Review of Cashback Research

Enter the search text in google - 'online surveys UK' or similar. Very often the featured ad of the Cashback Research will appear. They promise £20 a day for completing surveys online and 'You won't get rich' sounds realistic. The site even will give you £2.50 bonus for signing in. Here is what happens if you take their offer.

After the signing in process, which is more or less straight forward, you do get £2.50 at your account. However this money is virtual, to get any money out of them the balance has to be £10. There is an 'Interest Survey', a simple profile survey which will pay £0.50, so this will bring the balance to £3. The rest are daily surveys, very long and look more like a marketing ploy, the questions are too personal. Each one pays 25p, and believe me, it is easier to find 25p on the street than to complete a survey like this. By the end of each survey 5p will be wasted on electricity for the computer, and even if 20p is earned, to complete 20 or so similar surveys is a very big job. Furthermore, even for these surveys to appear, one has to complete something on the right side of the page, e.g. Survey Central. They will try to sell hundreds of products on 20 pages or so. At the end the details will be sold further to different scammers. They'll need your telephone number 'In case you win'. Everyone 'wins', as if they do get your number, the scammers will start calling. From fake companies trying to sell non existing shares to the more sophisticated Club LaCosta pushing you to spend many thousands of pounds through different promotional tricks.

After each time one of these Survey Central questionnaires is filled, the email address always falls in the hands of the scammers from West Africa. I still can't figure out how do these guys get it, they are not paying for it, one of the Survey Central 'bonuses' perhaps.

There are other ways, like to sign up to eight other panels for £5. The balance is still £9 then, and there are others on the internet offering more for the same sign up. Or £4 for Mega casino, but then you have to spend at least £10 and give them your credit cards details.

The conclusion: Time wasted, the reward is way below the national minimum wage, no guarantee of payout, your details will be sold further. Avoid!
 

Earn money with online surveys

Many people are trying to make money online. The internet is full of catchphrases - 'How to make money online', 'Working from home', 'Part time jobs', 'Flexible hours'. It is possible to make money online by completing surveys, but it is difficult and a lot of research has to be done.

Each week I am going to review a company offering online surveys in the UK. Most of them are dishonest in a sense that they take a lot of information, waste a lot of your time but don't pay out anything. Surely they do promise to pay but eventually the limit to achieve is too high, or the number of surveys is too low, or each survey is worth 1p. One thing is sure - within a couple of days you'll start getting emails from Nigerian scammers. However there are a few decent companies and there is money to be made. Please watch this space for reviews.