The Google Cash is a scam and the people behind it used a picture found on Google Images using the [me and my ferrari] key phrase. The results yielded on pole position a guy who is standing near a red Ferrari.

The caption of the image used in the scammers’ ads presents an arrogant man who got rich overnight:
“I’m the guy you see driving down the street in a bright red Ferrari with the top down, and you stop and think to yourself, ‘What a fool!’ And you know what? You’re probably right. But so what? Do you really think I value your opinion? I’m rich, I honestly could NOT care less.”

Picture used for Google Cash scam adverts

The picture in question was taken by a 25-year-old respectable man living in New York, Gary Marshall. He was interviewed by The Age and said “It was a joke photo and a joke caption”.

He uploaded the photo in his Picassa web album to share it with his sister who was overseas. He did not think that the picture will arrive on the public domain, he thought that the pictures will be kept private.

Facebook, even though it was informed that its advertisers drive the social network’s users in scam, did not take any action, thus 175 million users are still in danger of handling their credit card details into the scammers hand.

First of all, let’s shed an insight on India Today Book Club for those who don’t know what it is.
India Today is one of the greatest media networks in India. Its content — mostly news — appears on virtually every media type in India, including but not limited to printed press, online press and radio.

India Today Book Club is a subsidiary of India Today and is very similar to the world-wide known Reader’s Digest Book club. It has its own member reward programs which is credit based. For example if you order from India Today Book Club items for at least 1000 Indian Rupees (roughly 20 USD), you will get 75 credits in value of 75 Rupees (about 1.5 USD) and which can be used ONLY for ordering gift cards or membership renewals.

Not so long, spam emails started to travel through the internet which tried to deceive the user in clicking links in order to conduct fool play, including data fishing (phishing) and signing up to websites for a stunning award, which usually was 1KG of Gold.

Most of these emails were initiated by 123greetings.com, an online system for sending greeting cards and the main target of the emails were Indian citizens.

India Today group never sent emails claiming the existence of any type of sweepstakes and their only reward program is the “Members Reward Scheme” which never exceeds 150 rupees (about 3 USD).

If you get emails telling you about India Today Sweepstakes Programme, please avoid clicking links from the email body.

What is Google Ads Free?

It is just another e-book. What it will teach you is how to effectively use affiliate and search marketing to have some incredible incomes. The incomes which are stated on the website they advertise their product on are not impossible to achieve with affiliate marketing, however it is very hard and requires enormous knowledge and work. Basically it should be an e-book which sheds some light on the affiliate marketers’ advanced techniques.
But how is possible to advertise on search engines for free?
The technique is rather simple.
First of all, you will pay for every click or impression and to be successful, you will have to spend some big money on AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing. Without going into detailed description of what’s described in the e-book, you will advertise (for example on Google) products, you will pay for every click but when people buy through your website, the earnings should cover the advertising costs. Basically you will have a return of investment (ROI) greater than 100% and this makes the advertising costs diminished.
Be warned though, that to achieve this you will have to spend on AdWords small fortunes and don’t be surprised if you get bills with $5.000 or $10.000. It’s an extremely risky business.

Why people say Google Ads Free is a scam?

When you try to perceive whether a website conducts fool pay, you are aware of some patterns. The problem with the Google Ads Free website is that most of these patterns are found on it.

• The price of the e-book is not stated but at the very bottom of the website
• There are cliche-like testimonials which should prove the effectiveness of the information closed in the e-book
• Use of stock-photos as proofs
• Excessive use of huge earnings ($7 million)

Is Google Ads Free worth the money?

What we should have learn from the ebook, was already known by us. We payed $67 through Clickbank’s checkout system and apparently there are no recurring fees. But is it worth the money?
We believe it is worth only if you are prepared to spend huge sums on AdWords or other search marketing engines, sums reaching even $10.000 or more, and even then, there is no guarantee that you will succeed. As we said before, affiliate marketing is an extremely risky business.
You may also learn some things about search and affiliate marketing which you didn’t know yet but only for this purpose, it’s not worth buying it because most of the information contained in the e-book is already covered on websites for free.

In this article we will list some of the Google scam we are aware of; please note that these scams are in no way related to Google Inc. and that it’s not a full list.

Google Scams – fast cash promises, identity theft, phishing

Google Cash scam: One of the most notorious Google scams is Google Cash Scam. This system promises its users incomes up to $33.000 (USD) for almost no work. This system is basically an e-book and is one of the lightest form of scam as it is based on misinformation regarding the use of the Google AdWords online advertising platform. Under misinformation we mean that the author of the e-book presents for the readers information that is deprecated and currently is — almost entirely — against the Google AdWords Terms of Service. Another bad aspect of the Google Cash scam is that even though the user purchases this e-book for a minimal price, later it will be charged on monthly basis with greater sums and without its consent. Canceling the application is almost impossible since none of the contact methods presented on the Google Cash website and its affiliates’ is actually working.
This Google Cash system has been derived in many other forms and names. Unknown authors are publishing and offering for a fee their “knowledge” presented in form of an e-book. Some of the other names Google Cash has been derived to is Google Cash Cow, Google Cash Kit, Google Fast Cash, etc. All of these are basically e-books and repeats what Chris Carpenter, the author of the Google Cash scam has already covered in his book.

Google AdWords phishing messages: A much harsher form of scam are the Google AdWords phishing messages. If you get messages which states that you are required to update your AdWords contact information please do not click any links contained in the email body, but type the AdWords domain (http://adwords.google.com) in the address bar of your browser and verify whether the AdWords team really requested update or not.
If you click on the links from within the emails, a login page very similar to the Google AdWords login page will show up. If you enter your login information, specifically your Google AdWords username/email and password, these credentials will be sent to the scammers’ databases and they can use to access your AdWords and Google account, including the Google Checkout account and steal all your centrally stored information. This includes, but not limited to your address, phone number(s) and credit/debit card information.
Google Lottery: We got emails which states that our spam-catcher email address has been selected as the winner of a great prize, usually well above 2 million US Dollars. Nothing bad with that, it’s common to get such email but this email was a bit different as it stated that the lottery was initiated by Google. They required from us to email back to a specific email address information regarding our person. This was just another use of the Google brand to steal someone’s personally identifiable information.

Google scams seemingly are prospering.

Why Google doesn’t do anything to stop the Google Scams?

Regarding the AdWords phishing messages, they do go after each sender and they try to disable the webservers they used to send the messages. However this requires the users to be aware of the phishing messages and to effectively report each message they receive.
For the rest of the scams, we answer with a question: can it? It would be an enormous work and pointless in the same time as new affiliate websites would pop up in no time if Google would try to remove from its results the scam-sites or to remove them completely from their host.

You can take some steps to avoid scams and phishing

1. Whenever you get messages which states you have to update your information on a specific web service, do not click the links the author of the email provided in the email body, but go to the website using your browser’s address bar or bookmarks
2. If you are on a login page, always check the URL. If the URL is not familiar, close the specific window/tab and try to login from the domain of the service you are trying to log in to.
3. Forget the “Getting rich fast” and similar cliches. There is no such thing
4. Whenever a party claims that you are the winner of a prize, be extremely cautious regarding what type of information you supply for them. Ask for an URL to their Terms of Contest and Privacy Policy and read it thoroughly
5. Avoid any service which is payed and has no contacting method(s) provided
6. Whenever you are on to signing up to a service where you have to provide your credit card number or other personally identifiable information, do a search on google for the “service name scam” (replace the service name with the specific service’s name)

Cyberwize, unlike the traditional scam sites, has a quite beautiful website where they advertise their wellness products and an “opportunity”. The wellness products looks fine, even though their secret is a meteoroid which hit the Earth in 1908 in Tunguska. Since we have no knowledge about these products we can’t say a word about them.

Cyberwize opportunity – multilevel marketing, scam

The opportunity they advertise is more interesting as seemingly is a well designed pyramid game. To sign up for this opportunity you have to have a referrer, a person who already “enjoys” the high payouts of the Cyberwize multilevel marketing scam.
After you provide the referee’s ID (a number), you will face some slight issues: you are required to fill out a form, later you will have to provide more personally identifiable information including your credit card’s number. Your credit card is needed to pay the sign-up fee, $99 (USD). Later you will be informed that you will also have to have a website, company website as they call it, which will cost you about $14.50 monthly and your credit card will be used to retrieve this fee. Again, monthly.
They promise “unlimited income” and you will work from home. Basically, this is true. What they “forgot” to mention is that you will also have to buy on your own money all the promotional materials, including brochures, sample products and other merchandising items.

When you finally signed up, you will have to sell products and refer new people in the system to be successful. Selling products is OK as even Amway works this way, but referring new people is fishy.
Another interesting thing we didn’t see anywhere else is that they state that they will effectively buy a car for you. Seemingly, you have to apply for a car loan, then each month you qualify for their “CyberWize Car Bonus”, they will pay your car loan for that month.
The testimonials on the website sounds great, maybe too great. Noteworthy that at the time of our review each and every testimonial sounded like if it was written by the same person and in the videos the people were like actors who are playing roles.

Cyberwize – why is it a scam?

Cyberwize fits perfectly in the “pyramid game” niche. Let’s see a summary of the reasons why we state Cyberwize is a scam:

• There are dozens of hidden fees which are not stated anywhere on the Cyberwize website
• You have to refer new people in the system to be successful
• Their company claims that they will pay your car loan