It has become a rarity in the scam prone niche of paid surveys to find a genuine paid surveys site.
As more and more sites have cropped up with the aim to making us richer but instead making themselves rich through paid surveys.
It has become extremely difficult to find a genuine paid survey site which actually pays its users since inception and still continue to do so.
You can find about genuine paying survey sites at many of the webmaster and internet marketing as well as work at home forums out there where such genuine programs or sites would have been reviewed and rated depending upon their payment history and how well they pay their users.
You can always search such forums for it.
Or if you could not find a particular survey site you can always ask them your questions on the particular paid surveys site.
You will surely be surprised to see how many people will reply to your query regarding the site that you need info for.
If you get too many positive responses in the forum about the site that you are planning to join, then you can actually go ahead and join them without any thinking.
If you are not sure about a particular paid surveys site, you can always sign up and wait for their first survey and see how much is their payment is for that particular survey.
If it is way too high to believe to be paid, just ignore it.
A regular survey can be acceptable if the payment is around $1 to $5 at the maximum and not more than that.
There may be exceptions on some legitimate paid survey sites which requires more time and is of high end type.
You should see the payout of some survey sites as it could be unreachable in some cases and hence read the FAQs of any program before you join to know it thoroughly and see any loopholes in it with regard to payment and other terms and conditions.
It is extremely important that you know about those terms when you join any program.