Don’t Fall For The Paid Survey Scam
Today I want to talk about the most deceiving scam of all, “The Paid Surveys” I’m sure by know you’ve stumble upon this “make money online” opportunity as we all have. It claims to be the perfect opportunity for “stay at home moms” who want to supplement their income working from the comfort of their homes. But is it really an opportunity to make money from home?
Supposedly all you have to do is to give your opinion by filling out a survey and in return they will pay you an average of $20 per survey. But first you have to become a member of their membership site where they give you a list of the different companies offering the actual paid surveys.
After you’ve paid the fee which ranges from $50 to $200 and you’ve gain access to the list, you give your email to the different companies you want to fill out the surveys for and you start waiting for the survey opportunities to come. Soon enough you start receiving tons of surveys along with a ton of junk email that you can’t get rid of and I tell you this because it’s happened to me, in some instances I’ve even had to close the email account due to the uncontrollable amount of incoming junk email. And out of the 10 different membership sites I joined, I did not receive a single paid survey opportunity. Every single one of the surveys I received were non-paid surveys.
You’ll also see sites that review and rank these paid surveys membership sites offering you supposedly the ones that work. Don’t fall for that they are simply affiliated with these sites and they earn a commission every time they refer a sale.
Conclusion: Don’t waste your valuable time or money on paid surveys, it is nothing more than scam. However in the event that you decide to try one of these membership sites, Please DO NOT use your primary email address, the amount of junk email you’ll receive will be insane.
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Comment by Del on 17 February 2008:
Thks for the e-mail answers that you have given to me. Yes, I agree with you too that most of the paid survey program is a scam. It also applies to data entry program.
By the way did you know of this website eg. sgmillionprofits.com., netcashsg.com or simplyrichsg.com or UWP is also a scam as all these 3 websites are the same.
The reason why I’m telling you is to inform you that I did join this website before whereby in their package they give you alot of promises telling you that there will only be One-Time Payment Fee, free websites & also step-by-step guide will be given.
As a matter of fact what I realise is that not only their response is very poor but also they want to advertise this package in Google Adwords so as to get more affiliates to join in to this package.
From what I know is that to advertise in Google Adwords, you still have to come out a certain amt of money whenever a person clicks to your website.
Does this sounds stupid to you. This package also tells you that you can earn $1000.00 within a short period. So you see not you are paying for the registration fee but also at the same time you are also paying for the Google Adwords advertisement hoping that people will buy your package so as to earn commission. But luckily I did get a refund money back from them.
So from the description that I have explain to you could you kindly pass this message by informing everyone that this package is a scam before they get cheated just like me.
Comment by Del on 17 February 2008:
Pls take note of these websites they are scams:
sgmillionprofits.com
netcashsg.com
simplyrichsg.com
Comment by Far on 27 June 2008:
Hi Del,
How you can get your money back, can you tell me? In case for this kind of thing will happen to me. Is the bank refund your money or from the one who promote the program?
And I understand about the adword googles. Bcoz thats how you spends ur ads, if the budget high. ur position when people doing search engine, the easier your position will be. means big 10 page 1 of the search and people will click on it. I wont buy that, unless I have a big company to sell and IPO of stock market huahahahuahua just joking. Actually I just want to know how you get ur refund, because is true I read they said 100% money guarantee back within 60 days. Please share ur info. As I can help some of my friends who are their victims.