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Scam of the day – February 7, 2026 – Amazon Tester Scam Alert: Don’t Fall for Fake Paid Review Offers
For many people, working from home at a simple job that pays well is pretty attractive, which may explain why people are vulnerable to a scam offering to pay you to be a product tester for Amazon. Ads for Amazon product tester are found on social media such as Facebook and TikTok offering to pay you to test products that will be sent to you for free and then write a review. Some of these ads promise payments of $1,500 per month. The only problem is that these paid Amazon product testing jobs are a scam. What makes the scam a bit more believable is that Amazon does have a product testing program, Amazon Vine, which invites specifically selected reviewers to have products sent to them for free to review, but the program is invitation only and it does not pay anything. Here is a link with more information about Amazon Vine. https://www.amazon.com/vine/about
The scammers use social media and fake websites with easily counterfeited Amazon logos to trick people into applying for these phony jobs. The scammers also will post their phony job offerings on legitimate job sites such as LinkedIn and Monster. Anyone interested in the job fills out an application that provides sensitive personal information including their Social Security number which is then used by the scammers for purposes of identity theft.
TIPS
This is an easy scam to avoid by merely understanding that Amazon does not pay anyone to test their products and their non-paid testing and review products program Amazon Vine is by invitation only. Anyone else promoting an Amazon testing and review program is a scammer.
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