“I actually make $8,000 to $9,000 a month working from home.”
- Kelly Richards
Screen shot TheCNNews.org - Click on image to enlarge
Jennifer Theuriau and James Field, top news anchors of CNNews, report on the CNNews website, “Work At Home Mom Makes $8,795/Month Part-Time.”
In the article they write, “Have You Ever Considered Working Online? Kelly Richards of Griffith, IN never thought that she would, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her three children. I read Kelly’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our weekly consumer report. In our phone interview she told me her amazing story. “I actually make about $8,000-$9,000 a month working from home. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 15-18 hours a week from home.” – Source: CNNews. Copyright 2010 © CNNews. All Rights Reserved.
Well, if CNNews’ top people report about it, it must be true. Right?
The truth is, what we have here is a blatant, if not illegal, attempt to create creditability by copying the CNN logo (not an exact copy, but close enough to violate trademark rights) and impersonating a reliable news source such as CNN. I haven’t investigated whether or not the featured reporters Jennifer Theuriau or James Field actually work for CNN, but I seriously doubt it.
On a side note: Looking at the screen shot of the CNNews website, notice that Kelly Richards, besides living in almost every city all over the United States at the same time (see my articles series about Kelly Richards at Making Money From Home), can also change appearances (Maybe we should tip off the Men in Black that one of their aliens has left New York). The hyperlinks on top of the website (Subscribe, News, Comments, and E-Mail) are not hyperlinks; they’re just plain fake.
Needless to say, the “Online Work at Home Program” including the “Google Profit Library” and the “Web Profit Club” are all scams, and they are defrauding unsuspecting American citizens. The problem is that the service they offer plus their marketing methods, if you ignore the trademark violations, are basically legal. The service they offer (making money through Google AdSense) is legitimate. However, Google AdSense is a free-of-charge service by Google (who is not part of the scam). In other words, there is no need to sign up for a monthly subscription to incorporate Google ads on your website. What the scammers present as the ultimate way of becoming rich, is common knowledge in the Internet community. And yes, you can create income through Google ads, but in all regularity you will not create sufficient income to cover you monthly grocery bill, let alone your mortgage. See also my article Does The Google Adsense Get-Rich-System Work?
For instance, this very website you are looking at received 110,000+ hits last month alone, and it took me a mere 15 months of continuous work to get there. This last month I made less than $20 through Google ads. I have to admit that I should place more ads per page, but my primary purpose of this website is to promote my books.
Chances are, the Google ads you see on this web page are dedicated to other getting-rich scams such as “My Million Dollar Edge,” or others. Do me a favor: Click on these ads! By clicking on the ads you will support me free-of-charge to you, and, at the same time, it will cost the scammers. But please, do not believe what they tell you on their websites! If something sounds too good to be true, it most certainly is.
Last, but not least, I was made aware of the CNNews scam website through a reader’s comment. Please feel free to share your comments by using the comment box below. I’d like to hear from you!
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I found a similar scam involving “Jennifer Theuriau” and “James Field,” though now they seem to be working for a generic News 6 station. I clicked on a link that said “Acai Berry EXPOSED – New York Warning: Health Reporter Discovers The Shocking Truth!” It took me to channel6reports[dot]com/health/?n=189&k=weather and a story that started out about a skeptical reporter who wanted to find out the truth about the Acai berry. The only thing that made me suspicious was that the reporter became way over ecstatic about the acai diet and all the “comments” in the bottom were way too supportive (especially since commenting had been closed, supposedly because of Spam. Ironic, huh?) The top of the screen had the exact same pictures of Jennifer Theuriau and James Field as your article, though with a News 6 logo instead of CNN. Most of the links were either broken or led to other sites. Even a link to “DISCLOSURE” at the bottom was broken, which I thought might explain what I was seeing. There is one line in the fine print that says “This page receives compensation for clicks on or purchase of products featured on this site.” I’m completely dumbfounded. Most people would take this scam at its word and never look into it further. They may possibly buy an Acai berry supplement through a link provided by a site that they think is a legitimate news agancy, but is instead a scam.
Did a reverse ip search on the scam CNN news website (TheCNNews.org) – the owner is hidden using Domains by Proxy of course but they have several other scam websites:
1. secrettransformation[dot]com
2. theunitedstatesjournal[dot]com
3. libraryonthenet[dot]com
4. spybotprofessional[dot]com
5. wbbcjobreport[dot]com
6. stevesonlinejournal[dot]com
7. secretwhiteteethtrick[dot]com
8. menshealth8[dot]com
9. Adamsrippedlog[dot]com
10. Adrianpetersonsworkout[dot]com
11. Bjpennssecretworkout[dot]com
and others..
Promoting teeth whitening scams, acai scams, colon cleanse scams, work at home scams and more…
Thanks for the information, John! I had the impression that these gangsters had more than a few websites, but never looked into it in detail. By the way, I took the liberty of replacing all “.com” with “[dot]com.” Otherwise my website would provide more helpful hyperlinks to their scam websites…;-)
Great information and article.
I came here from blogstorm.com. John who commented above sent me the link to come here.
Have you noticed that the names Kevin Hoeffer and Kelly Richards are often used interchangeably with these scams?
Google Kevin Hoeffer and you will see what I am referring to.
It seems that the people that are behind many of these types of scams are either the same or connected and sharing information.
They are now using Craigslist to email people that are interested in free items and trying to con them into buying into membership programs about learning to make money online by posting ads on Google and other BS.
I too have been scammed by this company, simalar stories as above and they pretty much hide the fact that the 3-day trial starts the moment you pay for shipping on a kit that you never receive. Also, they charge your card $139.95 for a one-time fee after the 3-day trial that they bury in terms & conditions that you can sometimes get to. You think that if it’s sponsored by all the names like CNN, People, MSNBC, etc. that it’s pretty safe, however it’s far from the truth. I don’t understand why they can still be in business and how we can work to stop them in some way. I will try my best to get the story out there in every way I can.. but it doesn’t seem like enough. Thanks!!
Joseph and Elizabeth Bennett
[Street Name Removed - WFV]
Millville, NJ 08332
Date: June 9, 2010
Dear Sir or Madame,
Concerning your article “Acai Berry Diet Exposed”.
This is how the scheme works. It does not matter if the product works if you are not dealing with a reputable company.
My wife ordered a free trial of weight loss products online from (NTR ADVOCOLCS.COM AND NTR ACOPLTIMUMCS.COM) with only shipping charges to be charged to our account. They charged us twice for shipping of ADVOCOLCS. Our order for ADVOCOLCS was canceled by the company without notifying us. The company did credit our account for the two $3.95 charges. We had 14 days to try the products, but we did not receive any trial period samples. The 14 day clock started on the day the orders were placed. The first thing we received was a monthly supply of the ACOPLTIMUMCS and $79.98 was billed to our credit card. We were also charge $4.95 for shipping for the trial period samples, which we did not receive. The bottle of ACOPLTIMUMCS came loose in a sealed shipping box with no paperwork. The bottle was not sealed and the count of capsules in the bottle was 64. The label on the bottle indicated that there should be 60 capsules in the bottle. At this point, we were afraid to try any products from this company.
We tried to cancel the ACOPLTIMUMCS, but they had already shipped the first bottle before we figured out what they were doing and canceled the account. On 06/04/2010 we received two more bottles of ACOPLTIMUMCS. These bottles, unlike the first bottle, were sealed and came with paperwork. On 6/4/2010 I called again and I was informed that I was charge $98.00 for this shipment. During this conversation I was told again that both accounts (ADVOCOLCS AND ACOPLTIMUMCS) were cancelled.
Between the times the products were ordered online and the product was received, there was no time to actually try the product and cancel the account before the 14 days expired. The company canceling the order for the ADVOCOLCS insured that the 14 day trial period would expire before we could actually try the products.
Pretty slick, Huh!
Our credit card company has put all payments to NTR on hold and I have filed a complaint with the NJ Consumer Protection. I will be sending the ACOPLTIMUMCS we received to NJ Consumer Protection for analysis to determine what is actually in the product.
There is more to a product than the product itself.
I am interested in your comments.
Sincerely,
Joseph Bennett
Dear Jennifer, Based on an Internet writeup by “Julia,” who endorsed the Acai Berry pills, I also oredered it. The company charged my credit card $87 even before I received the product, in addition to the initial $3.87. The product contains 200mg coffeine (no wonder people feel energetic after taking it) and I called the company three times, asking to remove the unauthorized charge off my card and cancel my order. They always promise it but no results. This is a scam and I am disappointed that you fell for it.
Thanks Wilfried for posting this information. I too was skeptical and that is how I found your site.
Although it was “Channel 5 Health News”.
I really appreciated John’s comments showing their other scamming sites.
I found your site after googling Jennifer Theuriau and James Field after seeing their names on the acai berry diet “news” site. Needless to say, those people are fictional. So is “Julia”, whose picture I assume is of some other real reporter. All their other sections (U.S., World, Business, Politics, etc.) just link to another site – newsvine[dot]com. The comments are closed “due to spam”. (Ain’t that irony?) And if you read the small print at the bottom of the site, it actually has a disclaimer that amounts to “we have no affiliation to any actual news agency, we made up the story, the people, and the pictures, and we get paid when you click the product links”. Does that really make it legal? Because it sure doesn’t make it right. What really gets me is that the link to that “news story” was on the weather[dot]com website. Do they know what kind of garbage they’re being paid to display?
I fell for an ad for the teeth whitener advertised the same way–as seen on CNN, ABC, etc. They are scammers! I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging my account after I told them I wasn’t interested in receiving their product. I had not even tried it yet and my account was already being charged for about $90.00–not 14 days later!
I think it’s pretty sad when there’s people out there that try to take advantage of people who are trying to better their lives, one way or another. The fact that these scammers are still able to function, just like the website I found today (the acai scam) is even worse. I wish CNN and the other fake news organizations these scammers are using would step up and expose these scams, over and over and over again. Also, why doesn’t the government get involved?? They get involved in other places they shouldn’t, why not now??
These two “news anchors” are fake and scammed me for the “Amy…Mother has found an affordable teeth whitener dentists don’t want you to know about by combining two products you can get for under 5 dollars..” This is BOGUS! They charge you 79 to 90 dollars after 11 days you supposedly get the product. Then they make it impossible to contact them to cancel…the terms of use page claims that both companies can now charge you once a month unless you send the product back…but you CAN’T…I tried to inform these new teams about the scam but News7 does not exist…DONT BE SCAMMED!
I love how their scam advertisement looks at your IP address to make it appear as if the woman who “got rich” from this lives nearby.
I’m in Japan right now so it says “Kelly Richardson, of Tokyo, makes $8000″…..
Lol as if that white woman lived here, and even if she did, the article would at least make some mention as to why she was living in Japan!
My wife told me about a page selling a miricle diet clense. Something didnt seem right, so I searched for these guys name associted with news 7 today. i found your site. Thanks for saving us from a lot of headachs.
Oh no….. Kelly now lives in Everett WA! hehehehe
Just like all of you, I to was scammed July 2010. I found their ste while visiting my HMO site, Kaiser Permanente, for fitness. on the home page was an attched ad for acai weight loss plan … cost of shipping and handling only. next pg CNNews report … looked real to me and believeable
since it was attached to my health care providers web site. so they need credit card # to process for S&H. ENTER IT and click submit. you do that and then after you submit it tells you that $111 s charged to your website but there is a $99.00 rebate, just fill out the forms and attach your charge receipt etc. try and find the rebate form, not easy.
tried to cancel immediately but too late. they are fully automated. they had my money in a flash.
so i meticulously completed the form after recieving the product, then mailed it in. and waited and waited and waited. emailed customer service, got promisesbut nothing happened. at some point in this charade I felt I had to cancel my credit card to protect against further charges. spoke to several of their , 2 promised refund but it never happened. ultimately spoke with a customer service supv … spoke in circles, refuting prior commitments for a refund. round and round. finally they wore me down … they have the $111 and I have a bottle of who knows what.
HUGE RIP OFF LOW LIVES.
I need to go to District Attorney consumers rights office for my county and also the states consumer fraud office. THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED
What a scam. I see that they are being sued by CNN, the real news network. Jennifer Theuriau can shove it.
Thanks for sharing this scam alert, hopefully internet surfer will be more alert and not falling into any of these traps.
I googled this supposed headline from site, australiannewsweekly.com/finance/, as supposedly reported on in various reputable news productions; “Work At Home Mum Makes $7,397/Month Part-Time”, No links were found to any such article in any such news production but this site came in so clicked on it. Many thanks for good exposure of scam,,
To anyone & everyone,, DON’T GO TO THIS SITE. australiannewsweekly.com/finance/ , IT’S A SCAM!
Cheers, Nev
Is anyone else of the opinion that it seems impossible to make a crust working on your pc. Years have past me by in my attempts to succeed but no luck. Maybe it’s just me but it’s hard to give up. I would say the ones raking in the cash are the gurus selling you their information that’s supposed to make you rich online. It will most likely always be the same. Enough said I suppose. Love your website, by the way.
hey…thanks guys ..for proving it out it was a scam….but my family is really in trouble and i really need to earn money …so i would appriciate it if..any of you know..any other means of earning money
I found this site while browsing my net…philippinesnewsweekly[dot]com/finance/…they posted this article “Work At Home Mum Makes $7,397/Month Part-Time” almost the same heading and tile as the other sites promising get-rich-quick-scams…the i tried to search the blog-site of this Alina Cruz…guess what… porn links appeared and the supposed blog-site is non-existent….nada…meanwhile if you clicked the news papers logo you..(hoping that you will be redirected to that particular article as proof in that newspaper…surprise…you will be redirected to this link….join.onlineincomesolution[dot]com/qualified/index-rb.php….as you watch the address bar above you will noticed that its a redirection…)…well if you pay for the suppsoed kit…bam you get ripped off…This site is the same as the ones found by John and Michelle…..
Omg! I was just reading about this mom in mesquite that made all this money and I was searching for the web site to get started cause me and my kids need the money given that we are almost FLAT BROKE and it pulled up this website! Thank you so much for posting this cause suckers like me will fall for these scams and give our last dollar to try and make it in to 2 dollars….
Thanks again,
Heather
I saw a similar article on the internet today. same wording, different name and place. Also, it was featured on a Trinidad Guardian web page. when I tried to source it on Guardian’s website, it didn’t exist
This is the article:
Work At Home Mum Makes $7,397/Month Part-Time
News Weekly Investigates Online Work at Home Programs…
AS SEEN ON:
Sky News, BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times
Melicia Henry makes $260 every day working part-time from home on her computer. Others are even reporting earning as much as $500+ per day from their computers.
Have You Ever Considered Working Online?
Melicia Henry from San Fernando never thought that she would, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family while at home with her three children.
I read Melicia’s blog last month and decided to feature her story in our local job report. In our phone interview she told me her amazing story. “I basically make about $7,000-$8,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-13 hours a week from home.
We interviewed Home Income Cash Systems to find out more about why more and more people are joining there system:
‘We are so confident that people will make money using this system within the first few days, that we are letting people use our system without paying a penny! We currently get around 800 people joining us every day, mostly with very little computer experience.’
‘People are fed up of the scams out there and now is the time people can take advantage of making money from home, or anywhere in the world’
Working online has been a financial windfall for Melicia, who struggled for months to find a decent job but kept hitting dead ends. “I lost my job shortly after the recession hit, I needed reliable income, I was not interested in the “get rich quick” scams you see all over the internet. Those are all pyramid scams or stuff where you have to sell to your friends and family. I just needed a legitimate way to earn a living for me and my family. The best part of working online is that I am always home with the kids, I save a lot of money.”
“I basically make $7,000-$8,000 a month online.”- Melicia Henry
I asked her about how she started her remarkable journey. “It was pretty easy, I filled out a short form and applied for a work at home kit. There is a small shipping and handling fee, its not really free but it was under $30. I got the Kit and within a month I was making over $5,000 a month. Its really simple, I am not a computer whiz, but I can use the internet. I fill forms and post links, I don’t even have to sell anything and nobody has to buy anything.”
Quickly, Melicia Henry was able to use the simple Home Income Cash System kit to make it out of the recession.
Melicia had never shared her story before, and with her permission, we are putting it public.
Step 1
Go to this link, fill out a basic online form and hit submit at Home Income Cash System
Step 2
Follow the instructions at Home Income Cash System and set up your account. Then they will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. Everything gets tracked.
Step 3
You should receive your first cheque within a week or so. Or you can start to have them wire directly into your bank account. (Your first cheques will be about $1000 to $2,500 a week. Then it goes up from there. Depends on how many links you posted online.)
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Same story, different name, different country, one big scam.
Work At Home Mum Makes $7,397/Month Part-Time…is this fake???????
pls rplyy
OMG i almost gave all our limited resources to this scam…although I was doubtful of the vaidity as a searched for the quoted newspapers, philippine star and manila times for the article and yet repeatedly directed to an online application… It was almost the same in wordings though the amount of income was changed and the mom was named alina cruz…it was very similar to what oscar said….this made me really sad ‘coz i was really hoping to find truth in the possibility of online working from home and having reasonable income. I just don’t have the idea of which credible website to search tho….
Hi Guys, thanks for the negative comments. From the start I was already suspicious so of course I did not sign up! I just left the page and forgot it.
I wish some bureau or entity can put a stop to this scam. Ressie Philippines
BULL SHIT works!!! go to hell after you died due to the frauds! pls. donot join this website and even other website from onlines!!
I also stumbled upon something similar in the UAE, but this time the lady’s name is Sahar and not Jennifer Theuriau and James Field. All hyper links lead to the same ordering page. If you check this hoax the site address newsonlineweeklydotcom gets you a message “coming soon”, It’s all hoax folks!
Be careful of this SCAM! When you fill out that form, you will be sold as a lead to scammers. Most of them are companies out of Utah and Arizona. The Coaching Department aka My Suppliers Source owned by Ken Sonnenberg is one of the biggest scams. They charge you thousands, max out all of your credit cards, offering you an online business as an ebay powerseller. You are told over the sales pitch that you will be making this much money before your credit card bills start coming it. THIS IS A LIE! This company is making millions in this horrible economy off of this fake advertisement. THE FTC NEEDS TO STOP THIS!!!
It seems the scam is still alive and kicking. All they changed, they took out that Melicia Henry is from San Fernando. Probably thought that was too specific and it can be easily found out.
Complete crap. I’m pretty sure the comments below are all from the same person who’s perpetrating this sham.