Paid Survey Scams | Avoid Online Paid Survey Scams

Paid survey scams are all over the internet.  Here are some easy ways to identify and avoid paid survey scams when visiting a website.

If a survey website claims it can make you thousands of dollars a day it’s probably a survey scam site and you should avoid this survey scam.

Paid survey scams will charge you to access to their website, survey list or charge an upgrade fee to access a better survey list.  Never pay to get list of online paid surveys.

Websites that provide no information about their company but request your personal information to join are typically paid survey scams.  These websites usually gather your information and sell it. These websites are called email-harvesting sites and often the websites are very simple setups with no company information or sources to contact. All they ask for is your name and email address to join.

Avoid any survey websites that require your credit card information or access to your bank account before you can participate.

The easiest way to avoid paid survey scams is to do the following:

Check the survey sites name, or URL on the national website for the Better Business Bureau or Federal Trade Commission.

The B.B.B. keeps information on most  paid survey companies listed on Internet and grades these companies A through F primarily on the number consumer complaints received and how they resolve  the complaints with consumers.

Another way to avoid survey scams is to check out a paid surveys websites privacy policy.  To avoid prosecution most websites disclose how they will use your web visit information. If you don’t like their privacy policy or worse yet they don’t have a privacy policy, stay away.  Legitimate free paid survey companies will clearly state what they do with your information and how they plan to use it.

Check out different forums and message boards that cater to paid surveys an work at home jobs online. These forums and message boards offer advice on how to avoid surveys scams and where to find paid surveys and paid survey website lists. Talk to other people who are currently using paid surveys online.

Find out where they got their paid survey lists and what survey companies they would recommend.

You should know that market research companies who conduct paid surveys or mystery shopping for the most part don’t advertise directly to the consumer when recruiting survey panel members.

Most market research companies hire affiliate companies to pre-screen websites and determine what legitimate websites can promote their survey site to consumers.