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Hi Cliche01, Sorry to hear you got caught up in this scam, but happy to hear it had a happy ending with your bank catching the fraudulent check so quickly. Indeed, this scam has been floating around for a while now. We've written pretty extensively about this here: Walmart Mystery Shopper Scam Thanks for sharing your story and for warning others. The more information there is about this online, the more we can help prevent others from falling victim to this scam.

Been trying to redeem some rewards for the last couple of days but all I get is this from Harris Panel The Harris Panel members website is currently undergoing maintenance. All HIpoints are being credited to your account during this time but our rewards site is not available. Please check back after 5 pm eastern time on Monday February 22nd. Well it's after 5pm on Mon & still this site is down..didn't even know they were undergoing maintenance..would be nice to tell us before just shutting down...sometimes I wonder if "maintenance" means we have no money or gift cards so we're shutting our doors for awhile so we don't have to pay you survey people

the problem with being on that many panels is some of them are mainly router websites.. so if you do a survey with them (Quickrewards), you're not going to see it show up on the higher paying panels.. The only panels I have right now are Globaltestmarket, OpinionOutpost, Valued Opinions.. then you have the Usamp panels like Ipoll and Onlycashsurveys.. but I only go to them if the others have nothing for me. Also don't wait for the emails.. just go to the site and click on the survey link.. Others can point out panels that work for them but for me, I cut all the others because they weren't worth it.. Then the random panels like Bing Rewards.. a few clicks a day and it's $5 a month, or every 20 days if you use mobile searching as well.. Tellwut- $10 a month.

Yeah, it is pretty awful. I would at least keep a couple of them that do have good service (paidviewpoint and pinecone come to mind), for a little bit of almost free beer money (but not much, cause those sites can be selective because they don't have as many surveys or as many members). But yes, all the high paying ones are buggy as crap, treat their members like crap, and are just generally all round incompetent, because why should they try any harder? We'll stick around anyway, as long as they keep paying us something, or if we don't, there are plenty more waiting to take over. It is pretty sad that they get away with it (though I've certainly given the ax to several that were particularly egregious, and am about to give up on another one that I've threatened to several times, but finally went ahead and did it. But again, I doubt they much care.)

Yeah... that is a super, super common scam, to the point where, for the longest time, I thought the whole Mystery Shopper concept was a scam, because I'd only ever heard it discussed in relation to this one specific scam. Apparently, I learned recently, there are legitimate mystery shopper sites (though I looked into it and decided it was too much work to sign up, for such a part-time hobby), but definitely, I could say pretty much unequivocally, absolutely any mystery shopper or any other site that asks you to deposit their check, keep part of the money, and send the rest to a third party, is going to be one flavor or another of a wire transfer scam, which is one of the most common long-distance scams ever.

I was receiving over 30 surveys a day from quick rewards. When I wrote to customer service that I would like to cut back to half that man, they informed me that they could not decrease the he number of surveys, that I could select 0 surveys if I wanted fewer surveys. I opted to stay, only I pick and choose which surveys I try. Some days I don't do any of them. If they want to expend all that time and effort then that's their problem

Sounds similar to one I get from Opinion Outpost frequently. It asks how many times you've seen a movie in a theater the past six months, has you tick off your favorite genres, then gets to a page where it asks if you have any children. No matter which you click, (and I've tried it both ways out of curiosity) it then ends and tells you the survey is full. If it's full, why is it even listed? And apparently having kids is not important as it kicks you out no matter which you choose.

I run into that with other survey sites. It makes me mad because you've already invested too much time into the survey, so I feel like I have no choice but to finish it up. I think we can all relate....... unfortunately.

I only did it because i was familiar with it and knew it would pay.. but the first time I did it I wanted to break my computer..

Got a survey yesterday for my daughter to do survey and in it it asked what kinds of electronics the household owns.Really do you think a 15 year old wants to give a list of how many dvr's,tv's we own.Then asked how many dvd's we bought, how many movies we streamed how we stream them and what services we use.I think that was beyond ridiculous thing for them to go after a teenager for all that info.They don't have the patient for that nor will they see the money if it's put into our account ,so what's the incentive for them to do it?Targeting kids for this kind of info is bad mojo your going to burn them out on doing surveys.