MTurk is cheating me

Discussion in 'General' started by Majeem Mohammed, May 13, 2011.

  1. Majeem Mohammed

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    They suspended my account without any reasons
    They also grabbed my 500$

    They are also not willing to reveal the reason for suspending my account
    Now they are just cheating 500$ from me
    I have heard that many Indian workers have lost 100 s of dollars in Mturk

    Check these
    http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/cheating-by-mturk-complain-to-us-authorities-c494447.html

    http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/cheating--not-paying-for-the-work-i-did-c549198.html
     
  2. Majeem Mohammed

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    Does anyone have any similar experiences?
    Share your details here
    I am trying to file a complaint against them at cyber crime wing of FBI
    Let us move together to make an end to this money snatchers
     
  3. savihtiri

    savihtiri New Member

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    me too facing the same problem with mturk, they stole my 331$. i ask for it, just they replied " its lost due to your poor work" . but my accuracy is 98.3%. this is a spam site . we all together will go for cyber crime as you said
     
  4. Mac

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    Seriously?
     
  5. lordson

    lordson Active Member

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    Myself too...They suspended my account only for the reason of name change..I had a accuracy of 99.5% and about $320 in my account.
     
  6. RWStein

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    Lordson,

    Please listen my friend...

    You were suspended because you created an account in your Father's name... Regardless of your reasons for doing so. This comes on the heels of you admitting that you had two account before when you got suspended. So this was your second violation.

    Amazon Mechanical Turk's polices can be found here, they are very long, but very clear. One account per person. Any attempt to create an account after being suspended by using another name will also get suspended once they figure it out.

    You can NOT create an account under some one else's name for ANY reason, EVER.

    There is nothing you can do, nothing any one here can do. You must deal directly with Amazon. And to be honest I think you are out of luck!

    Their policies can be found at this link: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/conditionsofuse
     
  7. malayali123

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    at the time of verification mturk suspended my account and my account bal is 71 dollar,rating above 95....
     
  8. pwt

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    I sympathize with your problems guys, but mTurk/Amazon isn't stealing anything, they've committed no crime, and you have no cause of legal action against them. The mTurk terms of service which we are all supposed to read and which we must agree to when registering clearly covers this:

    In other words, your earnings can be considered forfeit if mTurk/Amazon decides that you violated the agreement, and they don't need a specific reason.

    Things like this ought to be a wakeup call to anyone that leaves funds in their mTurk account (or Amazon Payments).

    Don't do it.
     
  9. Zeta

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    Don't be fooled these people scammed Amazon and you in one way or another. Be glad they are banned.
     

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