With unemployment at a 25 year high, many of us are looking for extra income.
And a potential work at home job from the internet giant
Google could sound like
the answer to your prayers. But as one man discovered, it was a case of too good to be true.
Newspaper Article Promotes Job OpportunityAaron Fields considers himself a savvy college student. He's even built several websites.
So when he spotted an online newspaper article about people making thousands of dollars working for Google...he thought he might be able to make it work.
"It said through the
Los Angeles Tribune that these opportunities were available. It looked very legitimate," Aaron told me.
The Tribune article -- which also referenced
ABC, CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, and other media outlets -- made sense to him. He would post online ads, then get paid every time people click on them. Supposedly, people are
earning hundreds, even thousands of dollars, every month, doing this.
"it looked as if you could make a lot of money putting ads on Google," he said.
But When You Sign Up....So he signed up. But instead of being charged the promised
$1.97 for his Google Work at Home kit, Aaron says
"within a few days they charged me
$79.90." A few weeks later, his credit card was changed another
$79.90. But he never received his work at home kit.
Aaron had become the latest victim of what the
FTC calls an "online scheme" to get your money.
Next: So Can you really Make Money with Google?
