That requester has 4 reviews, and all 4 are commenting about rejections. That's not scary, that's probably a scam.
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk, You've received a bonus from Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory for work related to 3AFT28WXLFAR5P9CCDUOVIILRV0OII. The value of your bonus is: $9.00 USD The Requester included this note: This is your bonus compensation for your participation in the art gallery role-play interaction. Thank you very much for participating! Sweet. Puts my earnings for the day at $9.75. :-/
They must have got their software from OCMP. "Location is US", just take Amazon's word for it. Dammit.
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk, You've received a bonus from Searchus for work related to 3S1WOPCJFGTRR3VV6F4VACJC37XJEQ. The value of your bonus is: $2.00 USD The Requester included this note: Great job on the write-ups. I've qualified you to work on similar HITs at double the rate. I'm always looking for feedback on how to improve, so if you have any ideas, please send them my way. There are similar, qualified only HITs live right now, and I expect to post 1000s more over time. Maintain the quality you demonstrated in your initial HITs and we'll have a long working relationship together. Thanks for being a Worker on Mechanical Turk! Sincerely, Amazon Mechanical Turk Didn't get the $5 bonus, but it'll do for today I s'pose
Think I'm gonna email and politely demand the bonus. Normally I don't care much for bonuses but this one would have been somewhat sizeable
I nominate Lucas. The blood of one of their own is more valuable to them than that of one of us random turkers.