AWSurveys is another one of those online survey sites offering payments for filling out online surveys.

Here’s how the AWSurveys program works:Membership is free and there is a $6 bonus just for joining. You start by simply giving a short evaluation of 2 websites at a time for which you receive a $4 payment. There is a referral program that pays $1.25 for each person you refer that joins free. In my first session, I netted $27. AWSurveys are supposed to send surveys every month, but the only thing I got was a monthly entry into a prize draw.

I wrote a blog post entitled “Making Money With Online Surveys at AWSurvey.com” in order  to promote it and earn commission for referrals. The post did well and I was ready to claim my commission. However, by the time I was ready to collect, I already knew what to expect as several articles started popping up about the AWSurveys scam.

I applied for them to send payments through Paypal and the first thing they did was to deduct $25 for processing charges. I was supposed to hear frrom them in  5 working days. After about 5 weeks of waiting,  I contacted them and received this ludicrous response:

Hello dejagib,

We have processed and Denied your payment. Your Account has been flagged for what appears to be fraudulent activities, for more information please read below.

This could be for any of the following reasons:

- Same IP Address (All of your referrals signed up from the same computer)

- Low or no Survey taking ratio (Your referrals took 0 surveys)

- Promoting A.W.Surveys in a way that violates our T.O.S.

- Other Fraudulent Activity detections we have in place

Please Open a Ticket with us if you believe your account has been flagged incorrectly. Do not reply to this E-Mail.

Thank you,
A.W.Surveys

I did not even bother to reply. The above “possible” violations are so general, they could tell it to anyone and they couldn’t prove otherwise. All I did to promote them was to get referrals from my blog post. This seems to be a criminal attempt at getting numerous email addresses to sell to mailing lists.

DO NOT waste your time with AWSurveys! Personally, I have given up on surveys and have decided to use my own talents through pay-per-click advertising. I have joined the outstanding ppc training program at PPC-Coach.com and am making money while learning how to promote affiliate offers from reputable CPA Networks like Neverblueads, COPEAC and Revenue Loop.

Going this route, I am sure I won’t get scammed!

Lately, I have been attempting to make some extra money online by filling out surveys. I have tried several sites including Greenfield and Survey Spot that promise big payouts, but almost always enter you into a draw for cash giveaway, which means you’re entering a lottery where few people will win….no guarantee of rewards.

I decided to try AWSurvey.com as the concept was much more attractive than the others. Instead of long drawn out surveys, you simply give a short evaluation of 2 websites at a time for a $4 payment. Membership is free and there is a $6 bonus just for joining. There is a referral programme that pays $1.25 for each person you refer that joins free. In my first session, I netted $27.

There is a great debate on the web as to whether this is a scam. Some people boast of getting paid promptly, some say they have problems getting paid, but almost every online survey with cash payout that I have seen, is treated with some suspicion.  This article gave me some encouragement and I thought, well, I didn’t pay anything for joining and my input is only my time, which would be spent unproductively on some social networking site anyway.

I will continue to try AWSurvey and give an update when it is time for payment.

$6.00 Welcome Survey After Free Registration!