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Old 08-02-06, 02:42
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Angry Survey Scams

Greetings from Downunder (Australia )
Firstly, a big thankyou to those who make the site possible - I enjoy visiting each day - it's a great site!
Some of you may have already registered for on-line "paid survey work". From what I understand, there are some genuine organisations that will pay cash for what appears to be legitimate market research. Be warned that there are many others that are absolute scams that will ask you to pay them a "registration fee", and/or provide a lot of personal info/profiling. For your trouble you will be bombarded with heaps of opportunities to spend money on goods and services you had never ever contemplated that you might need - your "paid survey work" may add your name to an infrequent "prize draw!
Following my registration with a "highly recommended" six "survey" organisations I have been inundated with offers including mentoring by the Donald Trump University, free entry in the next Reader's Digest Sweepstakes (similar huge odds to any pools/lotteries etc), guaranteed car loans, exclusive valentines day gifts, free money making software etc etc.
For more info enter "scam surveys" in google or yahoo - you might just save yourself the aggrivation involved in changing a previously perfectly good e-mail address. The following excerpt is from http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/jo...d_surveys.htlm
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If anybody is earning a living from online paid surveys, it's considerably more probable to be middleman-site owners than participating consumers. Of the 60+ paid survey sites reviewed, most "pay" only token rewards in the form of goods, services, coupons or samples. Many pay cash only through sweepstakes. Even if you're lucky enough to win several sweepstakes, it likely won't lead to early retirement. Prizes at most reviewed sites range from $5-200 in cash or goods and drawings are only occasional. Some pay with points that are redeemable for cash or goods. Typically, you must rack up a bunch to redeem them for anything of significance. Most pay nothing or only sweepstakes entries for completing screening surveys, that determine your eligibility to receive certain paid surveys. A couple don't pay much of anything, unless you recruit others as in pyramid schemes.

A few paid survey sites reviewed do pay relatively well in cash. But questionable middleman sites hype hypothetical, best-case scenarios that can't possibly apply to each and every consumer for each and every hour he or she participates. In the real world, the likelihood that you'll often earn the higher of the hyped amounts is slim. Besides the reality that most simply don't pay much, you must be invited to complete paid surveys. To be invited, you must fit targeted demographics. That alone limits your earnings right off the bat, as you can't possibly fit every demographic.

Most reviewed paid survey sites effectively promise not to share personally-identifiable information or not to share it without prior consent. It's an industry standard, by which legit marketing research firms are bound. But many membership sites reviewed don't make either promise, or do so only in a limited or wishy-washy way. Unauthorized go-betweens such as membership sites don't have to honor the marketing-research industry's privacy standards. End quote..... If it looks to be too good to be true, it will be too good to be true - or as we might say, "if it quacks like a duck, it is a duck"!
Ian of Seaham
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