I ran across 24 Hour Cash Connection when I was reviewing the sales process just notified that another product called Home Income Surge was currently operating under the name of Home Working Connection. Site looks just like the Home Working Connection site and has some of the same issues.
All The Usual Red Flags
Most of the usual red flags are at 24HourCashConnection.com. The pricing information is more visible on this new site as compared to the previous one (HomeworkingConnection.com). The pricing information at the 24HourConnection site which you can see below the arrow on the order page is:
“To access your website, a nominal charge of $1.95 USD is needed for us to know that you are a real person. Upon payment, you’ll receive instant access to your very own website for a 5-day trial-enrollment. After your trial-enrollment expires, in order to keep your website active and available on the internet, you agree that your card will be charged $29.95 per month for hosting and maintenance. There are no hidden fees and no long-term contracts. You may cancel anytime simply by calling our office toll-free at (888) 613-2498.”
Of course, if you don’t keep your website “active” then you’re out of luck. But more importantly why would anybody pay $29.95 to keep a website active when you can keep a great number of websites access for as little as $10/month?
Of course there’s the mandatory fake countdown timer which you can reset by simply refreshing your browser. While a fake countdown timer is sometimes considered a minor red flag, when you combine it with all of the other red flags at the site it’s an important reason to avoid the site. It’s something that the FTC often brings up when they are investigating fraudulent home business offers.
Strange Testimonials – Stranger Disclaimers
There are two testimonials on the order page: One from “Barry M.” claiming he made $120,000 in his first six months. The second from “Marybeth W.” claiming she made $10,000 within her first 3 months. Just like their other scam, apparently this new one didn’t “get the memo” from the FTC about use of testimonials which states:
“The use of a disclaimer such as “results not typical” is no longer a safe harbor for the claims made in testimonials. Third, while you may use atypical or best-case testimonials, if you do, you should clearly and conspicuously disclose the generally expected results consumers can expect in the depicted circumstances.”
- Clarification of the long-standing principle that “material connections” (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed.”
- Disallowing advertisers to simply use the disclaimer “results not typical” when including testimonials. According to the FTC, “Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers can generally expect.”
What’s even strangers is that the front page and order page of 24 Hour Cash Connection there’s a disclaimer which says:
“Photos used in this advertisement are not of the actual testimonial individuals and personal earnings claims of any type are strictly against our policy.”
Can someone explain to me how a company that has earnings claims can seriously claim that personal earnings claims are against their own policy?
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Home Working Connection Review Of Red Flags
I was just notified that another product called Home Income Surge is now operating under the name of Home Working Connection. The following video would seem to indicate that as well:
Most of the usual red flags are here at Home Working Connection, such as the arrow pointing to the order form “above the fold” of many browser, with the pricing information underneat the arrow. By the way, if you missed the pricing information at the HomeWorkingConnection.com site, it was as follows:
Of course there’s the mandatory fake countdown timer Home Working Connection which you can reset by simply refreshing your browser.
There is currently another site called Online Profit Masters that appears to be somehow connected to HomeWorkingConnection.
There are two testimonials on the front page:
One from “Barry M.” claiming he made $120,000 in his first six months. The second from “Marybeth W.” claiming she made $10,000 within her first 3 months.
Apparently HomeWorkingConnection.com didn’t “get the memo” from the FTC about user of testimonials which states:
What’s even more bizarre is that HomeWorkingConnection states on the page where they PUT those testimonials:
So, if “earnings claims of any type are strictly against” policy…then why are they DIRECTLY on the page where HomeWorkingConnection.com has that disclaimer?
And why is that verbiage in brown print on a brown background which you can see below:
Home Working Connection brown on brown disclaimer
Here’s that same text highlighted:
HomeWorkingConnection.com highlighted disclaimer
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