1. SUSTAINABILITY
- Sustainability refers to the ability of a site to generate enough income from the sale of each advertisement to pay the amount it is promising to pay its members. So if a site offers more than 2 cents then forget it, this site will disappear soon. Advertisers prefer a much cheaper way to advertise and as a result, high paying programs will only have few clients.

2. Terms Of Service
- Never join a program that doesn't have a well written TOS. Please read it carefully as some program owners might trick you.

3 Contact/ forums
- Contact Us link gives the website a good chance of being legitimate. Try to contact the admin. Ask them about their program and how YOU can benefit from it. Communication is always important with these type of business.

-If the site doesn't have a good support system or forums where an admin is active, then it maybe a scam. You will know if they care for the members if the admin is active in the forum

4 Proof Of Payments
- a sign that they have already paid their members before.

5 Minimum amount/Payout
- if the min payout is extremely high (let's say $1000) then it's obviously a scam.

6 Default layout, cheap designs
-When finding a new site, look at the layout, is it good, or bad?
they probably didn't put much time and effort into it which means they don't care or they can't even think of their own designs.

-Now a days you can also find lots of free scripts which known scammers use to build their own scam site. Even a 16 years old boy can operate his own PTC. So be careful with those cloned sites that has a default and cheap layout.

7 Reputation
If the site owner is known to of scammed in the past, don't join.
If they have scammed once, they will scam you again, history repeats it's self.

8 Join anti scam forums

PTCtalk
Here you'll find information everything about PTC, buxsites, PTC reviews, payments proofs, PTC scams, wacthlist and more!

GPTBoycott
The aim of GPTBoycott is to name the offending 'get-paid' companies, and to urge members to stop using them. You will also know which sites to avoid and which programs that pay.

BeenPaid.com
BeenPaid is the only comprehensive directory of free to join Get Paid To programs that are verified as having paid their members. Since 2003, BeenPaid.com has been providing and sharing information with our members on how to earn online.

PTC Profit Sharing
A 100% cashback program where members will work as a group and share 100% earnings while you work toward payout so if the site turns out to be scam, your effort won't completely go to waste because your referrer will pay a percentage of the referral earnings.