Here’s a person on a mission to expose the grant kit scams:
What are you still doing on the WorkAtHomeTruth site? Seriously, go grab your favorite beverage and hang out at the FreeGrantKitScams site for a while.
The site goes way beyond the brief write-up we did in the post BradsMoney – where’s that government check? back on December 13, 2008.
What about the Google ads in your website? Are those legit? If not, aren’t you helping to promote dishonest home based businesses? I copy/pasted the ads below.
New Grant Applications
Your free money search stops here. Apply now using top grant apps
http://www.USAGrantApplications.com
Hey Broke Guy©
From Unemployed To Making $51k/ Mos Read The Review To Learn My Secret.
http://www.MaverickMarketingReview.com
Free Student Grant Guide
Guide to 1,900+ Schools Plus Financial Aid & Federal Grants!
Edu.SearchByDegree.com/Grants
Tired Of Being Scammed?
Never Buy Another Bogus Work At Home Money Making Program.
http://www.AffiliateMoneyMaverick.com
Apply For A Pell Grant
Move your career forward with an accredited online degree!
http://www.CourseAdvisor.com
My friends laughed when I said I was going to support my family working from home…until I did. I credit this blog: http://freelancemoney.wordpress.com/ for showing me how to win consistently. Read it!
Yani
Kenny,
That’s an issue. I don’t have a great solution for that yet. Take a look at just ONE discussion where there are nearly 600 comments where I was helping people file complaints here:
http://www.workathometruth.com/blog/2008/11/19/google-money-tree-complaints/
I have DOZENS of discussions like this going where I’m finding information for people or even calling places sometimes.
Adsense is impossible to control for the most part – which is where those ads come from.
I thought about just shutting down the whole site numerous times because there is no real good solution, because no matter how much I try to help someone comes along and complains and frankly, it’s just annoying.
If you want to go put up your own website and work like nuts and put up with the legal issues that go along with running a site like this, be my guest.
While your at it, why don’t you go complain to these websites, too, about having adsense ads running on their sites:
A New York Times article on scams.
The New York Times has the following adsense ad running:
I Got Scammed 27 Times
Avoid Work At Home Online Scams! I Will Show You The Ones That Work.
Make30KAtHome.com
What’s most annoying is the solution is to put pressure on the affiliate networks which are the mass means of distribution of these types of offers – I don’t even think complaining to Google is the best place to start. All that will happen is new offers will pop-up that are just as bad.
And certainly complaining to a site that has Google’s ads running automatically with little control over them is just shy of useless as far as getting anything done about these types of offers. But most people and government agencies seem to be completely braindead when it comes to where the real problem lies.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the link and positive comment. I’ll keep posting stuff until I see these sites disappear!
About the Adsense – I run Adsense too, and it is poetic to see grant scam sites’ ads appear on my blog. I hope people click on those ads to see for themselves!
In fact, I think I’ll be posting a call to action for people to start doing keyword / ad ‘research’ on Google / MSN / Yahoo, playing the scam affiliate marketers at their own game.