Google Advertiser “FORGOT” Scamming People is illegal

A Google Adwords advertiser recently got his ads account banned by Google because he was pushing a “great new business opportunity” via the ads. As it was a bit of a scam, the big “G” wasn’t too impressed and emailed him as follows

“Subject: Your AdWords account: Account Suspension

“It’s come to our attention that you have submitted ads that promote Google Money Tree or ads that promote a misrepresented affiliation with Google. Due to multiple complaints from our users and publishers, we’ve made the decision not to accept these ads.

This is a notification that your account has been suspended due to the submission of these ads and your ads will no longer run on Google. Please note that future accounts you open will also be suspended.

As noted in our Terms and Conditions, Google reserves the right to terminate advertisements for any reason.  We appreciate your cooperation”

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Our banned Advertiser friend then said on the Google help forums that:

“I was promoting a Bizop CPA Offer, for the past week which apparently is against Google’s TOS, and sadly I didn’t get a warning or anything, but rather just this email.

I’m absolutely devastated, since I’ve essentially been left jobless, had 2.5k US in my account (prepaid, although if worse comes to worst I am sure I’ll be able to withdraw it), and I was spending $1,000 a day in advertising. I’ve contacted Google so hopefully I’ll be able to get my account restored”

To give you an idea of what he was advertising, have a look at this posting which talks about the “Google Money Tree”.

If you do have problems with your Google Adwords account (& you’re a legitimate business, call us!)