I've been getting a ton of spam email offering payments for completing surveys at $5 to $50 a pop. I assume these are scams or phishing attempts, and I've been deleting them. But could these be legitimate inquiries?
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HungryGuy
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Well, you can check it out. As long as signing up is free, you're cool, but when they start asking signing up fee or your creditcard information, quit immediately.
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Don't respond - by clicking the link in the email they are able to confirm that your email address is real and you will end up getting even more span. In addition, the survey offers are not legitimate in any way - why would someone pay for data that could be inaccurate? Just keep deleting them.
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If you have a Mac computer...just use the "bounce" feature.. click on Message and then bounce...it will look to them that your email address doesn't exist....If you are on another computerl...just create a rule blocking their messages from reaching you...I doubt that any of them are legitimate...nobody gives money away--and the old saying "if it sounds too good to be true...it is" comes to mind. Whatever you do ..do not respond to any of them...that will just confirm that they have a correct address.
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I learned it the hard way, it was 3 years ago. Now I'm member of some legitimate online survey companies. However they pay very little and not all project assigned to you giving cash rewards. I earn only 30 - 50 dollar a month. I think nowdays most of them are scams. Now I prefer to go to focus group which are more fun and more money.
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Most legit survey companies pay $3 or less per survey. Some use random draws for some sort of grand prize. "Complete this survey and get four entries to the annual $100,000 draw!" Some pay you in points that you can redeem for $5 gift cards at Amazon or Best Buy. (It takes about 30 surveys to get enough for one $5 gift card) Considering the length (in time wasted) of the surveys I've done, I figure that I've received approximately $1.50 an hour for my time. I could make much more per hour saying, "Would you like some fries with that?" for a living. Hope this helps.
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