The cash vendor scam thecashvendor.com

The Cash Vendor scam thecashvendor.com

We find out if the Cash Vendor by Rick Thomas is a scam or not.

First of all, let me tell you that I’m not a particular fan of these big product launches.  I get flooded with emails in my inbox with affiliates hyping up the next big launch.  Every week, some guru tells me “this is the next big thing, don’t miss out or you’ll regret it forever!”

The cash vendor is being promoted as the “biggest launch of the decade” with the prelaunch starting from June 22 2010 and official launch day of June 29 2010.  That means during the run up to the launch day, you’ll have probably been receiving promotional emails from an internet marketer.

As of writing this post, and finding out if this is a scam, this is what we’ve found so far:

Rick Thomas previously sold a product called “30 day wealth system” which is now promoted as Paidresearchprogram.com which is about creating products and selling them on affiliate networks such as Clickbank.

The Cash Vendor is also about creating products to sell on clickbank etc too.  So what’s the difference?

Paidresearchprogram contains modules on how to choose a niche, how to do the research on the niche and how to create an ebook.  This is followed by how to create a website with an opt in form and sales copy to promote your book as well as how to place the ebook on affiliate market places like paydotcom then get affiliates to promote the ebook for you.

The Cash Vendor covers the same topics but is designed as a membership program rather than a one off course, so this should mean more up to date information and hopefully good support.

Producing your own products is always the way to go if you’re serious about building a real business online.  If you look at the “gurus” they all have their own products and promote other people’s products too.

So in this case, the essence of what the cash vendor is teaching we do agree with.  Whether or not the quality of the training is any good is the unknown at this point.  But if you want to get started and make money as a vendor, getting other people to promote your products for you rather than promoting other people’s products as your main source of income then this might be worth a try.  The good thing is you can always get a refund easily as you’re buying through Clickbank.

If anyone has joined the cash vendor, please let us know what you think of it and how you’re getting on with it.

Reviewthemarket.net scam review

Reviewthemarket.net often comes up in PPC searches.

This site claims to review ways to make money online and shows you the real deal from the scams.

If you noticed the  web design, it does look rather amateurish.

Well lets not judge a book by it’s cover.  Lets continue to see what it has to offer.

The first recommendation is a gambling system.  Here we go again.  Online roulette double or quits method that every other casino affiliate seems to promote.

If you have not come across this yet, it’s basically a bait that is an explanation of how you can “beat the system” in online casinos to make money.  Play on roulette and double up everytime you lose then stop once you make your money back (and the initial bet).

By explaining this, people get enticed into playing this online casino cheat and join up to the recommended online casinos.  The webmaster then gets an affiliate commission for getting someone to sign up.

Is this your idea of making money online?

Another recommendation is for a product called Highestpaysurveys.com

This costs $49 and let me tell you now - DO NOT BUY.  For $49 all you basically get is a list of survey sites.  Not only that, some of them don’t even pay!  You could get this list free or for about $5.

On their sales page it says: “Some of our members participate in surveys to make an extra $100-$500 a month to cover the cost of a vacation or new car payment. Other people spend more time and earn enough to generate a full time income.”

I’m going to tell you now that it is very unlikely you are going to get anywhere close to $500 per month nevermind a full time income.

So this is the conclusion.  Reviewthemarket.net is dressed up as a “review” site yet the products they recommend are dubious.  It’s more likely that this site was simply put together by a person and simply added some affiliate products they could promote without even really testing any of the products first.

This so called review site is not what I call a useful site.  I would be very careful about purchasing any of the recommended products.

If you don’t want to get scammed and find out how the experts are making real incomes, read here.

Lifepath Unlimited Scam Review

I came across Lifepath Unlimited via a PPC ad.

I won’t explixitly mention the name of the ad except it contains some long sales pages with some videos.

Why the long sales pages?  Because it takes a lot of effort to convince people to join this company and they are trying to sell you the dream of financial freedom etc.

Is this a scam?  The company legally speaking in itself most probably is legit.  But why does it attract so many complaints?

Here are a couple of things I found.

A common complaint is made against a guy named Jim Rivas.  You can read the full report if you’re particularly interested in the details.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/278/RipOff0278036.htm

The situation is that this company claims it is not a MLM, but the way it operates have similarities to a MLM.  i.e. the more people you recruit, you then get a share of the profits that your recruits make.  i.e the “compensation plan”.

In this instance, Jim Rivas was one of the people higher up in the chain or was a “sponsor” but unfortunately just ripped people off instead, keeping the best performers to himself etc etc.  So it means that when you join Lifepath Unlimited, you could get burnt if you get a dodgy person who recruited you.

The second point I’d like to make is the content and price of the products.

What this company is selling is essentially self help books, CDs, DVDs and seminars.  e.g. Law of attraction, wealth mastery etc

All fair and well, but have you seen the prices?  One of their premium products:  A five day conference with meals and board included $15,000!

Seriously, even Tony Robbins ain’t near that scale.

So let me conclude.  If you want to join lifeplan unlimited, you need have a start up budget of $2000.  This was what was recommended by Shultzlpu’s blog.

After that, assuming your sponsor isn’t a scam artist (cos you never know who it could be right?)  you need to start selling stuff like crazy to make any money and recuit more people.

I don’t know about you but I think there are much more better ways to make money online without associating yourself with these types of companies.

If you want to make money in a way that you can be comfortable with and is truly a simple method i.e don’t need to recruit people etc, try not to fall for the scams.  Learn more here.

Underground Cash Secret Scam

Underground cash secret is a scam.  Stay well clear.

It is run by a guy with the name Michael Vincent.  I’ve already mentioned this scam on a previous post in passing but thought it needed it’s own post.

I’ve seen the phoney reviews but I’ve also come across the many victims of the underground cash secret program.

Latest figures from Quantcast show approx 137, ooo visitors a month to the site.  That is already the lower end of the scale.  In November 2008 that figure was more like 500,000 a month.  Yes half a million visitors.  Even if you assume a conversion rate of 1%, that means thousands of people have paid for this.  Paid and got scammed.

So what’s the problem?
First of all, they sell you the product itself, then after wards, they try to sell you some more things which they say you need for you to make money.  If you follow me.  When you try to click away, they reduce the price etc etc.  I’m not going into the details as you can see the experiences of other people on forums etc.

Ok, fair enough, they do some “back door” selling, so whats so bad about that?

Here comes the real scam.  They actually call people up after wards!

Yes they call you up and sweet talk you or hard sell (however you want to put it) and promise you they will help you set up your system and that they will even pay to help you set the system up………..

Of course then all they need is to take your credit card details to take a “deposit”.  There has been an incident lately of a guy who just lost $5000 to them.  No joke.  It’s been reported by a guy from Singapore.  He hasn’t been able to get his money back or contact with anyone.

Can you believe these kind of things are still happening in this day and age.

If someone calls you up promising to show you how you can make money, run a mile.  There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Stay safe, learn how to avoid the scams.

Scamxposer Review

Today we look at scamxposer.com

We review scamxposer and see if it is a scam reviewing scams if you know what I mean.

This site gets about 9 to 10k of traffic per month and has been around for a few years now, so it’s doing well in terms of visibility.  It’s also a PR3 site, so not bad for a scam review site.

I checked to see how good the reviews were and I actually did find some reviews in there.  Not all sites listed are reviewed but some are.

During my time before I “made it”, I did get scammed by a program called “Currency Exhange Profits”.  I invested over $500 into the scheme and have never seen that money again, let alone any profits.  Scamxposer has a review on this scam and has told people to stay away.  So thumbs up for helping others out there.

This site obviously lists the scams to avoid but also recommends some programs.  The comment I want to make is even though programs are recommended, you still need to keep your head on.  Don’t spend money you can’t afford and make sure it seems realistic enough.  After all, the scamxposer.com website makes money as a “recommender” of products by being an affiliate, so could there be some bias when recommending programs?  I’ll let you think for yourself.

All in all, I find the site is useful with the list of scams to avoid.  If anyone has had any bad experiences with this site, please leave a comment and share with others.

If you want to avoid the scams and learn how the experts make money read here.

Legitimatebusinessreviews.com scam

Today I reseached legitimatebusinessreviews.com and checked my scam o meter.

Again, this is another make money online review site with some clever webcopy to tell people not to buy $97 or $49 ebooks etc.

It goes on to recommend some affiliate programs for you to buy.

This in itself does not make legitimatebusinessreviews.com a scam but the problem here is that the first program it promotes is a program called “Underground Cash Secrets” by Michael Vincent.

I looked into this program and apart from the phoney review sites made by affiliates, I have had nothing but bad news about this.

First of all, it appears that if you want to get a refund (like it promises on the site), you will not be able to get one - or at least it would be very very difficult and troublesome.

Secondly, it doesn’t seem to deliver what it says it does and infact many people have reported that they just try to sell you more stuff in order for you to learn how to make money!

Back to the main point.

How can you trust any kind of review site?  Who can you trust?  Maybe it’s an impossible question to answer but here are some tips to keep you sharp:

1)  If a review site is being promoted using PPC (pay per click) on google, msn, yahoo or any other search engine.  It means the webmaster is paying for you to click on the site.  Why are they paying for you to click?  Any chance that they are hoping they will make their money back by selling you something?  Think about it.  It’s not rocket science right?

2)  Most webcopy is designed to appeal to emotions.  The writer has done so in a way to persuade you to something.  In this case, it is to lead you to buy “Underground cash secrets” or some other recommended products.

For those of you who are smart enough to have researched legitimatebusinessreviews.com before spending more money, well done, give yourself a pat on the back.

Learn how people really make online incomes here.

Fast-cash-system.com scam

We have found Fast-cash-system.com a site that features as the top sponsor on Googles PPC (pay per click) ads when you type in “make money fast” or something similar.

When you come across a site such as fast-cash-system.com that offers to show you how to make money quickly, surely you’re thinking to yourself “well what’s the catch?”

Here’s what I discovered.

Firstly, this is a paid advertisement, therefore the webmaster is investing money in it hoping to make some money in return.  So how does he (or she) do that?

Simply, this webmaster and also alot of similar sites like this make money by acting as an affiliate by introducing you to online casinos.  The point is that you click on their link and when you sign up to the online casino, they make a commission.

Secondly, the bait or attention tool they employ is the promise of “make £300 within 15 minutes of joining” and this is simply a doubling up bets system for roulette so that you never lose your capital.  As good as it sounds, it means you have to spend alot of time clicking away all day and also hope you don’t get caught in the act by the casinos.

In a nutshell, though fast-cash-system.com is not a “scam” as such, is this how you really want to make some money?  Use a system to beat an online casino (which you would be thrown out of in a real life casino).

If this is your idea of making money online then I’m not going to stop you, but if you want to make money online in a way that is building a concrete income, based on sound principles, giving value and offer something that does help other people, then there are much better ways to do it.

Just don’t caught up in fast money promises.  Read here to find out how the experts make real incomes and avoid the scams.

proconsumerguides.org review

Here we look at ProConsumerGuides.org

I decided to do a proconsumerguides review to find out what it’s really all about.

First impressions give you a professional look, with a clean, gray layout.  Almost like a healthcare/accountancy firm site.  It even has tabs along the top which show you some photos of “reviewers”

The actual content is interesting as when you begin the first few paragraphs, it does sound quite neutral talking about online make money online programs.

You will notice that as you read on, it claims that they have tried out various programs but found that most of them were scams.

When you get to the end, they reveal to you the program they found to “really work” and introduce you to Profit Lance as well as another program.

As someone who has been in internet marketing for a while, it is easy to spot the intention behind this “consumer guide” site.  It is obvious that this is an affiliate marketer using this method to produce sales.

These are some hallmarks:

1)  This site is promoted using PPC.  Therfore the webmaster is paying for people to click on the site.  i.e. advertising.  People only ever pay for advertising for one sole purpose - to make money in return.

2) The recommended program is an affiliate link so the webmaster makes a cut of everysale of Profit Lance through this link.

The point I’m making here is not to critisize the affiliate or Profit Lance.  What you need to consider whenever you read recommendations is how genuine is the opinion.

If someone is making a review site, making it look good and paying for advertising to get a return on money, can you trust the “review” fully?

Please be smart.  Learn the smart way read my report here.

The Web Reviewer Review!

To see the full report on how to make money online without getting scammed click here.

Today I came across Matthew Bredel’s The Web Reviewer website.

First impressions were good.  Its not a fancy site.  But simple and straightforward with a good header menu bar and left side bar.

This site is marketed as a “review site” meaning he reviews products relating to the make money online niche.

If any one out here who is learning how to make money online then this site has some good elements you can learn from.

Firstly, the site has an email opt in facility so an email list can be grown.  As they say in internet marketing “the money is in the list”.  What is particularly special about the approach though is that not only does the site offer an incentive for you to sign up e.g. the free ebooks etc, but also by using the quiz format, it encourages the visitor participation.  This is a recent method adopted by martketers to enocurage more participation and therefore likelyhood of a sign up.

Secondly, the site reviews products.  The webmaster appears to be honest about his opinions here and so recommends the products he thinks are the best.  That in itself is fine, but just remember what I have talked about before in my other posts:  People reviewing products then giving a recommendation are usually doing so in the hope that you click on their affiliate link to make money.

Understanding this principle will help you be aware and discern whether you can trust the review fully and remind yourself of the possible scams that are around out there.

Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it might well be.

Final note.  If you can’t afford to pay for the product that promises to make you tons of money in your first week etc etc, don’t spend your money.  Spend only what you can afford.  There are plenty of ways to learn how to make money for anyones budget including free!

Learn how to make money online without being scammed here.

Best of luck to you!

scambusters org review

Have you come across scambusters.org?

It’s a website owned by Dr Audri Lanford which boasts a weekly newsletter and says it is the “#1 Internet publication on internet fraud.”

My research indicates that it has approximately 41k traffic a month, so obviously a significant number of visitors.

One of the reasons I am reviewing scambusters.org is that we essentially share a similar perspective in that we aim to help people avoid being scammed.  This is certainly a good cause.

The site itself contains alot of different topics which include identity theft, phishing, viruses, credit card fraud and so on.  It does seem to be quite an established site with lots of topics on.

One of the pros of the site is that there is alot of content and seems to be kept reasonably up to date with good all round tips for the public on scams in general.

One of the cons is the navigation.  It can seem a little cluttered and scattered so making it difficult to read and has advertisements dotted around.

All in all a useful site to read on your lunch break etc.

If you are specifically looking at ways to make money online but want to avoid the scams, you may want to read the dedicated report here

Good luck and avoid the scammers!