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Get Rich Quick Scams
There are countless get-rich-quick scams on the Internet. Many invoke the name Google, suggesting that they are part of or endorsed by Google. They are not. These scams basically tell you that it's easy to make money by working on your computer at home. All you have to do is post links to Google ads online – and they will sell you a "kit" to explain how it's done and to get you started. If you click on something that appears to be a newspaper's website calling itself The Miami Gazette News or The New York Gazette News, be aware that no such newspapers exist and that these pages are simply sneaky devices to suck you into buying a get-rich-quick package. These phony newspapers display what appear to be impartial studies with headlines such as: Is Working Online At Home The Way to Financial Freedom? 
Then they show a number of alleged "investigative articles" that tell about ordinary people who have struck it rich by simply posting Google ads online. They also show a collection of spoofed links that appear to be various Google ads, with copy such as:
You can too. Get Money. Get Paid. Thanks Google! Read More >> Top 3 Money Making Ops Start Your Own Business. Free website will make you profits! Read More >> I'm Rich - You're Not Find out my secrets to make millions of $/Year Read More >> Free Google Starter Kit™ Make $5,000 per month on Google® Try it free. Read More >> Make $166 in 1 day posting ads online. Weekly paycheck. No exp needed Read More >> One Kit, One Decision Could change your life. It changed mine. Easy Google... Read More >> And if you do get conned into clicking onto this site you will find it very dificult to leave the page by clicking on the X in its upper right corner. The best thing to do is press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up Task Manager. Then you can click: END TASK. Yes, it is possible to make money posting links to Google ads, and we'll tell you how it's done without charging you anything. However, be aware that it takes time, research, and lots of work – and it's not going to quickly bring you hundreds of dollars a day, as the scams suggest. Here's what you need to know: You have to have your own Web site – and it can't be one of the free sites available through AngeFire and others, who will put their own ads on your site. Once you have created your own site, it has to contain something that will draw people to visit it. And if you do succeed in creating a frequently-visited site, you can approach Google about placing their ads there. In fact, Google may approach you, as they did us. If Google agrees that your site has merit they will explain how to sign up for their AdSense program. If you succeed in doing all this, you will be paid a commission on each ad a visitor clicks on. However, the commissions may be only pennies per click – not the big bucks alluded to by the scammers. Furthermore, Google pays its AdSense associates once a month, not once a week as mentioned in the scams. If you are truly interested in having a site of your own that can bring you a monthly income, stay tuned – we'll be sending helpful information in a subsequent newsletter – and you won't have to pay for it. By the way, speaking of online get-rich-quick scams, Twitter appears to be Scam Central. No, not the site itself – using Twitter can be pretty useful – but there are hundreds of tweets that look very much like the scams described above. Be careful! Remember – if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. |