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The one thing that you will find on the Net is that a whole lot of people are looking for ways of making money, and there are just as many who would love to help them in their pursuit of fortune. The problem is that most of those wanting to help turn out to be unscrupulous characters whose only interest is to fleece them of their cash.

Take for example those sites that promise that you can make a comfortable living working from home by completing surveys. Imagine making a living working from home? That would appeal to almost anybody. How many of us have seen Paid Survey sites offering the following as an incentive to join, these may vary from site to site but in general they are very similar.

Need money? Want to work from home? Then sit back, and get paid for what you think.
Get paid to take online surveys – $5 to $75 per survey!
Get paid to participate in online focus groups up to $150 per hour!
Get paid to try new products – keep the products and get paid too!
Get paid to preview movie trailers $4 to $25 per hour!

You will then generally get a sales pitch telling you how many companies they have on their books etc. and will usually end with something similar to the following:

Look at how much you can earn taking surveys online all from the comfort of home!
If you took 2 surveys a day @ $10 per survey = $140 per week or $560 per month or $6,720 per year!
If you took 4 surveys a day @ $10 per survey = $280 per week or $1120 per month or $13,440 per year!
If you took 4 surveys a day @ $20 per survey = $560 per week or $2240 per month or $26,880 per year!

So you can make all this, and all they will ask is for a small fee of between $30 & $60.

Lets quote an old cliché, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

What really lets these sites down is the final pitch they make to suck people in. Lets examine the point where you can make $6720 per year. It is very unlikely you will get anywhere near this amount as you would be extremely lucky to get even 1 survey a day let alone 2. Few surveys pay $10, most will pay between $1 to $3. Also usually before getting to complete a whole survey you will get asked a few screening questions, depending on your answers you may not be accepted for the survey. Now its hard enough getting 1 survey a day at $10 a survey, what do you think your chances are at getting 4 surveys at $20 a survey.

The other thing you have to be wary of is the pitch where they tell you they have hundreds of companies online who are screaming for people to join and start taking surveys. In reality what you will get is a list that has many duplicate or out dated links. The sole intention of these companies is to put their hand in your pockets to extract money from you not to put it in.

I am not saying that all these sites are crooked, there may well be some honest ones just make sure you do your home work before joining.

All being said you can make extra cash doing surveys just not the unreasonable amounts being offered. Of course the more companies you join the more surveys you will be offered. Remember to fill out all your profiles as completely as possible. The more complete your profile the more surveys will be offered to you. The thing is that you don’t have to pay money to get a list of survey sites, many just like The Elusive Pot Of Gold, offer it for free.

Join enough companies and who knows how much you can truly earn!

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