Kyle C.

Once they get your email, they will spam you. Click unsubscribe and it goes to the main page. There there is no unsubscribe feature on the site outright. What you have to do is create an account, which puts you on MORE lists, then tell them to stop on the settings page. The way they do this is a violation of the Federal Trade Commission's "CanSPAM" act. Which carries with it a $16,000 fine PER email. Make sure you report them to the FTC, and save the emails in case the FTC contacts you and asks you to forward them for proof. They are trying to skirt it to make it appear as if there is an unsubscribe button. But you cant unsubscribe without giving them your info.

The emails will say something like "You used to use our service before and cash out for gift cards". Despite not even knowing they *existed* before this, nor ever using a paid survey service in your life. You might say "well maybe someone used my email to sign up", well if that was the case, then they have my phone number, and my email password whichever gets changed monthly (im an IT guy). I would have record of them logging in, theres even alerts and location / device callouts. And they would need to be in there to confirm the account email on the site. There would also be record of emails like "thank you, you earned X dollars for that"... There are zero emails to the above, nor any indication that there has been a breach.

So theres that. FURTHERMORE, Ive even sent emails informing of the FTC violation and asking them to 1, remove me. And 2, fix it. No response has been recieved and I continue to get emails

Basically spend 10 minutes making a "confidential" review that isnt really confidential. Under the impression you are gettung "up to" 100$ (of course you arent). Then you find out the "reward" is for stuff like a discount on magazine subscriptions and has nothing to do with the merchant you filled out the survey for. Its 2022... Nobody subscribes to magazines. They also collect some pretty intrusive information about you and your household... And they say they dont sell it. Well I made a burner email just for that survey to see what would happen. 2 months later theres dozens of spam emails in there... Bizrate arent scammers, by definition... But by principle, yes, they are scammers.