With so many paid survey scams and spams those days, and so many websites promoting those scam and spams, often it is difficult to determine which is real and which is the ugly, especially for survey newcomers. However, there are ways you can identify them and avoid them:
- Please remember: Never pay anyone to do paid surveys and get paid. Legitimate paid survey sites are always FREE to join and cost absolutely Nothing to take surveys and get paid. If anyone ask you to pay or provide credit card information, walk away!
- The most common scam sites work like this: They claim they are paid survey sites and ask you to sign up and provide your personal information. They then turn around sell your information. Often those sites are overly simplified, no company information etc, all they ask is your name email address, and you won't know what's going on until you register. If you see a site like this, walk away.
- If you come cross a site that you are not sure if it is legitimate or not, please be sure to check their privacy policy. If you are not happy with their policy or they don't have a privacy policy, stay away. A legitimate company's privacy policy should states something like "We do NOT reveal or sell your personal information to any third parties..." in the "How do we use information collected" section.
- Please be aware the difference between paid surveys sites and get paid sign up offer sites. The later sometimes say they are survey sites, in fact they are not. They are the sites you get paid for signing up free or trial offers, and they sometimes ask you to provide Credit card information to sign up non-free trials or offers.
- Stay away from the websites promoting known scam or spam "survey" sites (such as Panda Research) - usually those sites claim they have a list of 300+, 400+, or even 500+ paid survey sites - They are just promoting anything they can find for commission, and they can NOT be trusted.
- Trust your instinct - Sometimes you just have a gut feeling about a scam site just by it's looks and feel. In this case, you are probably right, trust yourself and walk away.
- You can always do your research for a certain survey site. Fox example, type "A survey site" in Google, you might find "A survey site is a scam!" listed among the top search results!
- Finally, remember NEVER NEVER NEVER provide sensitive personal information to anyone, never give out your driver's licence number, credit card, bank account information to anyone. I have never has any survey sites require me to provide these information to get paid.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 24 December 2009 20:28 |
Paid Survey Guide 
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"Follow the instructions below to complete the survey .
Deduct your pay of $300 after cashing/depositing the official check at your bank
Deduct another $180 for transfer fees and any other expenses i.e gas & transport.
Locate the nearest Western Union agent location within your neighborhood (RITE AID,UNION STATION
MARKET,MONEYTRE E,SAFEWAY,TRAVE LEX CURRENCY,MONEY MART,QFC)and make a transfer
of what's left of the funds after deduction of your pay and other fees to the information below,you are to
appear as a potential customer making a Western Union transfer to a relative.
Domonique Walker
405 Fallowfield Road.
Camp Hill PA 17011
Be sure to observe the following during the transfer : how long it took you to get services,Intell igence of the
attendant and Customer service professionalism during the transfer process and under no circumstances
should the Western Union Agents know this evaluation is being carried out on them."
These people are relentless and should be prosecuted.
He'll send you two money orders for $973.27 to cash at your bank. You take the cash to your local Western Union agent to wire the money someone in Houston Texas. Your job is to evaluate the employees at the agency and the ease of service. You're to keep $200 for your service and send the remainder to the person in Texas.
He'll also send follow up emails to urge you to carry out your assignment for future assignments and payments.
The gotcha factor is the money orders that these scum bags send are worthless and now you owe the bank $1946.54.
Don't do it. Delete these scammers :woohoo:
It seems to good to be true.Quoting Anonymous:
thank you
All the legit paid survey sites (no scam, no spam) are listed here:
http://mysurvey123.com/index.php/Free-Paid-Surveys-List/
All FREE to join, no fees what so ever!
Thanks in advance
Check out the "Paid Survey Lists" on this site, all survey sites on the lists are legitimate.
Thanks for your feedback.
Colette,
Do NOT do it, that is a checking cashing SCAM! Check out the mystery shopping section in message board. The thread about the scam.
If it was risky then even paying by cheque or credit card would be risky as it carries the same information.