Ok, on the Internet these days there are literary loads of sites which promise an avalanche of cash but rarely pay.

First thing you absolutely must know and remember is this: Never, never, never, pay upfront anything to do any job; if someone asks for your money it's probably a scam.

Keep in mind the sites I will introduce do pay, they accept all international members and you will not have to pay to join, you will not be paid in only points (unless convertible to cash). Another thing you must remember is that no-one gives anything for free; any site that claims they will pay you large amounts of money for doing essentially nothing it's because they want to steal your time, they don't have any intention of paying you whatsoever.

There are various ways of earning on the Internet, and I've dealt with a lot of them.

The lowest paying ones are PTC (Paid To Click) sites. These sites pay you around 0.2 to 1 cent for very ad you click. In order to get the money you have to wait on average of 30 seconds. Some of these sites include Gainpay.com , Gainmail.com , apairof.com and fastcashemails.com (which pay in cash and points, but the points are converted to cash every month).

I do NOT recommend signing up to these sites, they are a huge waste of time and usually weeks pass by before you can cash out (when minimum cash out is set at $1).

There are also PTS sites which pay you to use their search engines, zotspot.com (where I never managed to earn a dime) and slashmysearch.com . The latter site pays really little but it does pay. It also offers a free email service where you also get paid (as long as you are reading/writing).

A second free way of making money is by joining getafreelancer.com . Here you post your capabilities (design, legal, translation, C++, advertising etc.) and you bid on projects (the bid is how much you want to be paid). Then the job poster will decide who get the job usually basing his decision on the persons experience, cost, how long it takes to do the job. The average bids go anywhere from $10 to $5000+ depending on how long and complex the job is.

A third way, for designers/photographers is to post their images/pictures on the internet to try to sell them. There are two very competent sites which do that, bigstockphoto.com and dreamstime.com . Here you upload your photos, you decide how much you want for them. There are different prices for different actions; for example full rights over a good photo can be sold at around $200. You can also decide to sell them for one time use, limited use or whatever you want.

Agloco.com is a site that pays you to surf the internet. Basically what you do is you download a toolbar which monitors when you are online, as long as you are online you will get paid for a certain amount of time. There is also another site, a scam site known as surfjunky.com , which pays you about 50 cents per hour, unfortunately though that money will never be wired to you.

A good way to make money, if you have a specific, active blog is to use reviewme.com and/or payperpost.com . These two sites work on the same principle, they basically put you into contact with people who will pay you to review certain products. The price ranges on these vary drastically from $5 to $100's.

If you have your own blog/website you can also sign up to a free Google adSense program. You just submit your site/blog, if they approve it they will give you a code to insert in your site/blog which will activate their ads. Now whenever someone clicks those ads you will earn money; Don't click your own ads or else you will be banned.

There are two more sites where you can get paid to review, but you get paid very little: ciao.com (Make sure to sign up for the right country or else they won't pay you) and dooyoo.com (same as ciao). These two run on the same circuit, so the reviews you published in ciao can also be posted here through cut/paste; assuming of course that you are the author.

Yet another great way to make money, if you got the luck to get the gig and the skill, is to sign up to two free sites, thevoice123.com and voices.com. These two sites offer you the possibility to do voice-over jobs, these are probably the easier jobs you can get (assuming you get accepted by the job offerer) and they pay quite a sum of money, usually around 100 - 500 for short clips.

This is a very fun way to make money, keep in mind you do need the right hardware and the right software for the job. You also need some minor audio editing skills, like being able to fuse tow audio tracks, add music to an audio track with no music, etc.

One new free survey site as just opened up, awsurveys.com ; it accepts international members and you can earn 26 dollars in just a few minutes. You are given two links for each survey, you view the site and express your points of view on it (about three sentences for every link). Now there are two drawbacks; They are quite new and only have $26 worth of surveys and the minimum payout is $75. the second drawback is the fact that if you choose to be paid through paypal they will keep a $25 commission charge while if you get paid through check then you get it all; however i assume that the check will most likely only be available in the U.S.A.

On the other hand you can join various paid forums. Here you get paid to post, the most famous of these kind is mylot.com , here the minimum payout is decided by you (between $10, $20, $50, $100). There is also paidforum.net but there is a rumor going around that they don't pay. Their min cash out is $50. there are two more and both which somewhat pay a decent amount but it still takes forever to earn. One thing to remember is to not consider these to be jobs, you have fun while posting but you will never earn enough money to be able to live of of it.

Lastly you can always try to post your ad on kijiji.com ; here you can post your CV and request a job or you can respond to a job offer. This is probably the simplest way to get your skills known to the global community.

On a different note, beware of ACN; ACN claims to be the new form of telecommunication, you can work for them by recruiting customers. You have to convince people to change from their phone provider to ACN; you will then earn anywhere between 1 to 10% from each of their phone bills.

Now anyone who has ever tried to get referrals for certain programs will know exactly how hard it is to convince people to sign up to certain things, and keep in mind refferal programs are free; how hard would it be to convince someone to change to another phone provider? This isn't even the worst part. To be able to work for them you have to pay a one time fee of 399 Euro; now if someone is looking for a job do you really think they would be willing to spend 399 euro to be able to work without the certainty of being able to get it all back?

If they contact you be very careful to make sure that they really are who they say they are (there are a lot of scam artists out there), and please take into consideration that regardless of the fact that there are people who say that they did earn with ACN there are even more who ended up not earning a thing.

The best advice I can give is don't join any job which obligates you to pay to work; don't listen to their empty promises, if they really made that much money they wouldn't need you.