Yes. Millions of people have used SwagBucks to get prizes for doing things that generate money using ads, the same way Google makes most of its money. That's how SwagBucks can afford to give away free prizes to people without giving away your information.
Yes, I've gotten prizes from it before, but I found that Gifthulk is a lot faster.
from my experience yes; not only they are a scam but the whole company is a scam. I had signed up for like blockbuster.com and a couple of other offers with my credit card and not only they stole my information but then they close my account and kept the amazon gift card that I was supposed to have earned for me signing up. They are complete fraudsters I would stay away if I were you, save your time and money. The whole company is a fraud.
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Different person answering below.
They are not a scam I am a member and earned $50 in PayPal cash and $15 in amazon gift cards. You do have to earn the Swagbucks to redeem prizes. I usually watch Swagbuck Tv, fill out surveys, and sometimes searching while using the toolbar will net me some swagbucks.
Be honest when using swagbucks doing things against the rules will get you account terminated and prize withheld. That's probably what happened to the person who posted above.
If you are interested I will add a link where you can join in the links area.
Swagbucks is 99.9% legit! Many of my friends and I have already received our prizes. It is not a scam however other websites such as lockerz are more reliable and easier to use. There are many complaints online about Swagbucks.
yes you do
Yes, swagbucks can find out.
Logon into swagbucks then goto your account settings. then enter in your password for swagbucks and then click deactivate my account.
swagbucks code generators are illegal
If you make Swagbucks your homepage then yes.
You get all your referral's swagbucks from searching.
You cannot do that. They only give out birthday Swagbucks to you once a year.
Go to the home page then go the Promote tab on the top. There are 5 easy ways to invite your friends to join SwagBucks. Then when they search and win Swagbucks, you win too!
You cannot win swagbucks for every search because that's not the way SwagBucks works. However, if you want more swagbucks you can try other methods too, such as playing games and getting referrals.
They are worth as much as they get while searching up to 1000 swagbucks. Each time your refferal gets Swagbucks from SEARCHING then you get those Swagbucks too, up to 1000 swagbucks. To find out more about getting referrals check out this post on my blog: http://sbforeveryone.blogspot.com/2010/02/referrals-guide.html
For "Searching and Winning", there are no certain words that will get you swagbucks. Most people tend to search random things every 2-3 hours for an almost guaranteed redemption for swagbucks.