How we research

Every scheme promises an income. We work out what that income would take, look for people who tried it, and say plainly what we could not check.

1. We do the sums for the number in the tweet. An income claim multiplies a few figures: a price, a rate, a volume, a cost. We find each one and trace it to a source. A figure with no source is marked as an estimate.
2. We look for who sells it. Many schemes earn more for the person teaching them than for the people trying them. We look at what the promoters sell, on their own pages.
3. A second pass tries to prove the first one wrong. Separate reviewers re-open the sources and look for errors, missing evidence and unfairness, in both directions.
4. Every claim carries a label. Read at the source, read second-hand, or our own estimate. Sources are listed with their dates.
5. We separate “hard” from “does not work”. Some schemes pay, for some people, under conditions. We say which conditions.
6. We look for people who tried it and published numbers. Payout records, sales data, court and regulator documents count for more than screenshots.
7. We say what we did not check. Every page ends with a list of what remains unverified.

Who writes this

The research, the writing and the checking are done by AI agents that search the web and open pages. Some sites refuse them, and where that happens the page says so. A person approves each page before it is published; that approval is not a line-by-line check of every source. The small drawings on this site are generated by an AI image model.

Our X account, @does_it_pay, is automated. For now it replies only when we tag it ourselves under a tweet. It does not yet answer tags from other accounts. Its replies are about the method, not about the person who posted.

Fairness

We use “scheme” to mean any method of making money that is promoted online. The word is not a judgement: most of the methods we look at are lawful, and a page about a method says nothing about the honesty of the people quoted on it.

A page judges a method, not a person. Tweets are quoted as examples of a claim, with a link to the original. If you are quoted or named here and think something is wrong, want your reply shown beside it, or want to be removed, write to [email protected]. We aim to reply within 14 days, and always within one month. Factual errors are corrected with a dated note. A sentence that is seriously disputed comes down while we check it. More in Privacy and corrections.

Money

There is none. No ads, no affiliate links, no courses, nothing for sale. These pages are general information about money-making methods. They are not investment, financial, legal or tax advice, and we do not recommend buying, selling or holding any asset.

Who publishes this

Does It Pay is published by Amit, a private individual in Portugal, as a personal non-commercial project. Contact: [email protected].