Surveyscout.com

Surveyscout.com is a phishing and spam site that poses as a legitimate company for providing profitable surveys to its members. Although there are completely safe and revenue-generating survey sites online, Surveyscout.com has all the hallmarks of a scam, including asking for personal information, charging an upfront membership fee and sending its members offers with poor prospects for meaningful profit. Surveyscout.com may be promoted in the form of pop-ups from browser hijackers, and recommend that you ignore Surveyscout.com's promises of riches and, if necessary, disinfect your PC with a suitable anti-malware scanner.

The Hidden Catch Behind Surveyscout.com's Pot of Gold

Surveyscout.com markets itself as a place to get plugged in with insanely rewarding surveys, with its claims of Internet-generated income far exceeding the usual profits of reputable survey companies. Sadly, these riches are as mythological as the leprechaun's pot of gold, as SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that Surveyscout.com is mostly engaged in activities that generate profit for itself. Some warning signs of Surveyscout.com's misbehavior include:

• Phishing attacks. Surveyscout.com will ask for your credit card information as a prerequisite for membership, which is an unnecessary risk that most reputable survey sites strive to avoid.
• Charging an initial fee for membership, in which case Surveyscout.com reaps all the profits of providing a service regardless of whether or not Surveyscout.com follows through on its promises. Reputable survey sites explicitly avoid these prerequisites since they acquire their funding from the companies that are associated with their surveys.
• Spamming members with questionable offers, including 'surveys' that will not pay out unless you also sign up for an unrelated offer of dubious merit (such as a cell phone contract). You should never opt-in for surveys that include suspicious side offers as a condition for their rewards.

A Recon of Surveyscout.com's Browser Problems

Although the issues noted earlier would be more than enough to place a black mark on Surveyscout.com's reputation, Surveyscout.com may be linked to browser pop-up attacks. These pop-ups promote Surveyscout.com and their supposed surveys with claims of over a thousand dollars of virtually free income monthly and should be considered as untrustworthy as the actual Surveyscout.com site.

Such symptoms are usually indicative of the presence of malicious software. SpywareRemove.com malware research team encourages you to deal with these PC threats by deleting them in anti-malware scans and also urges you to take action to protect any information that Surveyscout.com may have phished from you in the meantime. Delay in doing this, or simply not doing it at all, can result in other charges against your credit card or additional attacks against your computer. However, as long as you react to Surveyscout.com pop-ups quickly and appropriately, your PC shouldn't suffer permanent damage from contact with Surveyscout.com.