There seems to be an increasing amount of marketing companies scamming unsuspecting website owners - sprouting claims of SEO and being assocaited with Google.

Today we received a phonecall from somebody claiming to be from "Google" and that they could guarantee to get our website on the from page of Google for a fixed fee. They were infact not from Google - but from a marketing firm in the UK called dotcom Chrome.

Actually, anybody can get their website ad on the front page of Google if they pay enough through Google's Adword Campaign.

For more info on the dotcom scam...

http://www.energygrid.com/watchdog/2010/08-fixedfeeadwords.html

Visit this google forum for people who have been scammed...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=53b24c9adc539491&hl=en