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Global Survey Group - Scam or Spam |
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I have seen people mentioning and promoting this site (Global Survey Group - globalsurveygroup.com), so I visited the site, and here are my thoughts:
First,
on their home page they say: "Join Today for a chance to win A new TV,
$100,000 cash, or a new SUV". For some reason I do not feel good about
this, $100,000 cash or a new SUV is a lot of money..I have not seen any
legitimate market research and paid survey companies offer such a big
reward just for joining.
Second, when I look at their privacy policy, I found the red flag, here is the part:
"How is User information used?
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When you register with Global Survey Group, you may receive offers from
us or our marketing partners. Our marketing partners may use this
information to make offers to you in your areas of interest or other
offers. Our marketing partners wishing to contact you either give their
e-mail message to us and we deliver it to you, or with your prior
permission, we provide your contact information to them so they can
deliver messages directly to you. It is solely at your discretion if
you choose to provide additional personally identifiable information to
a marketer by making a purchase, requesting additional information, or
communicating directly with the company or organization after using its
website. We may also use outside companies to execute the marketing
campaigns on our behalf or on behalf of some of our marketing partners.
We will share your e-mail name & other information that you give us
that is necessary for these third parties to provide these services.
These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable
information except for the purposes of providing these services."
Legitimate paid survey sites' privacy policy always says something like "we will not share/rent/sell your personal information to any third parties, you personal information is strictly kept confidential with us...etc", and they never say "you might receive promotions/offers from us or our marketing partners...."
Finally: Part of their "About Us" page tells me they are NOT a real paid surveys company:
"We're willing to offer you amazing rewards for taking our surveys because your opinions and preferences are valuable to us!
We are looking for people who want to SHARE THEIR OPINIONS on products
and services. You will be reward with valuable offers over the web, and
you might even
Win a GRAND PRIZE of $100,000!
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Depending on your survey answers and preferences, you will receive
offers, coupons, discounts, gifts, giveaways and other rewards for
things WE KNOW YOU'LL LIKE because you just told us
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Legitimate market research companies do NOT pay people offers for completing paid surveys. Legitimate paid survey companies reward people cash, gift certificates/gift cards, merchandise/prizes or sweepstakes entries for taking paid surveys.
Conclusion: based on above analysis, I think GlobalSurveyGroup.com is NOT a real legitimate market research paid survey site, They are either a paid offer site or an email harvesting site, you probably will receive paid offers from them (NOT real paid surveys), and/or just tons of spams. I suggest you stay away from them.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
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Paid Survey Scams 
the 'lady' you are supposed to talk to, is the biggest, rudest pile of monkey dung you could have the pleasure of talking to. not the type of person that would be involved in evaluating customer service.
