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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.
Seccond, in the "How it Work" section, here is what they say:
| Membership is free and confidential. Please visit
our free member registration page. Complete the free Global Survey
Group membership application by providing us with your personal data so
that we can activate your survey account. |
After we have approved your free membership, our market research group
will email you invitations for surveys. The survey emails will take you
directly to the surveys so there will be no need to login. |
Each survey should take less
than 7 minutes and your feedback will provide valuable influence for
the development of new products and improvement of existing ones. |
You do not have to
participate in every survey, however, we may consider you an inactive
member and stop sending you emails if you do not participate on a
frequent basis. |
It sounds like they are a paid survey site that actually send surveys, but for some reason I feel something is not right. Unlike other legitimate paid survey sites, they don't say "we will email you invitations for surveys", instead they say "our market research group will email you invitations for surveys".
Third, when I look at their privacy policy, I found the red flag, here is the part:
"How is User information used?
...
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...."
Fourth: Part of their "About Us" page tells me they have paid offers, NOT real paid surveys:
"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!
>
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
!"
Conclusion: based on above analysis, I think GlobalSurveyGroup.com is NOT a real legitimate market research/paid survey site, I am almost sure they are just another paid offer and/or email harvesting site, and you probably will get spams if you sign up. So I suggest you stay away them.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 29 August 2009 )
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