Fact is, the jig is up. Blogger.com soon learned of the spamming technique developed by some and has now enforces a new policy whence domains are never abandoned permanently and always available to their original users.

“Blogger accounts and Blog*Spot addresses do not expire. Therefore, we can’t take away somebody’s blog address to give to you. Occasionally people come back to their blogs after long absences, and we want them to be able to find their blog as they left it. If you find some contact information on the blog, you are welcome to deal with the owner directly, to see if they are willing to transfer ownership so you can use that URL. However, we do not give out contact information for the owner of a blog.”

A number of problems remain. Given the fact an overwhelming number of bloggers abandon their sites within months, a greater number of domains will be permanently unavailable to amateur bloggers with a genuine interest in developing a new blogger.com account, thus dooming large blogging communities.

Anyone can setup a Google Adsense account and get paid for displaying advertising on their website. However, a rash of misleading ads are currently running on various social network websites with outrageous claims such as “I’m Happy I Lost My Job” – “Make $ 15,000/month” – “I got $ 11,668.05”.

Each one of these ads points you to a fake blog where rags to riches stories are told and huge checks displayed proudly. Fact is, they are clones and the proof can be gathered quickly.

Here are a few of the websites we found: j***makesmoney.com (name removed), googlek***.net, c***hasmoney.com. Each one of these websites features a “personal” story with the same backbone.  Curiously, check 037324959 02200086 is shown over and over on each one of these sites.

Every single one of these splogs refers you back to a “Google Cash Kit” you have to PURCHASE, presumably a “kit” telling you what you can learn for free on thousands of sites out there: you’ll make decent money with (a) content (b) traffic and (c) tweaking. What you will not be doing, is making thousands of dollars overnight with a fake splog.

To add credibility, these splogs add fake comments that mimick a blog comment section, with avatars and all. The problem is, these fake comments appear on more than one site: eric***sthemoney.com, n***tsgreen.com, iw***youtoberich.com, ja***makesmoney.com, c***yhasmoney.com etc etc. And of course, “comments are closed because of spam”.

I guess Askimet is out of their price range.

The sad thing is most of the people who fall for this scam probably end up buying a kit on how to make another splog and then have to spend money on social networks trying to drum up traffic to their worthless sites.

If you want to make money online, try getting rich slowly. Seriously.