Note: All details of the Diana Thompson Freedom Agency Online sales page, terms and conditions, privacy policy, etc. as outlined in this post have preserved in multiple ways, including video recording.
This Freedom Agency Online review of red flags covers numerous parts of the sales process that you should know about.
Freedom Agency Online Is Using A Conditional Refund Policy
It’s important that you understand EXACTLY how the the Freedom Agency Online refund policy works. Their refund policy states:
“REFUND POLICY and IRON CLAD 30-DAY GUARANTEE
Customers who feel that the Freedom Agency Online is not for them may cancel at anytime. In order to be eligible for the IRON CLAD 30-Day GUARANTEE the customer must have logged into the system, and attempted the program for at least 20 days. If they have not achieved their desired results after trying the program for 20 days they may contact customer support to request their refund. Failure to try the program for the minimum time frame may result in forfeiture of guarantee.
By joining today you will also gain immediately access to a free 30 minute professional business consultation to gain an accurate assessment of your business needs. This bonus gift is itself valued at $199.00, and it’s yours today for FREE as a fast-action bonus! This offer is only available for 72 hours from the time that you complete your initial purchase.”
That’s called a conditional refund guarantee and you should stay FAR, FAR away from any company that offers one. Why, because you have no idea what they mean by “attempted the program” and they don’t define it and questionable companies use weasel-wording in conditional refund guarantees to get out paying refunds.
Freedom Agency Online Offers A “Free” Consultation
Although a free consultation might sound great, it’s potentially the most financially dangerous aspect of the Freedom Agency Online product.
Here’s why:
Over the past few years I’ve heard tons of horror stories from people being high-pressured to spend thousands of dollars after getting a “free 1 on 1 training consultation” – usually trying to get them to buy very bad coaching or worthless traffic, so it’s a HUGE concern anytime I see wording that suggests they might be contacted by phone by a “coach” to “help” them.
Maybe Freedom Agency Online is different, but I doubt it.
Summary Of Other Freedom Agency Online Red Flags
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #1) “Work At Home Opportunities Have Been Featured On” claim
Freedom Agency Online uses the claim “Work At Home Opportunities Have Been Featured On” on the first page and then lists these logos:
- Fox News Channel
- abc
- CNN
- MSNBC
- USAToday
The phrase “Work At Home Opportunities Have Been Featured On” Freedom Agency Online is meaningless. While OTHER Work At Home Opportunities have been featured on those news channels, that has NOTHING to do with Freedom Agency Online.
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #2) Security Seals Are NOT Clickable To A 3rd Party Site
Security seals should be click out to a 3rd party verification site – otherwise they are meaningless. Internet Income Wealth Kit uses the following seals that do NOT click out to a 3rd party verification site:
- Verisign Secured
- McAfee Secure
- Verisign
- GeoTrust
- TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor
You can see that in the video below:
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #3) Headline #1 Used By Questionable Sites
The headline of the first page of Freedom Agency Online makes the claim:
“Make money and change your life NOW! Within 5 minutes you could be making up to $87 an hour and work from the comfort of your own home!”
Variations of that type of headline have been used by hundreds of questionable sites that all look extremely similar to Freedom Agency Online.
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #4) Headline #2 Used By Questionable Sites
The headline of the second page of Freedom Agency Online makes the claim:
“If You Can Spare 60 Minutes A Day, We Can Offer You A Certified, Proven Work From Home Opportunity To Make Up To $379 Per Day!”
In this, case that EXACT claim has been used by hundreds of questionable sites that all look extremely similar to Freedom Agency Online.
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #5) Bogus Income Projection Table
Freedom Agency Online displays a table so that you can imagine all the money you can make by posting links. The problem is tables like these aren’t based in any sort of reality. You see, the only way you get paid in a program like Freedom Agency Online is if someone finds your link, clicks on your link, then takes an action such as buying product, filling out a form (such as filling out a detailed insurance quote form that will allow an insurance company to follow up with them).
In other words, just because you PLACE an ad containing a link, does NOT mean you’ll get paid from doing so. In fact, most of the time you WON’T.
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #6) Bogus Karl Goodard Story
The exact same Karl Goodard Story has been used across numerous questionable websites. The only difference is the fake name of the person the story is about. I’ve made a small sampling of that in this video for another site just like Freedom Agency Online:
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #7) Testimonials That Potentially Violate The FTC’s No Safe Harbor Guidelines
On the second page of Freedom Agency Online there are testimonials about income earned:
- “Ernest T.” claims, “Within 1 month I was making over $300 a day and now 2 months later I’m making an average of $450 a day and I’m still keeping my day job.”
- “Sarah & Luke Delfino” claim they made $2,000 in their first 3 weeks
These At Home Cash Money testimonials potentially violate the FTC’s recent No Safe Harbor Guidelines concerning the use of testimonials. Those guidelines state:
“…the use of a disclaimer such as “results not typical” is no longer a safe harbor for the claims made in testimonials. Third, while you may use atypical or best-case testimonials, if you do, you should clearly and conspicuously disclose the generally expected results consumers can expect in the depicted circumstances. Of course, the best practice, and the less risky practice, is to use testimonials that actually reflect what your product or services is likely to deliver. In other words, rather than run ads that give with one hand but take away with the other, it would be better for your ads to give a clear picture of the results a consumer will actually get.”
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #8) Diana Thompson Is A Stock Photo
In case you hadn’t noticed, you should realize that Diana Thompson is a made up person using a stock photo. Click here to see the Stock Photo Freedom Agency Online used.
Freedom Agency Online Red Flag #9) Promoted By A Site CLAIMING To Be An Advertisement
Freedom Agency Online is being promoted by a site called Career Path Journal. Career Path Journal would LIKE you to think that it’s an advertorial…however there are NUMEROUS problems with that claim:
The so-called advertorial is using FAKE COMMENTS which it wants people to believe are REAL comments. In fact, the FTC addressed this point recently in charges they filed against against other operators of fake news sites, when the FTC stated that the defendants deceptively represented that comments following the “articles” on their websites reflect the views of independent consumers.
So, even though Career Path Journal is using “Advertisement” in it’s heading, it is STILL deceptively representing that the comments following the story on the site reflect the views of independent consumers.
How can you tell the comments are fake? Because the same comments are used all over the web to promote all kinds of different products. Take “Kenneth”‘s comment at Career Path Journal for instance…where he says:
“Simon: you have to work and use the computer and internet, and if you can do that and dedicate some time each day then you can do this with no problem.
I have been working with this for a month and have made over $2,000 already. let me know if you need more help.”
Here’s a screenshot of that same comment used across multiple sites all promoting DIFFERENT products:
Freedom Agency Online Dupe Comments
Here’s A Video Showing That Same Comment Promoting Multiple Products On Multiple Fake News sites:
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Wow! You guys are thorough. And finding the actual stock photo – that’s impressive.
Dan R Morris recently posted..#1 Website Shopping Cart Mistake
I was referred by a friend to this web site, supposedly of CNBC. For some reason after getting excited about this, I looked over to the address bar and I noticed this was not CNBC, but a fake site based on Belgium. “http://www.cnbc.com-story.be/id/?Article2688″. So be careful.
Sounds like your friend got hacked. There’s a huge spam gang operating out of numerous countries right now. I’ve only seen Beijing China, The Republic Of Lithiana, Ukraine, and Romania so far, but maybe they’re extending their reach now, or it’s a separate spam ring.
Paul Schlegel (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) recently posted..Freedom Agency Online Review Of Red Flags
Surely the biggest red flag of them all is that the site doesn’t say anything about what Freedom Agency Online does – or how you can earn money. It’s all propaganda with no factual information. Signing up for something so unclear is either a sign of stupidity or naivete or, sad to say, desperation.
Good point. Definitely avoid blind offers.
I responded to an ad on Craigslist for Kitchen Cabinets. The first email I received back was “I was waiting on someone who wanted this but they haven’t gotten back to me.” The second email was “OOPS, I found their email in my spam file. They do want the cabinets. Oh…I am making $500 a week from home. Here is the link.” UGHHHHH!
I GOT THE SAME EMAIL ABOUT FREE ITEMS. EXACT!
I got the same Email also… and unfortunatly fell for it…thinking “she” was a real person… i havnet really started with it… so maybe i”ll figure the refund thing out!!
I was looking for a desk on Craigslist and got an email back from a Yolanda Phillips saying she was sorry that her friend’s email went into her “junk” folder and she was so sorry but she wanted to share with me a website she was using to work from home and was making $500 a week and they were adding 2 more positions in our area. Said for me not to share the info with anyone else as her sister was going to sign up too and that the positions went fast. YUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK These people will use any means available and are so underhanded!!
That’s been a huge problem recently on Craigslist. Craigslist tries, but people keep spamming it up promoting sites like Freedom Agency Online and others.
Paul Schlegel (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) recently posted..Freedom Agency Online Review Of Red Flags
I marked it to Craoglist as spam. Hopefully they’ll remove it and keep their eyes open.
I was scammed by the same thing!! HORRIBLE!
Thanks for all the info. I am so sick of the craigstlist spam also!
Heads up guys. The shills for Freedom Agency Online are about to swoop in. I’ve already seen them posting comments at other sites trying to ridicule people without answering any questions about the massive deceptive advertising going on and the notorious high-pressure, high dollar sales tactics that Freedom Agency Online leads to.
How do I get out of this offer? I have not had the consulation and have requested that they refund the fee. Can you help?
If they don’t refund you within 2 business days. File a dispute with your credit card company (if you paid with a credit card) or talk to your bank (if you paid with a debit card).
Dispute procedures for credit cards are usually on the back of your billing statement.
Thank you for the detailed info, we just got scammed for the 99 USD, it is clear they are not going to refund anything. BUYERS BEWARE! The guy we talked to, asked us to get 3,100 USD out of CREDIT CARD MONEY to INVEST. He stated that was the minimum investment. He asked us to write: Consumer Debt on one side and Asset Debt on the other side, he tried to smart talk us into this. The basis for accounting will always remain A DEBT is A DEBT. The only thing that will reduce a DEBT, is payment NOT INVESTMENT. DO NOT GET TAKEN INTO THIS, as soon as we heard this we asked to opt out, but guess what: phone number he gave us is phony. Will go to our bank today, to see if they can help us ID the criminals.
Awesome Sylvia. That is the BIG, BIG, scam that hundreds of sites like this lead people into. Thanks for explaining just how nonsensical and dangerous it is.
As for your $99 – file a fraud dispute with your credit card company. If you paid with a debit card, talk to your bank.
So, I also got excited and signed up right away. I missed the obvious red flags…oops. So, I did call for the free consultation and was told I would receive a call back the next day. Two days later a gentleman or a—–e called me and I told him I am not interested anymore. He then proceeded to convince me to stay on the program. Told this guy that I am in the business of sales too and you are not going to convince me to stay on. He got very nasty with me and told me that he wasn’t a sales rep and to not call him one. He started going on and I hung up the phone. I called customer service and was told that I will receive my money back after 20 days. SCAM!!!!!!
Thanks for the info. Almost took the bait they offerd.If it wasnt for sites like this.the internet would be doomed. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!! keep up the good work
I too received the email through a craigslist person offering a mattress for free…It said the exact same things as posted above. Ridiculous!!!
Me too…craigslist mattress for free…same exact response. Wow!
Yep. It’s become a huge problem over on Craigslist.
Had the same issue today. Got the same thing from craigslist when I posted somethings I was selling. Was talking to my fiancee about it. Was going to do it, until I talked to my mom and checked around for info. Thank you for posting this. Even though my family needs the money, I’m not going to put myself through something that could in the end make things far worse than what it is.
WOW!!! I hate to say I almost fell for it! all the stories sounded so real, but right before I put my CC# I accidently closed the window & I got a better offer that said it was exclusive for friends & family, down to $79.00 that kind of made me think, so I closed the window again & now it was reduce to $59.00. Of course that was a HUGE RED FLAG. so I opened a new tab & googled “Diana Thompson Freedom Agency Online scam” and THANK GOD I found this website. I appreciate you. I have not worked for 2 yrs due to illness & desperation almost got me. Thanks so much for all the info.
AH! I am so embarrassed that I almost fell for the Craigslist scam! I am literally laughing out loud at all the responses above from people who got the same email I got.. “first response went to spam.. oh, by the way, i’m making $500 a week doing this… sister wants to sign up.. don’t tell anyone else… i’m so sorry for the mix-up!” She sounded so genuine! I, too, talked to my mom about it, who then found your article on the scam and forwarded it to me, thank God! I think it’s safe to say that any legitimate company would never ask you for money in advance…
I hope Craigslist figures out a way to stop these people.. It’s horrible to think of how many people are getting taken advantage of, the people who can’t afford to buy things and are innocently trying to get free/cheap furniture for their college dorms and apartments.. Ugh!
Certainly you should never pay for a job, however paying for business training is normal. However, in this case, the whole thing is just a big scam.
Thanks a lot.
This what I received when I responded about a treadmill.
Is there any real legit work from home website?
G’dammit now I’m upset “gladys” just emailed me back about a free crib and mattress and there was a back story and everything! OMFG. She emailed me back to say sorry i found the email in my spam folder but here is this link try it out- and dont give it away my sister is going to join. Stupid craigslist!
Got me the same way!!!!!! I responded to a craigslist add for free toy to take to the homless shelter I volunteered at and I was sent the same email!!!!!!!!!
it seemed too good to be true and it was….
I am staying off Craigslist and I no longer believe in work from home companies!
These scam artist should be put in jail!
Here’s the response I got from someone regarding a kid carrier I was selling ono Craigs List. Total scam…
Sure, thank you for getting back to me. Turns out i shouldn’t get it right now anyways… my son just crashed the back of my van and now i have to find out how much its gonna cost me to get it repaired. UGH!
I thank god that he’s ok but of course it has to happen NOW, when i’m finally making very good money from this work from home program i’ve been doing. You know, if you’re interested, they just opened up 2 more positions in our area. Basically you make money by posting links online, its very easy and I just do it while watching TV.
Here is the link if you want to check it out:
http://www.consumersaffairs360.com/?article=017836
I’ve made around $600 each week since I started… not enough to quit my job yet but i finally have some extra money in my bank account. Well, maybe not after i get the mechanic bill lol. My sister is planning on signing up later and these positions usually go fast, so I’d appreciate it if you dont give the link to anyone else. Thanks!
Antoinette
I just wanted to add the location of these workers are always in or near my city, & may
be that’s built in to it. But I looked up the phone number of about 4 of them & none had phone numbers. Couldn’t someone with that kind of income afford a phone?! Glad you guys are watching. Thanks. I’m now checking every home-based business out.It will save a lot of $ and anger.
I joined on January 6, 2012. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get a refund for a week. No one responds to my emails or support ticket … and no one answers the phone. Is this a scam???
I’ve gotten the same thing. SCAM!!!! I looked at the Freedom Agency Online a while back cuz of an email I got. I put some stuff up for sale on craigslist and got an email at 2:32am saying this guy was interested in buying the heavy duty desk we have. Then, that night he says “oh sorry, I can’t buy now. My cousin messed up my car so I gotta fix it. I make $*** a month. Trying to make more, but this car problem is gonna set me back so I’ll have to wait. Here’s the link **********. But don’t give it out to anyone else cuz my sister is gonna sign up in a couple days.”
Thank GOD I found this site to confirm my instincts about this company. And Thank You to all who have mentioned the email/texts about this. I’m gonna be sure to warn everyone I know who ever puts things up on Craigslist.
Finally got a response to my support ticket. (No phone response.) Abraham says “NO REFUND” so I’m out $79.00. If I work the program for 20 BUSINESS DAYS and there is a 30-day moneyback guarantee, that leaves a very slim timeline to request a refund. What a SCAM!!!
File a fraud dispute with your credit card company. The dispute procedures are usually on the back of your billing statement. If you paid with a debit card, talk to your bank about filing a dispute.