I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about ProfitsAtHomeNow.com right now, but it did come up as a top referrer for the site TheDailyTribuneOnline.com so I thought ProfitsAtHomeNow should be discussed a bit.

The first thing that jumps out are the pictures used on ProfitsAtHomeNow which are the same pictures that have been used over the past year on various flogs (fake blogs). Note, ProfitsAtHomeNow.com isn’t technically a flog, but it IS using the pictures found all over the internet on many of the fake blogs.

Bizarrely, ProfitsAtHome.com puts the following disclaimer:

“To protect their privacy the above images do not reflect the person who submitted the testimonial.”

While that MAY be true about ProfitsAtHome.com’s testimonials, in general anytime you see that disclaimer these days it should raise a HUGE RED FLAG.

What’s happened in many cases is that websites have been being busted either – either formally or informally – for using fake testimonials. And now many of them are scrambling to cover their behinds by putting up disclaimers stating basically “Yeh, our testimonials are fake, but we’re OK, because we’re telling you they’re fake”.

By the way, the disclaimers are usually longer than the one on ProfitsAtHome.com and go something like this:

“*INCOME CLAIM WARNING: Testimonials do not result typical result. Photographs or images are depiction of individuals and payment methods. These income examples are representative of some of the most successful participants in the program. Some individuals purchasing the program may make little or NO MONEY AT ALL. These claims are not a guarantee of your income, nor are they typical of average participants. Individual results will vary greatly and in accordance to your input, determination, hard work, and ability to follow directions. No person or company can guarantee profits or freedom from loss.”

Here’s an EASIER DISCLAIMER for all the FLOGS and sites that feel the need to “protect the privacy” of the people in the testimonials:

UNIVERSAL WEBSITE DISCLAIMER/WARNING: Everything you read on this site is probably just a bunch of nonsense.

That should cover it, eh?

The IRONY of “Protecting the Privacy” of testimonial givers

Here’s the biggest irony of flogs “protecting the privacy” of testimonial givers: MANY of the testimonials used on Flogs were proven to be STOLEN which is the MAIN REASON I can think of using an alternate photo (say a stock photo) to protect someone’s privacy – although I don’t even know if it’s legal to do so.

Products that ProfitsAtHomeNow.com promotes:

ProfitsAtHomeNow.com promotes the following two products:

Runner up (i.e. #2) is a product called AuctionProfitCenter.com which promises to let you “Harness the Power of eBay with the FREE auction success kit”.

George and Samantha happy being iStockPhoto 000006112751

Apparently AuctionProfitCenter.com didn’t get the memo about the Testimonial Stock Photo images disclaimers as they just boldy threw up a testimonial allegedly from “George and Samantha” and using iStockPhoto’s stock photo 000006112751 – a.k.a. “Happy Couple at the Beach”.

Of course after enough people start pointing out that it’s a stock photo AuctionProfitCenter.com will likely “remember” to add some or all of the following disclaimer:

“*INCOME CLAIM WARNING: Testimonials do not result typical result. Photographs or images are depiction of individuals and payment methods. These income examples are representative of some of the most successful participants in the program. Some individuals purchasing the program may make little or NO MONEY AT ALL. These claims are not a guarantee of your income, nor are they typical of average participants. Individual results will vary greatly and in accordance to your input, determination, hard work, and ability to follow directions. No person or company can guarantee profits or freedom from loss.”

They might EVEN decide to NOT precheck the box that says “I agree to the terms and conditions”.

Maybe they’ll even explain exactly what they mean by “As seen on Yahoo!, YouTube, Google, CNN, MSN, and Forbes”.

The #1 product ProfitsAtHomeNow.com promotes is…

Ah, never mind. It’s probably just a bunch of nonsense anyhow.

Note: A few other sites similar to ProfitsAtHomeNow.com are:

• BigProfitsAtHomeNow.com
• MyHomeInternetBiz.com
• LazyGuideToWealth.com