Today I went to Google’s Support Forum to report a spammers trove situated on Google sites - and there I saw another thread regarding a fairly new type of scam – called Google Kit.

The scam called “Google Kit” or “Google Treasure Chest“, makes you think you are signing up for something costing you only $2, while in reality you will be billed $70 or more monthly. It’s quit difficult to find the sum while reading their TOS, but it’s there and is burried in the paragraph starting with:

GOOGLE is a trademark of Google Inc

and stating the following:

Monthly Service fees will commence seven days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the seven day trial you will be billed Sixty nine dollars and ninety cents USD monthly for the continued access to the Google Money Making System. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided services. We reserve the right to transfer your billing to a third party Merchant of Record.

There is also no way to cancel the monthly payments, or so I read on most of these sites coming up with this search – Google Kit Scam.
Check the sites and you’ll see the victims explaining how they are unable to cancel or get a refund when they try using the contact details provided in the TOS of the above mentioned sites.

And if you have fallen for the Google Kit scam, you should read the following post and contact Strangely, the owner of the blog.