CB Pro

Click Bank Pro is a Click Bank initiative which they claim is the best alternative for Google AdSense. But unlike Google AdSense, CB Pro is a CPA based advertising program. Google AdSense provides CPM and CPC ads, which guarantee assured income. But CPA model does not guarantee this. You get paid only if your website visitor buys a product or service after clicking the ad. Signing up process with CB Pro is free and doesn't have website auditing. After sign up you have to select from 10000+ products that you would like to promote from their marketplace. Then you get an HTML code that has to be pasted in your website/blog. You can earn up to 75% commission per sale. That can be up to USD $ 250. Not only that, you can also earn from subscription products.

mGinger

mGinger is a mobile phone related utility program for which you earn for receiving promotional sms and calls. Similar to YouMint, it also allows you to send free sms to friends via its messenger that can be loaded into your mobile. It also allows you to download free mobile games, provide great offers and discounts from stores in your locality and many more. For every sms you receive, you get 20p. You also get paid for promotional calls that you receive. You can set your preferences in your account. Your mobile number should not be registered in the National Do Not Disturb Registry. If your mobile number is registered in the National Do Not Disturb Registry, you wont get any calls or sms. You can earn more by referring more people into it. But always make sure it is not scam before you do that.

YouMint

YouMint is a very successful social utility program gaining popularity very rapidly in India. It mainly targets mobile phone users. It comes with a program letting us to send free sms to any mobile network in India. It also provides a platform where you can not only download free mobile contents but also create and sell mobile contents to friends like wallpapers, screen savers, etc. Sign up process is simple and short with just sms(/email) confirmation ie you will have to activate your account by entering an activation code that you will receive via sms(/email). This means each member should have a unique email address and mobile number. Also on sign up, you receive a Rs. 500 worth gift voucher. With this you will get Rs. 500 discount for purchases of Rs. 2500 and above from Online Shopping Mall HomeShop18. This offer is valid up to Jan 15th 2009 only. Recently they were also giving out an offer during Xmas season. If you added 5 new members to YouMint you get a chance to win talk time worth Rs. 50000. So how can you earn from this program, here's how. You get

• 20p for every sms you receive.
• 20p per mail you open.
• 10p per email your direct referrals open.
• 5p per email your referrals' referrals open.
• 50p per referrals you refer.

The pay is very low. So it may take months to earn a good amount. So if you are a person who checks your mailbox regularly, it may work for you.

Bux3

Another PTC site very similar to Bux.to. You need to click the given links and view the pop-up website for 30 seconds to earn USD $ 0.01 for each website. You also get USD $ 0.01 for each website your referrals view. On sign-up you get USD $ 0.05 as sign-up bonus. Payout requests are made through Alertpay with a minimum limit of USD $ 10.00. Multiple accounts per household is permitted only if you have unique valid email ID and Alertpay address. One main bug with this program is that in order to lure people into registering for this program, they show as much as 20 ads in the "Surf Ads" page. But after login/register its less than 10. With just 10 ads a day, its not worth spending our valuable time on it.

Allindianjobs

I think it will be a repetition of the post "Netjobs4all". Large, bold headers read

"Indians Earn Rs.25000 Every Month"

"No Investment. Free To Join."

and they are displaying a lady holding "Dollars"!

The only difference would be that here you will be getting online surveys instead of data entry forms. In fact this site is actually an advertisement of another online survey site viz. Xcel-Online Surveys. My advise about this site would also be same. There are some true online survey sites on the net that I am going to discuss in my future posts. So please peep in regularly.

Netjobs4all

This is one example of what I discussed in one of my earlier posts(Click here to view). Big bold captions on top and nonsense in between, but the only difference is that its free. The site particularly targets Indians as their caption reads.

Earn Rs.50000 Monthly!

The theme of the site is "Online Data Entry Job". So what should we do? We have to register our email address so that they can send the data entry forms which we should complete as per instructions. After joining, till date I never received a single form. What I received were a lot of spam emails from their partner websites with advertisements of similar programs. I hope I need not tell you to keep off from such a site.

RupeeMail

RupeeMail is a whole new concept. Unlike PTC sites, in the RupeeMail the ads are sent straight to our email which is registered with them. You just need to open it and the credit gets added to your account immediately. More reliable and easier than PTC, it consumes less time or no time at all. In RupeeMail for each mail that you receive, an electronic stamp is provided. When you open it, you get the amount entitled with that stamp. I got Re.1.00 to Re.0.25 per email. Too less I know, but comparatively higher than PTC sites. For every referral, you get Rs.2.00. You can refer by 3 different ways.

• By an email containing your referral link.


• By banners that can be pasted in your websites and blogs.


• By a text link containing your invite.

Payout is via checks that will reach you in 3 weeks time and is absolutely free for withdrawals of Rs.200 or more. I recommend this site to all my readers. The only problem that I could find is the numbers of mails that you receive. I receive only an average 5 mails a month. Still I don't find any fraud in it. So you may proceed.

Desibux

From the very first look at the website itself we get a sense that it is a truly unprofessional site. The buttons were not properly arranged and the texts were located all over the place. One fraud that I noticed immediately was that first of all when you browse it shows many ads(I saw 8), but after joining you don't find that much.
Here is what they offer.

• USD $ 0.005 for each website you visit.
• USD $ 0.0025 for each website your referral visits.
• Premium membership which is a distant thought costs you USD $ 9.99 but the pay gets doubled to USD $ 0.01. Even then it is far less compared to other sites.
• Payout is processed via Alertpay and the minimum payout is USD $ 5.

Please be careful with these sites and try to stay away. It seemed to have got removed from the net.

ClixSense

I believe they tried to imitate the name of Internet Giant Google's immensely successful online advertising service-Google AdSense. But the difference is that Google AdSense is a state of the art program with over thousand million viewers a year, whereas ClixSense is just another "Non-Sense" doing the rounds on the net giving away false promises for free. Here are those promises.

• 1 cent for every click you make. This way in 2 months I just earned 17 cents. That's less than a cent a day.
• 1 cent for every free registration you refer. Previously it was 10 cents per referral. For referring you have the option of only emails which often gets filtered by spam filters.
• Pay up to 5 levels deep for each referral who upgrades to a "Premium Account". Only Premium members get this benefit for which you need to pay USD $ 10.
• 10% of the revenue earned from the ad placed by your referrals. This is also for the Premium members only.
• Win up to USD $ 5 from Clixgrid. This is their worst ploy to cheat. Being the only other means to earn other than PTC(which is not at all profitable), members are lured into it. Its a grid which contain 15x15 slices. As a non premium member you get 20 chances a day(Premium members get 50) to randomly click any slice. Then a new pop-up window will open. If you are lucky you may win. I have never won and I doubt if anybody else have ever won at all. But every time we click they are surely earning because the pop-up that appears is an ad. I surely appreciate their idea but don't recommend it to any one reading this blog.

Neobux

I came to know about this "Bux" site from the above mentioned Bux.to where I viewed it as a PTC ad. So I was not sure whether to go forward or not because Bux.to itself is a cheat. And a truly professional site would never advertise on such fraudulent sites. On the welcome page they displayed that you get USD $ 0.02 for every site you view and USD $ 0.02 for every site your referrals view. Interesting haan...That's twice that the previous site pays. But wait! this is only for golden members which would costs USD $ 90 for one year. A little mathematics will help you understand how much they are aiming to loot you. To earn back USD $ 90 you need 9000 clicks(in one year)! Taking into consideration the daily average, this is next to impossible!
The pay varies with the type of membership viz. Pioneer, Standard and Golden. It is as follows.

• Pioneer and Standard Membership
  Per click: USD $ 0.010(Standard view) , USD $ 0.015(Extended view).
  Per referral click: USD $ 0.005(Standard view) , USD $ 0.010(Extended view).
• Golden Membership
  Per click: USD $ 0.010(Standard view) , USD $ 0.020(Extended view).
  Per referral click: USD $ 0.010(Standard view) , USD $ 0.020(Extended view).

I still cant figure out what the difference between Standard view and Extended view is.
The minimum payout limit scheme is innovative enough as their tag line says-"The Innovation in PTC". It is set at USD $ 2.00 for your first payout request, USD $ 3.00 for the second, USD $ 4.00 for the third and so on until USD $ 10.00. Another innovation is that everyone in a household can join. But...the catch is that only one user per IP is allowed in 24 hours. That is, the same story is said in a different style.
Now the cones. As is with some other PTC sites, very less ads for a day. It would take weeks if not months to reach the minimum payout amount. So why cant I earn via referrals? I believe my referrals will also think the same way as me and loose interest soon. And if you don't sign-in for more than 60 days your account gets terminated. So is it innovative enough? You decide...

Adbux.org

Another one of the popular PTC sites, it comes with a more flexible policy. It not only provides PTC ads but also surveys and offers for which you get a much higher pay. You also get paid for shopping online. PTC ads pay around USD $ .003-.01 for viewing for a particular amount of time. It may vary from 5 sec-30 sec. But the problem is that you don't get enough ads everyday to make a handful amount. The problem that I encountered with this site was that I didn't get credited every time. To prevent fraudulent services like auto click, auto surf, etc after viewing the site for the specified amount of time we are prompted to enter a numeric verification code. Then only the points are credited to our account. But I was not lucky enough. Every time I did it a red cross appeared(but not all the time). With that alone I cant say that its a fraud. But "Offers" were really annoying. They provide very less number of offers, most of which are not free. The offers that has a high pay(as much as 50 points) wants you to make a purchase for successful completion. When experience has taught me not to trust any of these sites, how can I trust their affiliates. But I still tried some of them which were absolutely free. One of them was Spoke.com which required us to just sign up and proper email confirmation. Also there was an offer which just required us to just download a software. But... neither worked. I don't know the reason, but the points were not added to my stats and also they did not give me an explanation-whether it was incomplete or disqualified. This was enough for me to give it a "Fraud Certificate". And about the surveys, there were no links to take any surveys...anywhere. I believe surveys are just for premium members only. Now its up to you to decide whether its a fraud or not. Some sites claim that its the best PTC site on net.

Bux.to

There are many PTC or Pay To Click programs available on the net. Bux.to is one such program which is gaining popularity day by day. The process is simple and easy. You will be provided with a limited no of links everyday usually 10-14. You have to simply click the link and view the pop-up website for 30 seconds. A counter will be displayed at the top left corner of the page and if your action is a valid one, a green tick mark appears and your account gets credited with one cent. The referral program is quite interesting. You get 1 cent each for sign-up and every click that the referral makes. Here is what the site offers.

Earnings Example

• You click 10 ads per day = USD $ 0.10
• 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = USD $ 2.00
• Your daily earnings = USD $ 2.10
• Your weekly earnings = USD $ 14.70
• Your monthly earnings = USD $ 63.00

The payments are processed through Alertpay with a minimum payout of USD $ 10.

One flaw that I discovered was that once you view all the links in one particular category, you will have to refresh that page. Otherwise, on completing 30 seconds an error saying "Not Logged In" is returned instead of the green tick. Another flaw that irritates me often is that at the time of log in/registration even after typing in the right value, it returns the error "Invalid Verification Code Entered.".
I had a nasty experience with the site. With just 10-14 ads per day, it will take months to make a decent amount. So I started referring my friends and relatives. I managed 10+ referrals within a month and I was making USD $ 1 everyday. On reaching the payout limit, I requested for the payment. The request was sent and they displayed the message "Pending Audit". And...they have being displaying that message for almost a month now and never send an email regarding the payout request either. I believe they don't have a third status message excluding "Payout Sent" and "Pending Audit" as the key suggests. I would definitely suggest you not to join this program as per my experience...even though the reviews about it in some sites are good. Multiple accounts per household are not permitted.

AW Surveys

I came across this site from one of my friends. This site offers a very lucrative policy but what moved me was that it was absolutely free. You only needed to have a Paypal account(If you are not a US citizen). The stats were as follows

• On joining, you get a welcome survey worth USD $ 6.
• Other surveys will earn you USD $ 4 each.
• Every month you get a bonus survey worth USD $ 1. This survey qualifies you for a monthly lucky draw which they say is worth USD $ 500. It expires at the end of each month if not taken in time.
• For every referral you get USD $ 1.25. You can get referrals either by direct referring link or HTML image codes that you can paste in your emails, websites or blogs.

Each survey consists of two websites. You need to view each website and give your reviews in not less than 3 sentences. Payment is made either through check(For US citizens only) or Paypal. The minimum payout is USD $ 75. Having more than one account per household is not allowed. I searched about this program on public discussion forums, as I do usually. It returned a mixed opinion. Many said it was a scam but few others claimed that they got paid(hmmm...I doubt). I still took a chance and joined it. But certain things made me suspicious...

• The graphics and layout of the site didn't look professional enough.
• The registration procedure was awkwardly simple and short. This was unlike other programs that truly pays.
• Even if you provide a wrong email ID it accepts your application. This was definitely odd. Other professional e-commerce sites usually insists on email confirmation. I came to know about this from one of the forums and tried it myself.
• Furthermore they never send any registration details to our email even though in the registration page they wrote-"Please provide a valid email address, your log in information will be sent to it. We will never give out your email address or other personal information."
• The image verification code in the registration page seemed to repeat and not auto-generated.

So is it a scam really???On joining I completed all the available surveys with haste and saw my account balance rising instantly after completing each survey. I completed 5 surveys + 1 welcome survey + that month's bonus survey to see the account balance reading USD $ 27 in less than an hour. It felt great. But, since then I never received a survey to take part other than the bonus surveys of each month which pays only USD $ 1. It has been 4 months since I joined. I recognised that referring friends was the only option. So even before ensuring that it was not a scam I started referring my friends and relatives. Slowly but steadily I saw my referral count and balance rising and rejoiced over it. Immediately when I saw my balance above USD $ 75(which was the minimum payout amount via Paypal), I hit the redeem button. You wont believe, they deducted USD $ 25 as their service charge and put the transfer of remaining USD $ 50 pending for their verification. After two days, they send me an email saying that my payment was terminated because of fraudulent activities. Not only did they waste my time and energy but also made me refer my friends and family to this cheat. Now its up to you to decide whether it is a scam or not.

Google Checkout

Watch out Paypal and Alertpay, here they come...!!! The showstopper that everyone is pinning their eyes upon is...Google. Already in the arena with Google Checkout, which is an online payment service for online purchases, I am looking forward for a big takeover. One interesting though very effective ploy that Google uses often to kill competition is to acquire its nearest competitor. This was how they conquered the video sharing platform by acquiring YouTube, which was the sole challenger for Google Videos. Another example is that of Google acquisition of Double Click. Google AdSense was reigning with a great margin from similar programs of giants-Yahoo and MSN. The only competition was from the side of Double Click. With Double Click in their pocket, now there is no stopping for Google, as far as online advertising is considered. I am eagerly looking forward for a similar story here. But it may be too early to say because unlike Paypal and Alertpay, Google Checkout doesn't support person-person transfer, fund storage, etc YET. Joining Google Checkout is simple. You can sign in with your Google account. As simple as that.

Alertpay

The relatively newer player in the block, Alertpay is rapidly gaining popularity in online payments. It is a Canadian based privately owned and managed company founded in 2004. As of now, it supports 22 currencies and have over 2 million accounts spanning over 206 countries. It also has localized banking in about 46 countries. It offers two types of accounts-Personal and Business. Personal account is further divided into Personal Starter and Personal Pro. Personal Starter account allows you to send and receive money absolutely free. But the catch is that of a monthly receiving limit of USD 400$ and a cumulative yearly receiving limit of USD $2000. To remove these limits, you can upgrade to Personal Pro account at any time. But Personal Pro account charges low receiving fee of 2.5% + $0.25 per transaction. This is the same for business account. But you get access to a number of business tools to help your online business like mass payments, business sub accounts. After signing up you will be asked to become verified by uploading 2 documents-A proof of address document and a photo ID. Alertpay also comes with a referral program. Each time you refer someone to Alertpay you earn up to USD 10$. You can refer by three ways.

• Using a unique referral hyperlink.
• Using a text link.
• Using a banner image.

The withdrawal charges are USD 0.50$ for Bank Transfer(2-5 business days), USD 15.00$ via Bank Wire(3-4 business days) and USD 3.00$ via Check(1-2 business days).

Paypal

Most of the sites that I am going to discuss here pays in the form of either checks, paypal, or alertpay. Let me discuss about paypal first, as I beleive I need not tell anything about checks. Paypal is an american based e-commerce website that allows you to securely send and receive funds, pay online electronically, shop online, etc. Your credit card and bank account information are not revealed. It operates in about 190 countries and is completely free to join. Its also free to add and send funds. For other services like credit card payment, you may have to pay low fees. The minimum withdrawal limit is USD 10$. In India, its free to withdraw Rs 7000 or more. Otherwise you'll be charged Rs 50/transaction. The return fee is Rs 250. Paypal also comes with a referral bonus program. You can either use a personalized referral link or a referral logo that can be pasted on your website or blog. Once your referral starts receiving or sending money, you'll earn 0.05% of the new merchant's revenue for the first 12 months that the merchant has his Paypal account. After sign-up you may be prompted to input credit card details. But you need not do that. You still can send and receive funds.

Simple Formula!

From experience, I derived this very simple formula to identify scams. If you find very bold and colourful captions saying

"Earn 20k At Home!"

"Work In Your Off-time!"

"Be Your Own Boss!"

"Earn Money On Web Free!"

"Turn Your Computer Into A Money-Generating Machine!"

Wait! Don't get excited. Just scroll down and see whether they are asking for any payment(Don't care to read what lies in between. They are just fake ideas,as in most of the cases). If you find an "Order Now" (or anything of that kind) button, just close the window and never ever think of opening that site again. Don't even hesitate to add that site to the "Restricted Sites" list. They may show testimonials and proofs from their so called "Rich And Successful" members. But do remember these are not that hard to imitate. Nevertheless if you find a program true enough to join, don't take a rapid decision. Make a thorough analysis of that program from the net and public forums. Don't forget to contact me if in need of help. Once you are fully convinced go ahead and register. I say this because I have myself fallen pray to one such site and have lost money.

Beware! ! !

"Online Income".Sounds very interesting. But is it really possible. My answer would be "Yes". But hey, wait a sec. The point is in making the wise decision and choosing the right program. All my fellowmen be warned that there are many frauds doing the rounds in World Wide Web. They loot away your money and invaluable time and energy. I dedicate this blog of mine to help protect my fellow beings from getting cheated from such frauds and to avoid mistakes that I committed. Let us together create a fraud-free Internet environment.

Can I Make Money Online...? ? ?

Ok....Ok....I am not drifting away from the core subject. Let me come to the point now. I might have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours on the net just surfing some unwanted stuffs like "Million Dollar Car Launched", "Fastest Bike On Road", or some controversies or gossips....What did I earn from all this....?.....Wait!Wait!....Did I say "Earn"....Hmmmmm.....Can I earn money from the net? I stumbled upon this notion very recently. I saw an ad in one of the websites that I surf which said "Earn Big Fortunes Working At Home!!!". My initial response was WOW!!! and immediately subscribed for it only to find that it was a scam. But this urged me to think deep into the subject. Since then I have been doing a research on this for the past few months. I have found many such e-commerce programs and an equal number of scams or may be more. I will discuss all of it in my future posts and help my fellowmen to make a good source of income from the net. For any details feel free to contact me. My email is sree100.money@gmail.com. You may also post comments. I shall reply at the earliest.

i For Internet

Internet has been such a wonderful media that it has completely redefined what entertainment is all about. Chatting, browsing, streaming audio/video etc,etc are no new terms for not only the young generation but also the elder ones. Internet has also become a vast environment of information. News, dictionary and encyclopedia have become electronic which makes it faster, reliable and more specific than ever before. Services like e-banking, e-cheque, paypal etc have completely changed our perceptive about banking. With more and more services becoming online, Internet has become a vital ingredient in our day-to-day life. I have been using the net for the past few years now. Chatting, email, orkut......I have become addicted to it. It helped me keep in touch with my family when I was away. My friends at school.......I would have long lost them if not to orkut. This unique social networking program has helped me keep in touch with all my treasured friends and recreate those magic moments. Online banking, ticket reservation and trading has made life easier than ever before...