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Google Cash Kit Scam? Find out!
Google Cash Kit Ads on Facebook are receiving an increasing number of scam and ripoff complaints. A number of seemingly different advertisements on how to make more money have recently appeared in my Facebook account, and are likely in yours as well. There are at least three more variations to what you see below, which are not linked to websites and are screenshots out of my Facebook account.
Most of these ads are going to coreyhasmoney.com or a variation of it. This is described in a blog post “a new twist to an old scam.” The blog post specifically mentions three websites, but there are MANY more in the same vein, seen in this scam alert website list.
While I do not know what the “Google Cash Kit” is, it probably should not be confused with the Google Cash e-book by Chris Carpenter, which sells for $67 from GoogleCash.com or affiliatejackpot.com. That e-book has also been called a scam, but it is a book you pay once for. A book that you must take action on and experiment using its tips, spending money in the process. This is not free or easy money! The Google Cash e-book is neither the best nor the worst book for basic information regarding affiliate marketing and paid search and some of the complaints about it are as a result of it being out of date, which is the nature of books about the Internet.
Your best bet is to stay away from anything called “Google Cash” and spend your money elsewhere.
UPDATE (April 30, 2009): In hindsight, Google Cash by Chris Carpenter is a decent e-book. Combined with the knowledge that can be gained from the bonuses, the whole package may be worth $67.
If you continue to be interested in making money online, but want to stay away from Google Cash Kit and the e-book, one of the newest affiliate marketing methods out there, which is easy to understand, is Twitter Traffic Machine at just $27.
UPDATE (June 11, 2009): Comments are now closed. Thank you for all of the feedback and for keeping others up to date about the questionable nature of these websites. These websites appear to be deceiving enough in their nature that others have and will continue to make a determination that these are scams. Just remember, always read the fine print carefully!
March 30th, 2009 at 2:05 am
If it is an ad, it is a lie.
March 30th, 2009 at 2:08 am
There’s a site called Scottsmoneyblog.com which sells Google Cash Kit for $1.95. I live near Spokane, and the site is purportedly that of “Scott Hunter” of Spokane. A friend of mine in LA logged onto the same site and the testimony there is from “Scott Harris” of Rosemead, CA. Verrrry interesting.
April 8th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Same site name, with “Scott Hunter” being from Columbus IN
April 8th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
looks like Scott is on the move..
“Thank you for visiting my site. My name is Scott Hunter & I grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA area.”
hee hhe… many people must be after Scott for hie scam !!!
April 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Same guy, but from my capital city, in Canada.
Obvious scam is obvious, don’t buy in this.
April 11th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I figured I would keep this going to catch whoever is doing this the people. My “Scott Hunter” is from Marion, NY! You know what I was thinking?? Maybe this person has the site automatically pick a random city and state in which the person who opens the site is located? I live near Marion, NY about 10 minutes away. Is this true of anyone else and their “Scott Hunters”?
April 12th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Oddly enough, MY Scott claims to have grown up in San Diego. What a coincidence, since I live there too!
April 13th, 2009 at 11:32 am
My name is Scott Hunter. I am originally from the Spring, TX area.
Glad I found this site.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Scott Hunter grew up on the Boise Area…..Nice.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
My Scott was from Kansas City, and so am I.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Haha! I am from England and my Scott Hunter says he lives in Basildon which is in England but still quite far from me! Such a bunch of con artists.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
My Scott Hunter grew up in the Virginia Beach area.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:58 am
IM SO GLAD I FOUND THIS BLOG..
Scottsmoneyblog.com IS A BIG SCAM.
HE IS FROM SAN DIEGO IN MY COMPUTER..
ALWAYS DO RESEARCH..
April 15th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Funny thing, my Scott says he’s from Perth, Western Australia, which is where I am. He should wear a red and white striped shirt, and a funny hat : )
April 15th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Mine is from the Lawrence KS area. Wow.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Omigosh. He’s also named Brad and Corey. Must suck being in the pipe business all over the country!
April 15th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Hmmmmm………
I’m in SE Utah, at Moab! Amazing that ‘Craig Severson’ on ‘Craig’s Money Blog, ‘grew up in Moab’, but I find no Seversons in the ph. book. Oh my!!
Dave
April 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I found another review of this, it has tons of comments from people who’ve been scammed by this company http://www.reviewopedia.com/www.earncashfastwithgoogle.com.htm
April 17th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Scott sure gets around. His parents must be divorced and he grew up all over the place. What an exciting life he has. And now he is rich making $50,000 per month. We should all invest in this….lol. NOT
April 17th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
My Scott Hunter grew up in Phoenix AZ…funny I live there! Glad I found this site before I did something stupid! This guy should be drawn and quarted!
April 18th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I opened one of the scam websites using a tunnel site and got
“My name is Scott Hunter. I am originally from the , area.”
April 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
My Scott grew up in Minneapolis, MN. Interesting since I live in Mounds View. Sure glad I decided to check out this scam. I wonder if this is true of all the ones using this template-areas where you live being their homes?
April 18th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
It is a scam. Scott Hunter, with the American accent, grew up in Sydney!
April 19th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I saw the ad on facebook. The add had many pictures of a guy and his wife, on vacation, car’s they bought, and etc. His name is Micheal Anderson and his blurb says he is from York, while his bio says he is “from the area”. I agree I think it just changes according to where you are from because I am from York, PA.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Hey everyone,
The reason “Scott Hunter” changes locations is because the website essentially locates your IP and then spits out the location of the network hub where your local service provider is located.
If you want to make “easy money” with google buy their stock when its low, and sell when its high.
Also, if you are interested in making extra money with google try AdSense and AdWords arbitration. Essentially create pages that display their ads with AdSense and have those pages displayed and visited by visitors clicking on ads within Google (AdWords). Its a buy low get paid high tactic that people use to get paid with google… but it still may cost $4,000 to make $800 profit.
This is all very 2004; don’t fall for these “kit” / “pyramid” / “multi-level” / schemes.
The ONLY way you will ever p…
April 21st, 2009 at 11:58 pm
My Scott is from Santa Cruz.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
My Scott Hunter is from Port St Lucie, so I am!
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
My Scott was from Erlanger, KY… I find with most things advertised on the internet, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
Like all things in life, most great things don’t come easy.
I put this sort of product in the same category as late-night infomercials that offer to sell you a set of CD’s for $99 that promises to make you rich flipping houses with no money down. Are the CD’s a scam? No not really, they likely have good principles in there. But they cost and degree of promotional hype behind those things is huge. They oversell it, and position it as a magic bullet or get-rich-quick idea b/c that is what is going to sell them books. If you buy the book, read it, put in hard work, etc. you might do fine, but 99% of the people will buy the book and look for a magic bullet, not find it and then buy another book or CD set next month.
Here is your magic bullet everyone: actual work
April 26th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
This guy is Scott Anderson from all over the world and also Michael Anderson from “the area.” Both have same stories and same sites. They also have the same comments from the same people on each other’s sites
April 27th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Mine is ‘My name is Scott Hunter. I am originally from the Kanpur, 36 area’. Our Marco Polo is in India now
April 27th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Wow. Mine is Michael Anderson and he’s from Salt Lake! Sad business about the “pipe manufacturing” company….bunch of jerks. I signed up for this, thinking it would only be three dollars, whatever, but then I got several emails from other companies telling me that they had my information, I was signed up with them, and they would start charging me membership fees if I didn’t immediately cancel. Yikes.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:44 am
The one I just checked out is Michael Anderson; however, his old job had to do with pipes, too. What a co-ink-y-dink.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Also, he claims to be from my hometown of Halifax, NS.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Funny how michaelscashblog.com and scottsmoneyblog.com feature two different guys, but who have the same picture, same wife, etc.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
The Scotts mentioned in the comments above is a Robert in my case. I clicked a myfoxboston.com ad out of curiosity and it puzzled me that the Robert (Robert Nelson) offering a so-called “Free* Google Cash Kit (Pay Only S&H)” lives in the place where my IP is registered.
Of course, like what Jon said, actual work–and sheer hard work at that, is our magic bullet, but then I was scouting for an idea, not easy money or anything like that. So that’s how I bumped into this Google cash kit stuff, which I’ve never heard of before so I googled it and arrived here.
Thanks for this helpful post.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
If you click on the terms and conditions it opens a new window. The new window appears behind the browser window you are currently in – and Terms and Conditions window is programmed to automatically close if you don’t click to keep it open.
Part in the Terms to read:
“You have also unlocked a fourteen-day trial and twenty one-day trial to the Fraud SafeLockID and GrantSpring for just $38.84 and $24.87 a month thereafter (shows as “SafeLockID” and “GrantSpring”) should you choose not to cancel.” You give it permission to charge the same credit card originally used.
Frankly I don’t know if we should be mad at the scammer or laugh at the idiots who don’t know how to read. Read the fine print and don’t get scammed..period. Microsoft has permission to access your files as part of their user agreement; anyone who reads this and a…
April 30th, 2009 at 5:22 am
My Scott is from Northborough MA. Not very likely!!! That as much as anything gave away the scam. It is too bad people are taking advantage of this economy to go after desperate folks.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Ha! Mine is Michael Anderson from the Houston, TX area! That’s where I live. It was also misleading. The link I clicked on said “Earn money writing”. I did a google search for “Google Cash Kit” and this site was one of the first ones! Bless you for being here!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Mine is Michael Anderson, and he’s from Philadelphia. I’m also glad I went to CNN.COM to check this out. Ditto, on Bless you for being here!
May 1st, 2009 at 7:57 am
Texas Attorney General is taking legal action against some of these scammers: http://strangelyperfect.tv/3099/google-treasure-chest-its-a-scam-and-a-half/
So if you get scammed contact the Attorney General in your state and if they get sufficient complaints they too might investigate and prosecute these lowlifes.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
Yes, Scott Hunter is from “everywhere”. If you look at the source code on his site you discover that its a script that picks up your hometown from MaxMind.com by using their GeoIP engine. It locates your city by looking at your IP.
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Wow, I was so close to falling for this. I was lead to it by a non-scamming web page, too. I smelled something fishy when I read that he was from my town in Colorado. I used Google and typed in “Google Cash Kit” and found several websites, including this one, confirming this is a SCAAAAAAAAAAM!
May 4th, 2009 at 2:12 am
My Scott is from Tarragona, Spain a couple of miles far from where I live. Big fat SCAM.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Mine comes from Hawthorne, CA. lol. I knew right away this peppy white boy can’t be from around here. He’d stick out like a sore thumb. :-p
May 5th, 2009 at 3:51 am
You will most often find that the person, whomever he or she may be, comes from close to where you are right now. You will most likely find that the claims about working in a local industry are bogus. How many towns have pipe manufacturers?
The REAL cash cow is this:
“Approximately 7 days from your original purchase date and every 30 days thereafter your credit card on file will be billed $78.64, this will ensure access to the program at all times. ”
Now, when I went to the web site with this information – [url removed] it claimed to have 237,007 customers. At $78 a month each, that comes to more than 18.5 million bucks a month.
When you figure it, that means Google must be sending out many times more than that to these people.
Naaah. I don’t see that, either.
But if you go to Google, you can see …
May 6th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I can’t believe they’re able to get away with this. It seems like google would have started suing them by now b/c a lot of people think they’re associated with google. And there’s a good reason for that… it’s b/c they make it seem like they are.
May 15th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Alright! So, it’s apparent, now–we should all think outside the box and just accept that this has got to be one of the biggest scams that the American people have and probably will undergo for making irrational decisions that are directly influenced by such an easy hoax: five to six figure monthly salaries–come ON people!? Do you not notice the current recession that we are stuck in today? Google, I’m certain, is making the money somehow, but I would be damned if anyone can afford to pay an individual, 5k – 7k in US dollars for merely sitting on their a** posting links?
The utterly ridiculous fact that drives me nuts is this: this scam has obviously gone on for way too long now. And, innocent citizens are getting robbed of their hard earned money–blood, sweat and bones. So, google is just going to act like not…
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Scott is from everywhere because the website tracks where your IP address is and automatically fills in the location based on this information. Notice that his information is usually in bold or italics – it’s a simple generator.
May 30th, 2009 at 11:49 am
My name is Scott Hunter. I am originally from the Bronx, NY area
I live there too.
May 30th, 2009 at 11:57 am
A new guy>? Kevin’s Money Tree?
May 31st, 2009 at 5:55 am
That Scott guy with the Google Cash Kit is now or also Eric Peters .. he’s from Boston.
Hey “Eric”, you’re busted.
May 31st, 2009 at 5:58 am
These “Google Cash Kits” are a SCAM. It’s like when you see “text 9434 NOW to get this free ringtone” — you text that number and then you’re immediately subscribed to a MONTHLY service…which is what happens with this crap too. These “advertisers” start billing your credit card. Here’s the “FINE PRINT” at the bottom of Eric Peter’s site:
* I do NOT work for Google and Google is in no way associated with this website. Terms and Disclosures.The eMillionaire kit mentioned above worked for me and for many other people, but results may vary by person. Also, keep in mind that I got the eMillionaire trials for free*, but there is a shipping fee and some advertisers have terms regarding continued billing after trial expires if you do not cancel. Some advertisers require trial to be canceled within seven or fourteen days of the trial period while so…
May 31st, 2009 at 11:47 am
My question is this, why dont the credit card companies yank the license merchant # so then they will no longer be able to charge peoples accounts The VISA/Discover/Mastercard companines can verify the people/companies that request a license or merchant number to start charging peoples credit cards. Then once the have been proven to be a scammer the would be permantly barred from being able to charge there account. Since VISA/Discover/Mastercard would have there real name and address it would make it a lot harder for the scammers to get a merchant number!
June 1st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Here’s how it works for our dear Scott:
Thank you for visiting my site. My name is Scott Hunter & I grew up in the
,
area.
He’s got a script in the website that returns the user’s geographic information based on your IP address (you can visit http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js and see what information you IP address provides). Pretty creative web authoring, but very transparent. HAHA.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Nope…did’t like that either. Sorry folks. If you’re that interested, just view the source on “Scott’s” page.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 am
I know some of the people who were in the ads.. even they say that its a complete scam. THey werent even paid in cash to do the ad… in fact they were given a gift certificate to a burger joint. hhahaha a f***** burger!!! true story. ANd by the way – google had nothin to do with it
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Well, it couldn’t be somehing else but a scam. Actually they charge about $84, not $78 Jim. But nobody can accuse them. One should accuse himself for believing that one can make money so easy.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I was just browsing the internet and I saw an advertisement for Google Cash Machine. The program sounds legit, but now I’m beginning to wonder after reading everyone else’s posts about similar programs. I’m guessing most of the information in the program we can readily find on the internet for free. Am I right? Anywho, there are so many make money online programs online that its ridiculous.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Anyone can view the code behind Scott’s magic appearences around the globe. Anyone can view it by clicking on: view-source code.
How do these people sleep at night?
June 7th, 2009 at 9:35 am
scott he automatically uses your isp number linked to ur internet to to know where u from then manipulates that informatio to make it seem like he lives close to ur area what an ASS
June 9th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I just got scammed…
But not by this Scott person, another name: Jon Lewis
Such bull! I found him through craigslist looking for a job, apparently he’s hiring an assistant in Houston. He had a link to that blog where it’s the exact same as Scott’s. Ugh, now I have to go shut down my card.
June 11th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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