I received an email today inviting me to answer a Paypal survey. A Sony laptop is at stake once I finished the survey. The invite was sent by customersurvey@survey-take.com and it is supposedly administered on behalf of Paypal.
Of course, I’m wary about these types of emails since I’ve encountered a lot of phishing emails and Paypal scams in the past (another fake Paypal email and Paypal scam here).
I did a little investigation and discovered the email to be somewhat legit.
Here’s another job scam you should know about. This time, it involves the online currency Paypal.
A PMT Facebook fan shares his story:
We received the following question regarding Paypal from a PMT reader:
I have no credit card and bank account. How can I load money in my Paypal account? Is there a bank that will accept money to put it in my Paypal account?
We’ve written several articles before explaining how one can earn from Paypal. Since we started using it, we’ve already earned more than $500 referral bonuses.
Last week, we got another $33 bonus from Paypal as seen in this screesnhot.
You’ve opened a Paypal account. There’s something on the internet that you want to buy but your Paypal balance is zero. You wonder how you can add funds to your account so you can start buying online.
There are only two ways.
Very few local debit and credit cards can be used with Paypal. For those without credit cards, the UnionBank EON debit card is a usual option. For those with a BPI Mastercard, however, there now is an alternative “credit card” that can be used with Paypal: the BPI e-Credit card.
I visited BPI earlier and a staff introduced me to it. The e-Credit card is similar to a supplementary card, which means it is attached to the regular BPI Mastercard.
BPI markets the e-Credit card as the “card for online transactions.” Its account number is different from the regular credit card number which means online, your regular credit card number won’t appear.
Although Christmas Day didn’t turn out well for my online Adsense earnings, New Year’s Day wasn’t that bad because PayPal gifted me with a referral bonus of $80 on that day (see screenshot below).
If you’ve been following our posts about Paypal, you’ll see that there really is a way to make money using Paypal.
In May 2008, we wrote about the $30 and $85 referral bonuses we got from Paypal. These are payments for PayPal’s Merchant Referral Bonus Program, wherein you can be entitled to receive a portion of Paypal transaction amounts of the people you referred to PayPal.
