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Google is out to warn all of us not to fall for scams that use Google’s logo and trademark to promote something that is too good to be true such as working at home with Google and make almost a $1000 a day.  I have seen some of those malicious campaigns online through either my web surfing or receiving spams in my inbox.  Even though Google is so well known, because almost everyone I know is using Google for search if not something else (i.e., map, voice mail, etc…); still, there are people who have been the casualties of scams illegitimately using Google’s brand.  Perhaps, the people who are the victims of such scams didn’t check out the available programs on official websites from Google?  I could be wrong, there is only one program I know of from Google that could help you make some extra cash, which is Adsense.  Then again, it’s unlikely that you could make $1000 a day using Google’s Adsense unless you have a website with amazing web traffic.

Google and all other well known websites will not be able to get rid of scams in the names of theirs completely, but one certain thing is that we can prevent ourselves from being the easy targets by not hurriedly accepting too good to be true offers over the web or off the web even though the offers are in the names of the prestigious brands.

How can you distinct a scam from a real offer?  In my opinion, when an offer is asking you to pay up no matter how small an amount of money to be asked of, it’s a sign of danger and need to be cautiously about.  Other stealthier methods are offering you something too good to be true, but you have to provide personal information such as email address and home address and phone numbers and your full name and more over the web.  Scams like these are not that modern, but the tools are.  Then again, the tools we have today are very helpful for us to fight scams like these, but we have to use the tools correctly to save ourselves.  For an example, we can use search engines to research on an offer that seems too good to be true.  With the capabilities of sending out massive repeatable campaigns of scams through email as spams and spamming the social networks with malicious advertisements that look legitimate, unless you are on guard all the time, sometimes one or two scams from con artists have the ability to catch you off guard.

I’m glad to see Google is actively going after malicious individuals and groups and try to stop them from carrying on theirs’ fake legitimate promises through Google’s logo and trademark.  Google reveals that it is actively seeking lawsuits against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants.  To be practical, I won’t be expecting to see con artists run away in trembles in fear of Google’s lawsuits; in fact I expect to see more of the same — that’s more of scams in the name of Google.  Other well known brands are definitely facing the same music.  Straying off this topic just a tad, I think Microsoft’s Windows 7 will be hot for con artists to milk load of money out from uninformed Windows users.