Hits4Pay and Gaming Lagoon

These two websites have left a bad taste in my mouth, for different reasons.

Hits4Pay
I signed up for Hits4Pay a few months ago, but haven't had anything to do with it since. Part of this is because they ask for your Social Security Number, ostensibly for tax purposes. I really don't believe this. After clicking on a few ads every day - getting, at most, .02 per ad - I highly doubt that I'm going to make enough to warrant sending me a tax form for it. In fact, I highly doubt I'm going to even hit payout. All in all, I got a bad feeling from the website, and after looking up a few reviews of it, I've pretty much never gone back. A search at bbb.org for Multiple Stream Media (the company that runs the website according to their About page) turned up nothing. This means that they are probably unlikely to be a BBB Accredited business (unless I just searched for the wrong thing), which means that I'm not giving them my Social Security Number, no matter how many positive 'member testimonials' I read.

In any case, I don't see the point of continuing to visit Hits4Pay, since they refuse to pay you unless you give them your Social Security number (which they aren't getting from me). They could very well be legit, but I guess I'll never find out!

That aside, from what I have gathered from the 'member testimonials' themselves (such as the ones in the comments on this Reviewopedia page), it's impossible to really make anything off of Hits4Pay unless you recruit a legion of zombie followers (that is, spam referral links and get a bunch of people in your downline). You won't be able to make much money just clicking ads. That said, do you want to have to convince 100 people to divulge their SSNs to a random website?

GamingLagoon:
GamingLagoon made me angry in quite another way. Supposedly, you use points to buy electronics or gift cards. You accumulate points by filling out offers. There's a "verification" time period where they verify that you filled out the offer before rewarding you with the points. I should have earned enough points to buy a World of Warcraft Game Card. Instead, 90% of my offers failed verification. If you put them on the spot about it, you get a bunch of bull about how you must not have had cookies enabled on your browser - or once you verify that they were, in fact, enabled, the good old "Well the cookie corrupted". I'm pretty sure I know where they can shove their corrupted cookies. All I have to show for joining is an inbox full of spam. Although there are members who state that they have gotten their items or gift cards - and I fully believe them - it's not worth the grief of arguing over the stuff that was denied verification, and I won't be filling out any more of their offers. Whether they actually pay out or not, they've already proven to be too much of a hassle.