FAQs on Email 4 cash programs
How to work with Email 4 cash programs?
How to work with Email 4 cash programs?
Email 4 cash sponsors pay you to receive email ads. But it's not just enough to receive an ad. Almost all of the sponsors require, that you open it and click a special paid link. There may be up to five such links in a single message. They can be indicated by something like "Click here to get paid" or "Paid link" next to them. Most of the sponsors supply two paid links for each advertisement — the second one is for AOL users. Be sure not to overclick — there may be some links, even after ads (in this case advertisers pay much less) that yield nothing. Clicking on a paid link may bring you to the advertiser's page (usually there will also be an upper frame with something like "You've been paid" or "Your account has been credited") or to a special page where you will have to insert your username (not your password!) and click a "Submit" button (which will consequently take you to the advertiser's page).
There's at least one company — Power Direct — which does not require that you read their email ads; you are paid to receive them, not to click links. Unfortunately, Power Direct has no 4-cash program of it's own; you can only take it as a secondary (optional) activity with certain sponsors (e.g. Spedia).
Pay attention to the "From" and "Subject" lines of these emails. The sender should be something like "noreply@SuperPayByMail.com" or "PaidMail@OneDollarEmail.com"; if you meet something like "OneDollarEmail@mail.com" it will probably be sent by cheaters. They might ask you to re-register and will try to steal your password and membership/account. The "Subject" line should sound like "PaidEmail #2034" or "Paid email from SuperPayByMail". It's important because some Email 4 cash sponsors may send free (non-paid) email ads; information bulletins (most often mere puffery) and of course, answers to your payment request (definitely worth reading :-)
Are there any peculiarities of the registration process?
Most often (especially with "replicants" — 
) there will be a short one-page registration and a single confirmation email. As a rule, there won't be any special questions, the only requirement is not to use email address ending in .ru .by .ua and the like and @zWallet.com.
Yes. Though we don't place 
next to them, they are all available worldwide. Actually most of the don't care about your country of residence (especially those filthy "replicants":-) Still many of the Highly Recommended 
sponsors, that are not "replicants" do care and send more ads to US residents.
This is really the most important question. The usual payrate is 2-3 c per email ad (paid link). International (non-US) members are likely to receive 5-6 email ads weekly; US residents will receive twice as much (however "replicants" will most probably make no difference between the US and other countries). Thus with most of the sponsors your personal monthly earnings won't exceed $1. Email 4 cash are certainly less profitable than other sponsors, so you should carefully decide...
What Email 4 cash sponsors should I take?
That depends. If you are planning to rest mostly on your personal earnings rather than on referrals, sort the listing by payment minimum and consider those that have zero minimum payment ("any amount") and convenient means of redemption (PayPal, E-gold); check, whether they charge processing fees for E-gold payments. Now look for those, that have small payment minimum and signup bonuses (
). Choose some of these. We'd advise to unsubscribe from them after you receive your first payment.
Then look for the sponsors, that have several subsidiary activities; some "replicants" () have great paid-to-click sections, yielding up to 30 c daily in less than 5 minutes; the "Register" activity is OK with those, collaborating with Meta Reward (we provide this information in "details"). The "Search" activity is not as good as "Click", since Email 4 cash sponsors use the Searchtimes engine - it allows a maximum of 30 clicks from a single IP address. Besides it works somewhat slower than clicks - first, you supply a keyword for a search, than choose one of the links from the search results and click it to get paid, than conduct another search etc. That takes too much time and the payrate is usually less than 1 c. However there are several sponsors (5-6) that allow ten or more clicks from a single search result. To put it in a nutshell, don't pay any attention to this activity at all (by the way, "Search" is supplied by "replicants" only).
If you plan to build a downline of referrals, don't look at the payment minimum at all - that will limit your choice. Sort sponsors by referral earnings. Now the top of the chart is occupied by the sponsors, that pay you a certain amount of cents-dollars per referral ("$5 per referral"). That's rather fishy — they certainly do pay you $5 per referral, but only after this referral gets his/her first payment — if the payment minimum is more than $20 that will probably happen in 8 months only (by the way, Mail Round pays immediately upon referring, the only drawback is that it's actually a Tell A Friend referral program — no referral link). So let's skip them. The rest pay you either a percentage of your referral earnings ("% 30/ 25/ 10") or a fixed price per email ("c 2/ 1"). The latter are extremely profitable, so consider them first. The only disadvantage is that they usually don't give you a portion of your referral's earnings through "Click", "Search", and "Register" (%-referral matrices do give).
Now you may ask
How many of them should I take?
The more the better. If you are using an email client (The Bat!, Eudora) you can take up to 30 sponsors provided that you check your inbox at least twice a week (otherwise you might exceed your space quota). If you are willing to use slower web-interface 10 Email 4 cash sponsors will be quite enough. Don't take more than 50 sponsors — that'll be very time-consuming and frustrating.
Hm, you must be really inquisitive. OK. — these are sponsors with almost one and the same type of webdesign, completely the same FAQs section and trivia ads. They do pay and some might have high payrate, but they are so alike and boring — if you are not obsessed with earning online, skip them.
Where does the money come from?
Most of the Email 4 cash sponsors have an "Advertiser's page". That's it. Anyone can advertise anything here, the only requirement is money. It's notable, that sponsors charge their advertisers for every sent email ad, not for every paid click (the clickthru is usually 70%). Can you figure out how much the sponsors earn?
Yes, naturally. They get paid to send you email. The only difference from aggressive spam firms is that Email 4 cash sponsors share their profits with their "victims" and you can unsubscribe at any time. Therefore it's more "solicited" than usual SPAM, but the idea is quite the same. Besides the sponsors can, and some of them will sell your email address to a real SPAM-company. So, don't use your real email (given to you by an ISP) - use something like Yahoo or Mail.com.
A means of getting your money :-) Gold Membership fee ($15-$25) is usually higher than the outgoing profit. If you have less than 200 referrals, forget about GM. You'd better spend this money for some online casino registration through Spedia or Cash Fiesta.
If you have 300 referrals or more (with this particular sponsor) GM can make a difference. The usual features are: increased referral earnings; decreased payment minimum, assignment of "wild" referrals (those who weren't referred by anyone) and cash rewards for those of your referrals, who sign up for GM too (up to $5 per referred Gold Member).
Many of the sponsors will deactivate you account (stop sending you email ads or even cancel your membership) if you don't click your paid links or login to your account for more than two months.