Friday, 19 July 2013

Online Survey - Scam Sites To Avoid

Legitimate Online Survey Job

Online Survey Job is a legitimate way of earning a decent income at home.You don't spend hours to complete a survey; most of the surveys do not normally take more than 30 minutes. You do not need to make a serious research about the products / services to answer the survey questionnaire. You are expected to just give your honest and frank opinions, feedback, experience, expectations, and suggestions about the products / services from your day-to-day experience only.

The Survey Companies reward you with cash, points, or entries into sweepstakes for your valuable time and energy you devote to help improve their products / services.

Legitimate and Scam Sites!

As it is this easy to take up paid surveys at home, you find large number of people turning to online surveys as a source their of legitimate income. You have, at the same time, numerous "Scam Survey Sites" waiting out there to take advantage of your innocence and ignorance.

Just do a simple search for "Online Survey Jobs"; the Search Engines will churn out millions of results in 20 seconds! You are overwhelmed with those survey sites. You do not know how to find out the right ones for you. You need to be agile, vigilant and prudent enough to avoid the scam sites.

Ways To Identify The Scam Sites

 The following points will surely help you to identify those Survey Sites, that are suspicious, scam and non-trustworthy.
  • Beware of any site that tries to hard to defend itself as "not scam";
  • Beware of any site that tries to impress you with tons of information about your earnings;
  • Beware of any site that tries to entertain you with photocopies of payment checks;
  • Beware of any site that gives you unbelievable, self-posted testimonials for proof of income;
  • Beware of any site that guarantees hundreds of Dollars, daily;
  • Beware of any site that promises a regular, set of income;
  • Beware of any site that asks you for a membership fee;
  • Beware of any site that requests you to participate in "offers" or to buy products before allowing you  to have access to paid surveys;
  • Beware of any site that sells you a 'List of Survey Companies' for a fee;
  • Beware of any site that asks for too much personal information (Credit Card Number, Bank Account Details, Social Security Number);
  • Beware of any site that does not post "Terms and Conditions", "Privacy Policy",  "and "Contact Information" on its site;
  • Beware of any site that does not state how it rewards you (with Cash, Points & Prizes)
  • Beware of any site that does not make clear how you'll be rewarded (PayPal, Check).   

More Ways To Find Out Scam Sites


Look for legitimate Paid Survey Sites and Reviews on these sites: GetPaid-Surveys.net, SurveyPolice.com and YellowSurveys.com. If you do not find the Paid Survey Site you intend to take up in list of the above Survey Review Sites, it always better to drop it.

You may also do a search by yourself for verifying the authenticity of the Online Paid Survey Sites you find on the Net allover.  Perform a personal search on the Survey Company you intend to work with. In order to do this verification, just type in the word "Scam" or "Review" along with the name of the Company / Site on your browser. The search will tell you about the Complaints, if any, from the real online survey workers. You are sure to get ample information to find out if the site is legitimate one or not.
You are safe, if you take these points into consideration with your search for Paid Online Survey Job.

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