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Google Profusion Delusion


2009
09.20

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Scam

Scam

If you’re a Facebook lurker, beware of this ad that says “Mystery Shoppers Wanted”. Although mystery-shopping is a legit job like anything else from plumbing to selling Blue Advantage, the website to which this Facebook ad was linked to has nothing to do with mystery shopping the way I knew it. The ad’s content is all mystery and yes, more shopping too. These sleazebags are out to get their hands in your credit card account and rip off your hard-earned money.

Here are the reasons why I think the website Google Profusion and the supporting testimonial of someone named Rosario Bautista are both scams:

1. Their Facebook ad is misleading. I.e. “mystery shoppers wanted”.

2. When you read through Rosario’s testimonial, it’s too good to be true. P480k a month through Google links? Are you kidding me? I’m a legit Google Adsense publisher earning not even $50 a month from Google ads posted on my site.

3. The website “Google Profusion” does not explain how you earn those staggering amounts. It’s all vague. You get paid for posting links? Whose links? Where do you post it? Do they give you a website? Why would Google do that when it already has Adsense? Truth is you can get Google’s Blogger account for free and sign-up to their Adsense also for free. So why pay to get a job?

4. Rosario Bautista’s page is the only page in http://onlinesuccessblogs.com/rosariobautista/blog/?t202id=32738&t202kw=phms-8. Click on the site’s homepage and all you get is a blank page. There were no links to their success stories published in CNN, New York Times, etc.

5. They only pay in checks. Why is there no Paypal option? Most of my legit online jobs uses Paypal to transfer payments.

6. Google has nothing to do with it.

7. Lastly, read what those who got suckered in say about their experiences.

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I miss the girls


2009
02.07

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I was casually clicking through my Friendster and Facebook pages when I decided to run random email checks to search my cousin’s account. And I was not disappointed. I spotted her page in Friendster, all photos published in public.

clara-and-bianca

These are my nieces Clara and Bianca. In the span of 4 months since I left London in December 2007, they have grown up pretty fast. The last time we were together, Clara was still learning how to walk after she mastered climbing the stairs. Bianca was still a four-year-old kid who I regularly walk to school rain or shine. (Mostly rain.)

I miss the things we did together. Like watching Johnny and the Sprites at six in the morning, Mickey Mouse Playhouse at seven and Doodlebops at eight. I remember those bright cold sunny days when played at the lawn hoping for more sun than rains. (That was weird coming from someone who abhors any form of sunlight back in Manila. Ha ha.) It was totally a 180-degree turnaround from my too independent Manila lifestyle that made me realize something. Motherhood does not come in the form of a membership card even if you sign up for one. It is a gift not all us women can have.

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Of golden parachutes and black swans


2009
02.05

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Wall Street

While the black swan is swimming, there are also golden parachutes flying.

A colleague told me during a coffee break how the US federal funds were supposed to be distributed among the world’s most ailing banks. I have not read the news for weeks. So I was surprised to hear that while Americans worry about job security, these bank executives were trying to reserve their slots on the $900Bn something bailout fund. Imagine just one person enjoying an enormous compensation package that can already feed hundreds of their employees and could still afford them Vegas vacations:

Bank of America: Kenneth D. Lewis (Chairman and CEO) – $24.8 million
Bank of America: Joe L. Price (Chief Financial Officer) – $6.5 million
Bank of America: Amy Woods Brinkley (Global Risk Executive) – $9.3 million
Bank of America: Barbara J. Desoer (Global Technology and Operations Executive) – $10.5 million
Bank of America: Liam E. McGee (President Global Consumer and Small Business Banking) – $12.2 million
Bank of America: Brian T. Moynihan (President of Global Corporate and Investment Banking) – $10.1 million
Bank of America: R. Eugene Taylor (Former Vice Chairman and Former President, Global Corporate and Investment Banking) – $3.3 million
Citigroup: Sir Winfried Bischoff (Chairman) – $6.1 million
Citigroup: Vikram Pandit (CEO) – $573,813
Citigroup: Gary Crittenden (Chief Financial Officer) – $19.4 million
Citigroup: Sallie Krawcheck (Chair and CEO—GWM) - $7.1 million
Citigroup: Lewis Kaden (Vice Chairman) – $6.8 million
Citigroup: Michael Klein (CEO- Global Banking) - $7.9 million
Citigroup: Stephen Volk (Vice Chairman) – $7.6 million
Citigroup: Charles Prince (Former Chairman and CEO) – $15.1 million
Goldman Sachs: Lloyd C. Blankfein (Chairman and CEO) – $70.3 million
Goldman Sachs: Gary D. Cohn (President and Chief Operating Officer) – $72.5 million
Goldman Sachs: Jon Winkelried (President and Chief Operating Officer) – $71.5 million
Goldman Sachs: David A. Viniar (Chief Financial Officer) – $58.5 million
Goldman Sachs: Edward C. Forst (Chief Administrative Officer) – $49.1 million

Source: Company proxy statements for 2007.

They have messed up the world’s economy. Why should they be rewarded with taxpayers money? Let go of those creeps.

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