AOL News recently had an article on an easy way to make money from home using the internet. They interviewed a woman who used the (1) Cash Secret Club (cashsecret.com) and (2) Twitter Profit House (twitterprofithouse.come), and also insisted that profits would only be made using both of these websites. Neither one of these programs is honest. Both say they will charge you less than $2 and (1) send you a kit or (2) give you access to a website that will assist you in your profiting endeavors. What neither of them say is that they are both only 7 day trials and will begin to charge you (1) $81.32 or (2) $99.99 after that time. In addition, they share your contact information with other companies and automatically sign you up for other scam programs.
In addition, when attempting to use the "Contact Us" link on Cash Secret Club's page, you will be unable to file any sort of complaint because your name "may only contain letters" and if you do that, then your "email contains "invalid characters" such as a number, @ sign, or period. So, you are unable to contact the company this way. The phone number takes you to a person who cancels your account but who cannot refund the charges because they are "unrefundable". As for Twitter Profit House, when you call to cancel, they will send you an email confirming the cancellation and tell you to respond to the email if you want a refund. And the person that emails you will tell you that it was clear on the website, you read the Terms and Conditions, etc.
All in all, it would be nice to see something done about these companies. And AOL should not be endorsing them, either. It lends them a credence they certainly don't deserve. Unfortunately, I don't have the link to the news article I mentioned. It was posted as one of their featured articles at the end of the week of June 8th.
If anyone is going to do anything about this, or has some advice for what I should do, since I definitely want my money back, please let me know.
Katie
Tampa, Florida
U.S.A.