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I've commented on this before, i-Say is fielding surveys with no rewards. Well the frequency is suddenly gone up, three in less than I week. I tested one, screened out and got no points. I opened a ticket asking what is going on and Sarah got it. Sarah is the IPSOS support deflection specialist extraordinaire, I think her mission is to just close tickets with grammatically correct gibberish. So I don't have a good idea what is going on. Have any of Y'all noticed this as well?

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This statement was in the email from Pinecone Additionally, PayPal will be added back to the Rewards Site as soon as the issues have been resolved. So I went and tried to cash out $5.00 with Paypal and it went thru so I'm thinking it may be fixed.Guess I will find out in a few days!

just done a survey no problem

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The information was probably gleaned from the data and site breaches posted and sold on the DarkNet. Check ALL THE EMAILS YOU HAVE EVER USED on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ These are only the breaches that have been detected from DarkNet posts. There maybe others in undiscovered locations. This has happened to Survey Panels, CashCrate. I was one of the compromised Cash Crate accounts. CashCrate never notified me, I had to find out myself. CashCrate claims to have addressed the issues that lead to the breach, but their login process still uses nonsecure password login process. If you recycle passwords, you are at an elevated risk. This is because the login information from breaches, even from long dead and long gone accounts can be used for credential stuffing.

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No problem logging in, still have -500 points.

Yup, couldn't click on any surveys for at least 24 hours a few days ago. It seems to be fixed today but I have no surveys to take of course

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I live for those two points!

I thought that only happens to me Feel cheated when I don't get the 2 points

Working again for me. Of course, I get DQed with not even the measly two points for DQ.

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There not as good as they used to be not sure why I keep them Seems like there always having some kind of issues.

Haven't any issues opening surveys when there were any. But , there haven't been any for 5 days now. I see others on their FB page noting the same.

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I gave up on i-say a couple of years ago. In spite of their long history of offering surveys, they have done very little to endear themselves to survey takers. I hope that they will dry up and blow away

Truth is we really have no idea what happens to our data. It's floating around on the internet. I can relate to this. I trust no-one.

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I don't know what to say. Zero points? Good grief.

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I usually opt for the Amazon Card, I tried for the Virtual Visa card and it's way too much work and subject to forfeiture. I have noticed recently that there are other oddities with PineCone. The invitation for a survey doesn't expire after following the email invitation, but remains "in progress" on your dashboard. Some lasted for a week extra and I came back several times a day, using different browsers & dumping history and cookies each visit. I was able to make an extra gift card in a week, usually it's every 6 weeks with pinecone for me. The next time you're at pinecone and was screened out, go back to the dashboard and check the status of the project, it maybe still active and could connect to another survey.

I have been playing the Poll Predictor guess-o-matic from quite some time. Its probable, I've made 20,000+ entries. I've done it so many times, I've seen some question 5 times or more. I kinda like the studying the questions and trying to figure out what a good answer maybe. However, i've won a whole lot of Nothing. YMMV. Do it if you like that diversion but don't waste your points from surveys on these games of chance.

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Thanks for all your replies. Yeah, there have been a few data breaches of my personal information. My Target card and Capital One card are a few I can think of off the top of my head. Way back in the day, when I first joined the Navy, I had to fill out a lengthy form to get a top secret security clearance. Apparently that information was digitized and put out on the internet. Guess what? Someone hacked into that and got all kinds of personal information on millions of service members. I got a letter from Office of Personnel Management a few years back. Got free credit monitoring for a couple of years off of that. Dimefynder, yes, I remember hearing about the social security number breach. That kind of stuff scares the crap out of me. I think for the unemployment thing, they just needed my name and address. I have changed my passwords, and am hoping with all I’ve done, that will contain things. I’m still on the fence on continuing to do surveys though. Lunastargazer, I experienced something similar to what you experienced with getting weird phone calls. I used to give my landline number, now I no longer do that. I give my cell phone number, as I can simply block the number. I hate those phone hackers. It seems no matter how careful we are, something will happen sooner or later. I’m trying to limit buying stuff online too, as I think many of those sites are easily hacked.

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Haven't had ID theft , but have had accounts hacked a couple of times , but the site caught it as the IP wasn't mine and came from outside the US. But , those were straight up account hacks. They had nothing to do with the standard demographics data the surveys request. That is why when I got the survey from Cornell with the "mother's maiden name" request , I at first just quit it and the next time , enter a bogus one. (Made no difference - it failed anyway.) That is a common account access question. If I get requests for info that a survey should not have a need for , I get out right away.

Dawn, although I've never gotten my SS number hacked from surveys, I've had some weird things on my phone. If I give my real phone number on surveys I get weird calls for days. They either hang up or leave some recording that I need to call them back. I know they're all scams. OTOH, I was in Harbor Freight a few weeks ago. They always ask for a phone number and email before they process your sale. Reminds of Radio Shack. It was crowded so I said ok. I get a text on my phone an hour later that my password for my ATT account changed and it wasn't me to contact them. So I did. That was no coincidence. I only give out my google voice number now. When I log into my GV account I get 5-10 calls a day. No messages.

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Sorry to hear that, Dawn. Were you able to get information regarding what level of your info was used to open the account? The survey info we give out isn't usually enough for hackers to do that with. They are usually stuck sending us spam e-mails with the hopes that we will fall for a phony phishing message from a seemingly legit company. Amazon has a nastily realistic-looking one mimicking it going around that can trick people into giving their log-in info., for example. I don't know if you knew this, but a few years ago, a massive breach occurred where the Social Security numbers of 140,000,000 Americans got stolen. That's most people who are working, or used to. Other breaches have exposed our driver's license numbers, medical records, etc. It's pretty much all out there. Still helps to change passwords, though. And embrace double authentication, or demand it from all data holders. But we should all expect fake accounts to be opened in our names, at some point, even if only a fraction of us ever experience that. I'm happy that you are taking all the right steps, even if that's all you can do for now. I'm skeptical of even LifeLock now; not that they haven't helped or protected people. But they are not perfect, either. I'm lucky so far. Someone in a Dallas hotel room once charged a $4.00 mini-bar soda or bottled water to my old Citicard, but the company dealt with it immediately.

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The email didn't make it sound permanent. Although, it didn't give a time frame as to when the issues might be resolved.

I love the question that I get several times a day. Have you had any of these symptoms;, cough, sneezing, fever, etc. Nope. I haven't and thanks for repeatedly asking.