“#1 Influencer Network” Scams – You Will NOT Make $500 Today Like They Tell You!

Overview of the "#1 Influencer Network" Scams

As mentioned, there are a number of these scams out there and they are constantly switching names, so it can be difficult to keep up with them all.

Below you can see some screenshots of the websites for Paid 4 Clout, Clout Bucks, Kids Earn Cash, and Clout Pay... this is how these types of scams usually look:

According to the websites how it works is like this...

1. Join for free
2. Share your influencer link
3. Get paid

Pretty simple... so they tell us.

The going rate is supposedly $10 per invite. So you get paid $10 for every person you get to join... along with a $25 sign up bonus that they claim to be giving out once you join.

Additionally, the opportunity is advertised as a way to "make $500 today", which is a heck of a lot of money to make in one day... especially considering the fact that you can make this amount in your first day (not actually true).

They also have a calculator on many of the websites where you simply enter in the amount of followers you have on social media and it will spit out an estimate of how much money you can make with the program.

Below you can see I entered that I have 300 social media followers and it's telling me that I can make $73/day...

BUT... you should never trust everything a place like this tells you.

As the saying goes.. "if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is". 

There are lots of red-flags right off the bat... all of which point to this being the massive scam that it is.

Red Flags

Besides the obvious red flags of these opportunities sounding way too good to be true and you being able to make tons of easy money... there are some other red-flags that I want to point out... 

#1 - Income Calculator Makes No Sense

The income calculator that I just showed you above makes absolutely no sense at all. It is nothing more than a misleading way to lure people into this program by getting them to think they are guaranteed to make a lot of money.

Think about it: how can they possibly estimate the amount you can earn based on the number of social media followers you have?

The way they are estimating you will make money is based on how many people you will be able to get to join the program, but of course not everyone is going to be equally interested.

If you are a doctor and have a bunch of followers with PhD's then I highly doubt you will be able to get many to join. Whereas if you are in high-school or college and have younger followers the chances might be better for you. but the point is there is no way to accurately estimate how much you could make like this.

#2 - Frequent Name Changes & Rebranding

Clout Pay, Kids Get Money, Kids Earn Money, etc., etc.... these are all names that this same program has been rebranded with and it continues to change names rather frequently.

So why is this?

Well, one thing is for certain... it is very suspicious.

I often review and expose online scams and I see this sort of thing happen quite a bit. Usually the reason for rebranding a scam program is because too many people have caught onto it being a scam so they rebrand it under a different new name and promote it as some brand-new opportunity.

#3 - Fake Testimonials

The fact that there are known fake testimonials on these websites is also another major red flag. If they are really the "#1 influencer network"s that they claim to be then they should easily be able to get legitimate testimonials.

On these websites there is usually a testimonial page that is filled with a bunch of overly positive videos from people claiming they have made all sorts of money with the programs, like these from one of the scams I've come across called "Clout Pay"...

As soon as I came across these testimonials I knew they were fake because I recognized a guy in one of the videos.

The man in the top left testimonial shown above talks about how this program has changed his life, could change yours too, has been his main source of income for 3 months now, etc... but unfortunately this is all a lie and this is actually a paid actor from the freelance marketplace called Fiverr...

#4 - Scam Accusations

There are also quite a bit of complaints from people who have tried making money with these programs but left empty-handed. Below are some complaints with the BBB on the Kids Earn Money scam.

This is just one of many examples and I can personally agree with these complaints having tried these programs for myself (I'll go over my horrible experience shortly)...

Some people have wasted a serious amount of time and a lot of effort trying to make money with these scams.

I hope this review reaches as many people as possible before joining.

What Actually Happens When You Join (my experience)

I hope you haven't joined yet... and if you have hopefully you haven't wasted a bunch of time trying to make money.

Right now I'll be showing you what happens when you do join one of these opportunities. In this example I joined Paid 4 Clout but it doesn't really matter what you join... they are all the same basic layout and the same old scam.

After joining you will see a dashboard that looks something like this:

Right in the center you are provided with your unique referral link, which is what you are supposed to share on social media to get others to join, and what you can supposedly make $10 with every time you get a referral.

As if getting $10 just for referring someone to this website isn't already enough... along with getting a $25 bonus for signing up... they also claim to pay you $2 just for the people that click on your link!..

Yes, you read that right. They say they will pay $2 if someone clicks on your link.. even if they don't join!

How the heck is this possible?

Answer: It isn't of course.

But anyways... let's proceed.

On the dashboard you have what looks like a variety of ways to earn money. 

• Refer friends
• Get clicks
• Download apps
• Complete surveys
• Create YouTube videos

However, there's not as much going on here as it seems at first. In reality there are only 3 different areas to earn:

1) You have your referral link that you can share to get people to join

• Whether you go to the "refer friends" section or "get clicks" you are directed to the same area where you are given your referral link.. that's it.

2) You can complete simple tasks to earn money and win things

• When you to to "Download apps" or "Complete surveys" you are taken to the same area which is called the Task Wall and looks like this...

3) You can get paid to create YouTube videos

There is also a YouTube submission section where you can supposedly get paid to create Youtube videos talking about how good the program is. I imagine that you can only create one of these videos and get paid for it.

But... It's All a Scam

But of course it is all a scam. The Task Wall area is one of the most ridiculous wastes of time on the planet and I wouldn't be surprised if all of the video testimonials they feature on their websites are from people submitting YouTube testimonial videos hoping that they will be making money from doing so, as outlined above.

It's all one big scam and I'll show you what happens when you actually try to make some money.

Take the Task Wall for example, which I already showed above. As I'm writing this review I mostly have options to win $100 gift cards:

I like Buffalo Wild Wings the most out of all of these places so I decided to give it a go and try to win the $100 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.

In this effort I am supposed to be able to win the $100 gift card and also get paid $30 from the program... which obviously sounds way too good to be true.

But anyways...

After clicking on the offer I was directed to the page shown below, which told me that I'd have to enter my email and complete the steps to earn my $30...

After proceeding I was sent to another website called NationalConsumerCenter where it told me that I could win the gift card "Upon completion of purchase requirements".

Oh no... now it's sounding like I might have to purchase something just to get a chance to win the gift card.

There was a place below this to enter my email and then I was on to the next step.

RED FLAGS: On the website shown above I noticed some very suspicious findings. The title of the website was NationalConsumerCenter but the website domain was OnlinePromotionUSA.com...

It's a bit weird, but I suppose it's not all that uncommon to see domain names and website titles that don't match up. HOWEVER, the even stranger thing was that at the bottom of the website it was said to be owned by the RewardZone USA company...

After proceeding further I was directed to another website where I had to enter some personal information and agree to receive promotional emails, which I didn't want to do but it was a requirement.

At this point it was already starting to get pretty annoying with all the redirects to different sites and what not... but it wasn't over yet!

I then was taken to a survey where I had to get 100 points in order to get my gift card. I started out with 10 points and had to take a survey that was worth 20, which started out with pointless questions like this:

Later in the survey they started getting to the point and was asking promotional type questions, such as whether or not I want to become a Sam's Club member, what my health insurance is like, if I need auto insurance, and so on.

And lastly I had to agree to receive phone sales calls and text messages from their "marketing partners"... which means that I was agreeing to have my phone bombarded by promotions.

After that I was taken to yet another page where I had to complete at least 1 deal, which meant signing up for a free trial or something along these lines...

I actually ended up doing this and signed up for the 1st offer yet could not move on to the next step.

So I ended up not being able to get the 100 point requirement needed to win my free Buffalo Wild Wings gift card!

How ridiculous is that?!!

What a letdown... but I knew this was going to be how it would turn out to begin with anyhow. It sounded too good to be true... and of course it was.

You Will NOT Make Money

There are a lot of different offers you can choose to complete, mostly to win gift cards, but they are all the same basic thing.

In a nutshell, you get led around in circles entering more and more personal information and agreeing to sign up for more and more things... but you never make it to the finish line where you can actually get paid.

This is how they make money from everyone who joins this website. First they trick members into recruiting other members in with the hopes of making $10 per referral--and then they make money from the members by getting them to sign up for a bunch of offers and bombard them with promotional calls, emails, texts, etc.

So don't expect to win any gift cards and don't expect these programs to actually pay you the money that you earn.  

You might be able to refer a few people to join and in your account it will show that you earned money, but when you try to withdrawal that money you will find it impossible, as this person did with the Paid 4 Clout scam...

Conclusion - Avoid

Avoid all of these scams. If something sounds too good to be true then it probably is... and being the logical person that you are, you were able to catch this and did some extra research beforehand... so good work!

Being able to get paid $10 for inviting people to some website that pays to complete surveys and such... what a joke. If you actually look at legitimate survey sites that have referral programs (Swagbucks, Gift Hunter Club, etc.) they don't even play relatively close to this amount. And the whole thing about getting paid $2 when someone clicks your link is the icing on the cake... absolutely ridiculous claims that just don't make sense.

This is nothing more than one of many scams that will continue to exist. The problem is that it is very easy to rebrand a scam like this. So when one gets shut down, another just pops up in its place.

Be careful and if you are looking for a way to make money online that actually works be sure to check out the program I use--and have been using since 2015.

Alternatively you can check out my top income ideas for some other good way to make money from home.

Please leave any comments and/or questions below and alert me if there are some new "#1 influencer network" scams that I should add to the list!