I'm still very new, so I could be wrong about this. So I'm not accusing, just asking. There is a request from a Dmitry Y. Dakhnovsky called Create 50 Twitter Handles. It also wants 50 gmail accounts created, and with American-sounding names. To me, this doesn't looks like a test to make sure it can be done, it looks like he's paying people to set up spammer or hacker accounts. Is this kind of thing okay? Or is it something that should be reported to mturk? And if it is, how, and why aren't they checking what they let go through?
It doesn't sound like something you should do. MTurk doesn't look at anything except that a requester has a credit card for payouts. You can use a credit card to sign up as a requester. Request brilliant essays that take all day to write. Then sell them to college students as term papers. Don't even have to have a high price since you haven't paid anything because you rejected all of the entries. Worker gets nothing for the work and you still have it as inventory.
Thanks, ewd76. Wow, I would expect some regulation. No, it's not something I would ever do, even if someone had posted that it was legit. Those accounts can ultimately be traced back to you - not something I'm willing to allow. And thanks for the revelation about the term paper writing. I am just naive enough to write something in good faith, never thinking how it might be used. (I'm just savvy enough to realize that a lot of the low-end writing HITs are for spam or ads. so I manage to avoid those.)