I did 10 HITs yesterday for Jeremy Kemp. I was paid within the hour and also received 50c in bonus. Just search for "academic". He wants to know the software packages (like MatLab) required for a university course.
He rejected 2 of mine today. I have no idea how I missed finding the items. It might be harder than it looks. Oh well such is Turking.
He did give a 16 cents bonus for one. It's decent pay if you don't care about getting rejects I guess.
I think you are right - high risk, high reward. This one is also in that category, but also in the category too good to be true. Mike McGuire wants us to find the region of a mutual fund company's HQ. He is paying 20c; I've done HITs like this for others for 2c. Doing 10 can't hurt. https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=2KGW3K4F0OHO0Y54R4BOAL92QLI01P
I did 17, let's hope it turns out to be legit! I got one that the firm name was California Funds. YEaaaaaaaaa, I returned that hit like a hot potato. 16 North America 1 Asia
He rejected the Asia one(Said it was from NA, but the websites I looked on all said Hong Kong) but the others are still pending. Interesting
My hits are rejected total 85(Mike McGuire). He said that (Spent <10 seconds on tasks that could not have taken less than 20-30 seconds (at best) to complete. Spent less than 5 seconds on many!!)