The BBB has issued yet ANOTHER warning about Make Money from Home with Google kits. Google Kits are becoming so widespread now – like alcohohol, drugs, and porn – it's almost like they are just becoming part of our culture.
I can see the political debates now arguing for the legalization of Google Kit scams, Acai Berry scams, Teeth Whitening scams, and all other forms of hidden negative option scams.
People protesting to reclaim their false hope
Regulators will go too far and people will cry out loud together in mass: "Give us back our right to be scammed!…Give us back our false hope!"
The poet-protestors will quote Michelangelo:
"False hope is harboured only by that love when
beauty is worn away;
Sweet hope is found in a chaste heart; it does not fail
because of changes in the husk."
And the singer-songwriter bards and rock bands will…
Oops. Sorry about all that. I think I might have started getting carried away. Anyhow, back to that ol' BBB warning thingy…
Here's what the latest BBB alert had to say. It includes many of the sites that had write-ups at WorkAtHomeTruth and other sitess over the past year or so, including:
- Google Money Tree - November 18, 2008 Warning about Google Money Tree and Google Treasure Chest is here
- Various Google Kits put out by Pacific Webworks – many of the Pacific Webworks Google Kits were discussed here
- Impact Wealth Solutions – EasyFortune500Profits was discussed here.
- Google Success Kits – the particular one that the BBB references is called EarchCashFastFastWithGoogle – discussed here.
Of course it's always the same scenario of people getting hit with hidden charges:
"While the schemes go by many different names and are found on many different Web sites, the complaints to BBB tell a similar story. Complainants state that they signed up online to receive a free trial of a CD or access to information that would show them how to make money from home using Google. Consumers had to provide a credit or debit card number to cover shipping — which is typically only a few dollars.
Complainants to BBB state that they were billed before their trial ended — or never even received the CD — and continued to be billed after they had cancelled their order. Complainants also found mystery charges from several other businesses for services they didn’t realize they were signing up for with their “free” trial. One Georgia complainant’s bank account was debited $433 by various entities including Grant Finder, Web Training, Powersale, Safelock, Google Chest, Search Chest, A1Member and Auction Support."
You can read the full BBB alert and warning here - or you can just wait until another one just like it comes out from about another ten thousand news agencies, consumer advocacy groups and law enforcement agencies just about every single week.
Here's a short list to get you started:
- Recent MSNBC article – Twitter phishing ploy goes for "Direct Messages"
- 11/9/2009 article at ChicagoNow.com – Lawsuit: Work from Home Ads are a Scam! (Class Action lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks)
- 11/8/2009 article at the Chicago Tribune – Scams Prosper even if economy doesn't
- 10/6/2009 Pioneer Press Article – Work-at-home offers? Beware of the scams
- 11/6/2009 Central Valley Business Times article warns about Master Internet Profits – a.k.a. "Portal to Success"
- 11/4/2009 BBB alert - Arizona Work-From-Home Company Claims to Show How to Make Easy Money With Google
- 11/2/2009 News story at CNET - Spammy Scams surfacing on Twitter and Facebook
Do a few seconds of searching and you can find hundreds, if not thousands more published within the last week.
Related information:
This is the place to submit your questions as the forum is officially on hold for now.
I'm in the process of getting a F.A.Q. section installed at WorkAtHomeTruth which will also allow you to submit your questions.
I've decided to do this in place of the forum for now as it seemed like the forum was mostly being used for that purpose and I'm MUCH more likely to answer on the blog than in the forum.
You can post your questions here for now until I get the F.A.Q. section set up.
Thanks.
Note: This is page 3 of questions submitted. You can see previous questions and answers here:
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Let's face it. Until anonymous corporation and secret banking loopholes are closed for good, the big "law enforcement show" from the likes of the FTC, AGs, and other law enforcement agencies is just that…a show to make it seem like scammers are on the run.
Well, so far that certainly doesn't seem to be the case. In fact it seems more like the scammers are saying "catch me if you can!" For example, take some of the new fake news sites popping up.
Many of them make claims that are significantly more preposterous than the ones made by the sites in the original WorkAtHomeTruth post called Are Fake News Sites the Next Gold Rush?
For example, the sites CompanyTest.org and CompanyRecruit.com make the following bizarre and completely untrue statement in their fake news reports:
"Google has now officially released their new "work from home" system out to the public. There will be thousand of spots available that are expected to go very soon in the next few days.
The way this works is very simple, Google says.
First you will need to apply for their work from home kits. Google has release a limited amount of kits, all distributed through local websites in your area, which will cost $1.97 of shipping and handling to the public.
Google says this charge is made to cover shipping costs but also to separate the people that are serious about working with them through this program.
Once you have ordered your kit (if you are one of the lucky few to get availability in your area) then you will receive a package that will contain all the instructions you need to start working from home for the online titan."
Don't believe any of this for a moment. This is all just a new variation of the old Make Money Posting Links on Google Scam explained by Michael Brown here.
The other BIG WIN for the fake news sites is their addition of the Consumer Reports logo to the traditional misleading As Seen and Trusted On ABC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, USA Today, Forbes, and AOL statement.
It's pretty tough to keep up with all the fake news sites as they continue to pop up like weeds. Just a very quick search popped up a whole new list of them that weren't covered in the original post about fake news…
- www.BizNews7.org | Maria Gonzalez
- www.BreakingGroundNewsAlert.net | Marie Thompson story
- www.Careers–Weekly.com | Andrea Wilmington story
- www.CompanyRecruit.com | Mary
- www.CompanyTest.org
- www.ConsumerTipsWeeklyNow.com | Charlie Thompson story
- www.ConsumerGuideWeekly.com | Nicole Johnson story
- www.Daily-Economic-News.com | Darren and Holly Hansen story
- www.Dallas-Herald.com | Jerry Steadman story
- www.DailyOnlineNewsletter.com | Jason Richardson story
- www.DallasGazetteNews.com | Melissa Lycrone
- www.DenverGlobalPost.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.ENews-Report.ME | Debbie Firestone story
- www.ExtremeMoney.net | Mark Steadman story
- www.EZSalary.net | Mark Steadman story
- www.FastLifeSolutions.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.GetHomeChecks.com | Maria Summers story
- www.HowIMadeDough.com
- www.IBlogIncome.com | Omar Wilkinson story
- www.INewsDirect.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.KBTVNewsToday.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.LAJournalist.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.NevadaBusinessChronicle.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.News18.TV | Marie Thompson story
- www.News19.org | Mary Steadman story
- www.News288.org | Maria Gonzalez
- www.News33Show.com | Amanda
- www.News34.org
- www.News6Boston.com | Mary Hoeffer
- www.News7-Today.com | Marie Thompson story
- www.NewsTodayUSA.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.NewYorkFinanceNews.com | Melissa Lycrone story
- www.NewYorkFinanceNews.info | Mary Steadman story
- www.NY-Weekly.com | Melissa Lycrone story
- www.Online-Career-Observer.com | Dan Campbell story
- www.OnlineCashReviews.info | Sarah Stanley story
- www.OnlineJobsWorldWide.net | Oliva Johnson story
- www.ReadNewToday.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.SBSCNews.com | Lauren Wood
- www.Simple-Works.org
- www.SkillTrends.com | Jerry Reynolds story
- www.SoTickedOff.com |
- www.Sun9News.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.TheDailyNewsOnline.net | Brett Johnson story
- www.TheOnlineNewsSource.com | Jessica Smith story
- www.ThePostTribuneNews.TV | Denise Stead story
- www.TribuneNews16.com | Emily Rogers story
- www.UK-GiveAways.com | Mary Steadman story
- www.USATodayNews.net | Maria Summers story
- www.USNewsReports.TV | Mary Steadman story
- www.VoiceOfAmericaGuide.com | Carol Ferguson
- www.W6News.com | Mary Steadman
- www.WallStreetGazetteNews.net | Mary Steadman story
- www.YouCanBeJobFree.com | Julie CrabTree story
- www.WithTheKing.com | Mary
- www.WorkingOnline3.org | Maria Gonzalez story
I can just see them all saying, "catch me if you can!"
Special props go out to CompanyTest.org and CompanyRecruit.com for including the statement: "Google has release a limited amount of kits, all distributed through local websites in your area" a.k.a. "Google has released…" which is a much more creative way of taking advantage of the IP2Location scripts that make these news sites appear to be coming from your location, whether you live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, or Phoenix.
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