Best answer - JohnMu (Google Employee)
Scamo! The 'Google Kit' Bulls**t scam is just another version of Google Treasure Chest / Money Tree / Emillionaire / Blazing Keywords / Easy Google Profits / A1 Member - and several other names - but these are are all shady sharks swimming in the same murky waters of the scam sea.

The method of scamming is usually the same:

Ads on Facebook, Yahoo, Adwords and other web sites offering 'work at home jobs', leading to fake blogs (Kevin Hoeffer and friends) or fake newspaper articles with claims like 'earn $5000 per month just posting links on Google' leading to another site like securecartcenter.com or 6ftoverhead.com or sweettracking.com with logos of CNN etc and the words "as seen and trusted on" to make it look legit, ridiculous income claims like: "anyone with a computer and basic typing skills can earn cash on Google. Make up to $200 - $943 per day from home on Google. " in 3 easy steps - 1) Order software /kit /course 2) Use basic typing skills to post links 3) Watch the money roll in! All of which is of course a complete load of bovine excrement (bull poo)...

The landing page asks for your name, address, email address and phone number and then takes you to a payment page which offers free 'software' or a 'kit' "only pay £1.95 shipping" or some such, but of course the sting in the tale is that tucked away in the terms and conditions (which is on another page which can only be found via a link in tiny print at the bottom of the payment page) is a $72.21 charge (or similar) hefty monthly fee and often words to the effect that you are signing up to one or two other services with a monthly charge (no option to opt out and no mention of what these other services are apart from their names which are things like grantsprings and id protection' whatever they are!

So...lots of people miss the small print hidden in the terms on a different page and probably think 'what the heck - only $1.95'.. will take the risk.. but of course they don't know about the 'sting' of the ongoing monthly charges, the fact that the 'kit' or cd or 'software' or 'course' is worthless junk and that they have just given their credit card details, phone number, name and address to a bunch of scam artists! Oh dear - there may be trouble ahead.....

Indeed. When the bank statement or credit card bills lands on the doormat the 'hidden surprise' of the monthly charges (sometimes adding up to over $100 per month) is revealed and here begins the tortous process of trying to cancel these charges via some third party call center - being put on hold for eternity, being given the run around, getting the phone put down on you, no supervisor ever available - basically being stuck in call centre hell!

Then there is the joys of contacting your bank, cancelling your credit card, etc etc.......

So in a word - STAY AWAY from these wham bam scam sites and avoid a world of pain!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=1d8db9550471c789&hl=en