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by Retr0id 1208 days ago
I followed the trail on one of these before. It was backed by a real company, and as best I can tell, you really can get the $1000 if you jump through enough hoops. These hoops involve signing up for auto-renew free-trial subscription services (requiring payment info), surveys, etc.

Definitely not something I'd want to bother participating in, but it seems like it's not a complete scam. It has scammy vibes, but seemingly not out-right illegal, such that the company is allowed to continue to exist.

The supposed Mr beast endorsement is the potential sticking point, I suppose he isn't in on it, but he'd have to be the one to complain to YouTube about impersonation - I doubt you'd get very far trying to report it as a 3rd party without concrete evidence of impersonation.

The one I looked into was called "National Consumer Center"[1], backed by RewardsFlow LLC[2]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/i1ndrg/anyone_ev...

[2] https://www.nycompanyregistry.com/companies/rewardsflow-llc/