Online Paid Survey Scams
Paid Survey Scams-How Not To Fall For Them
Checking your email can be like opening a cereal box- you keep expecting a prize to fall out eventually. And just like the prize that you sometimes find in that cereal, the “prize” email that you stumble on may be junk. It may look legitimate, and it may sound real, but there are countless paid survey scams out there, just waiting to prey on you and your desire to make easy money. Make sure that you know what to look for or you might find yourself caught up in one of them.
First, the paid survey scams work very hard to appear real, almost too hard. The more legitimate they try to make themselves appear, the more suspicion you should cast on them. If the survey site claims to have been featured on one news program in one email and then in another email claims the same thing with a different program name, you might want to hold off clicking the link just yet. If you are a fan of these shows, ask yourself: have you ever heard them mention this survey site before? About the third or fourth email that you get from the site claiming endorsement, reviews or exposure on this show or from that celebrity and you should be convinced that this is a paid survey scam and that you should walk away. On a related note: any site that has sent you more than one invitation is also going to be in the scam area because the real ones are literally turning people away. Real sites do not have to inundate anybody with emails, scam sites do.
Second, the paid survey scams will appeal to your baser sense of greed. You know that little devil that sits on your shoulder? He is the one reading these emails and pushing you to click on the link- the lure of easy money is often overwhelming even to the most reasonable among us. If the site is claiming that you will be driving a Mercedes by the end of the month simply by doing surveys, then you are looking at a scam. Real paid survey sites offer different amounts that vary depending on a number of factors: the length of the survey, the advertiser or company that is paying to have the survey done and what the criteria for participation are. The more general the survey, the lower the pay, it is just that simple.
Finally, the paid survey scams will have you pay a one time membership or a commission for every survey that you take. The real, paid survey sites are paying you because they want your honest feedback for legitimate market research. The paid survey scams are luring you in with promises of easy money because they want your cash. You can make fairly decent money with surveys, however you have to do a lot of them in a day and you have to know where to look for the real ones. And, you have to learn how to spot the paid survey scams along the way.
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Does anyone know a good, none-scam, paid online survey site?
prefrabley one that will pay anything between £1.00 and £5.00 per survey answered and one that you use on a regular basis yourselves? But one that IS NOT a scam or is any dangerous??
There arent any - trust me.
They are all scams.
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Are Paid Online Surveys Scams?