Make free money online?

DavidWardlaw · 1st May 2007, 02:54 AM

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It's supposed to pay you money for completing survey's.

Does this work? Has anyone tried it and actually gotten some money?

SY · 1st May 2007, 03:53 AM

TANSTAAFL.

These sorts of things are generally email list scams. I've edited out the link.

Ron E · 4th May 2007, 01:48 AM

I just got a mail with a crummy paper prayer rug with the face of jesus wearing a crown of thorns on it. The letter seemed to say I should just secretly send off a prayer request and some cashola and they would pray for me and I would be very likely to get what I want. Some language made it seem like something bad might happen if I didn't comply and/or that there was a big rush, I had to do it NOW. There was a picture of a woman who received $46,000, so it had to be ligit, right?

Alas, no, it was someone's money making scam. Some research turned up a preacher named Ewing (from Texas, just like J.R.) and his lawyer who appear to have been treading that grey area between charity and felony for 30+ years, now.

I had a friend in college who (between jobs) scraped together $20 and sent it to someone who promised to give information on how to make money at home stuffing envelopes. For $20 he got a crummy photocopy with the names of 3 pamphlets, each also $20 (and you had to buy all three). He didn't fall for the second scam, but the crummy photocopy was explanation enough how the original guy made money stuffing envelopes....

jacquesl · 9th May 2007, 08:59 AM

I tried those crap, it’s crap

These sorts of things are generally email list scams, damn right

alphakenny1 · 8th June 2007, 08:43 AM

thats not real of course.

KBK · 9th June 2007, 01:48 AM

I actually thought about getting on that bandwagon, in the mid 80's..where most of the adverts like that were run in the back of the ever popular 'enquirer' rag.

Mine would have been something like this, which would still work today:

I drive a brand new Mercedes Benz, every month! I'll show you how to get in on this exciting enterprise! Send $10, with SASE for return.

Etc.

It would have worked......

...enough for me to have driven a new MB every month.....

1st May 2007, 02:54 AM	#1
DavidWardlaw diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2006	Make free money online? link removed by moderators It's supposed to pay you money for completing survey's. Does this work? Has anyone tried it and actually gotten some money?

1st May 2007, 03:53 AM	#2
SY diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Austin, TX Blog Entries: 1	TANSTAAFL. These sorts of things are generally email list scams. I've edited out the link. __________________ “Listening to records is like ****ing a picture of Brigitte Bardot.” - Sergiu Celibidache

4th May 2007, 01:48 AM	#3
Ron E diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA, MN	I just got a mail with a crummy paper prayer rug with the face of jesus wearing a crown of thorns on it. The letter seemed to say I should just secretly send off a prayer request and some cashola and they would pray for me and I would be very likely to get what I want. Some language made it seem like something bad might happen if I didn't comply and/or that there was a big rush, I had to do it NOW. There was a picture of a woman who received $46,000, so it had to be ligit, right? Alas, no, it was someone's money making scam. Some research turned up a preacher named Ewing (from Texas, just like J.R.) and his lawyer who appear to have been treading that grey area between charity and felony for 30+ years, now. I had a friend in college who (between jobs) scraped together $20 and sent it to someone who promised to give information on how to make money at home stuffing envelopes. For $20 he got a crummy photocopy with the names of 3 pamphlets, each also $20 (and you had to buy all three). He didn't fall for the second scam, but the crummy photocopy was explanation enough how the original guy made money stuffing envelopes.... __________________ Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. --Carl Sagan Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. --Carl Sagan

9th June 2007, 01:48 AM	#6
KBK diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Wilds Of Canada	I actually thought about getting on that bandwagon, in the mid 80's..where most of the adverts like that were run in the back of the ever popular 'enquirer' rag. Mine would have been something like this, which would still work today: I drive a brand new Mercedes Benz, every month! I'll show you how to get in on this exciting enterprise! Send $10, with SASE for return. Etc. It would have worked...... ...enough for me to have driven a new MB every month..... __________________ "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." -- Malcolm Muggeridge. "Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

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9th May 2007, 08:59 AM	#4
jacquesl diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lego Land	I tried those crap, it’s crap These sorts of things are generally email list scams, damn right

8th June 2007, 08:43 AM	#5
alphakenny1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2006	thats not real of course.

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