Some Things To Do If You Have Been Scammed
How to Cancel the Google Home Income Kit and Any Scam Products That You Have Purchased
Updated on: 2010/06/07
Report to the following agencies:
Internet Crimes Complaint Center
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
The Federal Trade Commission
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
The Attorney Generals Office in your state as well as the state the “company” is in. You can find the appropriate AG’s here:
http://www.naag.org/attorneys_general.php
You can also file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/getstarted.aspx
Filing with all of these is important.
It may take a few minutes of your time but any help is appreciated.
The more consumers that file, the faster that action will be taken to stop these thieves from stealing from other victims.
You need to make sure that they have no access to any of your credit lines, and can not bill you down the road, in the future. You may have been signed up for another program and do not know it yet.
My suggestion is to go back to the original site and click on the T&C (Terms & Conditions) or TOS (Terms of Service) and then copy them into a text file or print them out, and read them very carefully.
If they are trying to be semi-legit then they will list all of the other memberships that you have been signed up for.
You need to contact your bank of credit card company and demand a charge-back. This must be done as soon as possible. It should be before 60 days have passed.
In the USA, initiate a chargeback against the company by filing a fraud report with your credit card company or bank. To do this you will need the Federal Regulation E form. Your bank can provide you with this form.
Explain that you wish to file a dispute, and demand that they assist you in accordance with Federal Regulation E.
Tell them that this was unauthorized by you, and your account was not to be charged. Emphasize how you never authorized any charges. Direct them to the thousands of victims reports that are filed online.
This is easy to do. There are many sites that have reported these scams and have victim’s testimonials posted.
And just continue to demand the Federal Regulation E form. Your bank can, must and will reverse the charges to your account. But, you must be persistent and adamant.
Ask to speak to the supervisor or the manager, and if that does not work then go higher. Trust me, this does work. If they have a local office then go there in person.
If you have any documentation, such as, emails, or attempts at phone contacts, times of calls, that you made, write this stuff down or print it out and show it to them. Be prepared. Do all of this before you go, or before you call them.
Lastly, you should cancel your debit or credit card, and demand that there be no rebill or further charges by your card issuer or banking institution, attributed to your old card.
For scams based outside the US:
For those of us from the UK:
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/watch_out/report/
For those of us from Canada:
https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/
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Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
@Polprav,
Yes, you may.
My wife fell victim to this company preying on the needy. When she came home this webpage was on the screen-” hTTp://www.news3insider.com/finance/google-hiring-you.html “(Link disabled). She thought I had left the page open for her to read, it was obviously a pop-up, even though I have a pop-up blocker. We are struggling and have 2 children and she thought she could make some extra money but it ended up hurting us terribly. She tried accessing their terms but it said “page cannot be displayed”, so trusting Google she went ahead thinking it was only $1.95 on a Friday (12/04/09. By Saturday she started worrying about it and started trying their terms again with the same problem and then noticed their phone number was on the $1.95 charge on our banks website. She repeatedly called the number but it only went to a busy signal, imagine that. Not until late Monday after the first $129.95 went through, calling from my phone, not my wife’s I was able to reach someone. The man was very rude and when I told him the situation, that this was our Christmas money for our children, he put me on hold and never got back on the phone. This scam also signed us up for 3 other subscriptions, around $30 each. These people might as well have walked into our home and took presents from under the tree. This has to be one of the most terrible scams around, preying on the people who are already in need. Please beware of anything that asks for your account number.
This is their actual site hTTps://www.internetrichgurus.com/103109/index.php?subid=200041&subid2=104928&hitid=673153925 (Link disabled).
Thank you very much for this info, it really helped with dealing with our bank and hopefully well get the money back.
Yes, thanks for sharing your story. It is all too familiar. So many people have been taken by these Internet scum. The Google Home Income Kit is what they claim to be sending to you, and as we, and many others, warn, this is a complete scam.
The company claims to be, Creative Search Training, from Arizona, but with a little digging it is really out of Provo, Utah, and could possibly be linked with Pacific WebWorks, also out of Utah.
The best thing for you and your wife to do is to initiate a chargeback through your bank or credit card company and after this is begun, immediately cancel your debit or credit card and get a new number issued.
If you follow the instructions in this post you should not have a problem.
I hope that we have helped, and you and your children have a wonderful Christmas.
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I just got scammed! While doing an Internet search for the nearest SSI office (recently moved here), I noticed an advertisement at the bottom of the page. About how a woman in a nearby city was able to earn nearly $6,000 a day at home – spending as little as 17 hours on her computer each week. Of course it sounded like something I would like, so I clicked on the link and low and behold was brought to the threshold of the first scam artists ever to pull the wool over this ol’ girl’s eyes. I feel like such an idiot now.
Good thing for me, I felt an inner nudge to check with my online banking after providing my debit card number for the $2.97 “home income profit kit” I thought I was purchasing and discovered that not only was there a $2.+ debit charged to my account, but a $139.95 one as well. After cancelling my debit card and requesting a new one, I initiated a dispute to obtain my money back.
10 minutes later, I get an e-mail from ICM Websites, telling me about my new website design tools and account activation information. Down at the bottom it said that AFTER my 3-day risk free trial “membership” I would be charged a one time fee of $139.95 plus $4.95 monthly thereafter.
Of course I called the telephone number provided. After listening to a recorded message telling me my call would be recorded for quality control purposes, I was connected to a sales rep. When I complained about the surprise $139.95 unauthorized charge and demanded my money be refunded I didn’t hear a response for about 15 seconds, just a “click.” At first I thought my call had been disconnected, but then the representative came back on and explained that the charge was only “pending,” and would not go through until AFTER my 3-day free trial membership had elapsed. (They don’t waste any time, do they?! Oh, and what you wanna’ bet my phone call had ceased to be recorded???)
I cancelled the web site “maintenance and hosting” I didn’t know I had ordered, and said it was a pretty deceitful way to con money out of people. I was provided with a reference confirmation number that may or may not be any good. Only time will tell.
I provided debit card information for a $2.97 information kit, and was charged over $140. total for a website I didn’t want or need. I already have a web hosting resource, and have the tools and know-how to design and set up my own web site – when and if I decide to have another. The reason I don’t have one now is that for the last 4 years my health and mobility has seriously deterriorated – as have funds. The reason I reached for the brass ring when I heard about this money making opportunity!
Here’s what gets me. Even after immediately alerting my bank to the fact that there was an unauthorized $139.95 charge to my checking account I was unable to get the matter rectified. I had to request the proper forms to dispute the charge, by which time the money would already have been drawn out of my account and I would have to pursue the matter further in an effort to try and get them back.
I am amazed that scams like this are allowed to go on. Not only that, but flourish under the guise of a bone fid business opportunity in search result advertisements like the one I found: hTTp://www.online6reports.com/FINANCE/online-jobs.php
Unreal!!
I am sorry to hear about your bout with these criminals.
I have found that going to your bank and filing the Federal Form E has been effective to get a chargeback.
Also this site has been around for quite a while and has been reported on scam.com.
The site online6reports.com changes the scams that it affiliates with about once a month, as soon as enough complaints and reports are made about the scams that it promotes.
Please go to: hTTp://www.online6reports.com/FINANCE/online-jobs.php
This was my introduction to these hideous scam artists. I can only hope they will one day all end up in prison, where they belong.
How on earth are such hoaxes as this allowed to advertise as a ligit business – and then rip you off by making unauthorized withdrawls on your credit/debit card? I thought I was ordering a $2.97 money-making kit; my account was charged the $2.97 plus an additional $135, and notification of ongoing $4.95 monthly assessments for web site creation and hosting services. Until I cancelled my membership – somthing I wasn’t even aware I had applied for!
Yes they are criminals and they need to suffer for the suffering that they cause others. It is a shame that they can continue, but the law protects them.
If they are breaking the law and are caught by the FTC then they will probably only receive a fine and it will not be enough to stop them from just putting up another site and doing it all over again.
It is by reporting them on sites like this and on sites like scam.com that some people will be saved from having to go through the ordeal that you have had to.
I am disabling the link to the site because we do not want to give them any link credibility with the Search Engines.
If I give the live link to their site it gives them one more link that allows them more credibility and Search Engine juice. That is one thing that none of us want to give them.
These criminals have been reported on scam.com by myself and others prior to your posting. It is just sad that not enough people read the posts before encountering the advertisements.
Again, thank you for sharing this.
I personally hate it when anyone has to go through this.
Please do not fall for this!If you order online you are agreeing without your knowledge that they can charge your credit card $89.95,not just $1.95.My husband is disabled and is on limited income,but that did not seem to bother them!They took the money out of account.
Thank you for the comment and the information about the Green Millionaire scam.