How to Spot Paid Survey Scams
Many people are looking to work at home and one of the more popular paid jobs are surveys. However, there are many survey scams and you should be on the lookout for them. The following will give you some ideas of what you should look for when you are researching paid survey jobs.
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Promise of high return. The truth is that you probably will not get rich doing paid surveys. Therefore if the site proclaims you can make thousands a day ,it is probably a survey scam. Although you can make some money for surveys, you probably won't make thousands a month, let alone a day.
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Understand what you are getting for your money. Most survey scams only give you a list of sites that may not be valid or that will charge you even more money for nothing. They will tell you that by joining these sites you will receive so many surveys a day, but never follow through.
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Check work at home forums. See the Resource section for forums you can check to see if a survey site really pays. There are plenty of forums and sites that will give you this information for free.
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Talk to other people who are working at home to get information on the site you are interested in joining. Even if you don't know anyone who is working at home on surveys you can always post in the forums for information about the site.
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Research the company by doing a Google search. There are articles out there that are listed in the Source section that will help you to find out if the company is legitimate or a survey scam. The key to spotting survey scams is research.
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Spot the surveys that ask you to "Compare Burger King and McDonald's: Who has the best burgers" as scams. These are not even real surveys.
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Tips & Warnings
Chances are if you are asked to put up money, the site is a survey scam. However, there are a few legitimate ones that ask you to pay money.
There isn't a reason to pay for the information that you can get for free. So even if the survey site is legitimate, when they are asking you for money you can probably get the same information for free on another site.
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What about surveys that require your credit card number in order to complete the survey? Doesn't that sound like a scam? I had one to require my cc# for a tutorial that would pay me $5. So, they were buying my cc#? to sell to others or use themselves? The site stated that most of their surveys required my cc# too. Plus, the survey site used my info to register me at other sites. spam + scam...spacam.
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misledsue
Oct 13, 2009
How do I check the legitimacy of the ones I have already participated in?
