Making money doing surveys online is one of the easiest ways of earning money. Product manufacturers or online services request survey takers to answer queries and leave comments about their products to get an overall view of what their products and services need for improvement as well as create a summary or assessment of the positive and negative views about them. However, many survey takers are cautious of what surveys to take as there are a lot of scams that proliferates in the Internet. However, there are some tips and ways on how to spot scams easily and not waste time in completing them.

1. Legitimate online surveys do not charge the survey takers any fee. Therefore if you come across those that will charge you any amount, no matter how small it is, this will surely be a scam; as product companies will not ask payment for soliciting comments and opinions; and you will not pay companies for giving your opinion also. Legitimate companies do pay for posting their surveys online but only for a small amount. Therefore, they should not charge survey takers any amount for completing their surveys.

2. There are also companies that charges fees for registration before completing the survey. They require payment for registering to a site but provide no information on the legitimate list of sites. These companies are just after your money and do not provide any product or service to the consumers at all.