scammed.But any way e mail me back adam ok

• Mike

  I always knew these claims were bull, because if you look down at the footer of the page, there is a disclaimer stating that google takes no part in this… we are in no way affiliated with Google… Things like that gave me the red flag right away.

• Mike

  I paid the $1.97, and (much to my dismay) I guess didn’t read the fine print. Within a week, money started coming out of my bank account. $30 one day, $60 the next! I guess the $1.97 is just a trial price, and if you don’t cancel it you start getting charged for using the supposed wealth-building software (which I never received). And plus, people kept calling me to see how everything was going. I had to yell at them to get them to leave me alone.

• Wendi

  This is a total scam. They charged me $1.95 the first day and then the next day I looked on my bank account and was charged $79.86. I called the number that was listed on my online bank statement to figure out why I was charged the $79.86 and a girl answered the phone immediately and said. “So would you like to cancel your membership?” I thought that was very odd and figured out quite quickly that they receive A LOT of calls to cancel “memberships.” I was told that they were sorry that I couldn’t read and that I would not be refunded the $79.86, but I was cancelled and would receive no further deductions from my account! I asked to speak with a manager and the response was “NO MANAGER, HAVE A GOOD DAY….BYE.” Ridiculous. I called my bank and will be filling out a form to dispute charge and they are filing a police report.

• Don

  I was looking for a way to make money while unemployed. I found the website with the lady holding the little girl. I paid the $1.97 I had to leave the site for awhile. I looked in my email and I had a account info from this onlineprofitnetwork.com when I googled them today I found this site. I immediately replied back to the support email I got and requested my account be closed immediately. I just got a reply email saying the account is closed and I will not receive any further charges. We’ll see! Just thought I would pass it a long that I cancelled my account by email. Thank God for this find or I probably would have gotten really screwed. So much for trying to make money on the internet.

• vic

  when u order the CD you have 7 to 10 days to use it after the 7 or 10 days if you do the cancell it before the trail is over you will be billed 70.00 a month. so when it says trail 7 to 10 days you need to cancell it before the trail is over .AND IF YOU GET SOME ONE WHO DOSENT SPEAK ENGLISH ASK TO SPEAK TO SOME ONE WHO DOES.AND ALWAYS ASK FOR A REF. NO

• Tesa

  I agree with you the site being a total scam, but why would you send people to try making money with ad sense, saying that it’s a legit way, I don’t really get it. It’s no way in the world to make money online, unless you have a virtual store where you actually sell something, period. You might get away with 2 or 3 scams using these shameful tools/sites but no more than that, and afterwards if you have a little moral left you’ll be ashamed with yourself. My advice, don’t go there.

• Grenk

  I think that there is a bug going around facebook. It posts comments on keyword statuses… For example I wrote something about starting my graveyard shift and two comments got posted as follows….

  “Seems like a job for you www,ArticleJob,cn”

  and the second comment….

  “Seems good for you www,ArticleDomain,cn”

  Watch out!!!

• Jman

  Ok, can you or can’t you make money using Google?

• Mom at Home

  Well crumb, I fell for it (didn’t listen to my gut!) and it told me my credit card was refused. Please oh please tell me I don’t need to cancel my card?? Since no charges were supposedly put through …

• JHILL

  man.. that screen just popped up.. and i thought to myself ‘it wouldnt hurt to spend a buck or two in order to try it’ lucky I looked this up before I did.. U posted the same screen I saw

• Earnbizz

  I have also also seen people screaming like that,its such a scam thing i must say.

• Shorty

  And on those sites, funny how you can’t leave a comment and it does say, comment upon approval. But when you do get the the sign-up page, read the fine print & it says it’s not associated with Google. So I don’t know how they can even claim that on the “teaser”.
  No wonder the fine print says something about making money with ideas………..yeah, ideas of how to scam people. And if you don’t cancel that membership it’s over $70 amonth!

• away around those scammers

  I got scamed also, with Google and the grant information. The only way I found to stop them from taken money out of my account was: to call the bank or credit card company tell them that you did not give them permision to take the money or tell them you lose your card and give them a date when you lost your card. (make sure you say the date “say that they took you money on 11/24/2009, you say I lost my card on 11/23/2009″ so you don’t get charged for it and those scammers can not get your money.)

• Learner

  Hey really it is a scam so there is absolutly no way to make money off the google thing…

• lee

  I found a site and it says you dont have to pay anything for the kit, so how is it a scam?

• BillieJo

  i almost did this… and then i read the fine print… i have been suced into so many of the free this and that links and then my bank ballance says i have been charged x amout from some odd company… this scam says get yours now just pay shipping and handling… lol then u read the fine fine print.. and there it is.. they bill u a ton of money that i know being a single mother of three and a @ home stroke survivor cant afford to just drop out of my account… thank u so much for posting about this scam!!!!

• Emily B

  If you read the terms and agreements on the scam website it states that your computer could become infected with the Trojan viruses or other potential computer viruses. Not good.

• Bianca Lima

  I GOT SCAMED!!!
  Today I was looking into my bank account and I noticed 3 unauthorized transactions. I called my bank and they gave me some numbers so I could call the companies to check why the money was withdrawded from my account and to my surprise they did and there’s no way I can’t get it back.
  They are so smart that they don’t even fight with you. They asked me if I read the terms and conditions so… I AM WRONG because I FELL PREY ON THIS S$%#.
  I am so so mad. I lost $74.97 and then $19.97.
  I thought it was to good to be true but It was only $2.97 so If it was a scam I was not going to loose to much. I WAS WRONG.
  Is there anything thing I can do now?
  Thank you.

• dweaver

  I have been thinking this is a scam, but lately the websites have been popping up on google’s home page. If this is a scam, how can google allow the sites to pop up on it’s home page?

• Maria

  Thank you so much for this, I almost fell for it too.
  But something told me, check it out first, so I did a search with the words, posting links for google, true or scam,
  and came to your site here. I always try to research
  and see what others have said about a company or product before I make the mistake I’ve made in the past which is assuming they are true. What con artists . People think , oh 1.97 is not much money, but then like alot of people said, they get 80+ dollars deducted from their credit card.

  Google should take steps to stop this . Thanks again for this web site.

  Maria

• Big AL

  Man im glad i found this site i almost got ripped off but read the fine print and knew it was a scam. Losers!!!!

• Socks

  HaHa good info, i just found one of these sites and i completely made up my info to see if i qualify or not, i put my details as follows
  F name : YouScammin*********
  L name : Noneofyoubuisness
  Email : stuffyou@hotmail.co.uk
  Address : 516 get lost street
  City : get a life

  Low and behold i QUALIFY and they would like my credit card details 100% SCAM, i would love to turn up on there doorstep and beat them with a google stick (before you ask i’d make one)

• Socks

  Sorry for the second comment ppl but ii just read some of the comments left by people on these scam sites, heres the first that got my attention

  Mark from London says:
  October. 28, 2009 at 12:28 pm
  The timing of this couldn’t be better, I just signed up. I live in Montreal <—— (HOLD ON, ABOVE YOU SAY MARK FROM LONDON?!?! THATS TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!!) and my wife and I are struggling too and this could be our answer.

• Courtney Brown

  I read the fine print. It’s there that you see it charges you $1.97 and on the 7th day, you’re charged $89 per month for the next three months. I’m sick of people praying on folks who have lost their jobs and are just trying to make it. Then, you sign up for this crap and it just takes the money that you don’t have to give. Let’s make smarter decisions folks and remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!

• Courtney Brown

  Once other note, if you go to a website and there are no published phone numbers where you can reach someone to discuss the offer, it is a scam! That was another flag for me, no numbers at all.

• Dean

  I came so close to trying this out as i am out of work and desperate for income. The funny thing is the article shows a pic and says that she is from Port Alberni….lol I am from Port Alberni all my life, know everyone… This lady and her husband do not exist or reside in this town. Fake pic and Name got me suspicious till i read this article… Another Freaken Scam… Why arent police or someone monitoring these scam artists.

• Bill

  Oh god, I’m so scared. I was THIS close to falling for it. I entered my name and all that, and I’d even filled out my dad’s credit car number (with his consent of course; he smelt a rat but trusted my judgement, wrongly) when I scrolled down and read the terms and conditions, which reveal that they’re not even affiliated with Google!

  I didn’t enter the code number for the card, and I deleted the card number and name before I closed the browser. They wouldn’t still be able to use it, would they? I didn’t click the button, therefore I didn’t agree to their terms and conditions. Right?

• cynthia

  is ADSENSE another scam?!!. It looks fake with all scam warning responses an d the written glum comments sounds off like acting Sorry still will not trust anything anybody says!

• Bob

  For those of you that haven’t been redirected to the fake google site, here is a copy of the disclaimer. **note that you don’t get anything unless entering in a C/C# then your card is charged massive amounts of money periodically.

  ((Your Membership is the perfect tool to start making money on the Internet. We’ve helped thousands of people achieve their goals. By submitting this form you are ordering Creative Search Training and the trial membership for $1.95 Instant Access. If you do not cancel within the 3-day trial period, you will be charged a one-time amount of $129.95. In addition, you will be provided access to an online Learning Center which will bill at $39.98, unless you cancel, 30-days from the date of enrollment and you will be re-billed every 30 days at $39.98 per month until cancelled. To cancel call 888-753-4203 M-F, 7am-5pm, MST within 3 days of the date you ordered. As special bonus gifts, you will also receive a Risk Free 14-day Trial membership to HomeSource. You may cancel anytime during the trial period by calling 1-800-537-0984 M-F, 8am-5pm, MDT. If membership is continued you will automatically be charged $29.95 a month.))

• bigal

  thats the scam ,, they did make the money is right .. with the two dollars for each person buying this crap ! they get rich but not from placing ad’s ,, its from the scam …….

• SteMR

  I actually signed up for this thing after seeing a girl from my hometown, that i actually knew, had made money this way. She even had a picture of the check, but her name wasn’t blacked out, and i believe the max she ever made was $4000.00/monthly. Well, anyways the kit they mailed to me was only $1.97, and that is all they took out. Well, so far. And the sign up page was blue, not orange like the one posted on your website. The kit I purchase is through Google, but its actually called The Internet Profit House. It shows a 12 week training course..i was just wondering if this was possibly the same scram you all are talking about?

• yvonne

  First of all, I want to thank you for your work on a very good article. The thing that got me was – I clicked on the site – changed my mind and tried to get out and I was stuck with the window = I was UNABLE to close it. Man, that ticks me off – not only do they rip people off, they take their computers hostage as well. “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?” doesn’t matter what key you hit – you’re stuck with it. Oh, and they are down to advertising for 99 cents.

• Jared P

  I thought it turned out to be a scam a long time ago and googled it. :p
  That’s when I saw this. xD
  If you want to make money online never expect to make much without a lot of work. PTC (pay-to-click) sites that actually pay are great, as well as others give you a small amount of money if you know what to do. I could recommend a few if asked. :D

• DAVE

  I JUST GOT ROBBED…..BEING A COMPLETE DUMBY I PAYED THE $2.95…I GUY CALLED AND KEPT PRESSURING ME TO BUY OTHER THINGS…AND KEPT SAYING IT TAKES MONEY TO GET MONEY…I REFUSED REPEATEDLY…THEN I GET A BILL FOR $69.25……DO NOT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• RETARD

  AWWWW! DANG….MAN. YOU MEAN I CANT MAKE A LOT OF MONEY……MANSIONS…..WOMEN……PARTIES….BY DOING NOTHIN LIKE POSTING LINKS…SHOOOOT …DANG

• chris

  I too have come across these sites. Now, is it a scam, probably. But, here is the thing. Just because these sites are the same, does not mean they are a scam. It could be a hosted site that they upload their picture, and send out the url… Pyramid scheme. You order the product, the person on the site gets a commission, and you are urged to post the same thing. You may get a hosted site, buy a domain, and start spamming your links. Just because they are the same site does not mean it is a scam.

  Second. Posting links on google is legit. There are actual sites that offer you the means to make money, 7k a month, not likely. I seen legit sites that say you can make $76-180 a day. Seems more realistic to me. Maxbounty (an affiliate company) offers a campaign wich says $150-$186 a day in earned income.

  Just do your research, and go by what reputable experts say. Google has programs where you can earn lots of money. Don’t make any decisions without researching first.

• Pete

  Thanks for the posting guys i was about to click on the purshace kit for google posting links. I has a an idea that this could be a sort of a scam but now i am assure of it. Thank you.

• Linda Shine

  I just bought an online book about making money online through google. They charged my account for the price of the book and then charged me $77.00. It is New Year’s weekend. I will probably have to wait until Monday to get any answer from them.

• Kris

  Hi fooools… this site it self is scam ! even though it tells you the reality of scam! ….look at it ? “the Keyword Academy”

• Rick

  It seems to me that the thing to do to prove one of these sites is legitimate would be to inform the site that if there is so much money to be made, then you will gladly agree to pay double or triple the fee AFTER the money starts rolling in and payment will be made by certified bank check NOT a credit card. lol see what they say to THAT!

• Darrin S Harper

  What totally gives this away is if you do (and should) read the terms and conditions where it states the trial for 2 days and you have to cancel within the trial period or be charged monthly. That should tell you automatically it’s a SCAM. You will be charged before even getting the product, let alone get to try it out! Read between the lines before you purchase anything through the net. COMMON SENSE PEOPLE! It helps.

• Randall

  OK, there is the FCC, which regulates television ad scams and “truth in advertising”. Many, many television and radio advertisers have been shut down and fined. Intenet is the new and prominent media just like tv was in the 1950′s, HOW AND WHY is congress 15 years behind in regulating internet scams!!!!!. There is more than 100 respndents to this topic on this page. Can ANY OF YOU email, call or write your congressman and senator???

  GET IT DONE!!!

  Adam – Good work on this blog.

  R

• rochelle

  Why are ya not trying to do anything about google i think it is not right how they calm people out of their money.

• John J.

  I got on one of these sites and thought it looked good but I was supicious when someone makes that kind of money part time. When I decided to exit the site they offered the kit for free. Thank you for your work.

• Rogerio da Silva

  I believed on the advert as they used the google name with tha story of having the basic account for £1.50 I believed and placed the order. Now, after 7 days £38.15 was taken plus on both transactions a fee…. Tried to contact them but no response. I contacted my Bank and I realised this is a know scamm and it is happening a lot lately, they are aware but can’t do nothing as we have handed the card details to the company. I can open a case in 30 days but it is not guranted that I will be refunded. The only thing it was suggest is to cancel my card as stop them take any more money from it with out my concern. They must be doing with millions of people all over the world, if you see this message, contact your bank ASAP to cancel your card.
  If I hear anything at all I’ll post here…

• GREG

  Well folks, it seems that alot of us have learned a valuable here in regard to trusting and making decisions while under stress
  and finacial pressure. Diana, who has replied to this, pretty much says it all. Cancelling your debit card ASAP is the sensible thing to do. However, I am curious to know if your bank representative has mentioned that the FTC Federal Trade Commission should be notified as well. I believe they might be the ones to aid in putting a stop to this type of scamming. I’m about to make a call to my bank to see if it is possible that they can still charge a cancelled debit card. Curious to know if anyone has experienced that problem as Diana has mentioned above. The other thing mentioned is the question as to why such a big corporation such as Google, hasn’t put a stop to this usage of their name already, being that this scamming routine has been going on for a long time. Are they not concerned about their reputation? Kind of makes you wonder….Perhaps people should stop Googling in protest? This would make an interesting story for a local News Station to air, especially in times of economic crisis and hardship alot of folks are experiencing. I’ll bet their ratings will go up!…
  These scammers are like a cancer, that needs to be cut out of our society. I wonder what our president would have to say about this? GBA! As for those of us who were scammed.. Time heals all wounds.. and as you know.. Time wounds all heels… God speed…

• Jamie Peterson

  I totally agree with GREG, we people should look more closely with details, a lot of people would just go to bogus advertisements thinking it will help them earn more money. It’s a good thing I did not fall into this trap. Thanks for writing about this and letting people know that the value of money spent in these kinds of craps are taken advantage with some unscrupulous entities.

• Wilson

  I was one of those idiots that got duped into this scam. It was a link advertise I believe in MSN. The site was interesting and I was not planning on being rich, but the stuff about advertising on google seemed interesting. the cost to access was 1.95, which I thought was an honest fee to provide information. What I did not know was that under terms and condition it was automatically open two accounts with smart money and other site. The both were about $60. Well I don’t check my acount that often and was charged for three months. I’m disputing these charges.

• June Yasol

  Ei Prosperly,

  You’re doing a great job exposing these scammers- saves a lot of souls! More power!

  The BlackGold SAVER

• Linda Lew

  Thank you for this info. I sent the email I rec’d about a single mom making money on Google to a single mom I kinow who needs more income and she got scammed for $129. I’m going to report it to the Better Business Bureau and the FTC. The BBB once got me a refund from another company doing misleading advertising.

• Diz

  could you shoot me a email i wanna talk to you about this maybe you can help me out

• jim oglesby

  Yes. the website is a scam.
  They hid behind Google. Goes like this. They show people making all kinds of money posting links for google. then they present a kit for $1.97 and then they ask for your credit card info, including you address. Oh boy! You might think. I get a kit that shows me how to do this.

  If you forget to read the fine print, then you’ve been had when you hit the submit button.
  This happened to me. the above hosting company then went into my checking account and removed $47.50. The company says they are legimate company but they are a scam and they also come under the category of Identity Theft.

  So buyers/shoppers beware!!!! It is seems to good to be true you can bet it is.

  JEo

• Felix Abdool

  How greatly do I owe you for all the Awesome post.

• athea

  hhahah actually,my bf found that site too.and we’re about to sign up but the good thing is i dont have credit card.haha..

  thanks for sharing that to us :D

• Link Building

  What can be more UN-TRUSTABLE than this. If you make e search on Google you find all kind of scammers. So you have to be very carreful when you buy something.!

• Patricia Stewart

  I was also conned out of over 50 uk pounds, I replied to one of these and they asked for a mere 2 pounds starter fee, then proceeded to take the 50 out of my account a couple of days later. I couldnt find any mail address or phone number to contact them, and couldnt even find the advert again.

  I am fuming at myself for being so stupid.

• Mark

  hey guys, i found this site online, id say that they targeted one of the most popular groups in america, single moms, or moms with kids, thats a lot of people. My mom and my dad make 6 figures combined and believe me, if my mom could make that kind of money by just sitting on her butt all day, then shed def be doing it. Everyone needs to open their eyes, all this stuf is total bs. Just think about it if anyone could just hop online get a kit and start making crazy money, dont you think everyone would be doing, and by everyone i mean EVERYONE! 1. you have the people that are earning the dollar because of hard work, so they try it and they get scammed, just because they want a better living for their family, then 2 you have the lazy ppl that dont really want to work so they try it and get scammed, (i dont feek bad for those kinds of ppl) anywyas, this is america, you have to work hard for your money, no such thing as get rich quick, if there was then the total population of the world would somehow find its way over to america and there’d be 6 billion in the USA and we would all be making the same money from the same source, YEAH THAT SOUNDS REALLY FREAKING POSSIBLE, DOESNT IT?! anyways, thanks for reading guys, i know the economy is tough and prob will be for a while, but just keep seracing for the right answer, ppl with no job or lack of income, try to go back to school earn a great degree, then when u do u can work hard, and sit back and earn your money, it feels better that way anyways, ESP whe u save to purchase a house or brand new car, later guys!

• Brandon Gerson

  Too bad I would have been down with this.

• Juanita

  Thank you so much for saving me from a potentially very bad situation! I was just about to fall for their offer due to needed extra income, and something told me to Google that website. This page was one of the link results. So, again I say thanks for exposing the real truth behind the scam!

• Adele

  Hi

  Thanks for this, I saw a link on Facebook to site very similar to your example of fake ones. I was very wary anyway as I always wonder why everyone isn’t doing it, if it’s so easy & makes so much money.

  I decided to do a search on google to see if there was any truth in being able to post links & was not surprised when I saw your site saying that it was a scam.

  Shame these scammers cannot be banned from the internet forever!

• jennifer

  Unfortunately, I fell for the scam before I did enough research primarily because the mom working from home incidently lived within my zip code. Once I discovered the scam and that there was no one with her name that had lived in my zip code in at least the past 10 years, I copied all of the fraudulent info, gave it to my bank, cancelled my card, disputed their charges since they gained the money under a false pretense and could not offer what was promised. My bank charged the money back to their bank and I hope they also reported the scam as I requested.

• Michael Marshall

  They are NOT Scams, BUT, They do Over Exaggerate. I Make money from these so-called-scams. But I look for a system where I just invest time and not my Own Money. I just got a check from Google for this month $306.19. Yes, I know. Not Much. But Google is not the Only Player in town. I got one from Amazon.com $97, Share-A-Sale $150, ClickBank $130, MyLife $79.40. Total = $762.59 (1 Month). My Cost = $29.95/Year
  Thats not going to get me a Range Rover anytime Soon, But I’m staying with the Facts.
  Just have to Look Around. Been creating a Website to help others do the same. AffiliateNetworkSite and an Article Site, AffiliateNetworkSite-Articles. Don’t worry, everything is Free.
  The Most, a bit of your time.
  If you need a bit of help, we are here to help you as well. We just setup a Forum to work together.

  Have Fun
  Best of Luck

• Josalyn

  THE FIX…..GET YOUR MONEY BACK.

  I too fell for this and a week later I sent away for the teeth whitener, another scam. My bank account has been depleted approximately
  $500.00!!! Grrrr….I immediately closed my debit account. After that I called the “google” people. #877-252-2030
  I’m by no means smart because I fell for two in two weeks time, but they said they would refund my account, so here’s what I said:
  I asked if they knew about the scam and how they were hurting people? I asked if they actually work for google? I told them I had contacted the Attorney General and FBI scam dept as well as my bank to close my account and let them investigate.
  The “customer rep. said that I should have read the fine print”….I told them NOT to speak to me about fine print and said they were all over the internet regarding this scam, I took his name and he said that he would refund my account.
  I’m not holding my breathe, but perhaps I said something right and want to help anyone who has had this happen. I also said that I KNEW they sold my card information to guard dog and others (true).
  I HOPE THIS HELPS!
  I’ve learned a valuable lesson.
  i’m sorry for anyone else who had to!

• Josalyn

  To MARK…….
  No offense, but the “as seen on CNN and MSNBC” sucked me in, “if you put time into it, it WORKS” also got me. Unless you have NEVER done something stupid, people who are kicking themselves don’t need you making them feel worse.
  My husband works two jobs saving lives, I have my BSN in nursing,but stay home with my children. I’m not lazy, I thought, “man….if I can do something to help my husband work less, why not try?”
  Just don’t comment if you have nothing to say to people who are hurting.
  These scammers are GOOD….they use the big names and have tons of people saying,” yes…..it helped us”.
  Also, when people are struggling and losing homes, cars and their dignity…..sometimes WANTING to believe takes over that too good to be good instinct!

• John Q Skeptic

  If there’s money to made from Google, why don’t people go to google.com and ask the source? Seems obviously stupid to pay to make money. That’s always a red flag.

  I’ve never seen Google selling kits to make money on Google. Have you?

  The public school system obviously failed a lot of Americans, or succeeded in the eyes of the rich that have no incentive to educate their peasants. LOL

• Anonymous

  There are a lot of comments and comments to come. All I want to say is I’m lucky i’m not 18 yet, because if I was, I would have fallen for this a long time ago.

• Brian

  I too came accross the same sites and may have taken it a bit further. The first thing is if you read thru his information he says he makes $7000/month then he says he makes $5000/months and then further down he says $5500/month and in the story he say how he lost his job and his wife tried to pick up the slack but they went further in debt. Later in the story he says how this new money enable him to get married.
  Lastly I went on and gave my information and went to the web site, now in the letter he says how you too can get this scheme for $4.95 if you go to the website it says it is $9.95 but you pay $69.95 and get a $60 rebate. It is a real scam

• cj

  I stupidly sent the 1.95 as well… what an idiot.
  Just called my credit card company who say that so far only 1.95 has been taken out. So i have just cancelled my card. Now im worried about identity theft

• Jenee

  This is outright disgusting. Do you have any idea how many of these emails I’ve been sent, touting the benefits of making money with Google (now that I know there’s a legitimate way to do so, though, I’ll be checking it out)? To prey on innocent people who are looking for work in these harsh economic times is DEPLORABLE. Hopefully they get an attack of conscience and from then on not enjoy the money they’ve managed to swindle out of others.

• Jo

  The grant express does business the exact same way, Steer clear of this website also.

  I would like to know if anyone has been receiving nigerian letters after they close their association with google work or the Grant Express. After I cancelled both I begin receiving mega nigerian scam letters. Based on what I have observed I believe these two websites maybe a culprit for nigerian scam letters also. Closed and reopened another email account after Google and said the heck with it after the Grant Express.

• Tom

  This happened to me about a year ago when my girlfriend thought she was hitting it big and used my card for the kit. When the charges went through I got the number from the bank called and told them I was going to report the charges as fraudulent (spelling?). They took them off within 5 days or so. So for all you asking what you can do try this maybe it will work for you. Funny is I almost fell for it this morning haha….what a idiot I am…..people will do crazy things when money is tight.

• Matt

  Also notice on all of those the comment bar is CONVENIENTLY disabled due to spam. I too saw a site like this and thought it looked strange, that site had a guy talking for a long time saying junk about him being in debt, blah blah blah, sob sob sob, but then, he spent A dollar ($1.99) and amazingly became debt free! I however actually use AdSense, I make somewhere close to $1-$2 a day from it, not that great of an income but it’s that extra bit that counts.

• Jo

  I had to ‘Google’ (how ironic) to find out more and came across your page. It looked like a scam seeing as I didn’t even search for such a thing and it just popped up on my screen without me even asking. All I will say is if it was that easy we would all be doing it now wouldn’t we! I am just very disappointed that the real ‘Google’ have not stoped this tat from appearing on their search engines.

• Oscar

  These fake blogs have stopped popping up from websites I visit so I guess people are catching on. I have fallen for scams before such as buying real estate for pennies on the dollar by investing in tax liens and FOREX trading professional alerts so I’ve gotten smarter thanks to that and I find it interesting that these scams including the posting links for Google scam have some legit ideas behind them (There is legit tax liens investing, FOREX investing, and ways to get paid from companies if they advertise on your website and people go to their sites thanks to you). It is such a red flag that in the “blog” everyone is just ranting and raving about how great the “program” is and if you read any other real thread on any subject there are always mixed opinions about everything, there is never concensus! LOL Another thought that I had is that if I have found such an easy way to make money why do I need to peddle it to strangers online? I can just tell all my family and friends or I can even go overseas to hire to cheap labor and taught them how to do the work for me but if I have this great system of making money then why am I trying to get meager three bucks from people? It is so cruel and immoral that they try to entice people who have lost their jobs to get into this scam! I just hope that this will be a learning experience for everyone to become a little more skeptic.

• Deborah

  I actually fell for this scam too. When I found money was being taken out of my credit card, I went directly to my bank, and they cancelled my card and issued a new one. They even chased up the money and I got it back.

• David

  I was actually looking into buying this, googled it and came to your site, I noticed several of the misleading things you pointed out on their site, great read. Thank you.

• mo-bungo

  Hi ,I have also noticed that they use news footage from a so called news network `CNN 10` don`t know if thats fake.Also they mention the BBC.they seem to go to extreme lenghths with video clip and a fake news report..
  Thanks for all this info..Golden rule..`IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE`..then it probably is !
  Mo ( uk)

• Mike

  Actually, you CAN make money off of Google(and other search engines) but you don’t need to pay someone to learn how to. I paid someone(fairly cheap) and spent about $800 in Google Ads and brought in a profit of about $1000. The guide I bought was really common sense. I made a blog site that has a couple of articles that tell you how to do it. Its not as easy to do it now because Google(not sure about the others) have raised their advertising rates so it makes it much more riskier to advertise the high money makers.

• marisa

  Today I found the “cnn News9″ ad on Hotjobs. It was supposed to be reporting from Sun Valley, ID (I don’t live there). I’ve really been looking in to working from home and this did grab my interest. But thankfully, I did my due diligence by google searching and am so glad I found this page. You are doing an awesome thing here! You should go get paid by one of those news channels that bust companies for practicing bad business!

• Darby

  I found one with the girl claiming to live in AHamilton, Montana.
  No such person here. Her name is Kelly Richards.
  Anything that sounds that good is a scam.
  Thanks
  Darby

• Lily

  Here this, so payed 7 bucks and signed up, then i was dirrected to another website where they try to make you spend another $100 to “get things rolling” then you get an email saying, that they are looking for a special few to enroll and train up to a point where they are making 7 k a month. They interview you, then someone else interviews you. They say that they need the person to have the best story, so that when they get rich, they can use the testimonials online to promote ther $39.99 product (which I am sure millions of pple have fallen for) So wait for it, they then ask you to invest $7000.000 from your credit card, to get you going. What a scam! They try to induce you to get into credit card debt! and then they pay off the “online police/negative review/scam advice sites to cover up theri crap! Well they can afford to at that rate!

• chris

  A general rule of thumb is that if it sounds like an easy way to make money its a fake. The only real easy to make money is by stealing. They want to steal your money.
  Remember if there is a fee its a scam.

  Remember the fish that sees a worm on a hook and thinks dinner has arrived is itself dinner.

• ashley

  if its a scam then what actual home based biz works cause i cant find crap it seems like everything costs !

• GK

  Thanks a lot. This was too good to be true, so thought of doing some research on it before signing up. Came across your article and read all the above comments. they were such an eye opener. Will always watch out for any such thing in future.

  Thanks again..!!!

• John

  Erm….doesn’t this site seem like the same kind of con except with a bigger convincer

• Paul

  As a general rule, I don’t do the following:
  1) Click banner ads. Some may be legit, some may be not. I’d rather take no risk, and click none. Any worthwhile company that wants my business would have more effective advertising strategies than that.

  2) Click pop-up ads. Companies that have an advertising department knows better than to spam and annoy us to get our attention. I never read, click, or participate on anything that pops up on my computer screen without my prompting first.

  3) Reply to email advertising. Real companies don’t email you advertising UNLESS you have signed up to their newsletter, OR have already done business with them. Otherwise,its just a spam email.Don’t read them, just delete them.

  Other tips:
  * You never WIN something you never participated in the first place (common scamming ploy)
  * When you see the word “FREE”, be sure to read EVERYTHING first. Your first instinct should be “FAKE!!!” until proven otherwise.
  * If you have never heard of the company that is contacting you, don’t respond.
  * Try to access your email inbox on a regular basis, so you become familiar with which emails and newsletters are normal, and which ones are abnormal.
  * When receiving emails from someone or some company you have never contacted, just delete or mark as SPAM.
  Don’t bother to UNSUBSCRIBE,because often its just the spammer’s way to get you to click their link.
  * Credit card or bank details should NEVER be given in an email or an un-secure website.
  * When shopping over the internet, and you’re unsure if its secure, call their support number. Real companies have phone support (usually a landline or 1800 number NOT a cell phone number) so you can physically ask a real person any question about the company or their security measures.
  * Most of all, be VIGILANT!!!! Nothing is ever free, or as easy as scammers will lead you to believe. Too good to be true? 99% of the time, it isn’t

• PB Crocker

  HI Adam,
  I appreciate the time you put into this but you need to be more specific as to why the actual product does not work. It seems that you are just jumping on the advertisement and the way they go about selling it is supposed to turn me off. That doesn’t make sense to me. That’s like saying that we should not buy Pepto Bismo because the tv ad shows a cartoon picture of pink stuff being poured into a stomach while a soft voice says,”it coats, it soothes, it releives. Well guess what it sales. I’ve read all of the responses and nobody says why the concept of posting links doesn’t work. That’s the information I need.

• Leslie

  Can you tell me how to get to the site? I bought into this, but I didn’ t receive and email or a kit…and now that I know they will be charging me more, I need to try and cancel it.

• Anonymous

  To MARK…

  You say everyone should go back to school and get a degree so they can get a good paying job. Besides the fact that everyone CAN’T afford to go to college is that studies are showing having a college degree doesn’t mean anything anymore. You can either be under or over educated in the college department. As for using loans to go to college is also ridiculous because that causes quite-a-bit of people to go in debt and having to pay them off for the rest of their life. Plus, just because you have a college degree DOESN’T guarantee you to get a job, now-a-days you have to have someone you know in a business to even get hired unless it is one of them very low paying jobs.
  So no matter what you’re saying, it’s not easy to just go back to college, it’s just as easy as falling for a scam in the time of need. To me college can be just as much as a scam as the things people are trying to get you to sign up with online.

• Yolanda

  GREAT article thanks a lot, there is another one: la-sentinel(dot)com DO NOT buy it it seems like a newspaper but is not!!

• Timmy

  I can’t stand this kinda scam crap. Ima bust somebody in da lip.

• EnglandGal

  Thanks for clearing this up. I was tempted. But I thought it would be too good to be true. Shame.

• Michael

  Leslie: That’s the whole point of the scam honey…. Sorry but you’ve been had.

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