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The Complaints Board forum contains lots of complaints about this Fast Net Learning scam (Home Income Profit), but you can also find entries where some people have advised on where to report the scam, and others have posted on how they managed to get a refund.
If you are a victim of the FastNetLearning.Com scam, please use the following link:
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This forum contains lots of complaints about this Fast Net Learning scam (Home Income Profit), but you can also find entries where some people have advised on where to report the scam, and others have posted on how they managed to get a refund.
Please do not attempt to cancel your account through this website. As I wrote in my post The Curse Of Revealing A Scam, I am merely reporting about the scam. Currently, I am receiving about two cancelations per day, and I am unable to help if people are not reading my posts and find that I am not associated with the scam.
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You can also file an official complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, collects complaints about companies, business practices, identity theft, and episodes of violence in the media. Your complaints can help them detect patterns of wrong-doing, and lead to investigations and prosecutions. The FTC enters all complaints it receives into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database that is used by thousands of civil and criminal law enforcement authorities worldwide. How much personal information you provide is up to you. To learn how they safeguard your personal information, please read their Privacy Policy. If you don’t provide your name and certain other information, it may be impossible for them to refer, respond to, or investigate your complaint.
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Also, here is a short video which should help folks deal with their bank: http://www.chrismalta.com/ScamTip1aff.asp
Thanks to feedback from readers pouring in on a regular basis I am getting more and more background information on the current Internet scam, may it be the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, or the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet) scam. It seems the scammers are also using facebook to find even more victims.
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Thanks to feedback from readers pouring in on a regular basis I am getting more and more background information on the current Internet scam, may it be the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, or the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet) scam. It seems the scammers are also using facebook to find even more victims.
See the information I received from a reader:
McAfee Research Blog has picked up on this scam which is also being promoted right here on Facebook!
http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/425/Facebook-Scam-How-to-Get-Rich-on-the-InternetIt appears that the company behind many of the scams (dba Syndex Industries) is actually based in Florida (according to the BBB) and is called XM Brands:
http://www.seflorida.bbb.org/Business-Report/Syndex-Industries-92020876So people should contact the Florida Attorney General too if they have been caught by this scam.
http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact.nsf/Contact?OpenForm&Section=Economic_CrimesMention XM Brands when you contact them, as they are currently investigating them: http://myfloridalegal.com/__85256309005085AB.nsf/0/E2B4046B28E10B148525768C005B8E6C?Open&Highlight=0%2Cxm%2Cbrands
The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, collects complaints about companies, business practices, identity theft, and episodes of violence in the media. Your complaints can help them detect patterns of wrong-doing, and lead to investigations and prosecutions.
The Scam: Work At Home Mom Makes $6,397/Month Part-Time
As I had written in my post The Curse Of Revealing A Scam, reporting continually about the current Internet scams suddenly comes with a major downside: Due to the increased attention of my blog more and more people find my website and try to cancel the scam services I report about. Yes, they contact me to cancel their service!
I am referring to The Infamous Scam That Still Plagues The Internet represented by multiple schemes such as Kelly Richards, the work-at-hom mom making several throusands of Dollars per month part-time, the FastNetLearning.Com scam, the Google Profit Library, WebProfitCoach.Com, the Web Profit Club, the Acai Berry Diet, and many more (See my posts on Making Money From Home).
I have received many comments, and some readers raised the question on how to fight these scammers. The answer to these questions came in form of yet another comment, and I am copying the advice here on this post. Not surprisingly, there are many websites reporting about the scams and offering advice.
The first, and most important advice is:
If you fell for the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet), or any other scam, contact your credit card provider or bank immediately and report a scam!
FTC Website - Click to open new window
You can also file an official complaint online with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, collects complaints about companies, business practices, identity theft, and episodes of violence in the media. Your complaints can help them detect patterns of wrong-doing, and lead to investigations and prosecutions. The FTC enters all complaints it receives into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database that is used by thousands of civil and criminal law enforcement authorities worldwide. How much personal information you provide is up to you. To learn how they safeguard your personal information, please read their Privacy Policy. If you don’t provide your name and certain other information, it may be impossible for them to refer, respond to, or investigate your complaint.
Chris Malta Website - Click to open new window
Also, here is a short video which should help folks deal with their bank: http://www.chrismalta.com/ScamTip1aff.asp
The success of my blog is based mainly on my reporting about the current Internet scam, may it be the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, or the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet) scam. More and more people find my website and try to cancel the scam services I report about. Yes, they contact me to cancel their service!
The web traffic to my blog FrogenYozurt.Com is currently increasing with a growth rate of roughly 50% per month. The success is based mainly on my reporting about the current Internet scam, may it be the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, or the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet) scam. The main purpose of running my personal blog was to promote my writing which, again, turned out to be very successful.
However, reporting continually about the current Internet scams suddenly comes with a major downside: Due to the increased attention of my blog more and more people find my website and try to cancel the scam services I report about. Yes, they contact me to cancel their service!
As bizarre as this behavior might be at first look, it also indicates how helpless these people are when it comes to matters of the Internet. They don’t have any records of their transactions (i.e. credit card charge) or the website they used to sign up. Neither did they read/print the terms of conditions. This may be a scam but these guys do provide cancelation information. I have no knowledge about whether or not that information is valid, but right now it doesn’t matter because these people, who contact me, have no clue whatsoever. Unfortunately, that makes them also the perfect victim.
The first case I reported was regarding the so-called “Acai Berry Diet.” I was contacted by Joseph Bennett who addressed me in a manner like he believed I was the supplier of the diet pills – See my post at Acai Berry DietExposed. I responded to Joseph by contacting him per e-mail, explaining that he had barked at the wrong tree.
The same day I received another request through the contact form on FrogenYozurt.Com. This time it was a lady apparently working for a real estate and property management business. She is also – you won’t believe it – a Notary Public. Her message was (excerpt): “I was instructed that I can cancel within 30 days for a full refund. I agreed to $2.95 but was also charged $2.95 plus $79.99 this is something I did not agree too. I want to cancel and want t a refund.” Note: The typos are not mine; this is what she wrote.
I responded by telling her, too, that I am only reporting about the scams and that I am the wrong person to contact. Then she asked: “do you know how to contact these people?“, without any reference of what and where she had ordered. I told her I was unable to help her. Then she responded again and recommended I should find out why I did receive her request and not the people who sold the service to her… Sorry, but in this case all help is lost!
To make things worse I received another response to my post FastNetLearning.com – Make At Least An Average Of $369 Per Day, the one where I wrote in BIG letters Welcome To Another Scam … Let me write this again … I received a response to a post on this blog: “I need to get my refund of $79.99 that you took out of my account per Matt Fry. He said I had to notify at this email address. I cannot avoid this as I am on Social Security. Please advise. Thank you. Need it refunded as soon as possible.”
At that time several thoughts came up like opening the window and scream or banging my head at the wall, probably causing my wife to call the paramedics. A bottle of Jameson came to mind, too, but, honestly, I am fine now.
While it is easy to ridicule these very vulnerable people, it also makes me incredibly angry for more reasons I can express here. After this last incident I decided not to help by writing directly to their e-mail address. First, it seems that all help is lost, and, secondly, I am getting more and more paranoid about revealing my e-mail address to everybody who fell for a scam. Sorry, guys!
Here is a last advice: If you fell for the Kelly Richards scheme, FastNetLearning.Com, the Weight Loss (Acai Berry Diet), or any other scam, contact your credit card provider or bank immediately and report a scam!
More Cancelation Requests:
June 10, 2010 per Contact Form by Wayne Bell
“I did NOT authorize any transactions from my credit card. If you do not cancel and credit my account I will report you to the authorities and take leagal action against you” – No information regarding order, account, address, or anything else.
June 14, 2010 per Contact Form by Susan Snyder
“I did not request this …..I want a REFUND NOW !!!!!! This is a SCAM !!!!!!”
June 15, 2010 per Contact Form by Preston O’Brown
“Please cancel my account and respond to my cancellation email.”
June 15, 2010 per Contact Form by Diana Archer
“on 6-7-10 Iauthorized a $2.95 to be contacted . I was contacted thru my daughters phone ,and I told him I got it to see if either my granddaughter or daughter were interested and they are not interested. I went on my online banking to find that they had charged me another 79.99 on the 14th. which leads me to believe that this is just another Scam. I want all my money returned to me P.D.Q. Diana Archer”
Initially, I wasn’t sure if this was, in fact, a cancelation request. People who fall for the scam don’t seem to have the best communication skills. But then I received further requests within minutes from the same person:
“I want a return of my money, 79.99 Immeadatley.”
“I want a return of my money, 79.99 Immeadatley.How do I go about doing so. Thank You Please reply Diana ARCHER”
June 16, 2010 by Judith L. Geisler responding to my post “FastNetLearning.com – Make At Least An Average Of $369 Per Day“
“I need help here. I signed up for your trial offer of $2.95 on 6/2, with your info that after a period of time, like 30 days?, to make some money, I would THEN be charged $79.99 for membership. Yesterday, 6/14, I got my bank statement for my “special fund” account that I keep for small projects that I want to try before buying, and to my SHOCK there was a charge for $79.99 billed on 6/8, just six days after I signed up. Since I keep a VERY MINIMUM amount in this account your charge caused my account to be hit with a $34.00 overdraft charge. This is very bad business practice on your part. So here’s what’s going to happen. You have lost me as a customer. Cancel my account with your program, and then credit my charge card account with the $2.95, the $79.99, AND the $34.00 overdraft fee. I will have my bank’s fraud protection division contacting you if this is not resolved IMMEDIATELY. I do not have a web site or an account number from you since I have not heard from you since I signed up for your offer. I was only able to gather YOUR web site from the bank statement vendor charge. I expect RAPID results.”
June 17, 2010 by Andrea Gernheuser per Contact Form
“I did not authorize a deduction of $79.99 from my checking acct. Please email me back to take care of this matter.”
You get the picture. Cancelation requests are coming in on a daily basis.
It is amazing how many websites you find these days promising you heaven on earth. Let me say it again: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t!
Welcome To Another Scam!
It is amazing how many websites you find these days promising you heaven on earth. Let me say it again: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t!
Fast Net Learning is offered by the same company who operates the Web Profit Club, another scammer service. To put it in a nut-shell, Fast Net Learning “teaches” you how to start a web site and run Google Ads on them. There is nothing sophisticated about this; this is common knowledge in the Internet world, and you don’t need to pay to run Google Ads.
If you sign up with Fast Net Learning you will spend money for a useless service. For more information see also my posts on making money from home. The whole Internet scam business started with a fictitious Kelly Richards and articles written about her such as “Work At Home Mom Makes $6,397/Month Part-Time” (If you still need more convincing, have a look at the comments below the article). A great number of people, not only within the United States, but all around the world, have already been scammed and lost their money!
My Advice:
- Visit a good bookstore (Barnes & Noble has a good selection) and look for “Google Adsense for Dummies” (no insult meant; I love the Dummies series!). Also, look for books on running your own website or blog (FrogenYozurt.com is a blog). This is a one-time investment!
- In order to run your own website sign up for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such as GoDaddy.com, BlueHost.Com, or others (FrogenYozurt.Com is hosted by BlueHost).
- Read my article Does The Google Adsense Get-Rich-System Work?
A Few Comments:
- I checked out the FastNetLearning.com website, and under FAQ I found: “…most people make at least an average of $369 dollars per day…” – Well, call me picky, but if this was a professional service such typos wouldn’t happen. This is probably a one-man operation, and the guy is busy creating websites (which also proves that you can make money through the Internet).
- On the Privacy page, which contains the same wording as the Web Profit Club website, I found: “We can be reached via e-mail at privacy@fastnetlearning.com or you can reach us by telephone at …” – No phone number was listed; the sentence ends without a period.
- The Terms & Conditions page (again, the same content as under the Web Profit Club) is set up in an amateurish way, and they might not hold up in court. I assume, the guy just copied a standard text he found somewhere and modified items like company name and address.
- On the same page it shows “emailing our cancellation department cancel@webprofitcoach.com” which indicates they are running yet another website called WebProfitCoach.com.
- When you switch to the page to “Join Now,” you don’t sign up for the Fast Net Learning program, but rather for the Web Profit Coach.
- Under Terms & Conditions the company’s name is listed as “Media Hub LLC” while under the “Join Now” page it is “Cool Serve Corp.” On all other pages on the website the company name is FastNetLearing.com, LLC (Note the “Learing” instead of “Learning”).
- When it comes to support they give you a phone number and an e-mail address, support@fastnetlearning.com. Be aware that creating such an e-mail address is an easy task for an expert, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is a whole support department at work.
- I dialed the phone number as listed on their website, and I got the message, “The number you have dialed is not in service…” – I tried several times, making sure I didn’t dial the wrong number.
