subject: Paid Survey Sham - How To NOT Make Money Online [print this page] Paid Survey Sham - How To NOT Make Money Online
In this day and age of information overload, it's very easy to be swept away by the fantastic idea of making lots of money online. Paid surveys are an excellent way to begin to make money online but there are always going to be those few scam sites that want nothing more than to sell your email address to research market companies for their own good.
So how do you tell the difference between a legitimate paid survey site with a totally survey site scam? Well, to put it simply, paid survey scams don't pay you whereas legitimate sites do. I know this is probably not enough for you to actually safeguard yourself from an actual scam, so here's 3 tips on how to avoid these scams:
1. Ridiculously high payouts: Some survey sites advertise outrageously high payouts, such as "Get paid $50 per survey", while bearing in mind that you're completing ONLINE paid surveys. (Online paid surveys have lower payouts than offline surveys)
2. Read the fine print: As with anything that's too good to be true, you should always read the survey site's Terms of Service, privacy policies and disclaimers. Contact their customer service to clarify any points that you didn't get. If they don't reply reliably enough (or at all), then that site is almost certainly a scam.
3. Find their contact info: Perform "WhoIs" checkups to see if the paid survey site is registered with a proxy. A proxy is basically a piece of software that acts on behalf of another device whilst taking on the identity of the other device. This means that the sites who use a proxy are probably concealing their true identities and which would mean that they are scams.
Also, be careful of multiple sites opened by the same webmaster as this suggests that these sites all have same database of surveys. This doesn't mean you can do the same surveys again and hope to be credited for it, since the market research companies would have already recorded you as having already done it (unless, YOU intend on using a proxy, which would be kind of ironic!).
Another thing to mention is paid survey sites with unbelievably high payouts. People who have fallen for this obvious advertising gimmick have greatly suffered setbacks from making money online, such as being paid a much lower amount than advertised (for example, getting 50 cents instead of the supposed $50) and more often, not even being paid at all. And to make matters worse, the customer "support" service won't even reply to their complaints!
To sum up, there are a lot of scams on the Internet. Paid surveys has had a bad reputation for being nothing but a scam because people didn't know what to avoid. However, once you do know, then paid survey sites are a great way to supplement your income and it's certainly possible to earn a lot of money from them.
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