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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!
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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
Jennifer Theuriau and James Field, top news anchors of CNNews, report on the CNNews website “Work At Home Mom Makes $8,795/Month Part-Time.”
“I actually make $8,000 to $9,000 a month working from home.”
- Kelly Richards
Screen shot TheCNNews.org - Click on image to enlarge
Jennifer Theuriau and James Field, top news anchors of CNNews, report on the CNNews website, “Work At Home Mom Makes $8,795/Month Part-Time.”
In the article they write, “Have You Ever Considered Working Online? Kelly Richards of Griffith, IN never thought that she would, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her three children. I read Kelly’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our weekly consumer report. In our phone interview she told me her amazing story. “I actually make about $8,000-$9,000 a month working from home. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 15-18 hours a week from home.” – Source: CNNews. Copyright 2010 © CNNews. All Rights Reserved.
Well, if CNNews’ top people report about it, it must be true. Right?
The truth is, what we have here is a blatant, if not illegal, attempt to create creditability by copying the CNN logo (not an exact copy, but close enough to violate trademark rights) and impersonating a reliable news source such as CNN. I haven’t investigated whether or not the featured reporters Jennifer Theuriau or James Field actually work for CNN, but I seriously doubt it.
On a side note: Looking at the screen shot of the CNNews website, notice that Kelly Richards, besides living in almost every city all over the United States at the same time (see my articles series about Kelly Richards at Making Money From Home), can also change appearances (Maybe we should tip off the Men in Black that one of their aliens has left New York). The hyperlinks on top of the website (Subscribe, News, Comments, and E-Mail) are not hyperlinks; they’re just plain fake.
Needless to say, the “Online Work at Home Program” including the “Google Profit Library” and the “Web Profit Club” are all scams, and they are defrauding unsuspecting American citizens. The problem is that the service they offer plus their marketing methods, if you ignore the trademark violations, are basically legal. The service they offer (making money through Google AdSense) is legitimate. However, Google AdSense is a free-of-charge service by Google (who is not part of the scam). In other words, there is no need to sign up for a monthly subscription to incorporate Google ads on your website. What the scammers present as the ultimate way of becoming rich, is common knowledge in the Internet community. And yes, you can create income through Google ads, but in all regularity you will not create sufficient income to cover you monthly grocery bill, let alone your mortgage. See also my article Does The Google Adsense Get-Rich-System Work?
For instance, this very website you are looking at received 110,000+ hits last month alone, and it took me a mere 15 months of continuous work to get there. This last month I made less than $20 through Google ads. I have to admit that I should place more ads per page, but my primary purpose of this website is to promote my books.
Chances are, the Google ads you see on this web page are dedicated to other getting-rich scams such as “My Million Dollar Edge,” or others. Do me a favor: Click on these ads! By clicking on the ads you will support me free-of-charge to you, and, at the same time, it will cost the scammers. But please, do not believe what they tell you on their websites! If something sounds too good to be true, it most certainly is.
Last, but not least, I was made aware of the CNNews scam website through a reader’s comment. Please feel free to share your comments by using the comment box below. I’d like to hear from you!
The principe is easy: You create a website or blog, then you add Google ads. As I explained before, the Google Adsense service is free of charge and is available for everybody who runs a website. As soon as somebody comes to your website and clicks on one of the Google ads, you will have created an income between a few cents and a Dollar depending on the ad. Adding these ads to your website is fairly easy; the Google website will provide you the code that you just copy and paste. Also through the Google website you can keep track on your income, and Google pays you on a monthly basis.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw
Just the other day I received another comment on the current Internet scam, may it be the Google Profit Library or the Web Profit Club, famously promoted through the “success” of Kelly Richards, a.k.a. Michelle Richardson, Melissa Johnson, and other names.
Let me quote the comment:
“I made the mistake of “fooling myself” and submitting my info for the internet scam fraud you wrote about in January, but because your article popped up, I called to cancel my account. They have an address, a billing department and a customer service department. I was able to cancel my account and avoid the $139 charge, but is the company valid? I see from your article that the advertising is fake, but what about this business? Are people doing this?”
1. Is the Company valid?
Yes, companies offering a getting-rich-system based on creating income through Google ads, despite a despicable business attitude, are valid – as far as I can tell. In turn, the services and advice they offer are are valid as well.
The Web Profit Club, for instance, is located at 11136 Ferragamo CT, Las Vegas, NV 89141, if you can believe their web site information. The first warning sign, though, is their very limited web site where the majority of links lead to the same page. The disclaimer, terms and conditions, and the privacy policy on their web site are written and presented in an amateurish way, and, when push comes to shove, they might not hold up in court. My estimate is that this is a one-man operation, proving that you can make money through the Internet… It is easy to set up a web site like this and pretend you have a customer service department, You just set up an e-mail address such as support@webprofitclub.com, and everybody is convinced that the service department, in fact, exists.
So, what’s the real scam, you may ask?
What these companies sell you as a service is common knowledge in the Internet world!
The scam starts with the simple fact that you don’t need these companies to start your own website and add Google ads. The Google Adsense service is free of charge, and it is available to everybody who runs a website. You can avoid services, such as the Web Profit Club, by buying Google Adsense for Dummies (a much better and at the same time cheaper investment for the same thing), or even use the vast information on the Internet, or even have a look at the Google Adsense tour.
The scam continues with promising fast cash and getting rich very fast. All you have to do is paying their monthly fee – an initial $2.97 sign-up fee plus a (hidden) monthly fee of $49.00 and $139.00 for additional services. The service description and charges may change, but the pattern is the same: You pay good money for something that doesn’t work for 99.99% of the users. On top you don’t need their services and you don’t need to pay them to go through that kind of experience.
2. Are people doing this?
I interpret the question as: Are people using the system as offered by the scammers? I don’t have any solid information, but I am sure that some users actually are using the system, and they may even make money out of it.
The question arises again, why should we not sign up with the Web Profit Club?
The answer is very simple: First, as I explained before, you don’t need the Web Profit Club (or whatever term they use these days; there is a multitude of similar services out there) to create your own website with Google ads. Secondly, the system will not work for the vast majority of users, and I will explain why.
How to get rich through Goole Ads – or not
The principe is easy: You create a website or blog, then you add Google ads. As I explained before, the Google Adsense service is free of charge and is available for everybody who runs a website. As soon as somebody comes to your website and clicks on one of the Google ads, you will have created an income between a few cents and a Dollar depending on the ad. Adding these ads to your website is fairly easy; the Google website will provide you the code that you just copy and paste. Also through the Google website you can keep track of your income, and Google pays you on a monthly basis.
Sounds easy enough, but there are a few obstacles; the most serious of them is creating web traffic. The other problem is that you cannot create sufficient income through only one website or blog; the average income will not be sufficient to pay for your monthly grocery bill, let alone a mortgage.
Okay, the solution is to create more than just one website, let’s say 500. Let’s apply some math to calculate the possible income: You run 500 websites, and each website draws 2,000 visitors per month. You assume that 2% of these visitors will actually click on an ad (it’s called the average CTR – Click Through Rate, and 2% is low). With an average payment of $0.25 per click and 40 clicks a day you will have made $10.00 per day per website. With 500 websites you make $5,000 a day! That’s $1,825,000 a year!
The saying is, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t. On the other hand, you may say, it’s not about getting filthy rich, and maintaining 500 websites seems a little out of reach. We just want to make a reasonable second income, and even if we are not quite as successful, we just might make enough money to keep us happy.
Okay, rule #1 in any business: Success comes only with blood, sweat, tears, and time – a lot of time. It doesn’t come with working 15 hours a week, and the rest of your time you sit at your swimming pool sipping your martini. Even if you spent 80 hours a week you will not see instantaneous success. As I wrote before, creating a website and adding Google ads is easy, but you will have trouble creating web traffic. Your web site is only one out of countless others in the world wide web.
My personal blog, at the time of this writing, attracts 4,000+ unique visitors a month. I got there by adding to my blog on a constant basis plus applying a ton of measures to attract attention. I reached the 4,000 mark after roughly 14 months. I, too, use some Google ads, but I have to admit my main focus is on promoting the books I wrote. The income through Google ads on my blog is roughly $20 a month. It could be more if I filled the whole place with ads, but, again, that is not my intention.
My advice, in case you still want to jump on the wagon:
1. Do not sign up for the Web Profit Club or similar services promising you the ultimate path to riches.
2. Open an account with a reputable Internet service provider such as GoDaddy.com, BlueHost.com, or others. Believe me, it’s easy. The costs will be around $120 a year, but it’s money well spent on a legitimate and honest business.
3. Create a website or, even better, a blog. My recommendation is to install WordPress on your website. This very website you are looking at was created with WordPress.
4. Sign up for a Google Adsense Account at adsense.google.com.
5. Don’t expect to get rich overnight.
Start out with a blog in a niche, about a topic you are knowledgeable and passionate about. The main rule is to create unique and valid content. The next rule is to create as much content as you can, and you need to do that on a regular basis. If your blog runs well, you can think about starting another one, and another one, applying the same principle. Nevertheless, the process will take time, and, still, there is no guarantee for success.
A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog
Last, but not least, if you want honest information on how to start a web site or blog and make money from it, check out my book, A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog (There is also a preview of the book). Honestly, I wrote it after learning about the so-called “Google Profit Library” and reading the book “New Path to Riches” by Nick Usborne (Don’t buy it. It’s a huge waste of time!). I deemed it was time to stop the nonsense. The book shows you step by step how to set up a professional blog with some advice on how to run it, and maybe even make some money from it. The difference is, you don’t pay me at all (I would appreciate that you buy the book, paperback or PDF), and the required investment of roughly $120 per year goes to your Internet service provider for running your web site. Also, check out myprofessionalblog.com. This is the web site I created to write the book, meaning I created the web site, made screen-shots and included them into the document.
Well, wonder woman Kelly Richards, while being spotted all over the United States at the same time, has undergone another miraculous transformation! Today I received another comment from a reader of my blog pointing to the website shown here to the left. It turns out, Kelly Richards a.k.a. Michelle Richardson, is now Melissa Johnson.
Kelly Richards a.k.a. Melissa Johnson - Click to Enlarge
Well, wonder woman Kelly Richards, while being spotted all over the United States at the same time, has undergone another miraculous transformation!
Today I received another comment from a reader of my blog pointing to the website shown here to the left. It turns out, Kelly Richards a.k.a. Michelle Richardson, is now Melissa Johnson (For more info on the scam see my posts on this blog).
The text on the website reads (Needless to say, but, as usual, it’s a scam.):
“JOB REPORT
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Recession Buster
Working online provides great jobs in stale marketWork At Home Mum Makes £4,397/Month Part-Time
Online News 6 Investigates Online Work at Home Programs…
Have You Ever Thought About Working Online?
Melissa Johnson never thought she would have a job working at home until one day she filled out a simple form online. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her two children.
I read Melissa’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our local job report. In our phone interview she she told me her amazing story. “I actually make about £3,000-£5,000 a month using the internet. It is enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-15 hours a week from home.
Working online has been a financial windfall for Melissa, who struggled for months to find a decent job during the struggling economy. “I was afraid of losing my job after the recession hit, I needed reliable income, I was not interested in the “get rich quick” scams you see all over the internet. Those are all pyramid scams or stuff where you have to sell to your friends and family. I just needed a legitimate way to earn a living for me and my family. The best part of working online is that I am always home with the kids, I save a lot of money.”
I asked her about how she started her remarkable journey. “It was pretty easy, I filled out a short form and applied for a work at home kit. I got the Kit and within four weeks I was making over £4,000 a month. It’s really simple, I am not a computer whiz, but I can use the internet. I post links that are given to me, I don’t even have to sell anything and nobody has to buy anything. They are constantly recruiting people to post links, you should try it.”
Working online has changed peoples lives overnight. These great companies have been helping people to work from home and give them new jobs. There are plenty of scams on the internet claiming you can make £50,000 a month, but that is exactly what they are scams. From my conversation with Melissa, “I am making a good salary from home, which is amazing, under a year ago I was jobless in a horrible economy. I thank god every day that I filled out that form.”
Quickly, Melissa Johnson was able to use a simple kit to make it out of the recession.
Melissa had never shared her story before, and with her permission, we are putting it public
Step 1
Go to this link, fill out a basic online form and hit submit at The Online Business (click link for automatic reduced price)
Step 2
Follow the directions at The Online Business and set up an account. Then they will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. They track everything.
Step 3
Get Paid. You can choose to receive checks or have them deposited directly into your checking account.
Melissa made her first payment after her second week. She continued to learn and get more training from coaches and mentors. We found that the average a typical person that takes action will make to be about £400. With time and dedication anything is possible, there are more than 200 reported millionaires using the same Robert Allen strategies.
Associated Links:
The Online Business
Read Responses For This Article
“Work At Home Mum Makes £4,397/Month Part-Time.”
Mark
April 22, 2010 @ 2:53pm
The timing of this couldn’t be better, my wife and I are struggling too and this could be our answer.
Deb
April 22, 2010 @ 7:24pm
Thanks for the info, just started this 3 weeks ago. I’ve gotten 2 checks for a total of £1900, pretty cooll.!
Thomas
April 23, 2010 @ 2:58am
Has anyone tried this yet? Looks promising.
Dennis
April 23, 2010 @ 8:00am
@Thomas, I’m using it now and it’s working pretty well actually! I paid a dollar for shipping, got it in a few days, signed up for my account and have been cranking along ever since. My first week I made a whopping £288 and the second week I doubled that then it kinda snowballed to £500 a day! I’m gonna grow this puppy as big as I can. Here’s a screen shot of my stats, my wife is in shock.
Stephen
April 23, 2010 @ 12:47pm
Is this for real? I tried one thing and it didn’t pan out. I made about £500 a month but that was 2 years ago. I’m going to give this a shot.
Wendy
April 23, 2010 @ 5:36pm
I think this is great and will come in really handy right now. I’m not the best computer user but I think I can post links!!! 
Wes
April 24, 2010 @ 1:39am
Just a quick notice about this thing. It does work but you have to be able to use a computer at least somewhat. If you can use email, etc. then you’ll be fine.
Wanda
April 24, 2010 @ 2:47am
I just got my first check for £2800.00! How cool is that it took about 2 weeks for me to get the first check.
Michael
April 24, 2010 @ 10:03am
this is a pretty cool article. I like that fact that it uses the internet!
James
April 24, 2010 @ 3:31pm
I don’t know. Im still kind of worried about the entire thing. Ive never worked from home
Dan
April 24, 2010 @ 7:50pm
Does anyone know if you have to have any programs or a certain computer to make this work?
Justin
April 25, 2010 @ 2:02am
Hey Dan, the answer is No. Any computer you have will work, I currently use this system on an old laptop and it works great. You just need the kit that the author named in the article.
Mark
April 25, 2010 @ 6:54am
Holy cow Dennis! Thanks for posting that screen shot, you just gave me the inspiration I needed. Wow!
Justin
April 25, 2010 @ 12:19pm
I hope this works because i really hate my boss!!!!!
Mike
April 25, 2010 @ 6:41pm
The timing of this couldn’t be better, my wife and I are struggling too and this could be our answer.
Diane
April 26, 2010 @ 2:01am
saw it and i’m gonna try it tomorrow
Mary
April 26, 2010 @ 5:20am
I wonder how well this will work if I only do it a couple hours at night? I still have my day job( which I would love to quit, lol ), but right now I only have time for a couple hours a night. Ill reply back and let you guys know!
Davis
April 26, 2010 @ 12:47pm
This is amazing! I wish I knew about this 5 years ago.
Thomas
April 26, 2010 @ 4:37pm
I’d just like to add my story; I think others would like to hear it. I too was always leery about work at home offers because they always seemed to be scams. But after the recession hit, I was a little frightened. I wanted to have a backup plan just in case. So, I took your advice and got my free kit. It worked like a charm – I was earning money right away! I eventually did get laid off, just as I had feared, but since I had been using the online kit, I had money to fall back on. Now I’m doing better than I had at my job!
Melissa Johnson is a regular mom who was afraid of losing her job. After searching for stable income she started working online. I interviewed her about her amazing story and she revealed her steps for success.
Step 1
Go to this link, fill out a basic online form and hit submit at The Online Business (click link for automatic reduced price)
Step 2
Follow the directions at The Online Business and set up an account. Then they will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. They track everything.”
Kelly Richards of Conway, MA never thought she would have a job working at home until one day she filled out a simple form online. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her two children.
This article is part of a series on Online fraud. Read more…
Well apparently Kelly Richards has moved from Greenfield, MA to Conway, MA. Since I am logging in from a different IP location, the web page changes the town name…;-) Wherever you are, the town will change when you log on to the Google Profit Library web site. Well, here is an excerpt/copy of the “Massachusetts Job Report” by “Online 6 News” (Note: The Massachusetts Job Report as well as Online 6 News are a fake.)
Work At Home Mom Makes $6,397/Month Part-Time
Online News 6 Investigates Google Work at Home Programs…
Have You Ever Thought About Working Online?
Kelly Richards of Conway, MA never thought she would have a job working at home until one day she filled out a simple form online. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her two children.
I read Kelly’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our local job report. In our phone interview she she told me her amazing story. “I actually make about $5,000-$7,000 a month using Google. It is enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-15 hours a week from home.
Working with Google has been a financial windfall for Kelly, who struggled for months to find a decent job during the struggling economy. “I lost my job shortly after the recession hit, I needed reliable income, I was not interested in the “get rich quick” scams you see all over the internet. Those are all pyramid scams or stuff where you have to sell to your friends and family. I just needed a legitimate way to earn a living for me and my family. The best part of working online is that I am always home with the kids, I save a lot of money.”
I asked her about how she started her remarkable journey. “It was pretty easy, I filled out a short form and applied for a work at home kit. There is a small shipping and handling fee, its not really free but it was under $5. I got the Kit and within four weeks I was making over $5,000 a month. It’s really simple, I am not a computer whiz, but I can use the internet. I post links that are given to me, I don’t even have to sell anything and nobody has to buy anything. They are constantly recruiting people to post links, you should try it.”
Online giant Google, worth over 100 billion dollars is the most used search engine and internet market place. Google is the #1 internet site in the world, over 50 percent of all internet traffic flows through them everyday. It’s a great company and they have been helping people work at home for over 10 years. Why not get in with the internets best and biggest company? there are plenty of scams on the internet claiming you can make $50,000 a month, but that is exactly what they are scams. From my conversation with Kelly, “I am making a good salary from home, which is amazing, under a year ago I was jobless in a horrible economy. I thank god every day that I filled out that form.”
Quickly, Kelly Richards was able to use the simple Google Profit Library kit with the Google Home Income kit to make it out of the recession.
Kelly had never shared her story before, and with her permission, we are putting it public.
Note: The grammatical errors/flaws are not mine. This was a simple copy and paste. Needless to say that a professional Online report would not be as flawed as this one. Also, to my knowledge, Google does not hire people to put hyperlinks on their blogs.
While these types of fraudulent jobs don’t really exist, there are plenty of jobs arising from online medical billing and coding courses.
Last, but not least, if you want honest information on how to start a web site or blog and make money from it, check out my book, A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog (There is also a preview of the book). Honestly, I wrote it after learning about the so-called “Google Profit Library.” I deemed it was time to stop the nonsense. The book shows you step by step how to set up a professional blog with some advice on how to run it, and maybe even make some money from it. The difference is, you don’t pay me at all (I would appreciate that you buy the book, paperback or PDF), and the required investment of roughly $120…200 per year goes to your Internet service provider for running your web site. Also, check out myprofessionalblog.com. This is the web site I created to write the book, meaning I created the web site, made screen-shots and included them into the document.
