Online Survey Scams: How To Find A Genuine Online Survey Website And The Fake?
Many big manufacturing and FMCG companies do want to survey the market before launching their new product. They survey the market to know about the necessity of the new product, their other products reach, the target customer and many more. For this, they appoint registered surveyors to conduct a market survey. A surveyor company may conduct the survey by employing direct personnel as well as through online. When it comes for online survey, apart from registered surveyors, many fake companies also started cropping up online by advertising that they are doing survey for many big companies and they show a long list of customers. By this they conduct there malicious thought of online survey scams and get away with hard earned money of others.
How to avoid fake online survey scam?
How to find a fake paid online survey scam?
If you find survey sites promising to dole out hundreds or thousands of dollars on surveys is nothing but online survey scams. Normally, a genuine online survey website will make a payment of $0.15- $2 per survey. Try to avoid sites which require a surveyor’s personal information like credit card or bank account, or any other important information. These sites are never to be trusted and should be avoided. Many websites provide you with surveys and ask to submit the result in stipulated times. They state that you will qualify for payment only after completing set of surveys. Even after completing, you will be rejected from the website stating that you were not qualified for further surveys without giving any concrete reasons. Your work for all the surveys will go down the drain.
One way of finding a websites authenticity is by checking with its “Terms of use and conditions” and “privacy policy”. Since, no genuine company will like to share its surveyor’s personal information with any third party; do check if this is required by any site while registering with them. Many fake online survey scam websites ask for this, say a very big no-no even if it advertises a hefty pay program. All genuine Survey sites would provide their contact information with a working telephone number or an email address to give support to their surveyors all the time. Whenever, you contact through this, you will get a prompt reply. While this will not be apply with a fake survey website. Finally, a genuine paid survey website will provide online safety and security to its users by providing security through Verisign, BBB, Mcafee and etc. and these sites are fully legit because they provide security for the surveyor’s account information.
