# Survey Scams Embedded In Legitimate-Looking Jobs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197 "2023-02-22T16:26:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197/1 "2023-02-22T16:26:03Z")
I’ve recently joined the ranks of the unemployed after company downsizing. Yay me. I’ve been hitting the job search sites for work-from-home data-entry and similar jobs. I apply, go through all the hoops, then I get an email. “Your application has been accepted! Follow this link for more information…” And it’s a get paid to take surveys scheme. It’s not necessarily a scam, since no one is trying to get money from me. But a) if I grinded 16 hours per day I _might_ make $100 per day, and b) I was lied to and played for a fool in order to get to that point anyway. This sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197/2 "2023-02-22T16:45:25Z")
It’s the false pretenses thing that would bother me. If the job is to fill out surveys for money then say so - plenty of people would be interested in that option if they really needed something they could do from home ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197/3 "2023-02-22T21:17:22Z")
When I was briefly unemployed in the late 90s, I found an ad for a job in the newspaper. (It was the 90s, that’s what you did back then.) I called and it was a recording about something I could mail away for. Definitely scammy. The real kick in the balls was that I had a $50 charge for the call on my next phone bill. When I called my phone company to complain, they said that I had called some Caribbean island and there was nothing I could do about the charge. Fucking bullshit. (The scam I guess worked like [this one](https://repeatingislands.com/2014/02/13/how-the-caribbean-one-ring-scam-can-cost-you-money/).) That’s just what a guy in poverty trying desperately to get a job needs. Also, another ad around that time advertised a job “working with technology”. When I went to the address to fill out an application (or so I thought), it was a pitch for Kirby vacuum sales. Another big “fuck you” to them too for their deceptive shit. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197/4 "2023-02-22T23:09:54Z")
I always suspected that Kirby sucked… [![](https://images.nintendolife.com/87a575fb1dde5/1280x720.jpg) ](https://images.nintendolife.com/87a575fb1dde5/1280x720.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survey-scams-embedded-in-legitimate-looking-jobs/980197/5 "2023-02-23T01:51:16Z")
Well, obviously… ![](https://media.tenor.com/uaS-9MgXYBgAAAAC/kirby-nintendo.gif) …but different Kirby.