Paid Online Surveys Sound Too Good To Be True

Imagine, you get up for work whenever you want. Instead of getting dressed, driving through rush hour traffic to your office, then dealing with kissing up to your boss and ignoring your co-workers all day, you can stay in your pajamas and go to work on your computer. Not only that, you don’t have to do much work at all to get paid. Instead, all you have to do is give your opinions on paid online surveys. The companies running these paid online surveys want to know about your views bad enough to pay for them, so you can work until you want to quit and pocket the money. Doesn’t it sound too good to be true?

Paid online surveys sound too good to be true because most of them are. There are literally hundreds of paid online survey sites floating around on the internet, mainly because it’s a scam that is easy to propagate and promises the scammer pretty easy money (and definitely more money than the people completing the surveys). Here’s how it works: you see a job posting in a classifieds ad or after a web search which promises easy money, a flexible work schedule, and allows you to work from home. “Why, this sounds great!” you say. “This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!” You navigate to the company’s website and find that the company connects you with paid online surveys which you get to complete at your leisure. There’s only one teensy little catch: in order to join the program you need to pay a one-time fee of $30-$100. Of course, the survey promises that you’ll be able to work off this payment by the time you finish your first or second survey, so it’s really not a big deal.

Once you pay your fee and join the program, you’ll probably have a sensation that you’ve been had. Once in the program you’ll receive a number of emails or offers for surveys, or perhaps just a long list of websites that purportedly offer paid online surveys. Most likely the list will be out of date, and the surveys you do find won’t really pay you to take the survey. Instead, most will offer you a chance to win money or a prize for completing the survey, which is a long way from money in the bank. Angry, you email the company which promised you so many paid online surveys, but you get no response. You’ve been scammed, and they’ve moved on to more victims.