Comments on: Google Fortune and The New York Gazette News

By: El Plumber (admin)

El Plumber (admin) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:21:33 +0000

Unfortunately, I fail to see what’s funny about having money stolen from your bank account, your credit card and identity information sold on the black market, your credit ruined for years to come, and hundreds of hours of your life wasted trying to correct it all. All because someone down on their luck was tricked into giving up their credit info.

I assume “Matt” must be one of those shady people who arrived here searching for how they could get in on this scam.

Check out Google Kit Scams Are Breaking The Law, Don’t Call The Victims Names for our response to this type of troll.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:08:52 +0000

Says the dude who is pushing an ID protection service.

LOL

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:50 +0000

I applied for a “Personal Assistant” job, and got a link to the New York Gazette News article about Mary Steadman and Google fortune…alarms went off in my head for several reasons…first of all, why would any company pay someone 5Gs a month to post links on a website? Anybody can do that.
So I then looked at that NY Post Gazette or whatever it is, and it was obviously not from a real newspaper page-there’s no date and title headers and footers, no other articles listed, etc. So I Googled “New York Post Gazette” and found this website. Look, people, this is obviously a scam! It’s never gonna be this easy to make good money.
My question is, why doesn’t Google do something about this? Their name is being used to scam people!

By: Barb W.

Barb W. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:45:21 +0000

I TOO “ALMOST” GOT TAKEN BY THIS GOOGLE WORK FROM HOME FOR $1.97. I CAUGHT IT A COUPLE HRS. AFTER I SIGNED UP. I BEGAN E-MAILING & THE FOLLOWING DAY WITH THE PHONE CALLS. THERE ARE TOO MANY PH#’S TO TRY TO CANCEL THIS THING. THE NEXT THING I KNOW THERE WAS OVER $100.00 ON MY C.C. THAT I DID NOT APPROVE. I STOPPED IT COLD. HAD TO GET A NEW C.C. ISSUED TO ME & NOW MY C.C. COMPANY IS GOING AFTER THEM. I SAVED EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION & E-MAILS. I RECOMMEND EVERYONE SAVE ALL OF IT, BECAUSE IF YOU GET TAKEN, YOU’LL HAVE YOUR CANCELATION E-MAILS LIKE I DID, TO BACK YOURSELF UP WITH. THIS AD IS STILL OUT THERE, & I DON’T KNOW HOW GOOGLE IS STILL REELING IN THE PEOPLE. SHAME ON THEM. I’VE READ EXCUSES FROM GOOGLE, BUT THAT’S B.S. I HOPE NO ONE ELSE GETS TAKEN LIKE I ALMOST DID.

By: Deborah Hutmacher

Deborah Hutmacher — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:49:59 +0000

I got caught into it. Thought Google, gotta be okay right, WRONG. Pay $1 and get info. Didn’t read the fine print and lost the further website. 4 days later here is this $129 pending in my checking acount. I called the number listed on the account. Sorry she says, you had a 3 day limit to cancel. Went to the bank and changed my debt account and now have to fight to get it back. When will I learn!!!! Now it’s down to a dollar and the charge is over $129. Why isn’t Google going after them for using their name. They gotta be racking it in from suckers like me.

By: memom

memom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:26:38 +0000

I just fell for this and bought the 2 kits but it just seemed fishy after I signed (a couple hours ago) so I called to cancel both. Got cancel #’s but I canceled my credit card anyway. I couldn’t even find a google # to contact anyone but got the phone # from my bank that was charged. It’s different from the ones above if anyone else has a hard time gettting a phone #. 866-481-8192. Supposedly everything was canceled. Very frustrating!! At least it was just the trial deal and not the whole monthly payments.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:30:57 +0000

Just to answer — no I did not access the 7 day trial — it just wasn’t worth it, I decided I will make money the normal way I will earn it!

But there is another scam out there dealing with Purely White (teeth whitener) and Cleanwhites. They claim use a promo code to get low shipping costs and the product free but then 10 days later you are charged the ful price which is $80++ There again, NOTHING is free

Just to let you know, keep your eyes open and read and do your internet research as it all pays off

By: M3rly

M3rly — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:05:20 +0000

Thanks for the info. I almost got suckered into the scam but I had a feeling something was wrong when I tried to leave a comment and it never got posted, which led me to do more investigation about this Work From Home scheme. After googling it, I found out that it was nothing more than a scam.

By: El Plumber (admin)

El Plumber (admin) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:40:02 +0000

Hi Joy, so sorry to hear that! Did you access the 7 day trial at all and what did you find?

I hate to say it, but other people have reported that even though they call and get a cancellation number, they have still been charged at least once. I would strongly suggest you report your card lost and get a new card number as soon as you can to help prevent this.

By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:34:50 +0000

After reading an article about this so called great opportunity and the success a Tucson lady had with it, I hate to admit I ALMOST fell for it. I did spend the $1.97 — it was a worthwhile expense to learn that “if it seems too good to be true, well it is!!!” When it came to the fine print you get caught in a scam :

“Monthly Service fees will commence 7 days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the 7 day trial you will be billed $79.90 monthly for the continued service of the website. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided services. We reserve the right to transfer your billing to a third party Merchant of Record. This authority will remain in effect until revoked by me. You may cancel at anytime by writing to 230 West 400 South, Suite 173 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 or call 877-484-8016 or International customers please call 00-1-646-205-0216.”

To say the least I imnediately called and cancelled, spoke to a real person, got a cancellation # and everything

I just want a job, after being laid off of work since April it is getting harder and harder to keep my spirits up and be able to pay my bills