While many people are searching online to make more FREE money, they aren’t always aware that they’re being hooked by some scam sites. Ridiculously high payout is always good bait for those scam sites to rip off people over and over again across the internet.
This is a continual piece of my previous article entitled Six worldwide scams you should know.
High return sounds too good to be true so will they pay you? NO! They’re definitely not paying you even a penny because they’re telling a BLATANT LIE! Don’t fall into their TRAP! They’re all utterly RUBBISH instead! It’s a WASTE OF TIME!
While many people are searching online to make more FREE money, they aren’t always aware that they’re being hooked by some scam sites. This is because for those who need the money badly to pay for their living cost, especially during the economic crisis, they always think that there will be a slim chance for them to earn some quick bucks as promised by those SCAM sites. Ridiculously high payout is always good bait for those scam sites to rip off people over and over again across the internet.
BigMoneyPTC.com is one of the biggest scams on the internet that have cheated many people. They promise to process payment on the 60 business day after your account reaches the minimum $1000 but this promise remains just a PROMISE. Your $1000 will just sit as a “pending withdrawal” even after 3 months, 6 months and etc. When you request them to cash out your money, they ignore your mail. They’ll let their site be there ripping people off before their reputation goes bad, and until their site is forced to close down when their domain expires. However, by then, they’ve stolen a lot of money from innocent individuals and small businesses by having other similar sites to rip off people all over and over again.
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By now, BigMoneyPTC is upgrading a “payment proof” because they realize that many people knowing that they’re a scam and won’t use their accounts anymore. This is FAKE instead, because the payment for those so-called premium members was made less than 40 days which is contradicted to their term. Further, this list appears as a normal spreadsheet, which I think can be created easily, so how could this be a genuine payment details?
BigMoneyPTC.com is very smart indeed. They know how to use different cunning methods to convince people to join them. In order to bury public attention to not on their scam activities, they persuade people to become a premium member by promising more ads for you to click on. You’re requested to pay $19.95 to buy a monthly membership. Upon joining, yes, they do give you 50-60 ads to click per day, that equals to $50-$60 and within 20 days, you could earn $1,000 or more. This sounds like a BIG MONEY, but will they pay? No, THEY WON’T. As I mentioned earlier, your earning of $1,000 still sit as a “pending withdrawal” for more than 4 months or more even though they promise to pay with 60 business days. Promails.org is another scam site that promises huge payment per click, but you can only cash out when your account reaches a minimum payout threshold of $10,000. Well, you could simply make more money per day in this site, but will they pay? NO! They’re definitely not paying because they’re telling a BLATANT LIE! Don’t fall into their TRAP! Don’t trust those youtube videos saying that they’d earned lot of money from BigMoneyPTC.com. They’re all utterly RUBBISH instead!
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Rich PTC is a fake site too. It’s a sister site to BigMoney PTC using the SIMILAR SYSTEM. I’ll guarantee you that they’ll never pay you even a penny. They’re wasting your time and most people’s time by viewing 30-second ads which claimed to earn you $1. Rich PTC, bigMoney PTC and ptcwallet.com as well, are all ran and set up by the same person, Michael Pratt. Don’t you forget that Buxcorp.com and Dingo were being shut down for cheating people’s money? Michael Pratt sets up a site and rips off as much as he can before the site closes down, and later he opens another site to cheat their money over and over again. Now, everything becomes clear that he opens one PTC site following by another PTC site just to cheat people.
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There are actually no advertisers at those sites. How could advertisers promise for such a high return? Think that, $1 per click per ads, or $10 for just signing up, or 50% of referral’s earnings? Hey, are you joking with me?
Look at the terms stated in BigMoneyPTC.com and Richptc.com -”All earnings listed and/or represented by Richptc.com are estimated value(s), actual value(s) subject to change with or without notice” and “All earnings listed and/or represented by bigmoneyptc.com are estimated value(s), actual value(s) subject to change with or without notice”. What if the $1,000 you accumulated on those accounts turn into any value lower than $1,000, say $0.10, $1, or $10? There might be a possibility here since they say $1,000 is just an ESTIMATED VALUE and SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. What rubbish are they talking here? Therefore, I’d not encourage you to join those scam sites. It’s a WASTE OF TIME!
The existence of BigmoneyPTC, and other similar PTC sites undoubtedly are causing many legitimate PTC sites to slowly die out because they’re a lot of scam PTC sites out there. Furthermore, the legitimate site can’t promise to pay $1 per click per ads and the better price that they could possibly offer is up to $0.02 per click per ads. When there’re so many scam PTC sites outnumbering genuine PTC sites on the internet, it would be harder to get people to believe that the legitimate sites will really pay. This means, these scam PTC sites have spoiled legitimate PTC businesses completely.
I think something should be done to get all those scam sites closed down by not signing up or by informing others about those scam sites. They’re really the biggest cyber crime and it’s now become a massive criminal business which I think, the local authority and police should take these criminals seriously by bringing them to justice or putting them in a jail. These crimes are on the rise, and it’s time that the head of the country should take them seriously. And I think, these scammers should be sent to the prison.
If people stop falling for those scam PTC sites by not supporting or spamming them in the forum or elsewhere, then only the legitimate PTC sites would strive to offer a better reward to their users.
Besides these scam PTC sites, many survey companies that promise to pay you $50-$100 for filling simple surveys within short period of time, say 20 minutes, are more likely a scam, or those sites who promise to pay a high return of $400 per day may also be a scam. You’ll never get so many surveys to fill in as claim by them. This is just a DIRTY TRICK they use to convince you to signup for them. But I know Brand Institute did pay me $35 for simply filling two surveys and they don’t have so many surveys (20 surveys per day) to fill in as claimed by those scam sites.
People should also be careful not to be fooled by scammers who use myspace, facebook, MSN messenger, or any other cyber platform to ask people to donate money under the name of WHO, or any renowned organizations/ companies. These are all RUBBISH instead! They just aim to rip off money from the innocent victims.
People used to accuse Bukisa as a scam site. No, it’s not a scam site. As like Triond, they do pay. I’ve received some payments from Bukisa and two years’ payment from Triond. At least up to now, they’re not scam sites. Hopefully, they’ll not become scam sites in the future. If they were like that, their business will definitely collapse as more and more people will spam their sites and of course the sites will be shut down for a bad reputation.
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October 1st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Great Work
Keep The good work on
Best Regards
October 1st, 2009 at 9:48 am
Yeah, those scams are pretty easy to spot, but when people are in desperate need of money, they’ll try anything. I definitely caught myself looking into similar things some months ago. Thankfully, I wised up rather quickly.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:59 am
I am amazed and enthralled, -what a hard-hitting docu-article! I have been saying this on the forum regarding these sites based solely upon first, their suspicious naming and dubious user-data… WHAT SITE posts reams of ‘user data’ showing their earnings?! HE-LLO?! That is not right, it is ‘bait.’ If Triond were to post the ‘monthly earnings’ of their users (even if the names were obfuscated slightly to conceal their true identity) I would cry foul! That is not of anybody’s business how much I, you or s/he makes and sure as hell publishing it only tries to make the site look good, not the earning potential of the writer.
GOOD JOB ON THIS ARTICLE and you get Stumbles for this!
-thestickman
October 1st, 2009 at 10:05 am
very useful information for everybody
October 1st, 2009 at 10:07 am
very useful information for everybody..
October 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
thanks for warning us.some sites are really cheats!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Very good article calling attention to some of the Internet scams.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Thank you for all the information. It is such a dreadful feeling when you have been conned. Good work.
Christine
October 1st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
An excellent article I wish occupies the top of ‘hot content’. People write articles with catchy titles “Top 5 or 10 or whatever scam sites” but don’t deal with even 1 site at length. You have given the modus operandi and I only hope it opens the eyes of many likely victims.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Thanks for this thought provoking article. Very good!
October 1st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I’ve always thought that any site that can offer so much in such a short time must be shady. Thanks for letting everyone know about these rip-off artists.
Monica.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Thanks for the warning Chan!
October 1st, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Thank you for looking out for others and writing this article to inform and keep us protected Chan.
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
October 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
A very timely wake up call. Thanks for sharing my friend. I’d rather click my friends at thriond for comments than those anomalous sites.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Chan, you are doing a public service and I hope people will listen to you. You really must be careful. If you are asked for money don’t send it. I have done surveys in the past and they pay practically nothing. A dollar once in awhile and a small token of a gift. The most I recieved was three bras for testing them a week. In many surveys that offer money, after you answer all the questions, they tell you that you don’t qualify for the survey.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Chan, thank you so much for sharing the information you learned through your hard work researching. It hurts to be scanned after spending time or money in an enterprise.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:16 pm
This is great and very huseful info, Chan, thanks a lot for sharing it.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 am
Thanks for kind warming
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 am
Sorry for typo error: it should be ‘warning’
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 am
Thanks for warning us on these scam sites.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 am
Too bad, many people still fall for it. Thanks for the article.
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 am
WoW!:) ..Excellent post! Thanks for sharing this useful and keep us update on the latest news of this important topic..
You’re right, we need to be more aware on this scams sites..spend little time to read this article..worth visiting. Lol…Nice one..it’s really helpful article..Thanks You:)
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:03 am
Great information to know, Chan! Any time you see a high pay out requirement is a good indication that’s a scam!
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
I guess there will always be people out there trying to take advantage of human gullibility… Great read!
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am
A very helpful article! Thanks for the info!
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
This is very helpful. It’s a shame that people would take advantage of other people who are looking for any sign of hope that they can earn some extra money. Thank you so much for sharing this with us Chan.
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 am
Another excellent post and thank you so much for the info.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Chan, thanks for the good information and the update. You have to be so careful as these things sound so good and then they are not. Thank you for your time and research.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanks for the awesome information and web site. Scams like this need to be exposed! Well done.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Thank you for writing on this topic. I am always very happy to be alerted to scams. I also like to see the mechanisms behind the scams, as it makes me more astute and able to pick them out in the future.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Thanks for the warning. But I think the owner/s of the site would eventually build another site with a different name to scam people further. I think people who want to join should investigate further before joining any site.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
It’s amazing how people use a good thing to manipulate others. Thanks, Chan Lee. Brian
October 31st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Thanks for making me aware of this!