Globaltestmarket is another most important paid survey sites. It is also one of the best for Indians who are interested in participating in online paid surveys, including surveys in Hindi. The rewards systems is points based. The points depends on the duration of the survey. For e.g, as surveys which takes about 10-15 mins to complete will reward you about 50 – 100 points. You get your payment once you reach 1000 points which is equivalent to 50 USD(US Dollars). You get paid for referring friends to the Global Test Market. The payment will be in the form of a cheque. You can Join GlobalTestMarket here.

 Socratic Forum’s surveys are mainly based on the latest technologies, e-commerce innovation, software, b2b (business to business) product and services offerings and various factors that drive the global economy...

Planet Pulse is a Research Process Outsourcing company which has its headquarters in Sydney. They are one of the most respected players in Asia. Planet Pulse enables the companies to get to know what people think about their products and service offerings. Planet Pulse uses a reward points system called Pulses, which you get after you complete each survey...

Yoursay is a paid survey site which rewards you in terms of either cash or points known as morpoints which can be converted to cash. In additions to it you will also be given a chance to participate in lucky draws and win prizes like an iPod, digital camera or a gaming console...

Permission research mainly focuses on gathering and analyzing valuable information with regard to the internet usage trends and user’s interaction with the internet. It has over two million registered members all over the world. Permission research collects data by requesting its users to install its software which monitors the internet usage and purchasing behavior of the user.....

Survey savvy is one of the few sites which reward you well; the rewards can be up to $20 or more. However the surveys may not be very frequent. This site mostly pays well for people in the IT related fields. There is not minimum amount that you will have to reach in order for you to withdraw it.....

This is one of the most well known companies which conduct online surveys. Instead of cash rewards you will be given points known as HI points for completion of surveys. HI points can be redeemed for various kinds of gifts later on.....

Survey head has various market research organisations and companies in all parts of the world to collect the required market intelligence through online surveys. Survey head’s is headed by the founders of goZing.com.....

Here are a few simple things that you do to safeguard yourself against fraud, scams and email spam.

1.    Never give your credit card number or social security number over the phone or online unless you can ascertain the authencity of the call or mail. Normally you need to provide this kind of information only to you bank, your lenders or medical services.

2.    Make a small investment in a paper shredder, mainly to shred any documents or letters that contain your personal information like your full... name, address, bank account details , credit card numbers, because the identity thieves actually go through your trash to gain access to any of these information which you may bin by mistake.  If you do not have access to a shredder burns the document in a safe manner.

3.    Report any lost or stolen cheques to your bank immediately, as the bank can block the payment for that particular cheque or cheque number.

4.    Whenever you issue a cheque to a person try as much as possible to only give an “Account Payee” cheque which means the cheque can be en-cashed only by depositing in the intended person’s bank account and not over the Teller in the bank.

5.    Keep important documents like your bank statements, credit card statements , credit history details, medical bills, new cheque books and cancelled cheque books in a very safe place and shred them when you do not need it anymore.

6.    Whenever you receive your pin number for you Automatic Teller Machine(ATM) or Cash Machine, make sure you change the pin number and destroy the hardcopy of the pin number received. Again when you change your pin number decide on a pin number which is not very obvious for any one like you date of birth, year of birth and such. Try to go for something that you would only be able to relate to and remember well.

7.    When you setup a password for your email account or bank account make sure you your password is at least  8 characters long and with a mix of alpha numeric (mixture of numbers and words)  character and a special symbol (e.g - !#~>< ..etc) and with a mix of up case and lower case alphabets.  eg of a password – Xyz75682! . Never use a dictionary word as your password because, when people try to steal your password they fisrt try a dictionary attack which would randomly try all dictionary words to find a match and break into your account.

8.    Make sure you make of a good quality anti virus, and anti spyware program along with a firewall program.

9.    When using a wireless network make sure you make it a secured one, to prevent access to unauthorised people within the wireless coverage area who may misuse it.

10.    If you suddenly stop receiving you utility bills, bank statement etc  to your address make sure you contact the respective organisations, as someone might have diverted your mails to their desired address to get hold of your personal information.

11.    Always have a good look at the charges in your utility bill or bank statement or credit card statement to ascertain if there are any suspicious transactions or unexpected charges. If you do find one get in touch with the respective organisation immediately. In addition to it,  have a look at your credit report regularly to check if there is any unauthorised credit by you in the statement.


More ways to protect yourself against fraud, spam and scam to follow soon.

Make sure you keep you have a record of all communication with all details with the scammer. Then proceed with the following steps.

1.    Contact your bank and let them know that you suspect that your identity is compromised and request them to check for and unusual activity in your account and if required request them to close your account.

2.    If you see any unauthorized charges and you think your account has been manipulated close your account immediately.

3.    Never communicate with scammers, it is very dangerous as they are criminals and may resort to different means that may harm you or in the worst case kill if at all you meet them.

4.    Get in touch with you respective fraud reporting agency act as per their advice.

5.    Request your lenders to get in touch with you first before opening any new accounts or any amendments to your existing account.

6.    File a Police complaint providing them all the information about your case and proof available with you.

7.    Apply for new identity documents, which you may have sent to the scammers which might be used for fraudulent purpose after explaining to them that you are a victim of identity theft.

8.    Inform your friends about your case and caution them against any kind of ways that would lead to identity theft.

9.    Always stay informed about the new ways the scammers use to steal your identity. Understand them and stay safe.

10.    Make sure you always open only the emails received from your contacts and not otherwise. Open it only if you know for sure that it is from a trust source which is not in your address book.

Please click on the relevant country to be taken to its respective country's official scam reporting website. This is not a complete list more countries will be added soon.

 

S.No	Country	Email id
1	Australia	To be confirmed
2	Belgium	spam@privacy.fgov.be
3	Brazil	mail-abuse@cert.br
4	Canada	To be confirmed
5	China	spam@ccert.edu.cn
6	Denmark	spam@fs.dk
7	Newzealand	To be confirmed
8	Germany	mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de
9	Hongkong	webmaster@ofta.gov.hk
10	Korea	spamcop@kisa.or.kr
11	Malayasia	To be confirmed
12	Netherlands	meldpunt@spamvrij.nl		meldpunt@spamvrij.nl
13	Norway	To be confirmed
14	United Kingdom	scams@oft.gsi.gov.uk
15	USA	http://www.ic3.gov/contact/default.aspx

You will be able to identify if a particular email which says that you won a lottery or someone needs a favour from you for depositing funds,  or worse offering you the position of  a CEO in a company received by you, contains anyone of the following .

1.      You have never heard the name of the organisation ever.

2.      When you try to search the name of the organisation you do not find any relevant search result matching the one in the mail.

3.      The sender of the emails asks you to provide him with your full name, bank account information, passport number, credit card numbers, or any other personal information.

4.      The sender of the mail claims that you have won a lottery in which you did not participate at all or you have won a competition which you never participated.

5.      When you see the receivers mailing address that appears in the mail, it would be mentioned as “undisclosed recipients” which means you are one among the many people has is trying to cheat.

6.      The scam mails which contain information such as , you have won a lottery, you have inherited a property or job offer overseas is mostly sent from free email account like yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com. Whereas genuine companies would normally use their own domain names like xyz@microsoft.com (if the mail is from a Microsoft employee), abc@accenture.com  (if the mail is from an Accenture employee) as they can afford to spent more than $100 on it.

7.      They might even go to the extent of stating that if you would like to collect your winning you will need to travel overseas, which would definitely pose a big risk for you with the amount of very little information.

8.      Normally these kind of emails ask for a fee to be sent to a particular country or account if the winning or offer has to be given to the prospective victim.

9.      There will be very few details provided about the said prize or inheritance or lottery winning money.

10.  If you respond to him once by mistake they keep following up with you and might even go to the extent of “threatening you with legal action” if you do not pay the money for “the service” provided by him.

In all the above cases, it is best to not communicate with the sender of the email any further and contact your local Scam alert center.

Here are ten ways in which you can make money online.

1. You could join some legitimate Paid survey websites; even though you would have to spend some amount of time on these sites, the money from these sites could actually supplement your income.

2. If you would like to do business, you could start an online shop with the area of your interest which could be products, services, consulting or an area in which you are a specialist.

3. A more simpler way is buy and sell items in eBay, setting up an account is swift all you need is a verified Free PayPal account to accept or send payments. Hopefully, if all goes well if you get the scale and increase your product offerings you could try setting up shop in eBay and become an internet entrepreneur and reach many thousands of people in a shorter span of time.

4. There are a number of sites which offer cash back for making a purchase. This could help to save your hard earned money and help you use it for other activities of your choice.

5. If you are up for real kind of a work and want to help people then you need to have a look 

at Amazon’s very own www.mturk.com , which relies on Human Intelligence Technology. You make money by helping people in different parts of the world by supporting them in different ways and thereby making money. You can also try enlacing from various sites and make money by applying you expertise. for.eg www.elance.com

6. If you thing you are an expert in your own field May it be Accounting, Psychology, Astrology, Tarot, Software and more. You should have a look at www.liveperson.com. This site helps you to offer your service which can be provided through voice call and lets you charge your client per minute. The income potential is pretty big in this.

7. If you think you are an expert in many fields you could give a try to www.weegy.com, this website pays you USD 0.20 for every correct answer provided.

8. If you are very good in writing you would like to share information or anything, that you think will be useful for people online, you could try blogging. Once you get enough traffic in your blog you may place advertisement in your blog or website and make money through pay per click advertising based on the conversion rate. You may use Google ad sense, Bidvertiser, Chitika and more...for this.

9. There are websites which pay you for writing up a review about their clients in your blog or website. For e.g. www.blogsvertise.com

10. If you are a person who is passionate about uploading videos in videos hosting sites such as you tube, you can capitalize on it by displaying adverts on your videos. If you have many views or subscribers the chances of you making money out of it is high.

The above mentioned are only few ways but tested ways in which you can make money online.

I will be elaborating on the above Ten points in the days to come. I will also be adding more as and when I come across them.  If you are interested in being updated, please subscribe to this blog.

If you are aware of any other legitimate websites or ways from which you can make money, please share it with everyone here. Let’s grow together. Have a nice day!!

There are many of websites online which claim that you can make loads of quick money by taking paid surveys and you can completely rely on these websites as a single source of you income. But the fact is that the money made by you in genuine sites will only be able to be a small addition to your existing income and cannot actually replace it.

Here are a few ways in which you can identify if a website is genuine or not.

1. The purpose of a survey is mainly to get response from a desired group of people for making various business decisions. This being the case, if you are ever asked to make a payment for signing up with a survey site or if it asks you for your credit card information, be rest assured it is not legitimate. This is because you are the one who is going to give the required business information through the survey site, so it should actually be the survey website that should pay you for spending your time to provide it the required information.

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