Earn.com is a Data Collecting Scam

in crypto •  6 years ago 

Are you willing to give up your firstborn's blood? If not then Earn.com is not for you.I first heard of Earn.com last year when they were bought out by Coinbase. It was a servery type service where you could earn by filling out questionnaires or get hired for you time. A year after Coinbase bought them I decided to see what it was all about and see how easy it would be to collect some satoshis/BTC. This is where the nightmare begins. I download the app and it starts out by making me verify my phone number and email address, I don't like doing this but Coin-base is a big regulated company kind of so I do it. Then they ask for my home address and all the information you would need to open a bank account minus my SS number. I put my address from when I was a kid and fill out the rest. next they want me to link my accounts to make sure its me. My Facebook, LinkedIn, and git hub. I do this too but I do not have enough LinkedIn contacts so it says I need 40 total. so I spend about 50 min updating and requesting people to connect with me. I finally get 40 and I try to link again and it now says I need 60 people> I was thinking whats going on. Normally i would give up at this point but it was so odd I wanted to see where it led to. BTW when you link these accounts they ask for access to your accounts features. Ok now another 4 hours and i get the right amount of friends. I link my LinkedIn profile and here we go again tells me I need to get verified and gives me a 10 step process to get put on a waiting list to get verified. I’m still not verrified 3 months later but the ydo have all my data and it would be weird not to assume they are selling it and using it. The weirdest thing is they never asked me to link my already verified Coinbase account. Why do they need all of my social accounts and not my easily verifiable account. You know what they say "if it don't make dollars then it don't make scene."
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