The Funds Transfer Alliance Blog: Sep 22, 2010

A couple of months ago we noticed a scam drop down suggestion following a Google search of Funds Transfer Alliance. We come to work everyday, try to do right by everyone we come into contact with, and to see that suggestion was incredibly personally and professionally disappointing for everyone at the Funds Transfer Alliance. We spoke to SEO experts, researched how Google Suggest works, and figured out that the commonality of our name and its association with the term scam is significant because of the typical Nigerian funds transfer scams that are so prevalent on the web. In response, we did something we didn't want to but knew we had to... We created a website called Funds Transfer Alliance is not a Scam to explain to everyone who was inquiring and not familiar with The FTA why they are seeing that drop down suggestion. We have heard back from many people who were at first skeptical because of the suggestion and who, after reading it, understood our plight and even related their own.

Since we originally put up the anti-scam website, we have set up Google alerts to notify us anytime Funds Transfer Alliance and scam appear anywhere on the web. The results have been stunning. We get multiple alerts, almost every single day, that have all of these words and absolutely nothing to do with us. We thought we would share this so that you can get a feel of how often common yet unrelated words can fall together. The results below are one day's worth of results.

Western Union and EnStream announce strategic alliance
Trading Markets (press release)
With the launch of the service later in 2010, Zoompass users in Canada will be able to send funds directly from their mobile wallets. ...

Western Union, EnStream Announce Strategic Alliance to Launch ...
Western Union, EnStream Announce Strategic Alliance to Launch International Mobile Money Transfer Service. September 20, 2010 2:01 PM ET ...

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According to the Business Software alliance, software piracy in the Asia/Pacific region ... 11. ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER FRAUD. Electronic funds transfer ...

Alpha Mobile Money Transfer | CPAReviewOnline.com (Beta)
MoneyGram alpha mobile major money matters transfer a leading global money transfer engines for runescape money maker today announced an alliance with Alpha ...
www.cpareviewonline.com/.../alpha-mobile-money-transfer

Additionally, more and more businesses will have to contend with this in the future, as many already do, because of recommendations from consumer advocates like this one from Lifehacker that actually tell people to always Google a company's name with "scam" to see what pops up. If you've had a Google Suggest issue, we'd love to hear about. Please leave a comment below.