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Re: Web Promotion Specialist Certification
Posted By: laura In Response To: Re: Web Promotion Specialist Certification (Alex)
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, at 3:32 p.m.(pst)
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>> Save your money folks, it's just another BS scam! :(
>> I fell for this scam more than 3 weeks ago, and got the
>> "certification" more than a week ago. Which certification
>> consist in: they give you a "home lesson" to make 3 blogs, and
>> they review it, saying: "you're certified now". That's all, not
>> one single paper you'll get from them stating that you are really
>> certified. Imagine that folks, this process says all about their
>> seriousness and professionalism, and what really worth your
>> certification...>> And about them finding you work with Fortune 500 companies?
>> Forget it, it's just another gimmick. When they congratulate you, and
>> confirm that you're certified, they ask you if you'd like to have them
>> send your name and contact info to companies looking for WPS-es.>> Of course I asked them to do this, so far in 8 days I heard nothing
>> back from them, and no companies at all contacted me.
>> By the way, all this is about blogging, they teach you the same
>> "secrets" you can find in about 2-3 e-books sold for $49-59 all
>> over the Net.>> Maybe all this would work, if only maximum 1,000 people would do this
>> worldwide, but only these scammers have sold many thousands courses for
>> $249 (the fact they tell you normally the course is $499 but right now you
>> can get it for $249, of course is just another gimmick, because all their
>> courses were sold for this price).>> I just wonder how we could legally prosecute them, to get back our
>> moneys... :(>> Alex
I barely made it to lesson 26 when i figured that it is next to impossible to get your blog anywhere close to the top of the search engines.
Another red flag was when i posted and was blocked for spamming on my first blog, following their instructions.
Anyway, I contatced my credit card comany and had the charge removed under their fraud protection. give that a try if it applys
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