You can earn you to $70 for free from Serve.com. Serve.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. Serve.com is a next-generation digital payments platform that helps you organize your money, send and receive funds, and manage payment requests — all from a single, unified online account.
So how can you get up to $70 for free?
- Get a free $10 when you set up your free account. You will see the credit added immediately after you set up this account
- Add another $10 when you play the Moneymover game and answer the one question you get asked correctly. The question I got was a trivia question that was easy to answer. You will receive an email for another $10 within 24 hours.
- Earn up to $50 free when you refer friends to Serve.com. you get $5 for every friend you refer to up $50 free. Note: your friend must make a transfer in order to get the referral credit. thanks Jill!
To use your free money look for your Serve card in the mail. You can use your Serve Pre-Paid Reloadable Card to access your Serve funds and make purchases across the U.S. wherever American Express Cards are accepted.
Thanks Marcia and Good Deal Mama!
Hi! I am Mercedes and this is my blog Common Sense with Money! Helping other people live better, spend less, and save more is something I am very passionate about. I combine simple frugal living tips and smart shopping techniques to help moms across the U.S. become better home economists. Thank you for visiting my blog.
just a note on the refer a friend…you will get the $5 for them when they transfer money. Not just when they sign up.
You know, I got my card in the mail the other day and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what the heck it was for! Ha!
hmmm, I did not get the first $10 credit
me neither.. i have not gotten the first ten dollar credit.
I didn’t get it either, nor do I see a MoneyMaker game anywhere on the website!
just called CS, they said they are a little backed up. so many people want the free $. hard to believe right!?
Ha, no kidding right?! when I tried this morning it did post to my account right after I created it.
Mercedes
Are they going to post the $10 eventually?
Where is the money saver game you referenced? I’m not seeing it on the website. Thanks!
nevermind, found it!
where did yu find it
BEWARE OF THIS OFFER! Today I received an email requiring me to send a copy of my W-2 to finish my account verification! The email was very generic coming from “correspondence.”
As a CPA who has done a lot of fraud investigations over the years, this sets off a lot of red flags. $10 is NOT worth providing your social security number along with a lot of personal information that makes it easy for someone to steal your identity. There is no reason for a site that is essentially like paypal to require a social security number. This is not a credit application so they have NO VALID reason under federal law to be requesting this information. There are many, many safer ways to validate identity. The fact that they ask for a W-2 makes this offer looking more like a phishing scam than something from a legitimate company.
Hannah,
When did you sign up with them? and the email was from Serve.com. Just wondering how many days after this email is sent, because I have not received one yet.
Mercedes
I received this e-mail also. I thought it was suspicious too. I don’t feel comfortable providing them with so much information either.
I received the same email this morning after signing up for the account yesterday. I called CS and they said it is legit and they need to verify identity. I questioned why they would need SS if they don’t do a credit check and again she said it was to verify identity. I’m really bothered by this. I love the idea of this type of account, especially that you get a card for but if I wanted to give my SS, I’d just go to a local bank that’s offering a lot more than $10 to sign up.
serve.com didn’t ask for a ss number..
They don’t ask for it on the site when you’re opening an account. This was in an email that several of us received today. Not only does it want our social, it wants verification of it by you uploading a picture of your SS card, W2 or another piece of documentation.
I got my card in the mail last week but never got an email for my social security number. Hmmm…interesting.
I wonder if this is in response to the high number of new accounts they had opened over the weekend and a way to weed some of them out.
I just closed my account! I did not receive the $10, but instead received an email asking for my ss# and verification of my address. Interestingly, after doing a web-search, not much info can be found. You would think since American Express is involved that ads for this service would be plastered all over the internet. Maybe it is legit, but I get a little nervous when I get generic emails asking for such personal info.
Yea I thought the same thing. You would also think you would be easily able to get to serve.com through american expresses website. I was worried about wether it was legit or not so I messaged amex.
Signed up yesterday and got the same email today. Not worth it!
I just got the $10 from playing the game. So now I have $20 in my account and I have not received an email asking for my SSN. I am now waiting for my card, so we will see.
Mercedes
I got the $10 for playing the game today, too. Still don’t have the $10 for signing up. The email says if you don’t submit the documentation within 21 days, they’ll close the account. Maybe I’ll get the card and can get the money before they close it.
From researching various websites, this seems to be something they have started in the past few days – not something they asked for in the beginning. So those of you that made it in before the change were able to get your free money without the cost of giving away too much personal information. I understand their need to limit things and maybe even make sure that people aren’t signing up multiple times but they are a credit card company so you’d think they could verify with a credit card instead and just not charge it. Lots of sites do that including a lot of the daily deal sites and we would be far better protected there because our cards protect us from online fraud.
I’ve been a long term customer of Discover and Visa and have always felt they did a good job of consumer protection and customer service. It seems every time I deal with Amex (some of my clients use them), I am amazed they remain in business.
The web seems to be more and more intrusive all the time. Recently facebook required my cell number to verify my account. I refused to give it to them and even found an email to contact them (they don’t make that easy) and they were oh-so-nice (sarcasm) and said I could scan my driver’s license and send that to them instead. I told them were they could stuff that idea too. Social network sites don’t need that kind of information and you can be sure what ever they gather they are selling.
I am not a Luddite by any means, but lately the web has taken a bad turn in privacy invasion for no good reason other than they get by with it. Too many people assume they are protected by these giants of corporations. After working with various law enforcement agencies on forensic identity theft auditing, I have to warn that this really is a problem more people should think about before giving away too much information online. And no site is immune to having their information hacked. Case in point was the recent re-launch of the federal student loan site. They had a major problem where people could access other people’s loan accounts for awhile. I know because I found it and told them about it. What I found even more interesting was the letter they sent out to those of us that were part of the”compromised group”. They did not tell the full truth on what information was compromised.
As they say, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Please everyone, be safe and think twice when a site asks for personal information. If it seems invasive, trust your gut and just say NO.
I had no issue getting my free $10 but referred my mother but she did. It said something about further verification. She provided me her information and asked me to sign her up on her behalf since she is busy.
It is a phishing scam people.