Paid Survey Scam Warning

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | Internet Survey Scams with

Watch For Paid Survey Scams

While you can find legitimate survey sites there are some paid survey scams out there to be aware of. Please keep in mind that for the most part the paid survey industry is completely legitimate. The problem is that there are some unscrupulous people out there trying to take advantage of those who are uninformed. Here are three tips that will help to keep you away from paid survey scams.

First: Don’t ever pay for membership to a paid survey site. Not EVER! You shouldn’t even have to give away your email address to get access or membership with a site. You can find all of the information you need about legitimate paid surveys for free on the internet. If you need to pay for a list of survey sites it is a paid survey scam. In fact, the market research companies that pay you to take the surveys NEVER ask you to pay to take their surveys. It would make their results biased and they take a very negative stance regarding sites that require you to pay them to access a list of paying survey sites. Even though the sites that ask you to pay for membership may claim to have “secrets about taking surveys” or “special access to member only surveys” that simply isn’t true. Market research companies make their surveys freely available to everyone in the demographic they are targeting.

Second: Don’t ever pay for or give out your email address to get access to a database of paid surveys. This is the same tactic as the above paid survey scam used just to take your money or email address without providing you ANY additional value. It is possible to find out about all of the market research companies that offer paid surveys for free on the internet. If someone wants to charge you for access to a database or requires you to register for access to a database of paid surveys sites click the BACK button on your browser right away! It’s a paid survey scam.

Third: Avoid Get Paid To (GPT) sites that are posing as survey sites. You’ll recognize these because rather than asking you question in a survey type format they will require that you sign up for offers with other companies to get paid. You can make money with these types of programs, but they require special caution and monitoring. Some of the offers they ask you to sign up for will have recurring membership charges buried in the fine print and you can suddenly find that you are being charged hundreds of dollars for products and services you have no need of. If you want to do GPT’s make sure you keep a complete record of EVERYTHING you sign up for and when you need to cancel it before they bill you.

Remember, most paid surveys are legitimate you just need to watch for the few warning signs I’ve given you to avoid paid survey scams. One other thing to remember when you’re trying to make money with paid surveys…

KEEP WORKING IT…IT WILL GET EASIER…YOU CAN MAKE GOOD MONEY WITH PAID SURVEYS…Most sites are not paid survey scams.

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