MyLot Tasks Scam

I, too, was wondering whether myLot had any responsibility for the tasks that are posted here. And I definitely noticed that the alert didn't mention anything other than to put it upon you to contact paypal.

I think mylot has a responsibility to take it down if it's against the guidelines.

However, I can't believe that people fall for this stuff. Anybody who can use the internet enought to use mylot has been warned of internet scam artists.

Well the people who put the tasks up with the intention of scamming are hardly going to let Mylot know that is the case. Mylot might see an innocent looking task, without knowing the author is planning on scamming. I don't look at the tasks so I don't know what these scam ones would say, but I'm assuming mylot can't tell which will be scams, just like we can't tell.

Yeah, I have receieved such an alert so far.

At first, I am feeling lucky because I have never done such a task before. Secondly, I think all friends here should say thanks to the staffs of myLot, although they really have the responsibility to monitor and approve all tasks posted. Thirdly, this scam task tells us that you will lose a lot if you try to covet a little.

Good luck! Happy myLotting!

I saw a discussion about those types of tasks
while reading it I had to think to my self 'what type of dumbarse is stupid enough to fall for that load of caca?'

There is a use for MyLot member tasks (I'm seriously thinking of posting for help on researching for my "real" job) but they must be very carefully scrutinised. Surely there must be a keyword algorithm MyLot can use, so tasks like this are incapable of being posted?

I knew the ptc "tasks" had returned - but I didn't realise they'd become criminal! MyLot have devalued the whole concept of the site, in my opinion. I don't do tasks any more - because how do I know what I'm doing won't end up with me being scammed?

I think myLot has indemnified themselves quite clearly in their Terms of Use Agreement regarding the tasks. It states, among other things, that:

"myLot is not involved in the transactions between Taskers and Workers. As a result, myLot has no control over the quality, safety or legality of the services or the ability of the Workers to provide the services to the Tasker’s satisfaction. myLot is not responsible for the actions of any myLot member. myLot does not conduct any screening or other verification with respect to myLot members, nor do we provide any recommendations."

When they say they aren't responsible for the actions of any myLot member, that clearly means on either side of the tasks, since a person has to be a member to have access to that area. As anywhere else online, we are expected to be responsible for our own actions and decisions.

You ask if people would report guideline violations in the tasks... I know I would. I also realize, though, that I am limited to escalating something for their consideration and I have no impact on their final decision about what stays and what goes... but I do feel I'm doing my part, as they've requested.

Hello there!
I certainly agree with you on that! Mylot is a website and it's nice that they gave us a warning and how to stop this, but they should always help by stopping this situation in the first place. Mylot has to accept tasks before they are publicly viewed, so they should deny those tasks. Actually, I am not sure if they do check the tasks before they get published, cause I've never made a task here, but on other sites that's what they do, cause if they don't, as far as I'm concerned, you might aswell just be writing out a whole lot of junk with stuff that don't even make sense or write out abusive language.

So yes, I think that mylot should check all tasks before they get published, and they should have known it was a scam before they even published it, like seriously, who's gonna double pay you back the money you gave them? No one! They won't even give back the money they need to, you will get nothing!

Another thing that has been brought to my attention is that people are creating tasks and getting people to do there tasks, which of course if fair. However it's not fair when the creator of the task does not accept the task, and just leaves it in pending work, as the work for them was done, and the person that did it for them was not paid. Absolutely not fair. That's why I am careful what tasks I do, I don't do tasks from any member under 200 posts unless I know them, cause they wouldn't cheat and risk there whole mylot account.

They shouldn't allow tasks that say you to pay someone first, I think thats pretty simple.

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