I came across a site that promised me access to hundreds of paid surveys for a one time fee of 19.95. Since the site claimed that the payments per survey range from $10-$85, I signed up, and paid with my debit card using clickbank.com.
After my transaction was processed, I received... Absolutely nothing. I got a receipt from clickbank, but NO correspondence from thesurveyzone.com telling me how to start. They gave me a username of "front" and a password "door", and I used it on the Members link. All I received is this message:
Thank you for your purchase.
Have The Currently Updated Database Sent via Email
(You must click to save this file on your computer).
Please click here to email us for support and/or questions.
Sales Department
There is nothing else on this page to click, and nothing to download. I emailed the link provided and it was immediately bounced back to me with the server message "sender does not have a thesurveyzone.com account". And yes, I used the email I registered with.
So I click on their "live help" link (what a joke) and since it is "currently unavailable" (try NONEXISTENT), I left a livehelp message, again using the same email. It was also bounced back—the address is a nonexistent aol email address.
Finally, I tried to contact them using the contact form provided on their page. When you type in a message and hit "send", you get a "page not found" error message. There is absolutely NO WAY to contact this company. That's when I realized I'd been scammed.
I emailed clickbank.com and explained the situation. I got an email back saying that the amount will be fully refunded to me, and it will take up to 5 business days. So while I got scammed by thesyrveyzone, I have to give props to clickbank, for now. I will update in five days to see if I got a refund.
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