The Internet Profit House Review- Can You Smell Scam?

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The internet profit house was a scam website that operated in 2009 and 2010. Their website was www.theinternetprofithouse.com, although the website no longer exists. The Internet Profit House offered users the chance to work from home ‘posting links on Google’, with users supposedly earning $25 per link posted. The Internet Profit House would offer their starter pack for a price of around two dollars to cover shipping and handling fees from posting the physical started pack. Once users handed over their credit card details, The Internet Profit House would bill the card between $60 and $70 per month indefinitely. No ‘starter packs’ were ever received by anyone.

How They Got Exposure

The Internet Profit House derived most of their traffic from a feature article that appeared on many home based business websites. This article features a woman named Mary Steadman, who was supposedly using the course offered by The Internet Profit House to make an income by simply posting links on Google. Mary supposedly earned $25 for each link that she posted.

The Internet Profit House website appeared to be legitimate, displaying several business ‘trust marks’ which were not actually affiliated with The Internet Profit House and did not endorse the business in any way. The website offered users a ‘Google kit’ which would allow them to generate an income of $200 to $900 per day. The website also included a countdown timer, supposedly giving the user five minutes to sign up, otherwise the offer would expire. In reality, when the countdown reached zero, nothing would happen.

How People Would Get Scammed

Users who signed up would be charged the initial $1.97 for shipping and handling of their Google kit, however the small print of the website stated that users would have a seven day trial period (later shortened to five days) to opt out, otherwise they would be charged $60-$70 per month for access to their money making Google kit. Presumably, The Internet Profit House hoped that users would not notice the monthly charge, as they were not expecting it. In many cases, this turned out to be true.

The Internet Profit House did provide a customer support number. Users who called this number would be told that they were not entitled to any form of refund. After some arguing, customers would often be offered a partial refund. Presumably, The Internet Profit House hoped that their customers would take the partial refund and vanish, leaving them still in possession of a large sum of money that they were not entitled to.

Banks and other credit card issuers recognized The Internet Profit House as a scam, and cooperated with those who had been scammed to get their money back. However The Internet Profit House was listed as a business in Cyprus, making it difficult for credit card issuers to enforce a reversal of payment order.

Watch Out For Existing Scams

Prior to operating as The Internet Profit House, this scam was run under the name ‘My Online Cash Secrets’, which was also registered in Cyprus. The small print for the terms and conditions of The Internet Profit House still referred to the business as ‘My Online Cash Secrets’ in places, and this was one of many business names that would show up for the monthly charge on the credit card bills of those who had been scammed by The Internet Profit House.