Paid-surveys-at-home: Pay to get Scammed!

Another way to earn money on the net is through participating in survey sites, unfortunately, this money making method can also lead you into your downfall, as scammers take advantage of your ignorance to benefit themselves.

Among the scam sites who pretend to be a legitimate survey site is Paid-Surveys-at-Home.com, a survey site built on dirty business, and with a pig for an admin. The site itself appears bogus, with no contact nos., no forums, and not even a TOS. The site is darn full of crap, with offers here and offers there, but of course, all you can get from this site is snake oil, and it smells similarly to poop.

I smell some poop!

This lousy site makes empty promises of paying $5 to $75 per survey, a $50 to $150 per hour for participating in online focus groups, a $120/hr for taking phone surveys, get paid to try new products, and make money previewing movie trailers for $4 to $25 per hour! Now, these are some attractive offers, but of course, these offers are not real, unless proven, and unfortunately, Paid-Surveys-at-Home is not the type of business who means what they offer. The offers are too high in the first place, and one could only wonder if this site is made up of either philanthropists or scammers.

Any scam reports on this site?

There were reports of people getting ripped off by this site.

The site claims that they are a survey site, and that after paying a certain sum of money, they would enter you into surveys, where you can start earning. But after paying, instead of surveys, they will give you links to a handful of websites where you are asked to join and pay costly trial membership fees and be entered into contest drawings for vacations, gift cards, etc. Surprisingly, they turn up to be an ebook, and the survey front was merely a disguise. The deceptive procedure they employ is illegal, and thus, classifies this site as scam.

There were also reports that after you join this site, you are more likely going to receive unsolicited (spam) emails from companies you didn't even know. It looks like this scam not only scams people but also enlists you to various sites without your knowledge. This is what you can call spamming.

So, if you join and pay this site, it's like you pay them to spam you.

Virus Alert!

You should becareful of this site, just yesterday, I found some nasty scripts running on this site. The malicious script is named by Kaspersky Internet Security Suite as "Trojan-Downloader.HTML.Agent.ij", I could not find a virus description on this, but the fact that they possess virus-like characteristics is enough to consider it a threat, moreover, this is hosted on a scam site like this one, so it could be up to no good.