Google Ca$h Machine

[Sandi Moses]

If anyone is promoting this product, you might want to think twice.

The owner, Sebastian Foss, has apparently harvested email addresses such as those from our MyOrangeCD sites, and is happily spamming away with offers from Google Ca$h Machine and other products (such as Feed Blaster) which are probably his as well as they want you to reply the same email address in Romania.

Such marketing tactics should not be rewarded with sales.

Yes, I informed Clickbank and copied the emails for their review.

Sandi

[shellymac]

Thanks for the info Sandi...people like this don't deserve sales!! Hopefully Clickbank will pull the offer right away!!

Shelly

[futureadvantage]

Thanks for the heads up, I had received several e-mails from him in the past couple of weeks. I am sure CB will follow-up with some type of warning, etc.

Michael

[Elaine Currie]

Thanks for the information, Sandi.

I hate spammers, this guy is not going to have a place on my website.

[Skyrocket]

Thanks again Sandi for yet another heads-up on this. I've not promoted this and now will not bother too in future.

Anyone know anything about "My Google Job" ? Is this one Okay?

Regards,

Jim

[shing]

Hello Jim,
I've also been wondering about My Google Job as they have asked me to advertise on my site.
My internet has been down today. I'm anxious to put one of the new TOPS banners on my site! Thanks for all you do!

Shawna

[Sandi Moses]

shing said:

Hello Jim,
I've also been wondering about My Google Job as they have asked me to advertise on my site.
My internet has been down today. I'm anxious to put one of the new TOPS banners on my site! Thanks for all you do!

Shawna

This is definitely a different person with this product, but it may or may not have its own issues. Most businesses ~ with the notable exception of those run by work-at-home moms ~ do not hide their domain name registration info unless they are also hiding something else or just plain hiding, period. Even work-at-home moms can use P O Boxes or Private Mail Boxes as their address of record so as to not reveal where they live to every pervert on the internet who cares to look. But the owner of My Google Job reveals nothing about location or name or anything else.

But just like with other products, unless you know of a specific reason not to sell it, why not?

Sandi

[Lori G.]

Hi Sandi,

Is Google Ca$h Machine the same as Google Cash, do you know? I have an ad for Google Cash by Chris Carpenter on my site, but if this is the same one that you are referring to, I want to take it off.

Lori

[Sandi Moses]

lori said:

Hi Sandi,

Is Google Ca$h Machine the same as Google Cash, do you know? I have an ad for Google Cash by Chris Carpenter on my site, but if this is the same one that you are referring to, I want to take it off.

Lori

Not the same. Chris Carpenter has been around for years and is OK. I think I may even have his e-book around here somewhere!

Sandi

[troyzone]

b123home said:

This is definitely a different person with this product, but it may or may not have its own issues. Most businesses ~ with the notable exception of those run by work-at-home moms ~ do not hide their domain name registration info unless they are also hiding something else or just plain hiding, period. Even work-at-home moms can use P O Boxes or Private Mail Boxes as their address of record so as to not reveal where they live to every pervert on the internet who cares to look. But the owner of My Google Job reveals nothing about location or name or anything else.

But just like with other products, unless you know of a specific reason not to sell it, why not?

Sandi

Is hiding your domain contact info considered to be a bad thing? If it is an Internet convention to always show your valid contact info for a domain then I wasn't aware of it. I'm rather curious now if this is the case, as I haven't really heard one way or the other thus far.

Most of us here are using iPower as our web host and domain name registrar, and they have a "whois privacy" feature that lets them mask your whois contact info for your domain. Since the feature was included for free and wasn't a big deal to enable, I did so when I set up my account with them a few months ago, as I've had spammers and other such unscrupulous individuals contact me via my whois info in the past.

I would imagine that I'm not the only one who enabled this free feature, so now I'm curious as to whether protecting one's whois contact info is an Internet no-no or if it's not a big deal either way.

I can't see it being a really big deal, at least in terms of our bottom lines...the average person looking for work at home opportunities isn't going to do a whois lookup of every site they visit, and many people may in fact not even know what whois is or how to use it. But that's just my opinion...it's hard to say for certain in any case.

Troy

[Sandi Moses]

People hide their info for all sorts of reasons ~ including privacy, security, paranoia, etc. Personally with all the weirdos and perverts in the world and the world getting worse day by day, it only makes sense to not post your home address. You just never know.

Unfortunately, it's a feature taken advantage of by spammers, scammers, and other low-life scum who get shut down only to re-emerge later anonymously to pick up where they left off, and that is why some people look on webmaster anonymity as being potentially a red flag "scam" warning.

While I can certainly understand where they are coming from, I used my Post Office Box as the address of record in both domain registration and autoresponder footer unsubscribe info. I don't want my home address available "all over the internet" and I don't look suspiciously at others who take steps to protect their privacy and security unless there are other reasons to do so.

If you have taken advantage of iPower's offer, I would leave it that way. I think personally the benefits outweigh the risks.

Sandi

[troyzone]

I agree Sandi. There are pros and cons to everything. While it may be preferable to have one's full contact info available in their domain whois record, I also think the benefits of iPower's whois privacy feature outweighs the risk of the occasional person actually checking the whois record and raising an eyebrow at the anonymity. Thanks for the feedback Sandi.

Troy

[futureadvantage]

It has been a year or so back, but at that time one affiliate program had all sorts of ways to capture, find and harvest email addresses. I do not believe they are around anymore, but the type program they ran I am sure is. I ran across one recently, that promotes their program as a way to get listed free on the PPC searchs. with some research, really all they were offering was a "new wrapper" on automated to FFA pages, and we all know what that gets us....a mailbox full of someone elses offers. We alway need to be careful of what and how we post, etc. (that is my 2 cents worth)

Michael