Comments on: Google Scams are Evolving

By: Raja

Raja — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:40:52 +0000

Steve,
Thanks for updating me about this scam web site.Please, keep me posted about genuine “Telecommute work” info.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:41:49 +0000

Prosper university in concert with twitter is a scam. By paying for the cd at 3.98 you agree to be charged 49.98 per month. This is not spelled out in the offer but when your bank account gets hit you’ll be pissed off. Cancel this backdoor operation immediatly.

By: Mina

Mina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:37:14 +0000

I guess I got duped… I signed for twitter cash and I opened my e-mail and found 93 new e-mails all seem like spam. I do not want to send spam nor receive it. What should I do beside calling the number provided to cancel?
Thanks

By: Dree

Dree — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:22:16 +0000

You are right Deborah, I do believe that there are legitimate ways to make money on twitter. However, in my opinion, when an opportunity is too-good to-be-true, probably 7 out of 10 of them are scams.

I noticed that Steve has other entries on his interview with the founder of Twitter Cash. Will definitely follow up on that!

Steve, you just found yourself another loyal follower =)

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:40:29 +0000

Dre,
You are very fortunate to have found Steve’s “I’ve tried It” blog. I worry that Steve is so honest and provides incredible information that I don’t want him to stop! Again–I am not against people who see an opportunity to make money on twitter–it just my opion that I use twitter for polictics, news, and discussions. I am by no means critical of how others see twitter this is really just my opinion. If people can make money on twitter then by all means pursue it. In the meantime just check with Steve’s blog first!

By: Dree

Dree — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:05:40 +0000

Thanks for the write up Steve, I am new to twitter and was curious when I received twits that people were earning big bucks on twitter and decided to follow the link that was posted and I stumbled upon the twitter cash website. You get so much money just buy paying $49? Sounded too good to be true. I Googled it and it led me to your blog. I think you have some great stuff here!

Deborah, thanks for your insight as well. I also did the IQ test thing on fb as well and to my surprise at the end of it, i was asked to key in my mobile number. I left without obtaining my IQ score and also without leaving my number. I still have fb to stay in touch with my friends.

By: Deborah Linsley

Deborah Linsley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:01:19 +0000

First of all thank you again Steve for continuing to advise your loyal readers of the newest work at home scams, unethical promises and how to get your money back should you ever have a brain lapse and give out your credit card information. I especially appreciate the offers you have made recently to set up blogs or submit ideas.
I wanted to respond to today’s email regarding Twitter and people trying to make money through this media. Overall I find the quality of people that use twitter are serious about their use of twitter and see it more than that a social networking site but a place to interact in short tweets, post articles of interest with appropriate hash tags and do not want to be bombarded with “how to make a million a day” tweeters. I am actually irritated when I received a marketing link in a tweet. I have to admit that I saw no use to FaceBook or Myspace except a waste of time. If I may digress for a minute, I would like to just add one thing about FB. I read the full TOS when they were placed on the defensive for changing their TOS to include the fact that they own any and all information that is placed on their site. Even after FB made a big deal about returning to their original TOS and no matter what FB publicly states, they still own your information–they can sugar coat legalese but I understand legalese. The other thing to beware of on FB is when you are so called “challenged” or intimidated by your friends to take the IQ test or any of the others that appear to be legitimate, if you took the time to read the fine print and take the test you will find that by taking the test, providing your cell phone number for your results, that you have just authorized this service to now charge your cell phone bill $9.99 a month. Note that you will then get some random texts that for me did not make sense, such as poll questions or stupid opinion questions. I was not able to connect the dots at first until I received my cell phone bill and then the light bulb went off. When I investigated I discovered what they were doing and after contacting Sprint who has been my carrier for years (loyalty counts in customer service) I had two months of these charges reversed and a block placed on my phone. I canceled FB immediately. But twitter was instantly addicting to me and a great tool. I am very political and it is quick, instantaneous and amazing the information that can be decimated in seconds around the world. I knew the scams would come and some advice for those using twitter–you don’t have to follow everyone or allow them to follow you–please fee free to use the block key. very liberally. lf I happen to get one of those marketing tweets the sender is put on an immediate block. I use twitter for information and interaction with other tweeple of similar political mind sets–but if I get burned out on politics and news I use a different hash tag and I am off to the world of classical music or art. Two things I depend on daily–Twitter and FeedDemon–quick, easy and on point. I have “I’ve Tried That” in my RSS Feeds but I still like getting the daily email.

Obviously I do not know the meaning of concise and am working on an idea for a blog–maybe that is my next calling!!

Thanks to all at I’ve Tried That–great work!
Deborah

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:15:07 +0000

I wouldn’t think that Twitter itself would be a viable source of actual income — maybe if they had something similar to Adsense to put on a person’s homepage, then it would be possible. If nothing else, Twitter is an amazing way to draw immense (free) traffic to a website: in less than a week I’ve gotten over 600 followers using one very simple strategy. I set up a responder to automatically send a message when a person follows me, and it includes a link to an affiliate offer. In that short timeframe I’ve gotten over 100 clicks that I know are directly from Twitter. Any marketers that aren’t using Twitter should get on board!