Google Money System?

Have you arrived here searching for some easy money making opportunities using Google? Read on and you’ll see what all the fuss is about. First of all, this scheme has zero association with Google. It’s about scammers wrongfully using Google’s reputation to their benefit.

I don’t know how long this scheme has been around, but there seems to be quite a number of these floating around. I looked around and found one good example of how this scheme works, so follow the example below, and you’ll see why this is a scam.

First, we start out by looking at a Squidoo page. Squidoo is like eHow or About, but user-contributed and its contributors are paid. Below is the quote from Squidoo ‘What is Squidoo?’ page.

Squidoo makes money from ads and affiliate links.
We give 5% of what we earn, right off the top, to charity. We keep 45% to cover our overhead and stuff.
That leaves 50%. That goes to charity or to the people who build the pages. And we leave it up to you to choose one or the other.

Many money seeking online marketers choose to use Squidoo because, first of all, it pays, and marketers use it to promote their affiliate links and their blogs which promote their affiliate links. Here’s one screenshot of such page.

It pretends to be an investigative report on Google Money System, but it’s just an advertisement in disguise. It’s very much the same tactic use in the registry cleaner scams. You click on one of the links there, and you end up here:

“Google Fortune,” “Earn Cash with Google,” etc. It looks like another review site with some arbitrary rating numbers complete with fake comments praising some of the programs. I click on the first one called, “Google Fortune,”  and this is where it led me to.

See that $978 per day? Where do they come up with these ridiculous numbers? I realize it’s a tactic to make things look legit by using a non-round number, but it’s being over-used these days, don’t you think?

It seems like we’ve arrived at our final destination. All those pages leading to this product. Let’s take a look at what it is. Well, the page itself doesn’t tell you very much other than that you can make lots of money. How about the terms and conditions. Take a look at what’s actually in the terms and conditions.

Terms & Conditions of Sale (“Conditions”)

1. SCOPE & APPLICATION

1.1 By submitting an order, You automatically receive a 7-day trial to the Google Start up Kit. Your 7-day trial begins immediately upon placing your order. You will be billed $1.97 at the time of order submission. Once  Your trial is active you have 7-days to decide whether to accept Your Subscription. Prior to the expiration of the 7-day trial period, You may cancel Your subscription by calling toll-free at 1-866-993-1473. Should You fail to cancel Your Subscription within the 7-day trial You will be billed $79.90 at the completion of the 7-day trial and every month thereafter for continued services and hosting of your Visual Webtools software unless canceled by You.

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Right off the bat, we see a problem. Unless you cancel your subscription, you will be billed $79.90 every month after the $1.97 7-day trial period. You won’t see this $79.90 a month anywhere until you get your credit card bill.

Next is the Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy

Use of personal information
By entering a sweepstakes or promotion, registering with our Website, completing any forms on our Website, or by checking or not unchecking co-registration boxes, you grant the Company the right to use the collected information for marketing purposes including, but not limited to, sharing such information with third party advertisers (“Advertisers”), emailing, or physically mailing Company or any third party offers to your email address or postal address. We may also use such information to fulfill prizes, track compliance with the applicable sweepstakes or promotion rules, or for content improvement and feedback purposes. We may sell the personal information that you supply to us and we may join together with other businesses to bring selected retail or service opportunities to our user base. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation. In addition, the Company reserves the right to release current or past user information in the event we believe that the Website is being or has been used in violation of any sweepstakes or promotion rules; to commit unlawful acts; if the information is subpoenaed; if the Company is sold or acquired; or when the Company deems it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to these terms, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when the Company, in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate.
We may share Website usage information about our Website visitors who have received targeted promotional campaigns with Advertisers for the purpose of formatting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics.
The Company also reserves the right to provide aggregate or group data about our visitors and users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage, or characteristics of our participants as a group, without revealing any personally identifiable information. By subscribing to the Website, you agree to allow us to provide such data to third parties.

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Wow, tons of stuff here. Basically, you give them the right to do whatever they want with your personal information by doing anything (“by checking or unchecking co-registration boxes” LOL) with them. I am sure you don’t want to do business with a company that uses such privacy policy even if their product is actually good.

Problems with this Google Money System are clear. Don’t agree to pay for something you know nothing about. They take your personal info and take payment from you before anything is revealed to you. The person promoting this scam obviously hasn’t profited from this scheme. That’s why he or she is busy selling this garbage instead of using it. It is a perpetual cycle with these affiliate marketers like I talked about in Work at Home Scams. You look for and buy a product that supposedly teaches you how to make money online, and you end up selling this exact product to other uninformed victims. People, please don’t do this.

Hey look, here’s the page you get to when you click on the other link on the above Squidoo page.

Twitter cash formula? Looks like I have some material to write about.

Happy surfing everyone!