Google Kit Scams

Wealth Connection Reviews – Legit or Scam?

January 7th, 2010  |  Published in Google Kit Scams

In today’s terrible economic conditions, it’s not surprising that people are looking to earn some extra money from home, or are even trying to find a job where they can work from home full time.  The number of people who search for those opportunities every day is the very reason why this blog exists.  But unfortunately, Wealth Connection – the newest online job kit – is not the answer.

Wealth Connection is the latest in a long line of kits that claim to teach you how to earn money working for major Internet powerhouses like Google, Yahoo, or MSN.  Like we’ve heard before, they claim that you can make hundreds of dollars a day from these established companies simply by “posting links.”  And they’ll teach you to do so for a simple activation fee of $1.95 – which they charge “only to make sure you’re serious.”  Right.

The truth is, if you read their Terms & Conditions you’ll see that the $1.95 buys you a 3 day trial.  After those 3 days, you’ll be charged $59.84 monthly subscription fee.  If you don’t cancel then, you’ll see that 10 days after you sign up you’ll start being charged $29.71 a month for Search Profit System – a program that’s never explained.

And if this list of hidden charges doesn’t send you running for the hills, the information that you’re purchasing should.  It turns out to be same old, same old – repurposed, repackaged info on how to make money using Google AdSense and AdWords, two completely free programs that you can research, sign up for, and use for the low, low price of: $0.00.  And that is the truth.

The worst part of the Wealth Connection scam is that their fake news site advertisements try to convince you that this is an actual company hiring actual employees to work from home for a steady paycheck. They even have what appears to be a video clip from a real local news show talking about people working from home – though the clip never actually refers to Wealth Connection, you’re supposed to believe that this program is how a TV production assistant was able to quit her job and work from home.

The truth is once you purchase this program, you’ll realize that you have to create your own website, with your own information, your own products, your own web traffic, and then start paying Google to post ads before you see any money.  And if you ever see money, it won’t be a “steady paycheck” and it won’t be $5,000 a month as claimed in their ads.

Bottom line – if you’re ready to start your own online business, then you can research Google AdWords and AdSense for free.  There’s no need to pay Wealth Connection $59.84 a month for free information.

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Google Pro Fusion Reviews
Is GoogleProFusion.com a Scam?

January 4th, 2010  |  Published in Google Kit Scams, Internet Scams

Google ProFusionGoogle Profusion has been advertising their work at home kit worldwide for several months now.  They use highly enticing ads like, “Make $5,000 a Month Posting Links on Google,” to get people’s attention. Moreover, this company uses focused advertising to target single parents, the recently unemployed, and those desperate for additional money.

This may be news to some people but the truth is that Google Profusion is not offering a new concept or opportunity.  In fact they’re simply trying to cash in on the latest work at home craze by offering their own Google Kit.

For the past several years law enforcement, government authorities, and most recently even Google themselves have been battling a plague of scammers using the Google name to rip-off the public.  This is not just a simple scam but a complex web of lies that’s been used to fleece millions of dollars from honest people.

The Google Profusion scam works is in two separate stages.  In the first you are sold the idea that this is an amazing product that can make you thousands of dollars with very little effort.  Now this is done via one of two methods, in the first the ad you click takes you to a fake blog that details how a person from your hometown has been using this product to make money.

In the second method the ad you click takes you to a fake news article that profiles a work at home parent who’s been using Google Profusion to make a full time income from home.  In both scenarios this company makes use of bogus testimonials, fake positive comments, unauthorized use of trademarked logos, and other tactics of deception.

Now keep in mind this is all done just to get you to the order page, once there things get even worse for you.  The way that companies like Google Profusion make their money is not by adhering to traditional business models, i.e. create a good product and earn income from satisfied customers.

No, they’ve figured out that it’s much easier to make money by taking advantage of people’s trust and negligence.  Basically, if you don’t read the fine print you’re going to be out a lot of cash.  At the bottom of GoogleProfusion.com in their terms and conditions you’ll find this paragraph…

The initial handling charge of three dollars and eighty eight cents, includes the Google profusion kit as well as three days worth of access to the profitprofusion.com website. After three days, if you choose not to cancel, your first monthly membership fee of fifty nine dollars and ninety five cents will not be refunded. Membership fees will be charged to the credit card used by you to complete the transaction. Prior charges for all programs are non-refundable but bonus subscriptions can be cancelled and future charges stopped at any time by calling toll-free 800-934-0785 Anytime.

If you choose to sign up for this product and pay the recurring monthly charges using a debit card you hereby provide pre-authorization and consent that profitprofusion.com may charge sixty dollars on a monthly basis.

You will also receive a free 7-day trial to Rebate Millionaire and a free 14-day trial to Network Agenda. After the trial period, you will be charged $19.95 and $9.95 a month thereafter, if you choose not to cancel. Cancel any time by calling 800-934-0785.

Note how they purposely write out the numbers instead of printing them as numerals, another deceptive tactic to get you to overlook how much this is actually going to cost you.  Oh, and they also take the liberty of signing you up for additional programs with monthly charges.  If you signed up and need to cancel use the numbers above to do so, make sure to cancel everything.

Again this is nothing new and in fact Google Profusion is late in the game because these deceptive “negative option” offers are now under heavy fire in the US and Google is currently suing the creators of a similar site.  However, these people are still finding plenty of targets outside the US.

As far as the actual course material is concerned the info that they sell is readily available for free online.  They simply instruct you on how to use Google Adwords to advertise products, using tutorials which can be found in Google’s own help pages and forums for free.

Bottom line is that companies like Profusion are clearly in this to make money from people who agree to terms that they never would have if not for the deception and highly exaggerated profit claims.  Beware this scam also goes by the name of “Profit Profusion.”

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PayDay Home Income Reviews – Legit or Scam?

December 29th, 2009  |  Published in Google Kit Scams

Here we go again!  Yet another program offering to sell you the secrets of using Google to unlock Internet riches for a too-good-to-be-true fee: $3.95.  PayDayHomeIncome.com is using all the standard tricks to get you to trust them – they’ve decorated their website with the logos of lots of trustworthy companies – Google, Twitter, CNN, ABC, etc – though they are in no way affiliated with them.  They have a “countdown clock” offering you a “limited time offer” if you’ll just sign up for some free information.

But, the difference between PayDay Home Income and other Google kits are the small changes they’ve made.  First of all, if you are looking for information on their website on their Terms & Conditions, or about how much this product will cost you, you won’t find anything.  What you will see is a paragraph at the bottom of the page in very tiny fine print.  If you read this paragraph, you’ll find out all about how if you buy this product you could soon be debt free and no longer need credit cards!

However, when you put your email address and info into the boxes, the payment page comes up looking almost identical to the previous page.  The same paragraph of tiny print appears at the bottom of the page, with the first two sentences identical to the previous page.  But if you continue reading, you’ll see this:

After the two-day trial period, you will be charged $129.96 and thereafter $89.53 monthly unless or until you cancel. In addition, you are purchasing a trial membership to Social Reach which will bill at $79.41 after a fifteen day trial and then sixty days from then bill monthly at $19.71 unless or until you cancel. To cancel call 877-539-0572 within your respective trial period. A $2.85 credit card processing fee will be charged in addition to all fees.

If you decide to click on the link for the Terms & Conditions that has suddenly appeared, you’ll see that should you decide to cancel, absolutely no money will be refunded to you unless you are within the 2 Day window for Pay Day Home Income, or the 14 Day window for Social Reach – whatever that is.

PayDay Home Income is also using the fake news sites I’ve told you about before, only this time they’re embedding little videos from “GNN” – the fake CNN – that has an exclusive interview from a woman laid off from her job who bought this program and is now making all the money she needs though she spends hardly any time working.  The “news anchor” tells her how smart that is, before giving you the information you need to order the kit for yourself.

Bottom line: scam.  This Google kit is the same as the rest.  They get your credit card number, charge outrageous amounts to your card in short periods of time, and then keep the money when you cancel.  If you receive any information at all from this Google kit, it will be about how to use Google AdWords to advertise your own business.  Since Google AdWords is a totally free program that anyone can use, signing up at PayDayHomeIncome.com is the same as throwing your money away.

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Google Home Income Kit Reviews – Legit or Scam?

November 10th, 2009  |  Published in Google Kit Scams

The release of the Google Home Income Kit signifies one thing and that’s that new laws and regulations will do little to deter misleading and fraudulent business practices.  These so called Google kits have been plaguing the internet for over a year now and it’s clear that they’re not slowing down.

Several months ago the FTC issued new guidelines for the internet marketing industry yet their affect seems minuscule.  It does seem that proponents of these Google Kits are more careful these days, in the past they made outrageous claims like, “Make $500 – $1,000 a Day Posting links on Google.” Now their subdued pitch simply reads, “You Could Make a Lot of Money Working With Google,” sadly this seems to be the only evidence of increased legal compliance.

You See There are 2 Major Problems with How Google Home Income kit is Marketed…

Google Home Income Kit

First off, more likely than not you came across it through a misleading “newspaper” article, basically an ad that is made to look like an online newspaper featuring a story about a successful work at home Mom/Dad who’ve been using Google Home Income to make a fortune.

These fake sites use a host of tricks to make their cheap site look completely legitimate.  They add weather reports, fake comments, advertisements, and most deceptively an IP reading script that customizes the newspaper based on your location.

Here’s an example of one of these fake sites…

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The article is very misleading and does not explain with any accuracy what you’re really buying into.  When you sign up for these kits you’ll get access to a website that features internet marketing information, specifically showing you how to use Google AdWords to sell products for a commission.

They never tell you that you need to have money to invest as Google’s ad system operates on a pay per click basis, and they don’t tell you that you can easily lose money with this system.

The second problem with Google Home Income is in their billing process.  They advertise the kit for 1 dollar, but if you read the fine print you’ll see that it actually costs much more than that.

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. To cancel call 877-557-5473 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 Home Source. 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.

There’s nothing wrong with having a program that charges a monthly fee for its continual use but as you can see here, Google Home Income is simply out to rob their customers.  If they really were sincere about offering a trial of their product they would allow you more than 3 days to do so.  They also wouldn’t sign you up for all the additional monthly programs that you need to cancel.

If you ordered Google Home Income, without reading their terms and conditions, you can cancel buy calling the phone numbers above.  Remember to call both numbers and cancel each program separately to avoid any extra charges.

So is Google Home Income a Scam?

I think it’s pretty clear that these are not people you want to do business with.  I can’t think of any legitimate company on or offline that I’ve ever done business with that uses this type of misleading billing practice.

It’s clear that the way they make their money is by running up the bill on people who, in their desperate need for money and work, failed to read the fine print.  I’d recommend staying far away from Google Home Income as they’ll leave you with nothing but a headache and an empty wallet.

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Google Work from Home Kit Reviews – Legit or Scam?

October 15th, 2009  |  Published in Google Kit Scams, Internet Scams

In the latest work from home trend, marketing companies are focusing on selling the dream of Google work from home opportunities.  There are hundreds of these websites claiming that if you sign up for their kit they’ll show you how to make $200 – $600 a day posting links on Google.

The most egregious of these offenders go out of their way to make you believe that you’ll be working directly for Google Inc.  They post pictures of Google headquarters in CA and will even use buzzwords like “hiring,” “employment,” and “work at home jobs.”

What’s even worse is how low they’ve stooped to market these Google work from home kits.  The most common method is to use a fake online newspaper.  They create a website that mimics the home page of popular online news portals; they even include minute details like a weather forecast.

These fake newspapers feature one article with a variation of one of the following headlines:

How a Stay At Home Mom Makes $7359/ Month on Google

Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush?

Breaking News: Google Hiring Americans to Work from Home

These articles profile a successful work at home Mom or Dad who are using one of these kits to not only survive these hard times, but make a killing working from home.  At the bottom of the article there’s a procession of comments, which are also fake, followed by pictures of checks and more links to purchase a start-up kit.
Here are some examples of what these sites look like…

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Google Work at Home Kits the Biggest Scams to Date?

Aside from the deception used to get you to click through to one of these kits, the worst part is still to come.  These kits are practically given away for nominal shipping and handling fees of around 2 bucks; however you need to read the terms and conditions to get the full story.

What you are really signing up for is a trial period of the product; depending on which kit you purchase you have between 3 – 7 days to cancel.  If you fail to do so, they will begin to charge you a high monthly fee for the continual use of the product.  To make matters worse, often times they take the liberty of signing you up for additional trials for products you never even heard off, much less requested.

This is completely unethical and these Google work from home opportunities have fleeced customers for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Since these billing stipulations are hidden in the fine print most people fail to see them until it’s far too late.

If you already fell for one of these scams there are several things you can do:

1) If you still have the link to the original offer, follow it and read the Terms and Conditions page to get a cancellation number.  What makes this difficult is that these kits are hosted on complicated domains like “https://secure3.on1inetrack.com/goph/?offer=go_qg…”

Almost no one remembers them and to further complicate matters these sites are always changing names and numbers.

Here’s a list of some of the more popular ones at the time of writing this article:

make money from home with google
Name: Make Money From Home With Google
URL: http://www.safetrialoffers.com/googlefortune/ld5/?affID=116&subaffID=1
Phone Numbers: 1-877-361-8622, 1-877-495-1145, 1-800-418-9320 ( Need to call all 3 to cancel additional programs)
Address: Search 4 Profit, LLC.7614 Arvilla Avenue.Sun Valley, CA 91352




profit library

Name: Profit Library with Google
URL: http://www.profitlibraryathome.com/aoffer/?B=144A=94&SubAffiliateID=16113-VT
Phone Number: 1-800-440-4397
Address: 625 Main street West Indies Nevis






Profits at home using Google
Name: Profits at Home Using Google
URL: https://secure3.on1inetrack.com/goph/?session-id=0511cf0b70ceee08f4c08eb7b8f200fc
Phone Number: 877-484-8016, International: 00-1-646-205-0216
Address: Pacific WebWorks, Inc – Utah, USA




2) The easier option is to call your bank or credit card and report these fraudulent charges.  In most cases your credit card company will have a phone number for you to call and cancel the monthly charges.  Still, this doesn’t always work and in many cases people have resorted to reporting their cards stolen and are not taking responsibility for the purchase.

It’s pretty clear that you should stay away from any offers that resemble anything mentioned in this article.  The information in these Google work from home scams is outdated and definitely not worth the monthly fees.

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