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Monday, September 28, 2009

CashCrate? More Like Spam-Crate!!

I'd heard a few things about CashCrate.com, including the story about the teenager that makes over $200 a month. So, I thought I'd give it a try. I signed up for free and got a little notification that I can make $1.00 if I complete my profile, so I clicked it. "Completing your profile" includes sharing your marital status, date of birth, your gender and ethnicity, how many children you have, the ages and genders of your children, whether you live in a house or apartment, your annual income, the total annual income of your entire household, and a few other things. Seems a little intrusive to me. I filled it out anyway, hoping to get started making money. When I got to the list of surveys and things you can do for cash, I clicked a few different ones to see what you have to do. They all include sharing your first and last name, email address, home address, phone number, and in some cases a few more fields. In the intro video when I joined the site, they say that if you enter fraudulent information, or information other than your own that you won't get paid for the offer. I really don't want all of these companies to have that information, so I have not completed any of the 'Offers'. Furthermore, in order to make a decent amount of money you would need to do several, if not hundreds of these per week. Well, after seeing all this and being a little irritated that they can ask for that much personal info, I had to leave the computer for a few minutes to help my children. At this point it had been no more than 10 minutes since I had signed up for CashCrate, and my phone received a text. It was from a random 5 digit number, and it was an offer to "Make money online! Go to whateverwhatever.com". That angered me quite a bit. I replied 'STOP', and as I was typing that text my phone alerted that it had received another. I sent the 'STOP' to the first text and went to read the second. Again it was a spam offer to "Earn your degree!", or "Make Millions!". Again I replied 'STOP'. So far I have not received anymore. The moral of this is; Do not sign up for CashCrate if you do not want spam being texted, emailed, and probably physically mailed to your home. Again, I had not completed any of the offers. The text resulted solely from me signing up for CashCrate. I'm cancelling my membership right after I write this.

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