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Scary Survey I Did NOT Take

February 9th, 2007 at 10:35 am

One of the legitimate paying survey companies offered me a survey today that would have paid $20. But when I saw what it involved, it totally freaked me out. They wanted me to register 2 credit cards and one bank account with them so they could track my spending. Are they freaking nuts? Give them my bank account number and my credit card numbers? Not bloodly likely!

In this day and age of identity theft this was highly disturbing. In fact the longer I think about it the more I'm thinking I should actually lodge a formal complaint with this survey management team, that's how dangerous I think this is of them to even think about requesting this information from people trying to bring in extra income. And there will be some people naive enough or inexperienced enough to actully give this information away.

Posted in Off on a Tangent | 7 Comments »

7 Responses to “Scary Survey I Did NOT Take”

  1. yummy64 Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 12:50 pm 1171025442
    1171025442

    They wanted what?

    I'm so glad to hear you ran away from that *special opportunity*

  2. nance Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 01:21 pm 1171027286
    1171027286

    Since I signed up with some supposedly "legitimate" survey companies, I have received a ton of junk emails, and lots of scams. I wish I had never started the process. A few dollars now and then is not worth the aggrivation.

  3. Ima saver Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 02:04 pm 1171029897
    1171029897

    Are you sure they were legitimate?

  4. librarylady Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 02:48 pm 1171032509
    1171032509

    What company/survey was it? I would like to avoid that one!

  5. Broken Arrow Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 04:50 pm 1171039808
    1171039808

    That doesn't sound like a survey at all. More like a phishing scam.

  6. carol Says:
    February 9th, 2007 at 07:43 pm 1171050230
    1171050230

    I'm glad I took time to read this post. I have tried signing up with several paid survey sites but none of them have ever paid me one dollar. I still hear good comments about PineCone so I might still check that one out. That puts up huge red flags in my mind, any company that asks for credit card accounts and bank accounts so they could track my spending??!! I don't think so!! Find out the name of this survey company and post it please. I want to be able to stay 100,000 miles away from them.

    What I have found to work is the paid to read e mails/ads sites.
    Hits4pay, Inbox Dollars, Snap Dollars, Send Earnings are a few of my favorites and I am tracking them carefully, plus they all have physical addresses as well as e mail addresses and phone numbers. For me this seems to be the way to go, and I am getting close to cashing out at several of them already. They send actual company checks.

  7. LuckyRobin Says:
    February 10th, 2007 at 07:03 am 1171090994
    1171090994

    Well, it was Lightspeed that was doing it but they were doing it as a branch to another company. I have always had a good experience with Lightspeed, they have paid me well for good, legitimate surveys, I think someone was just asleep at the wheel on this one.

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