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Date Posted: 12:22:08 08/05/06 Sat
Author: Mitch
Subject: Scams
In reply to: Glenna 's message, "SURVEY SCOUT SCAM!" on 11:22:38 11/15/04 Mon

Yeah most online survey sites are a scam.
Here's a big tipoff. If they ask you to pay money (NO MATTER HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS) there's most likely a 99.9999 % chance that it's a scam.

I signed up for Survey Platinum and payed like 35 dollars. Useless. Most of the links they had were outdated or easily findable doing a google search.

A good idea would be to do a yahoo search of the company like ie. "survey platinum scams" and see what pops up. I wish I had done that, It would have saved me a lot of trouble.

After searching and searching I did manage to find two companies which were ledgit.
http://www.Mysurvey.com : gives you points for completing surveys which you can redeem for cash. $10 at a time. With this site it takes a while to make 10,000 points to add up to $10 but I took 1 or 2 surveys a day when they were available and a few weeks later suddenly realized I had $10. Which was nice. Not like $100 an hour which other companies claim. Also it costs no money to sign up.

Another site is http://www.treasuretrooper.com/137534
I have been a member of this site for 2 weeks and I currently have Total Amount Due: 46.65 They pay you to sign up for free newsletters, surveys, etc... everything from 40 cents to $1.00 (these are for signing up with survey companies and partially comleting those sites where they offer you TVs and $350 gift cards for completing 3 "incentive offers". You don't have to complete the incentive offers though to get credited for the money) to $5.00 to $50.00.(the higher payed offers do require credit cards, although gift card visa and mastercards are acceptedd. These higher offers are for signing up for companies like, Blockbuster for a 2 week trial, you can cancel before that time and not get charged but still receive your money)
After each offer that you complete, you have the opportunity to win a virtual 'pearl...' If you collect 8 you get 2 free referrals Referrals earn you 20% in addition to what they earn... so if they make $100, they get $100 and you get $20 on top of that. The pearls and gems make the site a lot of fun. And the forums help with info and such (make sure to read the forum)
There are also many cash contests on the forums, and every month or so there is a 'Treasure Hunt' on the forums where you can win prizes. It also does not cost any money to sign up to this site.
I highly recommend this site for the amount of effort you have to put in.

[This message has been edited by Callios (edited 08-03-2006).]

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[> It a scam -- Ajnin, 01:51:18 03/12/07 Mon

They've gone through a lot of trouble. They have created "consumer watchdog" sites that have supposedly tried many other sites and of course have found every site except the ones they are scamming you with as fraudulent. If you want to make money on the web create your own business and web site.

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