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A few weeks ago you joined SurveyJunkies.co
Somebody told you that the platform will pay you a $30 signup bonus along with hundreds of dollars for completing simple tasks and referring other people to it.
You did the work you were supposed to do, you requested a cashout of your earnings and SurveyJunkies told you that you’ll receive your payment on a specific date.
However, this date has passed and you still haven’t been paid a single dollar.
Now, you can’t help but wonder “Is SurveyJunkies.co .com a scam?”
Well, the same thing happened to me and after conducting extensive research, I found out that SurveyJunkies.co is indeed a scam!
SurveyJunkies.co lures you in by promising to pay you big bucks for doing very little work but in the end, when you request a cashout, not only it won’t pay you a single dime but it will also ban your account.
After finding out, I decided to put together this SurveyJunkies.co review as a way to let you know about my god-awful experience with the platform and hopefully save you a lot of time and possibly money that you’d otherwise waste if you joined it.
Furthermore, in an attempt to point you in the right direction, I am going to let you know about a couple of alternative much more legit and promising opportunities for earning money online.
This way, you’ll have every piece of information you might possibly need to make an informed decision about whether SurveyJunkies.co is worth your time and attention or if you’d better do what I did and invest in one of the other money-making opportunities that I am going to suggest to you.
Right, so, let’s get to it then!
SurveyJunkies.co Overview
Name: SurveyJunkies
Owners:
- Unknown
Price:
- Free to join
- Additional expenses to complete most tasks
Official Website: surveyjunkies.co
Suggested? NOT even close…
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- Fake Payment Proofs
- Fake Testimonials
- Unrealistic Claims
- Additional Expenses
- Fake Contact Info
- Unknown Owners
- Unable to Cash Out
- Hacking Danger
- Part of Huge Scam Network
- BBB Consumer Alert
What is SurveyJunkies About?
Is SurveyJunkies.co Legit?
SurveyJunkies.co poses as a GPT (Get Paid To) platform…
GPT platforms are basically websites that pay you for completing simple tasks, such as
- filling in surveys
- installing apps
- watching ads
- making referrals
- etc
Truthfully, I’ve come across a lot of legit GPT platforms such as Survey Junkie, Inbox Dollars, and Swagbucks but unfortunately, SurveyJunkies is definitely NOT one of them.
You see, contrary to legit GPT platforms that actually pay their members for their efforts, SurveyJunkies is just a huge waste of time that will never pay you a single dime.
If you’ve already signed up and used the platform, then I am sorry but you have completely wasted your time…
If you haven’t joined SurveyJunkies yet but you were about to, do yourself a favor and start running as far away from this platform as possible.
Before I reveal to you all of the little dirty secrets of SurveyJunkies, such as the fact that it is part of a huge network of identical scams that have already scammed millions of people over the last few years, I think that it’s important for you to understand how SurveyJunkies.co scams people.
And in order to understand how SurveyJunkies scams people, you first need to understand how this platform generates money for its owners.
How SurveyJunkies Generates Money for its Owners
SurveyJunkies.co generates money through CPA (Cost Per Action) offers.
Basically, CPA offers pay publishers (e.g. SurveyJunkies.co) commissions for getting other people (e.g. you & me) to perform certain actions, such as
- Submitting an email or telephone number
- Filling out a form
- Installing an application
- Signing up for a trial
- Completing a survey
- etc
The CPA offers through which SurveyJunkies.co generates its money are located on its “$60 TaskWall”, which is a page comprised of a number of tasks that supposedly pay you $60 for completing them (see images below).
As you can see in the images right above, one task requires you to “Enter your email and complete the steps”, the other to “Complete a survey”, and the other to “Enter your phone number”.
Each one of those tasks is actually a CPA offer.
This means that every time somebody completes a task on SurveyJunkies’ $60TaskWall, a CPA network pays the owners of SurveyJunkies money.
Okay, now that you know, let’s see how SurveyJunkies actually scams people.
How SurveyJunkies.co Scammed Me
So, first of all, SurveyJunkies.co baited me in by promising to pay me $30 just for signing up and by claiming that I could “Make $500 – $1000 Daily” with it.
Come on, who wouldn’t want to make an instant $30 & $500 – $1000 in just one day, am I right?
I took the bait and signed up for SurveyJunkies.co about 2 months ago…
Once I was in, I instantly started trying to figure out how to generate money.
According to SurveyJunkies.co, the platform would pay me
- $2 for each click I get on my unique referral link
- an additional $15 for each person who joins SurveyJunkies after clicking on my unique referral link
- 15% of all money earned by my referrals
- $60 for each task I complete on its $60 TaskWall
- $50 for creating YouTube/Facebook/Snapchat/TikTok videos promoting the platform
- $50 for publishing promotional posts on Facebook/Instagram
I completed a few of those tasks in just 1-2 hours, generated about $200 and immediately requested a cashout of my earnings and my $30 bonus.
However, to my surprise, SurveyJunkies.co told me that in order to qualify for a cashout I’d first need to
- Refer at least 5 people to the platform
- Complete at least 5 of the tasks on its $60 TaskWall
- Have at least 20 clicks on my unique referral link
Anyway, I eventually met all those requirements and I finally requested a cashout of my money… Yayyy!
I hit the “Request Payment” button…
SurveyJunkies even gave me a payment number and told me that my payment is going to take place on a specific date…
The problem is that days passed from the day that SurveyJunkies.co was supposed to pay me but I still hadn’t received a single dollar.
And not only that but I later realized that SurveyJunkies.co had banned my account using as an excuse that my clicks and referrals were fake (message right below):
While attempting to submit your payments, our system has deemed some or all of your stats to be unauthentic, Due to that, your payment has been canceled, and your account is pending termination.
Your account will be terminated within 7 days. If you would like to start over the AUTHENTIC way, then you are welcome to do that.
If you think, that was a mistake, you can contact our Fraud Department.
Now, I tried to contact SurveyJunkies’ Fraud Department as suggested, but I hit yet another dead-end because nobody would get back to me. After I conducted my research, I discovered that all the contact information SurveyJunkies provides is fake (more on that later on).
I had officially been scammed and was literally nothing I could do about it and no one to talk to regarding my banned account and not receiving my money.
The reason that SurveyJunkies.co scams people like that it twofold:
- to get people to complete its CPA offers, thus generating money for its owners
- and to get people to market and promote the platform
and all that without paying anyone a single dime, thus pocketing all the profit.
Think about it…
First, SurveyJunkies promises a $30 signup bonus and earning a lot of money fast and easy.
Once you join, it tells you that in order to cash out your money you will need to meet the following requirements
- get 20 clicks on your referral link
- make 5 referrals
- and complete 5 tasks
You start working to meet those cashout requirements.
You complete the 5 tasks which are basically CPA offers -> SurveJunkies’ owners earn money
You make 5 referrals-> Those 5 referrals will, in turn, complete at least 5 more of its tasks and refer at least 5 more people each, and so on, and so forth…
You create videos promoting SurveyJunkies.co on YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok, etc in order to generate more money -> You draw even more people into the SurveyJunkies scam
When you finally request a cashout, you’ll receive $0 and an account ban because you already did all the work SurveyJunkies wanted you to do completely for free.
Pretty evil, right?
Well, this is it… This is how and why SurveyJunkies.co scams people!
Get this very well in your head, SurveyJunkies will NEVER pay you a single dime. You will NEVER earn any money with it.
If you value your time, energy, and money, stay as far away from SurveyJunkies.co as possible!
So, Is SurveyJunkies.co for You?
In case you’ve missed it, SurveyJunkies.co is for no one…
The platform is more useless than the “g” in “lasagna”.
Seriously, you have way more chances of earning $1.000.000 by lying down on your couch staring at the ceiling all day long than earning just $1 with SurveyJunkies.
In fact, I am so confident that you won’t be able to earn even a single penny with SurveyJunkies.co that if you do, you can contact me with proof and I will deposit $100 more right in your account just for being wrong…
How Much Does SurveyJunkies.co Cost?
SurveyJunkies.co is free to join.
However, be aware that you might end up losing quite a lot of money while actually trying to make money with the platform.
For instance, as mentioned earlier, some of the tasks on its $60 TaskWall will require you to submit your mobile phone number.
If you do that, you’ll automatically subscribe to various very pricey text message services that will keep forwarding you dozens of promotional text messages per month at your own cost.
And those text messages aren’t cheap at all.
Just one text message could cost up to $5 and sometimes even more.
Despite the fact that there are probably ways to unsubscribe from those text message services, I would never trust a scammy platform such as SurveyJunkies with my mobile phone number.
Furthermore, other tasks might ask you to fill in your credit card or bank account information.
If you don’t want to end up having money sucked out of your bank accounts by people you don’t know for things you didn’t even buy, do NOT even think about it!
Plus, if you consider that SurveyJunkies will never actually pay you, there’s really no point whatsoever in even bothering to complete its tasks in the first place.
SurveyJunkies.co Pros
- Free to Join
1 • Free to Join
If I just had to choose something that I like about SurveyJunkies, I would say that I like that it’s free to join.
Believe it or not, I have come across online scams that require you to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars just to get in only to realize in the hindsight that you got scammed.
SurveyJunkies.co doesn’t have any admission fees so if you don’t submit your mobile phone number or credit card info anywhere within the platform you won’t waste any of your money.
That’s something, I guess…
SurveyJunkies.co Cons
- Fake Payment Proofs
- Fake Testimonials
- Unrealistic Claims
- Additional Expenses
- Fake Contact Info
- Unknown Owners
- Unable to Cash Out
- Hacking Danger
- Part of Huge Scam Network
- BBB Consumer Alert
1 • SurveyJunkies Payment Proofs = Fake
Quite a lot of people fall into the SurveyJunkies scam after witnessing the many screenshots of payments supposedly made by the platform to its members, which are published on SurveyJunkies’ website.
They think “Since SurveyJunkies has paid so many people, it will pay me as well!”
However, what those people don’t know is that every single one of those payment proofs is FAKE…
Yeah, I know… This is quite the shocker!
Anyway, let me show you the proof.
As you can see in the image right below, the domain name surveyjunkies.co, was first registered on the 24th of October 2019.
This means that the platform didn’t exist before that date…
However, the images right below which are two of the payment screenshots published on SurveyJunkies’ website seem to have taken place months before SurveyJunkies even started operating, one in January and the other in May 2019.
This means that either the platform paid people before it even existed (yeah right), or that all its payment proofs are fake (that’s more likely).
In addition, SurveyJunkies has also published several images of rewards its members have allegedly redeemed through the platform like the ones right below.
So, are we supposed to believe that SurveyJunkies sents people laptops and iPhones based on those 2 images?
Seriously now?
Ok then, I suppose I could also show you the reward I redeemed through SurveyJunkies… I received it just a few seconds ago! (image below).
Pretty awesome right?
Thanks so much, SurveyJunkies for this amazing reward…
You are the best…
LOL
2 • SurveyJunkies Testimonials = Fake
In addition to the fake payment proofs, in an attempt to trick more into thinking that it’s legit, SurveyJunkies.co has also published a number of fake positive testimonials.
For instance, take a look at the two testimonials below that can be found on SurveyJunkies’ home page.
“So, why are those two testimonials fake?”, you ask…
Well, that’s a great question!
As you can see in the image right below, those 2 identical testimonials have also been used as testimonials for ShareCash, which is one of SurveyJunkies’ sister scams.
In addition, throughout SurveyJunkies’ website, you’ll find dozens of positive video testimonials of members of the platform claiming that they have earned hundreds of dollars with it.
All those video testimonials are fake too as they were recorded by people because SurveyJunkies.co promised to pay them $50 to do so (image below).
If you watch all of those video testimonials carefully, you’ll realize that none of those people whatsoever show any proof that SurveyJunkies.co actually paid them their money.
3 • Unrealistic Claims
Just like the majority of online scams do, SurveyJunkies.co makes a lot of absurd claims in order to draw more victims in…
For instance, the first thing that you see when you land on SurveyJunkies’ homepage is a huge banner saying “Make $500 – $1000 Today”
Yeah sure, I almost bought that… NOT!
If earning $1000 a day was possible through completing surveys and installing apps, everyone owning a smartphone would be a millionaire right now.
That’s such an unrealistic claim it’s actually borderline funny.
In an attempt to further increase its credibility, on its “About Us” page, SurveyJunkies.co claims that it has been operating since 2015 (image below) which is obviously a lie since as we saw right above, SurveyJunkies didn’t exist prior to October 2019.
In addition, SurveyJunkies goes on to claim that it has been featured by top publications and that Forbes has named the platform “The #1 Influencer Earning Network”.
A simple Google search for the term “Forbes SurveyJunkies”, is enough to debunk this claim.
Furthermore, SurveyJunkies claims that it has participated in 30+ advertisement summits as well as that it has won several awards for its high-paying offers during 2018.
Again, a simple Google search for “SurveyJunkies 2018 awards” confirms that this claim is just a lie.
Plus, let’s not kid ourselves here…
The only award SurveyJunkies could possibly win would be the award of the most worthless platform ever.
Lastly, the exact same false claims can also be found on the “About Us” page of one of SurveyJunkies’ sister scams, ShareCash.co (see images below).
4 • Additional Charges
SurveyJunkies might be free to join but as I already talked about, in order to qualify for your first cashout, you need to complete at least 5 tasks on its $60 TaskWall.
The problem is that in order to complete some of those tasks, you’ll be required to submit your phone number and agree to subscribe to paid text-message services which could cost you a ton of money.
Other tasks might ask you to fill in your credit card or bank account info and then start charging you for random products and digital services you never actually bought.
This way you could end up losing a ton of money while trying to qualify for your first cashout which is never going to actually take place…
Stay away, people!
5 • Fake Contact Information
As mentioned earlier, after I requested my first cashout, SurveyJunkies.co informed me that my clicks and referrals were fake, banned my account, and told me that if I thought that this was a mistake, I should contact their “Fraud Department”.
And so I did!
I sent an email to SurveyJunkies’ email address, hello@surveyjunkies.co
However, days passed and I never received an answer.
After checking this email address on email-checker.net, it turns out that it’s fake (image below).
SurveyJunkies provides no additional contact information so basically, there’s no one to contact regarding the platform.
6 • Unknown Owners
Another pretty obvious sign that SurveyJunkies.co is a scam is that it provides no information about its owners.
Scammers never reveal their identity in order to avoid being identified with their fraudulent activities and getting caught.
A legit website/company ALWAYS provides information about its owners.
7 • Unable to Cashout
As mentioned dozens of times throughout this review, SurveyJunkies.co will never pay anyone a single dime for their work.
It doesn’t really matter if you refer 2000 people to the platform or complete 1 million of its tasks, the amount of money that you’ll earn with SurveyJunkies will always remain exactly the same -> ZERO DOLLARS!
This beats the whole purpose of joining and using the platform in the first place.
Trying to make money with SurveyJunkies is as pointless as trying to put out a fire by shouting at it.
8 • Potential Hacking Danger
The first thing that I did as soon as I joined SurveyJunkies was to head over to its $60 TaskWall and complete a few of its tasks.
However, before I even got to access the first task, my antivirus went off giving me the alert below…
Apparently, SurveyJunkie’s tasks lead to 3rd party websites that contain viruses that could infect your PC or mobile phone and enable hackers to get their hands on personal data and sensitive information of yours, such as the login credentials to your
- social media accounts
- credit cards
- bank accounts
- etc
If you don’t have an internet security or antivirus program installed make sure to stay clear of SurveyJunkies at all costs…
If you’ve already accessed the platform without having any protection in place, I’d suggest that you immediately purchase an antivirus and scan your entire system in order to ensure that it hasn’t been compromised and that your personal data and sensitive information are safe.
9 • Part of a Huge Scam Network
SurveyJunkies.co is part of an enormous network of dozens of almost identical scams that have scammed millions of people during the last few years using the exact same scamming techniques.
Some of those scams that you might have heard of are
- Kids Earn Money
- NotionCash
- Tap2Earn
- InfluencerCash
- Cash4Clickz
just to name a few.
10 • BBB Consumer Alert
In March 2019, the BBB (Better Business Bureau) issued consumer alerts for Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash.
Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash are both SurveyJunkies’ sister scams.
According to BBB, between January 4 and March 13, 2019, BBB Metro New York received several complaints, negative reviews, and scam reports regarding Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash.
After conducting an investigation, BBB concluded that the unrealistic earning claims both those platforms make are in violation of BBB’s Code of Advertising.
BBB tried to locate someone in charge of those platforms through email, telephone number, and/or physical address to sort things out but without any luck.
At that point, BBB rated both of those platforms with an “F” suggesting to the public that they should stay as far away as possible from them.
According to BBB, people sign up to Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash thinking that they are online marketing agencies, where they will earn money by completing “tasks”. The money appears to increase on the platform’s dashboard after completing those tasks, but when the consumer tries to cash out their earnings, often when they reach some set requirements, they report that they are unable to retrieve the promised payment or contact the company for assistance.
BBB goes on to state that one possible purpose of such scams may be data harvesting, for the likely intent of selling the gathered information to spammers. There is also the possibility of identity theft.
Right below you can take a look at a few complaints left under the BBB profiles of Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash from people who have actually been scammed by the platforms.
You can take a look at all the complaints under the BBB profiles of Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash by following the links right below:
While the fact that BBB has issued consumer alerts for Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash doesn’t quite prove that SurveyJunkies is a scam as well, would you trust that a platform that is operating exactly like Kids Earn Money and Notion Cash and created by the exact same people would actually ever be up to any good?
Because I definitely wouldn’t…
SurveyJunkies.co Review Summary
Income
Potential
You’ll never earn a single dollar with SurveyJunkies.
Resources
Referral link, promotional banners, FAQ center, submission guidelines.
Value for
Money
Free to join. Additional charges might incur to complete tasks. SurveyJunkies is just a waste of time.
Support
Email address is fake. No additional contact information.
Success
Stories
Fake payment proofs & testimonials. SurveyJunkies has paid no one.
Overall Rating
Is SurveyJunkies.co Suggested?
- Tons of unrealistic claims
- Dozens of lies
- Fake payment proofs
- Fake positive testimonials
- Part of a network of scams
- Unknown owners
- Inability to cash out
- Fake contact information
- Chances to get hacked
- etc
If your goal is wasting your time on a scam that will never pay you a single dime then yes, SurveyJunkies is probably exactly what you are looking for.
2 Responses
This SurveyJunkies.co website is a big scam but there is another one with the same name called SurveyJunkie which will really pay you once you reach 5$ through gift cards or PayPal.
That one is nothing like this one at all.
Hi Ashley!
Yes, SurveyJunkies.co actually got its name from the legit SurveyJunkie website in an attempt to confuse people and draw more potential victims in.
SurveyJunkies.co is indeed a big scam but the original SurveyJunkie is actually one of the most legit and reputable survey panels out there that actually pays its members.
Thanks a lot for pointing this out.
Harry