Those definitely sound like scams - and I've seen the ads recently too. The thing is - I have been working online for over 5 years through totally legit methods (Google adsense revenue is one, although minimal in the amount I earn).I am actually a real Christian mom and doing this for real. Not what those ads say, but making money online full time through affiliate marketing. If you (the author of this article) want to interview me about the legit ways to do this or how I have done this, feel free to contact me. The thing is, making money online is NEVER possible through "get rich" schemes - it always takes a ton of work, effort and drive.

I JUST signed up for Creative Synergy Training...$ 1.95...it looked like a NEWS STORY on a website (Yahoo ! ??) THEN I saw they would be chaging me $ 129. after THREE days and $ 39.99 monthly thereafter ! BIG SCAM ! Where is the CLASS ACTION suit ??? I want in on that one !

thanks john for the good information on scams its nice to know someone is doing something about it. do you know if there is anything out there that really works and is not a scam.

My First Adsense Cheque: http://www.monkeydollars.net/2008/12/my-first-adsense-cheque-quick-arrived.html

Yes it's a scam!!! I fell for the only $1.97 for the information. Only to find that 7 days later my credit card was charged from two separate "services" One was $79.90 the other was 69.90. The one in Calif credited it back to my account, the one from Utah refused. I have contacted my credit card company to disbute these. In fact, the one in Utah hung up on me 4 times!! And, would not put a supervisor on the phone. Um, do they have supervisors?? NEVER AGAIN!!! How do these people get away with this?

I wish I had read you article before I fell for that trap. I read the term but somehow miss the part about 2 seperate fees with two different location . And now One of the location is refusing to give me back my money because it pass 7 days. Even though I had now idea there was going to be two bills instead of one. The one in UT gave me back my money but the one in TN will not. So people I am fighting them but I am warning you don't believe the hype.

Thank you John for this valuable information. This is the type of information that is needed to help protect innocent consumers from being ripped off by these scammers. I wish that google would impose fines and sactions against anyone who uses their name to defraud others.

I was wondering how it would work lol I'm glad I wasn't fooled by this one. I have been scammed by others before, now I've learned to be very cautious. Their website even looks fake.

I make a whopping 100 dollars per year by running the google adsence program on my web site and blog. It helps pay for the yearly domain registration and hosting but not much else. It's still a cool thing, as my internet hosting needs are paid for, but it will not make me rich, thats fer sure.

I find it funny that these Google ads are running on WCPO's website!