Category: Scams

Glad To See Google’s Suing Scammers

Glad To See Google’s Suing Scammers

I’ve posted in the past about the Google Money and related scams. Now I’m reading on Marketing Pilgrim that they’re finally suing the scammers for using the Google name. It’s a kind of interesting situation since they don’t yet have the names for all of the defendants. That’s one...

Wow. Blue Hippo Was Worse Than I Thought

Wow. Blue Hippo Was Worse Than I Thought

I posted last year about some radio ads I was hearing that really pissed me off. They were for a company called Blue Hippo, and they were offering computers to anyone, regardless of credit. All you had to do was make all 13 payments to pay it off to...

Is DataEntryBucks a Scam?

Is DataEntryBucks a Scam?

Oh, for life online to be so easy! Earn $200-500  a day doing data entry! It just. sounds. so. easy. Yeah, I don’t trust it. And I’ll tell you why. First and foremost, they aren’t offering a data entry job. They’re talking about affiliate marketing. The two are not...

Google Blog on Google Money Scams

Google Blog on Google Money Scams

I’ve posted a bit about the Google Money and similar scams. Today I saw that Google has also posted their take on these scams. It’s some good tips, although as usual the people who most need to read it will probably never see it. But they do go over...

So Long Google Money Scam, Hello Twitter Scam!

So Long Google Money Scam, Hello Twitter Scam!

I posted a while back about the Google Money scams. They’ve been all over the place, heavily advertised through AdWords, presenting itself as fake blogs and fake newspaper stories. Google finally did something about it, at least the parts that go through their site. They terminated the AdWords accounts...