I am not a professional photographer, but I've always been interested in photography, and I did some photography courses over the years. I have a large collection of photos which I built up over the years, and fairly recently I saw an advert of clickasnap.com where you can upload photos and get paid for each view you get on those photos. The ad that I saw clearly advertised that you will get paid 0.40c per photo view (Screenshot attached). However, that is all fake, and that is what the scam is based on. They make you pay for a subscription so you get paid a better pay rate. When I noticed that I wasn't getting the right amount of reimbursement I contacted them and Sarah from customer care was quick to reply to my concern. The problem is that her reply contained little valuable information, and insisted on validating the scam that their business is built upon, by saying that 0.40c means 4/10ths of a cent. Logically and figuratively it doesn't make any sense at all.
I have asked Sarah kindly to refund me the £59.99 and to cancel my account. But she refused, and there is no other way on clickasnap website to cancel your account other than contacting customer care. I advised her that I will be reporting their company to Advertising Standard Authority UK with regards to the false advertisement, to which she never replied back.
This is a UK registered company and I will of course proceed with reporting this company to Consumer Trading Standards, Advertising Standards Authority and the Citizens Advice Bureau.