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		<title>By: Tony T</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-9233</link>
		<dc:creator>Tony T</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I checked my SPAM today for some reason and found a plain text email that contained 2 lines:
I can show how to get rich using Google
And here it had a referral URL
I went to the site to report the SPAM (GCDetectivedotcom) and only found contact info for support, so I used that
I received an email a few hours later from support@ that stated I had been unsubscribed. The email was signed with the same name as the spammer! I couldn&#039;t believe it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I checked my SPAM today for some reason and found a plain text email that contained 2 lines:<br />
I can show how to get rich using Google<br />
And here it had a referral URL<br />
I went to the site to report the SPAM (GCDetectivedotcom) and only found contact info for support, so I used that<br />
I received an email a few hours later from support@ that stated I had been unsubscribed. The email was signed with the same name as the spammer! I couldn&#8217;t believe it.</p>
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		<title>By: Eddy Salomon</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8839</link>
		<dc:creator>Eddy Salomon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Huh? Waiting for a minimum payout isn&#039;t why a company is a scam. It&#039;s a scam when they claim you&#039;re going to get a product and then you never receive it. It&#039;s a scam when you secretly charge people hidden fees or bury additional fees because you know your users will never find it. It&#039;s also happens to be a scam when the FTC comes down on that ass. Last I checked Google Adsense has paid out billions of dollars to its affiliates. Adsense isn&#039;t being labeled a scam by the feds or any other consumer protection agency. So there isn&#039;t a comparison here.

Making money with adsense has nothing to do with praying. It&#039;s just good old fashion hard work and applying internet marketing skills to reach the audience that will click on those ads. They&#039;re more inclined to do that if you provide some quality content.  It&#039;s just marketing 101. If you&#039;re not good at that, then you won&#039;t make money. It&#039;s not a conspiracy.  Like any profession, if you&#039;re not properly equipped or trained you&#039;re bound for failure. You can&#039;t make money as a lawyer if you never went to law school and don&#039;t know the laws of your jurisdiction. So let&#039;s not make these generalizations because it basically like comparing apples to oranges. 

I&#039;m gathering you may have struggled with adsense or just internet marketing in general. That&#039;s normal, we all did. But trust me casting blame on everyone else isn&#039;t really the answer. You just have to hunker down and keep pushing forward. Road blocks are part of the process but it&#039;s how you handle the road blocks is what may lead to success or failure.  I&#039;m wishing you the best Doug. Take care.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Huh? Waiting for a minimum payout isn&#8217;t why a company is a scam. It&#8217;s a scam when they claim you&#8217;re going to get a product and then you never receive it. It&#8217;s a scam when you secretly charge people hidden fees or bury additional fees because you know your users will never find it. It&#8217;s also happens to be a scam when the FTC comes down on that ass. Last I checked Google Adsense has paid out billions of dollars to its affiliates. Adsense isn&#8217;t being labeled a scam by the feds or any other consumer protection agency. So there isn&#8217;t a comparison here.</p>
<p>Making money with adsense has nothing to do with praying. It&#8217;s just good old fashion hard work and applying internet marketing skills to reach the audience that will click on those ads. They&#8217;re more inclined to do that if you provide some quality content.  It&#8217;s just marketing 101. If you&#8217;re not good at that, then you won&#8217;t make money. It&#8217;s not a conspiracy.  Like any profession, if you&#8217;re not properly equipped or trained you&#8217;re bound for failure. You can&#8217;t make money as a lawyer if you never went to law school and don&#8217;t know the laws of your jurisdiction. So let&#8217;s not make these generalizations because it basically like comparing apples to oranges. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m gathering you may have struggled with adsense or just internet marketing in general. That&#8217;s normal, we all did. But trust me casting blame on everyone else isn&#8217;t really the answer. You just have to hunker down and keep pushing forward. Road blocks are part of the process but it&#8217;s how you handle the road blocks is what may lead to success or failure.  I&#8217;m wishing you the best Doug. Take care.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8837</link>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>technically then, Google AdSense can be called a SCAM because they do not pay you unless your AdSense account hits more than $100.00

Keep in mind you have to make a website and then place ads on them and then PRAY you get $100 worth of hits and/or searches....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>technically then, Google AdSense can be called a SCAM because they do not pay you unless your AdSense account hits more than $100.00</p>
<p>Keep in mind you have to make a website and then place ads on them and then PRAY you get $100 worth of hits and/or searches&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Laura Jackson</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8630</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura Jackson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, now I&#039;m mad. I just received a phone call from the Google Money Tree people because I signed up for the kit yesterday. They are trying to get me to pay $300 for what they call &quot;an aggressive way to make money online&quot;. They claim this to be something they only offer to people who are truly serious about making money online. I am one of those people, but I am also a part of an elite group of people who won&#039;t go for anything jack! LOL

Thanks to workathomenoscams.com I now have more insight about making money from home. I will not stop until I read every thing this site has to offer.:-) I am just trying to tap into this industry and carve my niche like you have Eddy. I am doing some research of my own and so far I have made money with a few sites.

This is about the time I usually start my routine in making extra money for Christmas online... (Removed by admin.)

I will not stop until I can successfully help people learn many free ways to make money online. Thanks for your help!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, now I&#8217;m mad. I just received a phone call from the Google Money Tree people because I signed up for the kit yesterday. They are trying to get me to pay $300 for what they call &#8220;an aggressive way to make money online&#8221;. They claim this to be something they only offer to people who are truly serious about making money online. I am one of those people, but I am also a part of an elite group of people who won&#8217;t go for anything jack! LOL</p>
<p>Thanks to workathomenoscams.com I now have more insight about making money from home. I will not stop until I read every thing this site has to offer.:-) I am just trying to tap into this industry and carve my niche like you have Eddy. I am doing some research of my own and so far I have made money with a few sites.</p>
<p>This is about the time I usually start my routine in making extra money for Christmas online&#8230; (Removed by admin.)</p>
<p>I will not stop until I can successfully help people learn many free ways to make money online. Thanks for your help!</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8522</link>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>YES!! Google Money Tree is, in fact, a scam.

To Eddy:  Hello Eddy, I recently found this site while doing research on this &quot;google&quot; scam to see if it was legit before actually doing anything with it.  I am glad that you are one of the good people that help protect people from scams.

I am one of the people lucky enough to know how to research on my own and to find out what are scams and what aren&#039;t (like the e-mails saying you can get $1,000,000.00 USD if you send them money)

I am also interested in fighting these kinds of sites, and helping to shut them down for good.  I would like to figure out a way to do something like advertise on TVs and in advertisement areas to help protect people from these ads, or if that fails, to try to get a news team(s) to inform people of recent scams, as well as old scams, not only on the TV but on there respective websites, too.  Maybe it is possible for you to help me in this goal, as well as other viewers to do this as well.  Maybe it is possible to form an organization that provides these news teams of these scams.  I&#039;m sure everyone will be happier at this, and thank the news teams (and the organizations) of these discoveries and updates.

I know these achievements are very hard to accomplish, but nonetheless are accomplishable if people decided to pitch in and help.

I would like to know everyones opinion on this idea, not just Eddy&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YES!! Google Money Tree is, in fact, a scam.</p>
<p>To Eddy:  Hello Eddy, I recently found this site while doing research on this &#8220;google&#8221; scam to see if it was legit before actually doing anything with it.  I am glad that you are one of the good people that help protect people from scams.</p>
<p>I am one of the people lucky enough to know how to research on my own and to find out what are scams and what aren&#8217;t (like the e-mails saying you can get $1,000,000.00 USD if you send them money)</p>
<p>I am also interested in fighting these kinds of sites, and helping to shut them down for good.  I would like to figure out a way to do something like advertise on TVs and in advertisement areas to help protect people from these ads, or if that fails, to try to get a news team(s) to inform people of recent scams, as well as old scams, not only on the TV but on there respective websites, too.  Maybe it is possible for you to help me in this goal, as well as other viewers to do this as well.  Maybe it is possible to form an organization that provides these news teams of these scams.  I&#8217;m sure everyone will be happier at this, and thank the news teams (and the organizations) of these discoveries and updates.</p>
<p>I know these achievements are very hard to accomplish, but nonetheless are accomplishable if people decided to pitch in and help.</p>
<p>I would like to know everyones opinion on this idea, not just Eddy&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: White Knight SEO-ers ride in on broken horses… &#124; Free Work Now</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8393</link>
		<dc:creator>White Knight SEO-ers ride in on broken horses… &#124; Free Work Now</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: White Knight SEO-ers ride in on broken horses&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-8380</link>
		<dc:creator>White Knight SEO-ers ride in on broken horses&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Eddy Salomon</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-7625</link>
		<dc:creator>Eddy Salomon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Shannon.

I really appreciate that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Shannon.</p>
<p>I really appreciate that.</p>
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		<title>By: Shannon</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-7624</link>
		<dc:creator>Shannon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-6251&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Eddy Salomon:&lt;/a&gt;
I think you do a good job in finding the scams around here, I&#039;m glad someone is looking out for us little ppl. Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-6251" rel="nofollow">@Eddy Salomon:</a><br />
I think you do a good job in finding the scams around here, I&#8217;m glad someone is looking out for us little ppl. Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: Eddy Salomon</title>
		<link>http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/04/07/is-google-money-tree-a-scam/#comment-7607</link>
		<dc:creator>Eddy Salomon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Javier,

I hear you point.
However I don&#039;t control Google&#039;s advertisers. The code placed on this site automatically displays the ads based on the content. There are tools that Google provides us publishers to manage these ads. I have used it to remove certain advertisers. But honestly it&#039;s too time consuming and energy intensive to be doing that every hour of the day. But Google has made efforts to clean up the advertisers listed on their site:
www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/07/06/google-shuts-down-google-money-scams/
So I&#039;m sure many more of these questionable ads will be removed by them in the future. Google loses more money if their users aren&#039;t happy and keep getting scammed by these advertisers. It results in less people using Google which means less eyeballs for their legit advertisers. So yes in the short run they make money on the scammers. But they know that&#039;s short lived and you can&#039;t build a long term business on that.  So they will continue to get rid of these advertisers. It&#039;s just a constant battle since scammers are always adjusting their efforts. But Google does act on these complaints. 

The other thing to keep in mind in terms of my site, is that I make it abundantly clear what links are sponsors and I have even added some additional text link under each sponsors area labeled &quot;What&#039;s This?&quot; that further explains to the user that they should research any of the sponsors on this site. This is a common practice employed by other sites such as Careerbuilder.com, NYTimes, etc. TV networks that display questionable infomercials also have such warnings before or after these broadcasts so the public is very clear that their appearance on the network isn&#039;t an endorsement. 

At the end of the day any medium that is free is supported by ads that the owners may not agree with. It&#039;s a necessary evil or charge the user which I&#039;m not willing to do. But I think making it very clear that these are advertisements, not personal endorsements and that folks should do their research is fair compromise. I provide enough content on this blog teaching people how to do their research and educating folks on common scams to avoid that if used they can avoid most of the schemes out there. Knowledge is power. But it&#039;s only as good as the person that uses it and ultimately that is the responsibility of the individual at that point. People know cigarettes kill and warnings are all over the box telling you this. But it&#039;s up to folks to read and heed that advice.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Javier,</p>
<p>I hear you point.<br />
However I don&#8217;t control Google&#8217;s advertisers. The code placed on this site automatically displays the ads based on the content. There are tools that Google provides us publishers to manage these ads. I have used it to remove certain advertisers. But honestly it&#8217;s too time consuming and energy intensive to be doing that every hour of the day. But Google has made efforts to clean up the advertisers listed on their site:<br />
<a href="http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/07/06/google-shuts-down-google-money-scams/" rel="nofollow">http://www.workathomenoscams.com/2009/07/06/google-shuts-down-google-money-scams/</a><br />
So I&#8217;m sure many more of these questionable ads will be removed by them in the future. Google loses more money if their users aren&#8217;t happy and keep getting scammed by these advertisers. It results in less people using Google which means less eyeballs for their legit advertisers. So yes in the short run they make money on the scammers. But they know that&#8217;s short lived and you can&#8217;t build a long term business on that.  So they will continue to get rid of these advertisers. It&#8217;s just a constant battle since scammers are always adjusting their efforts. But Google does act on these complaints. </p>
<p>The other thing to keep in mind in terms of my site, is that I make it abundantly clear what links are sponsors and I have even added some additional text link under each sponsors area labeled &#8220;What&#8217;s This?&#8221; that further explains to the user that they should research any of the sponsors on this site. This is a common practice employed by other sites such as Careerbuilder.com, NYTimes, etc. TV networks that display questionable infomercials also have such warnings before or after these broadcasts so the public is very clear that their appearance on the network isn&#8217;t an endorsement. </p>
<p>At the end of the day any medium that is free is supported by ads that the owners may not agree with. It&#8217;s a necessary evil or charge the user which I&#8217;m not willing to do. But I think making it very clear that these are advertisements, not personal endorsements and that folks should do their research is fair compromise. I provide enough content on this blog teaching people how to do their research and educating folks on common scams to avoid that if used they can avoid most of the schemes out there. Knowledge is power. But it&#8217;s only as good as the person that uses it and ultimately that is the responsibility of the individual at that point. People know cigarettes kill and warnings are all over the box telling you this. But it&#8217;s up to folks to read and heed that advice.</p>
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