Hello and welcome to another review from MMOZ! Today we are investigating a website that has been around for a couple of years now. The site is called Quest Of News and claims that you can get paid for reading the news and watching videos.

This sounds like a great deal and since the site is free to join it would also seem that there is nothing to lose. But is everything straight forward and legit with Quest Of News or is there more to this system than meets the eye?  Welcome to my Quest Of News review…

Quest Of News Review – First Impressions

I think its fair to say that the Quest Of News website is very basic. What immediately strikes me is the fact that directly in the center of the home page is a Google ads banner. For those of you who aren’t aware, website owners can place Google ads within their website to make extra revenue. However, I would expect to see information on joining and getting paid through Quest Of News rather than an advert for someone else’s services.

We also see three extremely short and not very convincing  testimonial videos. I might be wrong but these look like the sort of videos that some website owners purchase on Fiverr.com!

Is Quest Of News Legit? How Does It Work?

There is very little information on the official website as to how this system actually works. We are simply told that companies are willing to pay in order to get you to read and view their news. The figures look tempting, but going on past experience these figures look too good to be true. The FAQ page explains that you can earn from $5 to $9 just for reading a piece of news. They also claim that they will pay out once your account reaches $2300. My experience told me that there is no way that this money making system could be real. But in order to see if Quest Of News was legit we needed to set up an account…

Making Money With Quest Of News

The process for making money with Quest Of News looks extremely simple. You are told to click the “read news” button and click the available links. After each link there is an amount of money that you can earn. After clicking a couple of the links the entire process of earning with website is ridiculously easy. For anyone new to making money online, this must seem like a dream come true.

This is so simple!

Reading a piece of news through this website is very easy. So easy in fact that you don’t even need to read it! You click on a link, wait for a timer, press confirm and then answer a simple maths problem for security. The whole process takes less than a minute. For $5 I would at least expect to have to read a full article and prove that I had read it. However, with Quest Of News you simply need to read the headline! This may sound really easy but there just has to be more to this…

Get Paid For Viewing YouTube Videos Too?

As well as getting paid for reading news headlines you can apparently get paid for watching YouTube too! Wow, Quest Of News just never stop giving do they? I decided to view a couple of videos to see if I could figure out what was going on here. Quest Of News ask you to watch a video and then comment on it. This is a well known way of increasing the rank of a video on YouTube. But Quest Of News also tell you to add their website link to the comment, this is called spamming!

And the videos? Well I only managed to watch one since Quest Of News just kept giving me the same video over and over. The video wasn’t even remotely related to news in the slightest. In fact I was watching a crazy young Thai chef cook fish on a beach!

The Money Appears to be racking up!

Within a very short time I had managed to rack up an impressive $60 just for clicking on a few links. It’s easy to see how newcomers to the world of making money online would believe that they were onto something special here. But the simple fact is that in order to make this kind of money, Quest Of News would need to be getting paid a crazy amount of money from advertisers. Even the Google ads that you see on every page of this website only pay out pennies per click. Getting paid $5 for reading a headline just isn’t possible. So what’s really going on here?

The Quest Of News SCAM!

The reality of Quest of news is that it is a scam! The amounts of money that the website claims you can earn is a complete lie. The only person getting paid from the Quest Of News website is the creator of the site. The very basic website that we see has actually been duplicated several times over, under different names. The creators of this website appear to be making money in at least two different ways. First of all they are making money through Google advertising. Every time someone clicks on one of those Google ads, the website owner gets paid a few pennies. Get a lot of people going to the website and that amount can soon add up. Duplicate the site several times under different names and those little ads will make a nice income!

The creators are probable using your name and email address to make money too. Don’t be too shocked if your email account suddenly starts filling up with spam! Creators of scams will usually sell your information onto more scammers too, making them even more money.

How The Quest Of News Scam Is Spread

If you look at the FAQ section of Quest Of News you will see that they claim to pay you when your balance reaches $2300. This is of course another lie! The reason behind this high payout figure is to keep you coming back over and over again. With the amount of news that the site displays it would take you at least 5 weeks to reach the payout amount and that’s if you visited the site every day. The creators of the site encourage you to share your referral link in order to reach the payout figure faster. This is how the scam is spread around. People believe that they can earn an extra $150 by sharing their link on social networks. Little do they know that they are actually helping to spread the scam.

What about the Youtube Videos?

It would seem that spamming videos with comments is just another way to promote this scam. These guys have simply chosen a very popular video that gets a lot of comments and a lot of views. At the moment Quest of News are still trying to get people to spam the same video. The video that I viewed with the young Thai chef had been viewed over 4 million times! And sure enough people were following the instructions from Quest Of News and placing their referral link in the comments.

What do you do now? Looking For A Genuine Way To Make Money Online?

You may well be feeling disappointed that this system isn’t the real deal. The truth is, most of these “get paid to read” websites are scams that don’t pay. A lot of people try these sites because it seems like an easy way to make money online. In actual fact these sites only ever waste your time! If you want to make real money on the internet then there are real opportunities out there, but you have to be prepared to put in some effort if you want good results. The website that we recommend is called Wealthy Affiliate and in my opinion offers the best opportunity to make a real online income. The best part is you can start with a free account too. Take a look at our Wealthy Affiliate review for more information.