Home Profit Masters, at www.HomeProfitMasters.com, is a new work at home program offered by Angela Bussio and Jane Simmons, who claims that anyone can make money with this proven system.
Angela Bussio, a motivational speaker who has published books like “5 Secrets to Turn Stress Into Success,” promotes earning money online with the Home Profit Masters system as one of the best ways for people to earn money in this tough economy.
Her partner, Jane Simmons, created this system and within three months was making double what she had earned at her old job, working only 1 – 4 hours a day. Currently, the Home Profit Masters training program costs $97, down from the original cost of $197.
The Money Making Opportunity
The Home Profit Masters system will provide you with step by step videos which will give you detailed training in how to post links online, which is a popular form of affiliate marketing.
In addition to the videos, you will receive access to the Members’ Development area, lifetime access to the VIP Members’ Area, and unlimited personal support.
Home Profit Masters also offers a 2 Month Make Money or It’s Free Satisfaction Guarantee, which promises that if, after 2 months, you aren’t making money with this system, you’ll get your entire fee back immediately, with no questions and no hassles.
And even if you request a refund, Jane Simmons promises you can keep the bonus gifts you receive, including your copy of Angela Bussios’ “5 Secrets to Turning Stress Into Success.”
The Concerns
First, Home Profit Masters is slightly misleading their potential customers by giving them the impression that they will be paid for “posting links,” when the reality is that affiliate marketers are only paid when their link results in a sale, at which time they will be paid a commission.
But the most prominent concern is that they are being promoted though fake news articles, at Finance-Reporting.org. These fake news sites are really advertisements intended to look like real online journalism sources, and are currently under investigating by the FTC.
Before you decide whether or not to invest your hard earned money into a link posting system, check out the free resources available to you online to see if this opportunity is right for you.
Update: This program is now going by the name of Web Fortune Master.
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The article talks about "Melissa Johnson" who "struggled for months to find a decent job but kept hitting dead ends". She supposedly lost her job when the recession hit (like a lot of people did) and didn't want to risk getting involved in a get rich quick scheme because they're pyramid schemes or she'd have to sell stuff to her family and friends.
Of course, this one is supposed to be different, right? After all, she lives in the same city I do: Honolulu and if she can do it, I can! Right?
Well, no.
You may be a bit confused right now if you've already clicked on the above link. When I did it, the title said EXPOSED: Honolulu Mom Makes $8,000/Month From Home And You Won't Believe How She Does It! But, if you lived in Chicago, the title would read like this: EXPOSED: Chicago Mom Makes $8,000/Month From Home And You Won't Believe How She Does It!
You see, the link contains software that customizes the text to make it appear as if it is relating a story about something that happened to a person who lives in the same city you do. It's a good way to make people more comfortable with paying-into a scheme than they would be if the story was about a person who lived in a city far away from where you live. After all, if she lives in the same city as you, there's a good chance you may meet her one day. Right?
Even the name "Melissa Johnson" is generic enough to get people to let their guard down. This woman could be black or white, Jew or Gentile, middle class or poor, etc. There's just no way to tell. Aside from her sudden unemployment, all we know about her is that she has three children (appealing to our sense of empathy) and that she has a blog, the link for which we are not given.
Accessing the link through my Internet connection, the first paragraph reads like this: Melissa Johnson from Honolulu, Hawaii never thought that she would work online, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form. Using a proxy to conceal my true location and make it appear that I am in Chicago, the text reads like this Melissa Johnson from Chicago, Illinois never thought that she would work online, until curiosity got the best of her and she filled out a simple online form.
Unless there are two women named Melissa Johnson, one living in Honolulu and the other in Chicago who were both rendered unemployed by the recession and who both have three children, I'd say this whole story looks like a great big, steaming pile of bullshit.
The same thing happens when you go to this link . The only difference is the name of the person who supposedly made eight grand a month. On this page, her name is "Mary Stevens" and a picture is included, which turns-out to simply be a stock photo that the scammers used. The domain is registered anonymously through Domains By Proxy. The course "Mary" supposedly took was called New Online Incomes, but that website is down and is not relevant for this post. I just mentioned it as a reference of past activities by these scum.
Both webpages are just an advertisement for what is now known as Profit Masters Academy whose website is registered anonymously through Namecheap and was only recently in June 2012. The IP address comes from Miami, Florida, which is the only thing about this site that I know for sure. Who really owns the website, who created it in the first place, who set-up Profit Masters Academy, etc are all questions which we have no way to answer.
They are using the image of Angela Bussio , an author and motivational speaker. I found no mention of Profit Masters Academy on her website. Attempting to email her via her website showed a pattern very much like the Profit Maters Academy ads: the email address given on her website is [email protected] but when you click on the link, it sends the email to [email protected] instead. A message sent to both address yielded a reply only from the mysupportagent.biz address, with the signature at the bottom given as "Internet Business Customer Care". not Ms Bussio.
The "coach" that they assign you is a hard core sales person who tries to bully or shame you into creating your OWN internet sales business. Not at ALL what I was interested in. And customer service couldnt direct you to instructions for the link specialist.
This is shameful and TOTALLY misleading advertising.
I spoke with a representative October 9, 2012 about cancelling my service. I told her I called the start up hot line 10 times and have not received a call back yet. She tried to offer me a V.I.P membership to appease me but I declined as I felt uncomfortable with the process and how I was treated. She, then said with an attitude and very short, "fine I'll cancel it!" I asked for a confirmation number for the cancellation and she gave me #445480.
I was extremely uncomfortable with the representative actually cancelling the service so I called back to double check. As I suspected, my account was not cancelled. The representative "Jackie" also was very nasty and short with stating I would not be able to cancel because I have not been a member for the full 30 days. I asked to speak to a supervisor several times and she refused to connect me stating, "they were too busy". I asked for a name of a supervisor and again she refused their name.
At that point I told her I no long wanted to speak with her because she began to raise her voice and refused to connect me with a supervisor stating this time she was not allowed to connect me with a supervisor. The rudeness and unprofessional behavior of this company was obvious when I was never called back after leaving several different messages with the start up hot line. I am truly disappointed and I feel as if I was ripped off by this alleged reputable company as it has been on several national TV shows.
I want my $97 back and I refuse to wait 30 days to get it! I will be forwarding this over to the BBB.org and filing a report with the police department for fraud!