Online Survey Taker

Online survey taking is another thing I got myself into early on in my online adventure. I signed up with different survey outfits, having read from various websites that it is a good income generating opportunity.

I had actively participated in a handful of online surveys and most of them were unpaid projects. As compensation, my name was supposedly entered into raffles where certain cash prizes could be won. I never won any.

After some time I grew weary of waiting for surveys in my email and decided to just have my name removed from some survey sites. I don't get selected to be a participant anyway and I had started to read of many complaints from other persons who were not paid for taking part in purportedly paid surveys. Some survey sites turned out to be scams and I could attest to this:

One ordinary, boring day, I thought of googling my name out of curiosity. Lo and behold, I saw my full name online. I clicked on the url where my name was found and got into an "online survey" website. I then found out that I was a winner of $1000 in one of their monthly draws. I was pretty excited but confused as the month where I was supposedly a winner was 3 months ago at that time. It stated on the website that all winners were informed and a winner has 60 days to claim his or her prize before it is forfeited. I readily contacted the site and asked about it. After some time, I got an email stating that they made a mistake, that I was not really a winner and somebody else won the prize. Duh!