08/31 - Laundry Saturday

Discussion in 'Daily mTurk HITs Threads' started by skittles, Aug 31, 2024.

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Can you turk now?

  1. My account works, and I can turk.

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  2. Jeff Bezos Ghost Dingo ate my Mturk Babies

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  3. I can turk, but I'd rather do laundry today.

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  1. malysa

    malysa Survey Slinger TurkerView Masters

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    I found my response in my spam folder yesterday, a day after they sent it.
     
  2. mypaperheart

    mypaperheart Turker

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    What did they say? I’ve been checking my spam folder constantly, but nothing there.
     
  3. jmd822

    jmd822 Turker

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    This is the email I received today:

    Hello,
    Thank you for contacting Amazon Payments.
    After reviewing your account, we were unable to verify the information that you provided during account registration.
    At this point, your account registration has been suspended. We request that you open a new account using a different email address than the email address you originally used. For security reasons, your original email address cannot be used to reopen an Amazon Payments account.
    Please use the below link to open a new Amazon Payments account, and select “I am a new customer”:
    https://payments.amazon.com/aes/onboarding

    Thank you for your compliance with our verification procedures.

    Sincerely,
    The Amazon Payments Team
    ———————————————-

    When I click that link they provided, it takes me to an error message saying: “Your Amazon Payments account could not be created. Unfortunately, you are not eligible for an Amazon Payments account.”
     
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  4. Jane Doe

    Jane Doe Survey Slinger

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    You wouldn't want to do that anyhow, and lose your MTurk account history and quals. I wonder if real people write any of these responses.
     
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  5. turker

    turker Survey Slinger

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    "not eligible" I wonder if every person having this problem can see this same phrasing at that link? because we both can, but when I saw it was the first I had heard of it.
     
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  6. malysa

    malysa Survey Slinger TurkerView Masters

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    Nothing helpful, the same as everyone else has posted over the last couple of days. It's a holiday weekend so I haven't tried to do anything further than the emails I sent on Wed. Hopefully Turkopticon can work it out, but even that won't happen until after the holiday.
     
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  7. SkipTransit

    SkipTransit New Turker

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    Yup, it's bringing some long silent Turkin' vets out of the woodwork. Suspended here as well, out of nowhere. Same issues as everyone states.

    Here is the journalist you want to pester, (send your research/receipts if it is a Payments hack), he's great:

    Dan Goodin
    Senior Security Editor
    dan.goodin@arstechnica.com
    You can find him on Mastodon at @dangoodin
    https://arstechnica.com/author/dan-goodin/

    "Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. A journalist with more than 25 years experience, he has been chronicling the exploits of white-hat, grey-hat and black-hat hackers since 2005 as a reporter for the Associated Press and later, The Register. He has a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters of Journalism from UC Berkeley. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking, and following the independent music scene. Based in San Francisco, Dan can receive encrypted messages over Signal at DanArs82."
     
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  8. jenn83

    jenn83 New Turker

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    Hi everyone, I'm still able to turk (at the moment anyway) and I've been doing this for over 10 years...but saw some mentions of Cloudconnect on here, is it safe and do you make any money on it?
     
  9. malysa

    malysa Survey Slinger TurkerView Masters

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    yes, I've been on it since it was in beta, Spring of 2022. It's like turk though where you have to build a reputation (quality score) before you get a lot. I make a lot on Prolific though (been on there for 5 years).
     
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  10. jenn83

    jenn83 New Turker

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    Thanks, I do Prolific as well, I just hadn't heard of Cloudconnect before. I don't really use turk forums that much, I used to be on Mturkforum, but it's been dead for awhile on there and now it's not even working. I forgot I had an account here until I was reading about the suspensions.
     
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  11. HughCat

    HughCat Active Turker

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    Well, just got hit with a suspension too, same thing as everybody else.
     
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  12. Jane Doe

    Jane Doe Survey Slinger

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    The folks at CloudConnect have been known by many names; Prime Research Solutions LLC, aka Turkprime aka CloudResearch aka Connect. If you feel safe dealing with an outfit that felt the need to change their name so many times, go for it!
     
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  13. Tripsa

    Tripsa Gobbling Ghost Mod

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    Just got hit by it as well.
    [​IMG]
     
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  14. malysa

    malysa Survey Slinger TurkerView Masters

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    https://app.slack.com/client/TDBT14TPY/CDAB91FU4
     
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  15. stargazer66

    stargazer66 Active Turker

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    Wow, I am shocked at all the suspensions. I am so sorry for all you guys, especially if it's your main income like me.
     
  16. Kathleen!

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    I am still able to work but - I don't know if it's coincidental or not, but a card I have used to pay for goods on Amazon was just used 3 times from an online company in the UK. I was notified of unusual activity by the cards fraud system and stopped authorization and cancelled the card.
     
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  17. TotalBabe

    TotalBabe Well-Known Turker

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    I'm sorry for the circumstances under which it's happened, but I'll say what a few others have said: it's nice to see some familiar faces from turking days past.:)
     
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  18. carrie35

    carrie35 Turker

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    have you asked amazon what is going on?
     
  19. Kathleen!

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    I'd have to think about what I would say before I do that. Right now I'm busy changing passwords, cancelling and ordering new cards, freezing credit, etc.
     
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  20. Jumples01

    Jumples01 New Turker

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    Mine was suspended too. Thought it was just me. Glad I'm not the only one!
     
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