Looks a bit fishy to me

That's not exactly the case because they won't be able to get the $1 referral bonus until the time they start making their first review. And if they do make a bogus account then in due time they will be caught. Don't worry about it, if you have added some of them and they don't have any reviews then you can easily remove them from your friends anytime also.

I'm receiving lots of request too. If someone is desperate enough to reach the payout perhaps he might create a dummy account using another computer.

Lol I've had that experience before (the message thing with friend requests), people are getting desperate for that money. I wish they hadn't taken out the 25 cents incentive. What they could've done is just pay the reviews that gets rated positively and stuff like that. That leads to more people writing only about popular products so people would actually search for reviews. The members would be able to decide whether or not its pay-worthy.

yah, i smell that too.lol..since they posted the new policy, i only posted one review.the rest of my activities at ciao are devoted for rating and adding friends..and yes, i had proven that effective because i've seen increase in my earnings since i rated and added more friend although some don't rate back..i guess i have to sort out my friend list again..i do delete friends who are not even bother to visit my reviews..

I also received a lot of messages from Ciao, but what I did is just ignore the nessage. To be true, I am very disappointed with the new policy,but i still write for them. You have to be rated as exceptional for you to qualify for premium fund.

I hate spammers too, what i am doing is just ignore them, i just accept their invitation. If i have time then i visit their page, if i like their review, then i rate them, if they start spamming then i ignore them forever.

Hi I also am thinking whether to quit it. I also have seen the same messages each time. So i think it better to quit. Any body has any othert sugestions please make

Well, that happens in a lot of the sites that have the Referral bonuses. People who figure out ways for people to sign up under them just for the Referral $$, or they will sign up under a lot of different names a lot of times on seperate Computers and have people think they are someone New as well. When sites allow more than one person from any Computer to have an account in there, that is often a lot of what happens there for sure.

just this thought occured to me. I have seen similar request. they are also sending me friend's request and trying to send the same message to add to circle of trust.

Yes, I also noticed that. Probably, it's the most appropriate for them not to post reviews but rather gain more friends.

I have recently registered at Ciao, and quite frankly, I don't know much on this area of that site, I do ask request to some people there but definitely, as much as I can I do sincerely meant what I told them and some do fail to rate my reviews. Spammers of creating another account could happen any website for that matter, people are in dire need of earnings.

It's possible but i think it will be detected through their ip address and who knows what will happen next. Suspension perhaps hehe.