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What Is A Google Biz Kit?
I keep seeing ads for one Mrs. Mary Steadman make money working at home “blog” pushing something called a Google Biz Kit. The names keep changing on these Google Biz Kit work at home part time job sites, but the bad deals keep coming. It’s almost like as soon as I post about one site offering this work from home on the internet for $1 deals, another pops up in it’s place. Literally in the middle of writing this article the ad I found changed from linking to Mary’s Money Blog to Kevin Gets Green for Kevin Hoeffer and back again!
How do these earn at home working for Google blog sites work? Can you really make money online, and will it only cost $1 to find out how to make thousands of dollars a month working a couple of hours a day from home? And does Google really pay people to post links? Well, yes and no. For a detailed explanation of how the whole thing works, check out The Easy Google Profit Scam.
Why is this Google Biz Kit a scam in my opinion? And how can you, gentle reader, spot these types of scams for yourself?
- Check out the Comments section. There is no where to actually enter comments! They’ve all very likely been faked.
- Google does actually pay people, but only through it’s Adsense program. It’s what automatically puts context sensitive ads on websites and the most popular internet advertising program in the world. They pay out 30-60 days AFTER a link has been clicked, NOT 72 hours. And then typically they only pay out a couple of CENTS per click.
- For the Google Biz Kit and Internet Biz Kit, you only need to spend $1 and $1.95 for shipping, which should raise some flags. Shipping charge for an electronic delivery? What? What the blog fails to tell you is that likely before you figure it out, your “7 day trial” will be up and they’ll whack your credit card for $150 combined.
Check out the very very fine print at the bottom of the Google Start-up Kit page that Mary’s “blog” links to:
By submitting this form I authorize Fresh Keyword Ideas to immediately charge my credit card for instant access to the Instant Google kit. I hereby request that Fresh Keyword Ideas activate my account and authorize them to advance funds as indicated. Monthly Service fees will commence seven days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the seven day trial you will be billed seventy one dollars and twenty one cents USD monthly for the continued access to the software. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided services. You may cancel at anytime by writing to 51 W. Center St. #621, Orem UT, 84057 or calling 877-208-6571.
And hidden at the very very bottom of the www.my-internet-payday.com page:
* When you order the Risk Free Trial of My Internet Payday Program you will be charged only $1.00 (non-refundable) for access to the My Internet Payday training program. You will have a full 7 day risk free trial period from your original purchase date to decide if the My Internet Payday program is right for you. At the end of your 7 day trial period you will be charged $78.64 per month for access to the My Internet Payday training program.
Note, that is MY red highlighting above, certainly not the sites that you are giving your credit card to.
What do you likely get for your $150 combined? A bunch of tired old eBooks on how you could have made money 5 years ago using Google Adsense and Adwords? A pyramid scheme to sell other people the Google Biz Kits? Probably. I haven’t bought one so I don’t know. One thing is for sure, no worthwhile make money program would EVER need to trick people into paying $150 for it like this. That’s why it’s a scam in my opinion.
For more details on how the whole thing works, see our origimal article on Google Money Tree, Earn Google Cash, and Google Kits – Facebook Part Time Job Scams
In this case, here is the trail it seems to take you down:
www.marylifeblog.com takes you to Mary’s Money Blog, which has a link to a Google Biz Kit. When you click it you go to www.securecartcenter.com.
What Should I Do If I Get Taken?
- Don’t feel bad! Seems like hundreds if not thousands of people have been taken in by these sort of “negative option” offers that trick you by not clearly disclosing you are signing up for monthly charges. You were tricked, it happens to the best of us.
- Call the number provided on the website that took you in IMMEDIATELY. Have more than one witness listen when you call and/or record the conversation if possible. Unfortunately many people have complained that they can never get anyone to talk to when they call. Finding that number is up to you, they seem to keep changing.
- Call/write your credit card company and dispute the charges. They never clearly disclosed the charges you were signing up for, so you have a case here.
- Monitor your credit accounts! You just gave some shady characters your name, address, phone number, credit card and secret 3 digit card number. Click here to sign up for Experian ID Protection monitoring. Unlike the Google Biz Kits, Experian clearly states that it’s actually free for a full 30 days, then only $9.95 a month to monitor your credit accounts for fraud and identity theft. I’d suggest signing up for AT LEAST the free month to make sure no one tries to change your address or open a new card using the current cards details you gave away.
I Didn’t Get Taken, But What Can I Do To Help?
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There are miserable and cruel people in this world, this is one of the horrible faces of the web, letting these scoundrels to cheat people that really need to work. That is the low of the lowest, the same these scoundrels will go down someday, I wish I could see that!
I was also scammed by this. I read and was told I would be charged the one time fee of $1.95 approx for shipping and handling. Yesterday I was looking at my Visa Bill and I see they had charged me $85.00 . I called the number that was provided to me by my Visa company and was I ever shocked at who I contacted! They were an American Pharmacare company and I am paying for someone else’s medications! NICE!! Not only is it a Scam but it is FRAUD!
I will be getting the details of how many months they have charged me for and will be cancelling my card and filing a police report. I can only hope that I am refunded the charges.
i was thinking about doing this sounded like a good way to make some money. now im glad i read these coments you can forget it google your not gonna scam me. so why is this mary steadman saying all this crap that isnt true?
Thank you El Plumber. Yeah that makes sense. That would explain why I didn’t know what Experian was in the first place. I clicked it because I was curious.
I just had to question. Curiosity doesn’t kill this cat!
It only happens on your site thought .. which I thought was odd. Just to make sure I scanned with my antivirus as well as online (verified safe, not pretend ones .. for lack of the right words) scanners and I have no malware installed on my computer.
Angie, I’ve checked that link and it goes to the Experian site. Unfortunately it’s for an Azoogle network offer that accepts US traffic only. Since your IP puts you in Canada, it’s redirecting you to some random advertising offer that Azoogle hosts.
That Experian link does not take me to the Experian site at all but some webfetti Graphics site!
If you are looking for biz with integrity… stay away from Google Biz & Google Profits = THIS IS A SCAM!!!! I ordered this back in October. You have 30 days to try it out and if you cancel you will not pay more than the 1.95. I CANCELED WITNIN 48 HOURS! Since then I have been billed $47.50 and $99.00 I called the same number that I canceled with originally and they said they had no record of my cancelation. When I found the cancellation # they originally gave me they said it really didn’t matter that I cancelled within the 30 day time as the $99.00 was a non-cancelable one time fee. They did say they would cancel me as of today but they would not be refunding my money. I do have my bank disputing this on my behalf and am contacting the Attorney Generals Office to inform them of this misrepresentation of the facts. DO NOT GET CAUGHT IN THIS SCAM!!! There are plenty of legitimate online business offers and ways to do business. INTEGRITY IS NOT PART OF THIS COMPANIES BUSINESS PRACTICE!
Hi I agree, I feel I have been totally coneed by this biz K scam because it is advertised as a way of making money. I gave my account details because I thought they where going to pay me . If you paying for an item it should be made clear what you are paying for with an invoice you can print out.
I didn’t even look for the website it just turned up on my screen, how I don’t know and I thought it would help me because I am on jobseakerplus.
Just looking at the URL: net-news-daily.com
Even before reading the hokey hypocritical fine print or repeating URL directs, just looking at the image quality of the cheque throws all sorts of red flags. I don’t think it’s even photochopped but upon close inspection with a good eye, the print is so cut-and-paste while the rest of the cheque looks grainy as if the image was poorly edited with Microsoft Paint program.
That alone throws all sorts of bad chills down my spine and made me do more net searches on this fictitious Mary Steadman. Honestly, I feel sorry for the actual mother and daughter whose image is popping up on all these scam sites. My daughter owns the exact game dress as the little girl (in fact, it’s sitting on top of their dresser as I’m typing this) and I’d be mortified if I ever discovered a photo of myself or my daughter being used in online scams like these without permission. I question whether these people know their images have been heavily exploited or have been confronted by someone who ever told them, “Oh by the way, did you know…?”
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