I usually ignore make money working-from-home spam email but since it had the Google name on it and extra money would be useful these days I clicked on this one. It looked like I would receive a kit for free and all I would need to pay was $3.88 for shipping & handling. I paid with my bank debit card. This was the evening of December 3, 2008. Today (December 10th) I just happened to check my account on-line and noticed a pending charge of $72.21 from Google Money Tree and also the cleared charge of $3.88 with a phone number included. I called that number which is a third party agency and they explained that the $72.21 monthly charge was noted in the terms and conditions which I agreed to. I told them their website was very deceptive and I did not notice that charge. They told me they could not refund the $72.21 because I agreed to the terms and I had seven days to cancel. I said first of all I never even received the kit and secondly, seven days from December 3rd is the 10th so I was within the seven days to cancel. She said the first day was the 3rd since I received the user id to access the website. I had her read me the terms & conditions and that was not specified. I've since noticed many complaint sites on the web regarding this scam.
Annamarie Buscemi
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