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Old 10-07-2009, 05:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Google - Work from home - Real OR Scam?

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I have been reading its a scam. One of the ideas it purports is getting Adsense ads on your website since Google is...sorta overwhelmed with the ads or something.

Surprisingly the piece got published here: The Usa Daily News - Working Online, The Next Gold Rush?

I maybe wrong though. But it still looks too fishy.

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Old 10-07-2009, 05:40 PM   #2 (permalink)
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All signs point to scam, for me. On another forum I frequent, that same site popped up all the time for a couple months. With the same pictures and articles. Not so current for "daily" news, eh?

I find the real "work from home" jobs start with the worker, and not through some website. Even the person that does coding (another popular WAH job) for my psychologist sister in law had to contact my sis directly, in person to offer coding.

Some sites have ads (like this one), but still, it was off of the blogger's initiative with no cash down (except for maybe the domain registration).

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It is a scam.

Do a search about it.

That newspaper article is fake, the article really did not run in the San Diego Tribune.
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It would have been nice to have been sure about this at the time that I saw this article and went to sign up for it. Later, I got a call from some company about the job the article claims, but the company wasn't google. They said that I had to send them some $400 to begin. At that point I told the guy that I realized exactly what was going on. I refused to give him any more information much less any money and hung up.

These people need to be reported. I just hope no one was suckered into it far enough to have sent in money for this.
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In the fine print, it says if you do not cancel in 3 days, you get charged $70 a month
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That newspaper article is fake, the article really did not run in the San Diego Tribune.
Real? Okay I need to look into that one, I was'nt aware its fake.

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The worst thing is, Google doesn't care being associated with such at all. I always expected a reputed company like this to atleast take some action and get a good riddance of the fakes using their name. Infact, the first thing (and the only thing) which made me believe them just a bit was the brand Google.
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