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Fake Work at Home for Google Offers Continue
Posted: admin on Dec 09 | Fraud protection
For over 3 months I have seen fake news and fake blog (flog) pages popping up while visiting sites participating in 
advertising placement programs. A recently unemployed friend asked me about working for Google after seeing an ad while reading her horoscope on the web. Google has announced a lawsuit against a credit card processor, after failing to get the individual advertisers to stop mis-using the Google name. You can get a copy of the 26-page claim filed in U.S. District Court in Utah from the Google blog, much of the paper detailing the scam is readable by laymen.
The fake news pages with newspaper like titles report on individuals earning $25 for each posting they make for Google. (even in the golden age of internet money making it was never that easy) To get started one just has to “pay $1.97 or $2.95 for a home worker starter kit”. This low figure gets people to more readily give up their credit card number, only to find they have been billed a $50 to $79.90 monthly membership fee, for which they may get a DVD containing malevolent viruses or information that can be found at no cost on the web. These scammers have made millions from people who were already facing hard times. The fine print on the bottom of the sales page the fake news leads to states in part:
Results may vary. This offer is not endorsed or sponsored by Google or any news organization shown herein.
This scheme employ the standard scam tactics: unrealistic earning claims, fake endorsements, tailored for the readers geographical local, fake “seen on” news channel references, combined with an audacious mis-representation of Google’s business practices.
The large number of separate entities running slight variations of this scam has made it difficult fo class action lawsuits, the FTC, or Google to stop. Usually a number of complaints about deceptive billing practices can result in the site’s Merchant Account, ad their ability to process credit cards canceled. Google is going after Pacific WebWorks, a card processing site along with 50 unspecified suspects.
It’s disheartening to see the most powerful company on the web, withe the directive: Do No Evil, has been unable to stop this abuse of their name and reputation from continuing for more than 3 months.
Google’s blog is warning customers to be wary of the following work-from-home for Google programs with the names: Google Adwork, Google ATM, Google Biz Kit, Google Cash, Earn Google Cash Kit, Google Fortune, Google Marketing Kit, Google Profits, The Home Business Kit for Google, Google StartUp Kit, and Google Works.
Anyone can do business with Google starting with a $5 Adwords account start-up fee, but not as an employee, but as promoter buying advertising space on Google. the payoff (if any) is typically a moderate percentage profit over the ad cost. The majority of new Adwords buyers loose money at first in this increasingly competitive arena.
A typical fake Work For Google news page
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