Rewards site scam checker
Answer 14 yes/no questions about a get-paid-to or rewards site you are thinking about using. You get a concern level, the reasons behind it, and sensible next steps.
Educational tool, not a verdict. This checklist is general information. It is not legal advice and it cannot say for certain whether any company is honest or dishonest. Nothing you answer is stored or sent anywhere.
How the concern level is worked out
The questions come from the 12-point checklist in our article How to Spot a Rewards Site Scam. Two of its points (who runs the site, and what the terms say) each contain two separate checks, so they appear here as separate questions, which is why there are 14.
- Higher concern: a "yes" to any of questions 1 to 4 (the money-in-first signs), or "yes" to three or more of the other ten.
- Caution: no "yes" among questions 1 to 4, and a "yes" to one or two of the other ten.
- Lower concern: no "yes" answers among the questions you answered.
The article says one red flag among the first four should stop you, and that several among the rest should make you walk away. It does not put a number on "several"; reading it as three is our own simple cut-off.
Two ways a rewards site can fail you
Some sites are outright scams: they take a fee, a card number or a login and give nothing back. Far more common is the engineered non-payout, where a site is technically real but the payout minimum is nearly out of reach, or balances disappear through reversals, audits or a shutdown. The first kind can cost money; the second mostly costs time. The questions above cover both, and the "what to do next" advice changes with the concern level.
Why a checklist and not a score of the "truth"
A rewards site can pay on time and still be a poor use of your time, and a new site with sparse terms may simply be young. The checker cannot see the site, and your answers are only as good as what you found. That is why the top result is called "higher concern" rather than "scam", and why the lowest result says only that you found none of these particular signs. Absence of these warning signs is not a guarantee of safety, and it is not a guarantee that you will earn anything worthwhile.
A cheap way to test any site
Before spending an evening, use an email address you keep just for rewards sites and do not connect a bank account. Earn the smallest amount the site allows, request a payout as early as possible, and note how long it takes and whether a real person replies to a simple support question. If the minimum is out of reach, that already answers the question. For a related tool, try the payout planner to see how long a site's minimum would take you, or the effective hourly rate calculator to see what a task really pays.
We apply the same standard to ourselves: ScrollEarn publishes its revenue split on the About page and does not publish member counts or testimonials it cannot verify. You should still run the checklist on us.
Frequently asked questions
Can this checker prove a site is a scam or that it is safe?
No. It is an educational checklist that turns well-known warning signs into a rough concern level. A lower-concern result does not clear a site, and a high-concern result is not a legal or definitive judgment.
Why does one "yes" on the first four questions give a high-concern result?
Those four signs involve money or sensitive details going out before you earn anything: paying to join, handing over bank or card details, cashing a check or buying gift cards, or being promised guaranteed high income. Our checklist article says one of these should stop you.
Does the checker store or send my answers?
No. Everything is calculated in your browser. Your answers are not sent to a server, and no cookies or local storage are used.
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