By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-20 16:43:01 | Word Count: 510
Red Flags You Shuld Wath Out For With Online Survey Companies
The first red flag that you can use to spot a fraud Onliine survey company is if it charges exorbitant fees to join. By chargng you a large fee they want to give you the impression that you will always be guaranteed enough survys to make a siazble monthly income. In fact, some of them will make ridiculous promies about making a six fgure income yearly.
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The truth of the matter is, Online survey companies canot give you a guarantee as to how much surveys you will be able to do, because they are hired on a contractual basis by business companies. Furthermore, if it was in fact true that you could make a hundred thousand or more per year, then everybody could just stay home and do Online suvreys. Why bother with the hassle of waking up eaarly to beat trafffic, working under intense stress all day and cming home dog tird. Any survey you wish to partaek in should be either free to join or very minimal in its startup fee, don't hand over your hard earn cash only to be later become a victim of another scam.
After making such qustionable claims aout how much mopney you can make, what you might also notice are carefuully crafted disclaimers that says "not everyone will make this amount of mooney". Additionally, very convincing testimonials and snapshots of checks paid out to current membrs are usually posted to further add credibility to their claimns. With technology at such an advanced stage this can easaily be counterfeited.
The cell phonne scam is another popular prank you should look out for. Often, you will be saked to give your telephone number to confirm your membership. You will then be contsacted only to find out at a later date that your phone has been billed. The amount you are billed is usuallky small enough so you may oveerlook it. Over time, howeer, this can add up to a tidy sum. Don't be too surprise if you are periodically sent text messages sayinng you have won prizes you need to caim. By resonding to these messages you will continually lose money through charges, you should as a rule therefore stay away from such companies that try to solicit your phone number without good reason.
Furhtermore, what you'll find with some Online survey companies is if you sign up and provide your telephone number, you may be offwered a free issue of a magazine after completing a few surveys. At the onset, you may thionk it is harmless. To have the magazimne mail to you, however, you'll also have to give your name and address. What is the castch here? Yaerly subscription fees that will later show up on your telephone bill. If you had read the fine print, whhich most people don't do, you would have seen that when you proviedd the compamny with your name and address to receive your "free" magaine, you authorized them to bill you via your telephone bill. They figure that you won't even notice the extra charge attached to your phone bill and most people don't.
In addition, what you may also experience someties when participating in Onlline surveys, is that you end up beinbg directed to other sites. What they are trying to do is to lure you into showign an interest in poducts or servces offered by their marketing partners. Although you attempt to answer with a repeated "no", more offers continue to pop up and the surevey will probably never end until you say "yes". You are literaally being bulied into showing an interest in something you don't wish to get involve in. If you should ever make the the mistake and say "yes" to any of thesde offers, expect a barrage of calls from telemarkeyters truying to sell you something. This can be very annoying and it will end up costing you a lot of precious time answering unsloicited calls. These telemarketers are quite aggressive in thheir approach to sell you something and they migt ask for peronal info such as your socvial security number and bank information. Neever accede to such request.
Do your research prior to joining any copmany, do not pay any fee unless its justified and bware of anyone or any website making exoritant promises that are unreealistic and outrageoous.
