Realwritingjobs.com Scam or Legit?

Of late academic writing has been unsatisfying for me. All of a sudden the company I have been working for for 3 years on a full time basis has discovered that my writing is not so good after all. The result? Fines on each and every paper that I write due to proofreading errors. Blogging has sounded like the break I have been looking for. But how do I write articles that will drive traffic to my site? A search through the internet gave me an idea to check Ezine for the "most viewed articles". Unfortunately for me, the section no longer existed. But as I perused through the categories, I saw an ad that attracted me. It was about earning "$317" daily from article writing. It was an ad by realwritingjobs.com. I clicked on it and this is the message I got:

"We are currently not accepting members from your country, we apologize."

A closer look at their 'FAQS' presents one with this information:"Citizens of ALL countries can join". Well, maybe it was a technical problem.
I am from Kenya. That was a major problem and I could not imagine myself missing the opportunity to make a whooping $317 each day (Ksh. 25,360). Luckily for me, I have subscribed to easy-hide-ip.com and so I turned it on. Immediately I was assigned an IP in Canada and so I was able to access the realwritingjobs.com site. The site is designed to tempt someone to sign up with them. These are some of the information that you will find on their home page "no experience required to join", "writers needed, more writing jobs than we can fill", and "earn an excellent income". I immediately signed up with them-the sign up form just requires you to provide your first name and an email address.

Next thing I found myself looking at a checkout form. What the heck? Couldn't remember being interested in purchasing anything. Apparently I was required to purchase membership access for $34. That is a lot of money for any writer regardless of their geographical location considering that one can get the same services for free.

 I quickly searched the web for information on whether the company is a scam and I was glad  that I opted out as soon as I saw the membership fees.

Well, I never got to access the members area but the information I have gathered from their FAQs is that the site contains a combination of writing jobs from different websites. Basically the site webmasters rummage through the web for writing jobs after which they create a job database.

After being online for 3 years now, I have learned a few survival tactics and one of them is to flee whenever I am prompted to pay before I can be given work. There are so many sites that allow one to access writing jobs for free such as freelancer.com, elance.com and odesk.com. (well, you can still pay membership to upgrade to better plans, read more bid opportunities at freelancer.com).

I checked their website for information on free trial which some people claim is available for 10 days at $2.95 but could not find it. But I came across this: "a 60-day unconditional money back guarantee".

Basically, the website offers a service that is similar to that offered by freelancer.com with the difference being that clicking on the jobs takes you to different sites unlike freelancer.com which advertises its own jobs. The site is okey if you do not mind paying a membership fee of $34.

Oh, and take their promise of a 5-figure pay with a pinch of salt. I found this statement at the site: "In the past I've made well over $10,000 in a month writing articles". Keep in mind that this is a site with no jobs of its own and so the exact amount that one is paid to write articles does not depend on them.

I leave you to make your own judgement. If you are a bit lazy (you do not want to check several websites for writing jobs-you want all jobs in one place), you can try them.  The site does not give a lot of information (for non-members) but I have read somewhere that the fee is monthly so do a bit of research before signing up to avoid disappointments in future.