Paid Surveys

If it sounds to good to be true…then you should know better by now. Many companies offer you a chance to make money from home by completing surveys. Some of these companies may be legit and you may actually get paid for completing surveys. However, most are scams and nothing more than a way to get information from you and eventually your money.

I signed up for one of these survey companies a while back and the first thing they wanted me to do was sign up for more survey companies. I spent about two hours signing up with all the different survey companies before I got back to the original company I started with (they don’t call it the web for nothing) Then, in order to complete the process, I had to sign up for a free credit report. No way was I going to give them my social security number as well as my birth date and any other information they would need to steel my identity.

So, I did some research on paid survey companies. Come to find out, what these companies want you to do is pay for a service, then complete a survey about the service you just paid for. The surveys are not posted anywhere and are not for any kind of marketing research. It is just a way to get your email address to sell to other companies and any other information they can gather to scam you. They often install tracking cookies and other spy ware on your computer. Often, the survey companies you sign up with will make a profit off the “Sale” they made by making you sign up and pay for the service you are supposedly filling out the survey for. Also, most of the companies you signed up with will not give you your money back when you purchase the product with the intent of getting a refund right away, it is considered fraud.

I am not saying that there may be some companies that will pay you, but 99% of them are just wanting your information. If something is suppose to be for free, then you will not have to pay for anything. If they truly want your opinion, they will give you the product for free and then get your opinion.