Boston Tribune News - Yet Another Internet Marketing Scam

I had a real hard time trying to decide whether or not I should post this. On one hand I don’t want anyone to accidentally click or Google these terms and get rooked into their scam. On the other hand I figured I might as well try and warn people.

So here is the gist of this article if you have a short attention span …

Boston Tribune News is not a real news agency of any kind. The website address is a neatly disguised landing page for an “information product” for sale called Google Fast Cash. But that’s not the disgusting part.

My wife somehow stumbled across this page that had erroneously been indexed by Google News. She knows I’m interested in Internet Marketing to a certain degree and thought she’d send me the article. I won’t link to their page but below is a snapshot of the header.

You’ll notice that the fine print does state that the page is an advertisement. The entire page is a pretty nifty replica of an online newspaper site.

If you do click on just about any of the several dozen links on the page you’ll be directed to another landing page that will spin tales of the thousands of dollars a month you can make by “posting links on Google”. They sell you their product for a $1.95 “shipping and handling” fee which even though it’s bogus isn’t all that harmful. The kicker is that unless you read the Terms at the bottom of the page you don’t find out that it will charge a monthly recurring $80+ fee to your credit card.

So this is just a friendly reminder to all of you who may have any interest in Internet Marketing. There are a great deal of devious people out there willing to take your money. I have no doubts that if this organization is smart enough they’ll find my this article soon and issue me a cease and desist order to take down my article.

I’ll probably comply as I’ve got no real desire to get into a legal battle. But if this saves a few people from loosing $80, it was worth the trouble to post it for a few days :)