Stephanie, one of our blog readers, contacted me the other day about a suspicious email claiming that her Paypal account had been credited for $100. She didn’t remember having entered a contest, and the email was from surveysampling which she didn’t recognize.  After a little searching, she found that it was associated with Survey Spot, but was still wary because Survey Spot pays by check. I was impressed that she followed the steps that we all should by not opening an link on an unfamiliar email! She closed the email, went directly to her Paypal account and found that the $100 was indeed in her account. Lots of people could avoid costly errors by following Stephanie’s lead. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.

The good news is that it was a legitimate deposit into her Paypal account by survey Spot for an instant win! Although they only pay by check for survey rewards, survey Spot does have an option for Paypal to redeem sweepstakes earnings. This is encouraging on many levels. Always the skeptic, I generally assume that nobody actually wins those things, and that sweepstakes and instant win games are just ploys to get us to take surveys for nothing. And so, with Stephanie’s win and also Tidyclean’s November win of a $100 instant music game win, I have to eat my words. It is real!

So remember, the next time that you get a survey that is instant win or sweepstakes, you may not want to pass it by. Survey Spot not only pays well for the surveys that you take, but it is also possible to win their sweepstakes!

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