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Tomi H�s�
Dec 25, 2009, 12:14:34 PM12/25/09
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Fighting fraud online: taking "Google Money" scammers to court
December 8, 2009
""Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!" or "Easy Cash with Google: You
Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!" You may have seen
offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be
true. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are, and, despite hundreds of
consumer complaints and our own efforts to keep these sites from tricking
people, some scams continue. To fight back, we're working to stop various
fraudulent "Google Money" schemes, and this week filed suit against
Pacific WebWorks and several other unnamed defendants."
"Google hasn't created or endorsed any of the sites like those described
in our complaint. Misleading ads try to take advantage of consumers in the
midst of a difficult economy, and as the economic situation has worsened,
the problem has only grown. As far as we can tell, thousands of people
have been tricked into sending payment information and being charged
hidden fees by questionable operations."
"Even as we're taking legal action to try to cut these sites off at the
source, we're still working constantly to remove scammy URLs from our
index, and we'll permanently disable AdWords accounts that provide a poor
or harmful user experience, whether or not they use Google's trademarks
illegally. That said, we can't guarantee that schemes like these won't pop
up, like the proverbial "Whack-A-Mole", someplace else online - either on
a different network or under a different name."
"We can solve only part of the problem - the rest is up to you. Just as
you should be careful about giving out financial information in the real
world, you should be skeptical and review any offers online before sending
any information, and always be on guard when presented with an offer that
seems too good to be true. Below is a significantly abridged list of some
names that we know are suspect."
"Names to be wary of: Google Adwork, Google ATM, Google Biz Kit, Google
Cash, Earn Google Cash Kit, Google Fortune, Google Marketing Kit, Google
Profits, The Home Business Kit for Google, Google StartUp Kit, and Google
Works."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/fighting-fraud-online-taking-google.html
December 8, 2009
""Use Google to Make 1000s of Dollars!" or "Easy Cash with Google: You
Could be Making up to $978 a Day Working from Home!" You may have seen
offers like these using Google's name or logo that sounded too good to be
true. Unfortunately, nearly all of them are, and, despite hundreds of
consumer complaints and our own efforts to keep these sites from tricking
people, some scams continue. To fight back, we're working to stop various
fraudulent "Google Money" schemes, and this week filed suit against
Pacific WebWorks and several other unnamed defendants."
"Google hasn't created or endorsed any of the sites like those described
in our complaint. Misleading ads try to take advantage of consumers in the
midst of a difficult economy, and as the economic situation has worsened,
the problem has only grown. As far as we can tell, thousands of people
have been tricked into sending payment information and being charged
hidden fees by questionable operations."
"Even as we're taking legal action to try to cut these sites off at the
source, we're still working constantly to remove scammy URLs from our
index, and we'll permanently disable AdWords accounts that provide a poor
or harmful user experience, whether or not they use Google's trademarks
illegally. That said, we can't guarantee that schemes like these won't pop
up, like the proverbial "Whack-A-Mole", someplace else online - either on
a different network or under a different name."
"We can solve only part of the problem - the rest is up to you. Just as
you should be careful about giving out financial information in the real
world, you should be skeptical and review any offers online before sending
any information, and always be on guard when presented with an offer that
seems too good to be true. Below is a significantly abridged list of some
names that we know are suspect."
"Names to be wary of: Google Adwork, Google ATM, Google Biz Kit, Google
Cash, Earn Google Cash Kit, Google Fortune, Google Marketing Kit, Google
Profits, The Home Business Kit for Google, Google StartUp Kit, and Google
Works."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/fighting-fraud-online-taking-google.html
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