Hi all,
There’s this revolutionary new service named mGinger available for Indians, or anybody on the Indian subcontinent, with a mobile phone. It might be made global later on… Whats the service? To keep it short and simple, you get paid to mobile…
Thats right! You get paid to use your mobile!
How does it work? You sign up at mGinger with your usual personal details, and mobile phone number. mGinger sends you SMSes from sponsors, which you read. For every SMS you read, you get paid. You can select your interests so as to restrict the advert SMSes to only of topics of your interest!
Handy eh? Its been causing a WAVE of media attention all around India! They say that you get paid 20 Paise per SMS. i.e. 0.2 Rupees. Which is… Well… 41 Rupees make a dollar, so, $0.005 USD. Yeah, half a penny. Half a penny per SMS.
And you make 10 Paise per SMS read by your referrals, and so on. So, the typical teen/youth thinks “I can read 100s of SMSes per day! I can sure earn thousands!”
Small problem. Theres a maximum limit of 10 SMSes per day. Thats the maximum. So you may receive from 0 to 10 SMSes per day. Imagine that you receive 10 SMSes per day, still, you make only Rp 2 per day! Which is like only Rs 60 ($1.5) per month! That is, IF YOU GET 10 SMSes per day!
Honestly, why waste your time? Thousands have already signed up! Are they nuts?
No, this post was NOT to encourage users to use mGinger. It was an honest to goodness review of the service. I’ve signed up for a day now, and I havn’t got a single sponsored SMS yet! At this rate, I’ll be stuck at something like a dollar (Rs 40) at the end of the year! 
Think twice before you sign up! Why waste your personal details, for something so little and measly? I can’t believe that the media has been rooting for this absolutely stupid service! I believe that this is all a scam. It proves how much India has to learn from the web! I do hope that people open their eyes before jumping in the next time!
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June 5th, 2007 at 5:49 am
Hey,
I just discovered that you can get paid to read ad’s on your cell phone. Ads which are based on our preference. And the earning is not in few hundred rupees, but can turn into thousands. Its like i am making side income. Check it out - http://www.sms2india.co.in
However you need a invite id - Here it is - hul77
See how much you can make!! You will love it, coz i did.
- Mike
June 5th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Cheers, I’ll try it out
April 29th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
earn money by reading sms on you mobile.for each first level registration you will get 5 rs. so join now and register at http://www.paisa4sms.com/Index.aspx?Inviteid=6960 11 seconds ago
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
hello sir
May 6th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Hello Yudhir
June 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Mginger is very slow but if you can manage to grow your network over 100 then you can earn Rs. 100/- a month as long Mginger is there. I have joined Mginger 1 year ago (May,2007) and i have earned just Rs. 846/- so far of which I got my first cheque of Rs. 556/-.
Now I do nothing for Mginger, just check my earnings weekly.
If accessing internet is free to you (like me), then join :
http://www.mGinger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=85624
I have 152 members in my Network, of which I know only 8 of them, rest through various blogs in internet.
You can see me as “Top Earners” scrolling (at 20 th position currently).
But , do you know how many ads I have received? Only 8 in this 1 year. I think , it depends on location, age etc.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Well, the concept of paid to read advertisements on your cellphone has matured a lot in India. And like any entrance exam for the IITs and IIMs there is a mad rush for the market. There are over 25 sites promising to pay you for receiving ads as sms.
Which one to chose remains the question for most users?
http://millions.awarspace.com is a website i stumbled upon very recently. It has some significant research in this area and provides reviews and tips n tricks for only the websites which ACTUALLY pay the users and have some documentary proof of the same. Those who are interested can check it out and register for various programs for free from this website.