I was recently invited to Empowr.com and offered a bonus for signing up. The site is like facebook where you post things and people like your posts and you are supposed to view other peoples postings and like, comment or share their posts. At the beginning, they ask for you to verify your PayPal account. They say they will send a small charge to your PayPal account and immediately refund it. At this point they make a $30 charge and refund it right away. I find this misleading because they do not disclose the amount of the charge. For me, a small charge would be $1 or maybe $5.
When they did this PayPal thing, my balance was very low and the funds were pulled from my back up source, which is my bank account and I did not have the funds available in the bank. I went overdrawn and incurred a charge on my bank account. I was not happy.
I remained on Empowr and was a free user. I posted a few of my marketing links and some pictures and videos and got likes and also viewed and liked other members posts. The earnings increased daily, but there is a 90 day waiting period for them to mature and at that point you have to buy their coins. You do not get the option to withdraw to PayPal or anything like that where you would actually get money.
A few days ago, they processed a $50 charge to upgrade my level. I was surprised because they had said they would never charge my Paypal without letting me know. I am fighting to get this money back and have applied for a refund, which takes days to get back but it goes I guess into your Empowr balance, which you can't cash out. Contact with them is only through your coach, who has no control over the funds.
I think it is a scam. Does anybody have a better opinion of Empowr?
