About a few months back, I was introduced by a blogger friend to AW Surveys. All because we share the same hope of growing our digits in our PayPal accounts. All you have to do is to sign up, pretty much the same way you sign up when creating an email account. Later on, you can opt to start participating in the surveys. Each of which, according to the site entitles you to earn $1-6. You will be asked to check out websites, some for social networking like (Socint.com), where they say you get paid for posting pictures and blog entries, it has a video on the home page that teaches new users how to get around the site.  Anyway, aside from that site, there is another site that you will also be asked to evaluate and it’s another survey site, something like surveyhead.com, and I’m guessing it also owned by the scammers who owned AW Surveys.

When you create an account you will likewise be told that there is a monthly draw where your survey will be entered and if you win, you get around $500 as prize money. As for the redemption of your money, they said you can redeem it by check (only for US residents) or via PayPal. Minimum redemption is $75, when you refer friends they they will give you $1.25 for each referral. If there are of you in the household, only one can sign up as only one user per IP Address.

Another online acquaintance finally got me to sign up when she told me he already earned from it. I actually trusted him so off I went and signed up and I even encouraged a lot of my friends to do the same thing. Lo and behold when I finally reached the $75 I went ahead and redeemed the money via my PayPal account. Oh by the way, these people behind AW Surveys said that for PayPal you will be charged $25 for expediting the money redemption, which they said will take 3-5 business days. Hello?! The transfer for a PayPal account is instant if they have their own PayPal account.

After a week from the time I initiated the transfer, there’s still no $50 in my PayPal account. I tried to get in touch with them using their contact link, where they said you can submit a trouble ticket. But I never got any reply. After a few days when I logged in to my account again, the status of my trouble ticket says closed and resolved, without any email from them or any other form of follow-up on my inquiry. I submitted another inquiry hoping I was wrong about them and the things I was hearing, but the same thing happened. I just hope a lot of people will get to read this so they wont invest time and energy and well, electricity in answering surveys from the said site. The site is a scam and who knows, perhaps they are using the said site to get hold of PayPal emails. It’s a good thing I changed my PayPal password, since I normally have a uniform password. I’m afraid if I signed up using the same password I’m using for my PayPal account, perhaps they would have been able to withdraw my PayPal balance. So please be warned and please don’t waste your time. To my friends whom I was able to persuade earlier on to sign up, I’m really sorry. To the people behind AW Surveys, I hope your site shuts down.