Paid Survey Scam (AW Surveys)

@careasl (257)
United States
April 5, 2010 3:22pm CST
I've had a bad experince with this one site called AW surveys. They are a scam! If anyone is considering joining this site, please don't because they will waste your time and never pay you! After this experience, I started blogging about some legitimate survey opportunities as well as some other stuff. Has anyone had a bad or experience with paid surveys. I'm interested in posting reviews in the near future
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16 responses
@bucklord (349)
• United States
5 Apr 10
This site has been a known scam for quite a long time. I'd say at least a year. It's unfortunate that you didn't read about it before you wasted your time.
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@hhtyww (44)
• China
5 Apr 10
hello.good morning,thank you for warning.I have experince about surveys.and had never been paid before.all sureys seems like wasting my time.they did not give me any surveys.maybe i do not fit their needs.if you have any good survey site.please tell me.thank you
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• United States
6 Apr 10
i'll second that.i checked out that site-complete waste of time. number one,they promise way too much money for the smallest tasks. on the other hand,opinion outpost is pretty good.
@careasl (257)
• United States
6 Apr 10
I love opinion outpost as well. Mindfield Online is a great site also
@dminotaur (134)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
Well, did anyone _at least_ get anything from that website? Someone in the thread did make a statement of making $28 - I hope this isn't something to get us all interested again (No, never signed up for that). Any other Paid Survey scams that we should know about? :)
@careasl (257)
• United States
6 Apr 10
You can review legitimate surveys on surveypolice.com or add me to view my blog about paid surveys
• France
6 Apr 10
My brother set up this site for a long time the bulk of the work I know where they set up recently and there have most of the scams of this type of sites do not contemplate them never to be be working a bit and then focus I hope to leave everyone and move towards the best thing seriously.
@wulania (1524)
• Indonesia
29 Dec 11
so did i. it is the first site which scammed me 7 years old. i trusted the site because it has good face. it offers too much mone for simple jobs. too good sounds not to be true. many peopla have been scammed by this and the owner of av surveys is still scamming people by making such site
@youless (112108)
• Guangzhou, China
6 Apr 10
AW Surveys is a big scam. I often see it. Actually in the past I joined it since it was attractive. But soon I realized it was a scam. I am glad that you posted this discussion. At least there will be less innocent people to join it. I love China
@Falin76 (35)
6 Apr 10
Thanks for the warning, I will let all my customers know! I can't understand why anyone would promote a scam site, I want to keep my customers happy so I only give them good surveys sites!
@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
6 Apr 10
I signed up a while back with something called marketview research. You don't make money, but sometimes they send you complete sized products to review them for research purposes. So far, I have received shampoo, moisturizer for the face, exfoliators, body wash and after sun care and foundation. You don't always know what brand you are trying out, but some of the brands were Aveeno and Selsun Blue.
@jules67 (2788)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
I had been a member of that survey site a long time ago. But then I just felt dubious about it that was why I decided to do more research. I found out that it was a scam and i immediately stopped doing the surveys.
@bnx2212 (712)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
I wonder why there's still many people promoting the site to get referrals since it had been known for a long time that they are scam...
@ridwan08 (1183)
• Indonesia
6 Apr 10
yes i know that AW survey it's a scan,Im a member of Aw survey and they never pay me although i have minimum payout.please check scam list brother.you can see AW survey it's a scam,be careful.that can waste your time
@klea28 (47)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
i joined aw surveys a few days ago. thanks!
@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
I also joined AW surveys last year, can you imagine 1 dollar survey a month and you have to wait for $75 earning before you can cash out. It will take a long time before you reach this amount. I stop opening this site cause it will do no good to me, it only waste my time. I read before that this site is not a scam, but I guess I already prove it that this is a scam so pls. do not join this site.
@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
5 Apr 10
Not with paid surveys, but one site in particular-I got up to the payout and they disappeared only to pop up under another name, and now I can't find them at all...I forget the name they used to go by...but now they're wanting you to pay for membership..they give you a 7 day trial..supposedly it's $10 to review each website. I did my work, never got paid, they disappeared then reappeared then disappeared. ARGH
• Portugal
5 Apr 10
yeah, i tried awsurveys they succk, its been a month now and i havent been paid yet, bas*****... whtaver, i dont care, i created a number of accounts to see if it was true, and added them under my name there got to the payout, and no money for me, whatever, i screw them over anyways.