There are huge numbers of people who would love to work from home, working when they choose.

And there are endless adverts on the Internet for these jobs, but sadly 59 out of every 60 such adverts are scams.

There are some real work at home jobs of course and filling in online surveys is one of them. Lots of sites offer these surveys and you get paid for filling them in.

Many of these are genuine but there is a downside to them.

Many of these companies have a poor reputation – tedious questions, not paying up, survey freezing near the end so you don’t get paid etc.

One such site that used to have a good reputation is the Australian group My Opinions at www.myopinions.com.au/ This is a well organised setup with lots of surveys and people have been paid and done well out of filling in the surveys.

However, the website was taken over by a new company and some people feel the quality dropped.

www.surveypolice.com/ is nothing to do with the Police – it’s just a website about surveys and they rank survey sites by popularity.

Generally with survey sites, It seems that some people have a good experience and are paid appropriately but others find that surveys freeze at the end so they don’t count and some have been evicted from the survey site without reason and their payments not made.

Be careful if you start online surveys for money – make sure to pick a reputable company that always pays and be ready for boring work.

If you have any experiences with paid online surveys do share with us, by email.