I needed a task to get done and used Microworkers since they are one of the biggest sites. Read in my article why I would NEVER do this again and CANNOT recomment it! They are SCAM!
Ok, I needed a few hundred Facebook likes and needed a task website where I could start a task to get those likes.
Microworkers is one of the leading websites to do this, where members can earn good money for doing tasks like Facebook likes, Youtube comments or other stuff.
Anyway, the first negative thing is that you NEED to deposit money when you want to start a task. You cannot use your account balance for the first task you would like to start.
So I had to deposit money although I had over $5 in my account.
I started the task and the quality of the responses I got was horrible. Maybe 10% of the workers got the simple LIKE correct! Many did like the wrong thing, did nothing at all or did not give the link to their Facebook profile.
Excuse me, but how hard can it be to open a link and click like on THAT page???
Due to me rejecting most of the workers, Microworkers paused my campaign and sent me a message that workers had problems with opening my link. Yeah sure! They were just too stupid for that easy task!
Microworkers asked me to give the correct link. I answered the support ticket that the link is working and guess what?
Nothing happened.
The task is paused for almost three days now. I do not get any answers from support.
As long as the task is paused, I can neither edit nor stop it and I cannot accept or deny workers that are pending.
I have over $10 of cash in that task! I want that money back!
The funny thing is that Microworkers automatically approves all pending workers after 7 days. So I can already imagine what will happen with the 269 people in queue since I cannot deny them: They will get paid although 90% of them did NOT what I asked them to do!!!
And Microworkers does not care.
Microworkers is SCAM, their support is non-existent and it’s a pure rip-off!
They are scam and this is my warning! Do NEVER ever send them money. Never start a task with them!
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May 3rd, 2012 at 10:59 am
Wow, and OMG. How awful, thanks for the heads up.
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:56 am
Tell you what this is a good link, i was scamed to the tune of ten thousand dollers once never again and am still realing from that. i totaly agree do not do anything that you are not sure of check it out first. if they have control forget it . thank you good one…..
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:57 am
Must add to that my scam was something different but a very big one, with inventerlink .com
May 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Well I am a member there an i actually never had a problem. But then again I never added a task there. I can see your frustration.
May 3rd, 2012 at 3:47 pm
A certain online friend had the same issue with this site, I just wonder why the admin is so reluctant to support task creators.
May 3rd, 2012 at 4:59 pm
A rough time, ouch
May 4th, 2012 at 5:54 am
This is really terrible. People are so selfish nowadays that they simply rip-off others and still can pretend as though nothing happened. I hope you will get back your money ASAP.
May 4th, 2012 at 9:23 am
Sorry you got scammed and thanks for the warning.
May 4th, 2012 at 9:37 am
I am a member of Microworkers, I didn’t deposit anything, but i earn little because of this. You just choose to be a merchant or employee, if you choose to be a merchant then you must deposit some money. but if you choose as employee, you just do what people ask and then they will give you some money if they approve. I have got $ 4.00 for this.and I never deposit money
May 4th, 2012 at 9:48 am
I am inactive member of it, thanks for this article.
May 4th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Thanks for the note…
May 4th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Thank You!
May 4th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Very good info
May 5th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Wow, have you report this onto MyWot.com? It would be nice to share this. I seen the ratings of the site and it’s green. It should go down.
June 6th, 2012 at 2:43 am
Thanks for the tip. There are lots of scams out there.