Monday in Federal Court Google filed lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks for trademark infringement and dilution, unfair competition, federal cyber piracy and violation of consumer sales practices. This lawsuit can be amended as well to include more defendants as they are uncovered.
Google’s lawsuit says it is an action to seek an end to widespread internet advertising scams that is defrauding the public by misusing the Google brand. These scams are urging customers to get a kit supposedly showing them how to make money with Google from home. One of the scams is the Google Adwork program that does not even exist, but Pacific WebWorks will sell it to you and tell you how to use it.
This is the same scams we have worked to uncover where they will charge you a small fee to “get you started” (shipping and handling) and then charge you behind the scenes every month $50 bucks or more from various other companies. These scams are very hard to get out of for the consumer and wreak havoc against personal finances.
Google claims that Pacific WebWorks are part of a network that reuses web sites and shares tools to perpetuate the scams with very little effort. The same templates are used to generate fake blogs, news stories and are already customized to include the location of the customers. We have went over this already a long time ago, what is taking Google so long to catch up?
There are numerous affiliates but Pacific WebWorks is believed to be one of the main operators behind many of the schemes, said Jason Morrison, a search quality engineer at Google.
“These scams play upon some powerful methods of persuasion. Not just by using Google’s logo, but we often see ‘as seen on CNN, Fox News and ABC,’” he said in an interview. “I don’t know if people understand how easy it is to copy an image file on a Web page. They also try to use social proof by creating a fake blog, with a photo of the blogger from his wedding, the new car he bought, and explaining how he lost his job. They go to great lengths to string people along.”
Google is going to remove the fraudulent ads from its network and try to keep them from popping back up. You should research everything before you sign up. You can find more information on Google’s blog post
Last month a class action suit was filed against Pacific WebWorks in Illinois by Barbara Ford so the legal departments for the scammers are getting very busy, with these two lawsuits and the dazzlesmile lawsuit are just loading up lawyers.
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Anthony Morrison Profits From Home is a scam.. For some reason cant cancel order. Or wont let me. How do i cancel also particapate in lawsuit, if possible.