Google Startup Kits - Scammed me twice.

Google Startup Kits - Scammed me twice.

DO NOT GET SUCKERED

I feel like such an idiot right now that I had to share this experence with you with the hope that you do not fall for the same scam. I'm talking about the sites and blogs out their that you can make thousands by posting Google ads.

My name is virgil, and I'm a web designer by profession. l do most of my marketing off-line. I recently decided to get serious about my online marketing and capitalize on my knowledge (or lack there of in this case) by putting more effort into social marketing or reationship marketing. In order to do this I ave been writing a lot of original content, reading blogs, and posting to forums.

So, this morning I run across an hub page that is titled something like college drop out makes $9000 a month posting links for google. Now i'm not a fool and i understand that 99% of ads over embellish their products. But my thinking was, they are only asking for $1.97. That is not much and if it is Bull ****, it was $1.97 worth of internet tuition.

So, it was a great ad copy, so much so that I did not do any do diligence. I read the complete ad and pulled out my PayPal card. You guessed it. Here comes the Bull. You are probably asking why I am so pissed.

This is why. I am no newbie to the internet and when it comes to risk I keep it at a minimal. n this particuar situation, when I submmited my payment info I received an error message telling me that I had entered in the wrong 3 digit verification code. So I tried again and again, about three times. STILL BEING MOTIVATED, I pulled out my other PayPal account card,( i have differnt accounts for differnet online businesses) and proceeded to process the purchase again only to recieve the same message. "you have entered an invalid code". So at this point i'm like screw it.

Then the bells went off. I decided to check my account, the first one I used. And sure enough there was a charge for $1.97. So immediately I switched accounts. And wouldn't you know it, another $1.97. So i'm pissed and embarrassed at my stupidity. What I should have done is what Kellysgirl did(Google Start-up Kits – IT’S A SCAM).

So now i have to did with PayPal, and if you do not know that can be a process. So PLEASE LEARN FROM MY HASTE. Do your home work first. Glen wrote a good article " 10 ways not to get scammed online ".

I hope this real story has enlightened you. I did not write this article to enhance your fears about online transactions. I wrote it as good advice.

Virgil Griffin, editor
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