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Getting paid for online surveys is the best way to make
easy money and to make it fast. Many people have dedicated their lives to filling in survey
questionnaires and while others argue that this can not sustain your cost of living, others
claim to have quit
their jobs to concentrate on paid surveys.
This glossy form of making money online has its share of problems,
online paid survey scams being the major one. There are numerous scam internet paid surveys sites that keep popping up on
the internet.
These scam websites are built to convince any one of their legitimacy - they tend
to have a nice and beautiful website with many survey offers just like any legit online paid survey website. These internet paid
surveys sites come and go within months, leaving many survey takers lost and confused.
We will quickly go over some facts about internet paid survey scams and also
advise on how to avoid the scam sites. Note that this website offers only general information
and opinion. It is not legal advice. You should see a legal advisor for legal advice.
- Scrutinize: You should
thoroughly scrutinize any paid online survey that you consider joining. You can check at
online income or money making forums for work at home people for such opportunities.
- Verify Contacts: Be wary of
conducting business with sites that list only email or PO box addresses for questions and
other matters, as they might be fly-by-night, paid survey scams.
- Don't Give Credit Card: legit
survey companies don't ask you to pay coz this biases their results. Avoid the whole thing
by not giving your credit card number to a paid survey site. You can find many for free, by
searching the Web.
- Unrealistic Promises: Be very
wary of benefits that seem over exaggerated. The truth is, paid survey sites can only
refund your fees if you're not satisfied and nothing more. find paid survey sites with
strong 60-90 day money-back guarantees. It is even better is these sites are backed by a
bank or financial company like PayPal or ClickBank.
- Domain Registration Checks:
Perform " whois " lookups to reveal if
paid survey sites were registered by proxy. If so, be wary of
doing business with them too. Site owners might be hiding their contact information
behind proxy services, because they're running paid survey scams.
- Read The Fine Print: Don't let
the hype alone sell you when they are recruiting you. The "fine print" at questionable paid
survey sites often contradicts much of what their hype implies. You should take some time
to read their privacy policy, read their disclaimers, terms and conditions and any other
document they have on the site. If a paid survey site doesn't offer this, be very wary of
joining.
- Check Scam Reports: Visit
websites like www.bbb.org for complaints against specific online paid
survey sites and their owners. However, do your own research as some people can
deliberately discredit a site especially competitors.
- Validity of Sponsoring Business:
Try to find out how long the company has been in business, which countries it operates in
and how many people belong to its free online paid survey program. In addition, sites that
have links to their parent company are usually more reliable and transparent.
- Site quality: look for sites
that have too many misspelling (avoid these).
The bottom line is, if the hype for online paid surveys sounds too good to be
true, it likely is
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