Hey everyone! I just signed up here ohh... *checks watch* Ten or so minutes ago, but spent a bit of time looking around getting a feel for things. A little about me: I'm a full-time college student who's employed through the school as a part-time security intern, but we're limited to 19 hours a week at minimum wage. That's part of the reason I got interested in MTurk. It's not like I'm going to be raking it in, but at the same time every little bit helps, especially like right now where I literally have $16 to my name. However, I quickly ran into an issue that I've seen quite a few people have had as well. I didn't have an amazon payments account before signing up for MTurk, so at the end of the process they asked me to make one of those. I did so, provided my address, SSN, DOB, etc. Within five minutes I got an email saying my account was suspended, as they could not verify my identity. Wut? I've lived here in WY for the past two years, filed taxes here, all that good stuff. I followed what seemed like the standard practice and called Payments customer support. The woman I talked to on the phone said to fax in a copy of my state-issued ID to 8662161070 and that my account would probably be verified within 24 hours. That was on Monday (today's thursday) Called again yesterday morning, got told they never received any fax from me and to try again, once more promising "less than a day". Well I did that, haven't heard anything since. What did I do wrong here? I really, really need some extra cash and I'm stressing out over this.
Glad you finally got things sorted out! Welcome aboard, and I hope that MTurking helps you top up the wallet a little!