Google Work from Home Kit 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…
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:
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
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
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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October 17th, 2009 at 3:06 pm (#)
I am so glad to see this site. It is a shame how some people want to scam honest down on their luck people when they have nothing to begin with. It's amazing how low some people will go. They should remember, "IT'S A ROUND WORLD"
October 18th, 2009 at 11:39 pm (#)
Thanks for saving me from this horrible scam. I also was almost sucked into this hoax. Thank goodness I walked away and came back to check if this was a scam. It shows how we are easily influenced. Thanks so much, all of you.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm (#)
I'm very disappointed these people stole my money and will not return it because i sent there product back before the 14 days never opened it and resent it. DO NOT ORDER THIS PRODUCT. they will bill you $47.50 a month before the 14 days is up. BE WEARY OF THIS PRODUCT!
October 20th, 2009 at 5:00 pm (#)
I'm a touring artist. i need more money. i started looking online, the sites above plus homejobstop.duh where all sponsored links by google search. That is how i found your blog. thank you for your postings.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am (#)
Wow. I'm glad I checked and found this article. I really thought that ad was legit. It even says things like "As seen on CNN". I almost fell for it, but decided to check. I only hope more people check before they fall for this scam. It's so wrong!
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm (#)
Thank you for exposing these crooks. All of us need extra money in these tough times and it's easy to get sucked in at first glance. I'm glad I read your review. I'm sure you saved me money and headaches of dealing with these scam artists. Thanks again.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:18 am (#)
I fell for the same scam and have been trying all morning to delete this account. I called and they had me go to another web-site customer form help. I entered the information. Now how do I know if it was canceled ?? Thanks.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm (#)
I fell for this scam too, and I really hate myself for being so gullible. The scary part is the scam ad that I responded to is on the ABC Good Morning America website, and it's still advertising there as of today!!! Thank you GMA!!! Those people are the yellow journalists that I always thought they were. I guess I'll just report my credit card as stolen, because essentially it has been.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:46 am (#)
Damn! I did not know that this is... oh Crap! I lost $800 when I really need more money? Damn crooks!
November 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm (#)
I fell for this scam too, I was looking online for a job & found a man from Lenoir, N.C. on a website telling about how you can make all this great money from Google working from home, saying that his son that is in high school is doing it as well! I believe it so I order the kit, which was a $1.95. A couple of days past after buying the Google e-z money kit I received a phone call from E-Z money confirming that I ordered the kit & thanking me. As time passed I was looking at my acct. online & saw that they charged me $80.41 three times! well I got confused & called, they told me it was a monthly charge & they bill 3mths in advance, I asked to speak with a supervisor & got hung up on, kept calling & hung up on me all three times that I called! But I was lucky, they didn't get to keep my money, I explained what happen to my bank & they are disputing it so i was so very lucky unlike the others that really got scammed!I have really valued this lesson learned to trust no websites that wants your money like this! Good luck to all and I hope someone is as lucky as I was! don't let these people SCAM YOU!!!
November 10th, 2009 at 2:51 am (#)
Glad i saw this article. I guess if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. One time i fell for a scam and they started signing me up for other things. Good thing my bank had a safety feature that locks up my card if suspicious websites try to take my money.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:36 pm (#)
This thing is really stupid and a scam...if one uses his common sense then they will know that if making money was so easy then by this time everyone would be a millionaire...my friend bought it and he is repenting....he lost more than $400 because of this scam....the other thing is that you need a website for this or a web-page....if u dont have one where u gonna advertise Google products!!!....and after having a website they pay you per click on the advertisement....so if your website is not much visited then ur not gonna earn money...
November 15th, 2009 at 7:41 pm (#)
world is fd up happy i seen this...see ya
November 17th, 2009 at 11:09 am (#)
Well I fell for IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!Now I am trying to cancel this scam I was told to write to customerformhelp.com but guess what nowhere do I see a link to cancel this scam. Now WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! i AM SENIOR CITIZEN AND SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. but MY FINANCIAL IS VERY WEAK. BY NEXT YEAR 90/0 of us will be eating dog or cat food.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:59 am (#)
Still not believing how many people continue to fall for Internet scams. Yes "times are tough" and going to get a lot tougher (the govt. needs to intentionally overload the system so it will break, so they can install the New One...hope you're not just learning this for the first time here.) But that doesn't mean you have to get scammed by these slime balls. Look...if it says "We NEED you to work from home!" it's a scam. If you find an exciting, honest-looking program ONLINE,...IT'S A SCAM. Always. 100% of the time, without exceptions. What else can I do to save you from yourselves... I will type it slowly for you: There simply... are...ZERO...legitimate...work-from-home...programs...not a single one...that you're ever...going...to find out about. They simply do...not...exist. Period. End of paragraph. No no no--stop it. Quit saying to yourself, "There's GOT to be!" That's what drooling, doe-eyed idiots say right before they type out their credit card number to some fat, unshaven, smelly, amoral slob, giggling away on the computer in his mom's basement. Now, yes, certainly there will always be plenty of work-from-home SCAMS to suck desperate people in who refuse to heed the obvious truth of these words. But mark these words carefully, memorize them, tattoo them on your buttocks if you have to: There will NEVER...I repeat...NEVER...be...ANY...true, honest, legitimate work-from-home programs...that you will ever...EVER...learn of...and make money from...unless you do it by just following in the scammers' footsteps and ripping off OTHER gullible fools. That's how they work. K? How do I know? Because I fell for a bunch of them--YEARS AGO. WHEN I WAS A NAIVE, STUPID KID WITH MORE MONEY THAN SENSE. Want to repeat those mistakes? Keep falling for scams just because of the LOGOS. Come on--any imbecile can reproduce LOGOS on a web site and never get hounded down by the companies! Rent a clue--go get a real job doing something you'd rather not have to do, which therefore pays you actual money. It's how the world works, except for that microscopic sub-minority who know at age 5 what they want to "BE" when they grow up, and hit it. Or the tiny few who get lucky enough to have their dreams come true. You, me, and the rest of the 99.9999999999999999999999% of the world gets to WORK for an honest living at something they'd STOP doing in a heartbeat if they suddenly didn't need the money any longer. That's the definition of work: You'd stop immediately if you could. Get out there and WORK.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:18 pm (#)
I got ripped off, I felt for it, they asked for $1.99 'cause I had in the bank $3.00 dollars I felt desperately for a job, is hard to find one, so as soon as I put the credit card number in, the page disappeared, I thought this is weird, something is wrong here, so I run to the bank and ask, they suggest never fell for this things on the internet, I went back home, and I waited 3 days, I had a bad feeling of it, so something told me call the bank, well, they withdrawal $74.97 out of my account without my authorization, and I not even had this amount, it bounced back at me, the work at home got paid, and I end up paying the bank for this, you THIEVES, on top of everything I call them, to return my money and they denied it. You will saw what you reap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am (#)
hyjyljyj says everything that needs to be said on this subject and says it in a great direct and honest way! Also, I've never before read such a no-nonsense, truthful comment on work before - great stuff! Thanks you for this hyjyljyj!!
November 29th, 2009 at 11:43 pm (#)
That big "social networking site" wouldn't let me post this page as a link so I could warn my friends... Wow. All tied in somehow I guess.
December 10th, 2009 at 9:52 am (#)
My wife liked the idea and now i will cancel my credit card. Yes well fell also .
December 12th, 2009 at 9:19 pm (#)
Thank you i almost fell for it.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:29 pm (#)
I was scammed also from the Internet profit house/Google . Now I have to cancel my card at the Bank. I think its awful that there are human beings out there that will do this to people.Times are hard enough as it is. We were laid off from our jobs and thought this was a way to make money, since jobs are hard to find. I have learned my lesson never will fall for it again. Everyone please beware.
January 5th, 2010 at 3:51 pm (#)
WOW! As I was looking for the website that was going to make me so much money, I found this one. Thank GOD!
January 10th, 2010 at 5:57 pm (#)
Government see to it that you pay tax why can't the gov prison these culprits and throw away the key for scamming poor people trying to make honest money on line . Or why cant Google stop these criminals sue them take away their homes, family , dog, and expose them.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:16 am (#)
thanks for your blog about this phony SCAM to make money posting links on the internet for GOOGLE!! Am 71 years old, and I came within the hairs width of falling for this Online Scam. You would think that these powerful successful companies such as Google and others such as Yahoo! would be able to pressure our government to pass laws to stop this illegal practice and put the perpetrators in jail for at least 10 years for a first offense, 20 years for the second offense, and life without parole, for the third offense...
January 29th, 2010 at 9:24 pm (#)
Vivian i feel for ya. I have tried searching for ways to make scam free bucks out there buts its impossible. I think that most of those sites that ask for money 1st thing are bullsh*t. not all- i have no suggestions bc of the amount of bullsh*t people are actually posting...in return hurting undeserving people like you and i, good luck...
March 1st, 2010 at 1:41 pm (#)
WOW, THANKS FOR POSTING. I FEEL STUPID BUT I DID ENTER MY NAME ADDRESS AN EMAIL TO GET TO THE PAYMENT PAGE. LUCK HAS IT- I DID CLICK ON TERMS. THEIR YOU WILL FIND A MONTHLY FEE OF 39.95 IF YOU DO NOT CANCEL IN 14DAYS. ALWAYS ALWAYS READ THE TERMS!!!!!!!!! I HAVE BEEN SCAMMED SO MANY TIMES I ALWAYS LOOK AT THE TERMS NOW.. THIS WAS A GOOD ONE I HAVE TO SAY. GOT ME TO CLICK THROUGH BUT DIDN'T GET MY MONEY...