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Would $ 40 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 12th Jan, 2017 - 6:45pm
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Would You Do This For $40 ?
I received an invitation to participate in a research study regarding consumer spending behavior. I'm offered $40 cash to do this. What's the drawback? They want to have access to my credit card and bank accounts! Would you do it for $40?
(I can't provide a link to this because it's a membership site. I've actually been registered with the "parent" site since 2001 to do research, but they have no personal information except my name and address. They are legitimate, and I have earned cash rewards in the past.)
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| As a member of (Research Company), you will join thousands of consumers in a highly influential nationwide research study about consumer behavior and spending. Just fill out this easy 5 to 10 minute registration form and you will earn $40. By providing answers to surveys about a wide range of topics and allowing us to anonymously track your actual spending, you can help influence the business decisions of companies that provide the products and services you use. Rewards You will receive a check for $40 within 4 weeks of completing this registration form. In order to receive the check, you must complete the full registration form, which should only take between 5 and 10 minutes, and register your financial statements with our infrastructure. As a member of (Research Company), you will have regular opportunities to take surveys and earn more cash prizes! Privacy (Research Company) is a legitimate, secure study sponsored by (Other Research Company), involving thousands of U.S. households who've given us permission to collect monthly information from their accounts for anonymous research purposes only. During your registration, you will be asked to register at least two of your credit cards and one of your bank accounts with our very secure system. Our state-of-the art security infrastructure provides absolute protection of all information you provide to us. Nobody will ever gain access to your personal credit card information (that's why we ask you to register your accounts yourself). |
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Not a chance would I do this! For one thing, you don't know whether they are not going to sell your information on, and secondly, anybody could clear your accounts out, or even use your identity!
It's far too dangerous these days, and $40 is nowhere near enough to be offering anybody (in my humble opinion)
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They have a lot of so-called "guarantees" in their invitation, but I don't think any data is truly secure on the internet. In any case, even if it were secure, there is no way I would give my credit card numbers and bank account info to have a company track everything I spend! That's insane.
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Hmmm....if you made it $400,000, they could have the keys to my car and house too! However, for $40, I am positively sure I would not give away that type of information. Of course if I were in my college days, I only kept a card with like a $200 limit and never used it... In that case, you bet I would have taken the cash and they could watch my credit card do NOTHING!
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