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Paid Surveys

Paid surveys may seem like a great way to make money, but most of them never pay or force you to make 75 dollars to earn a payout. You may think it’ll be an easy 5 bucks, but for the time these surveys take, it is not worth it. Finding an actual job at minimum wage would actually pay much more.

Ringtone Services

These Websites or TV offers make it seem like you send them your phone number and they send you one or five free ringtones with no strings attached. For those who don’t pay attention to the fine print this seems like a great deal, but they lock you up and charge somewhere between $10-15 a month for something around the area of 10 ringtone credits. The only way to cancel is to send an abstract message to a random phone number which you would have to look up. These offers lock you up and charge a lot of money every month for things you probably wouldn’t want and are very tricky.

Free Item Offers

Websites like these show you a Wii or an Xbox 360 and say all you have to do is give us your email (so they can spam you with hundreds of emails for “free” things) and your home address so we know where to ship it to and you’ll be the proud owner of a new video game system. Before they send your “free” gift you have to complete bronze, silver, or gold offers. These offers are normally subscription services which require a monthly fee, after subscribing to these they will send you your free gift, but by giving them your home address, they will give it to partnering companies and spam you through the mail and your email address constantly. If you do realize this after sending them your email, they will still spam you until you tell them not to. After having to complete all of these subscription offers your “free gift” isn’t actually free.

Offer Redeeming Websites Like TikTikCash

Some of these sites where you complete offers, like the free gift ones as I mentioned above, actually do pay you and you can earn some actual money from them, like Gangster Greed, but for the most part they do not. They are similar to the paid survey sites, they have a high payout threshold that you will most likely never reach, require you to complete offers like the free ones where they will spam your email address (I once got 399 in one day), and even if you do reach that payout some don’t even pay. They also make you have your offers approved, which means the company has to tell the redeeming site that you completed the offer, and this may take weeks. The only worthwhile way to make money on the internet is Gangster Greed, from my experience they actually pay, but for the most part these sites are terrible and don’t work. Again, like the paid survey sites, these sites seem like you can make some pocket change, but a real job again is better.

Sites That Make You Pay Them To Access Get Rich Quick Schemes

Some sites say “We have a site that will pay you 25-75$ per survey you take and each survey takes 5-10 minutes!” These sites may sound good, but they make you pay them for the access to these sites, which usually either don’t exist or never pay you. They may seem like you can make lots of money working off of the internet, but you can’t and you have to give them your credit card, which is never good.

I hope that after reading this article no one is sucked in the way that a lot of helpless Americans are, but if you just read the fine print and don’t make hasty decisions, you can never fall into these traps!