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SMS Data Collector - English (South Africa)

Productive Playhouse

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Native or expert-level fluency in English, as spoken in South Africa
  • Currently located in South Africa
  • Access to your own mobile device
  • Access to your own South Africa phone number

Responsibilities

  • Submit authentic SMS messages that meet project guidelines
  • Identify each message as either Scam or Spam
  • Categorize submissions according to the appropriate message type
  • Ensure all submissions are complete, accurate, and meet quality standards

Key facts

  • Remote from: Africa
  • Fixed term
  • Collector
  • 3 - 3K yearly
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Mobile Devices
  • Quality Assurance
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Productive Playhouse

Translation & Localization

*Note: Productive Playhouse will only contact candidates or clients from an @productiveplayhouse.com email domain.* Productive Playhouse is an International Language Services and Production company based in Los Angeles with multiple cleanroom facilities throughout the world. Language is at the heart of our company, with our services in linguistics focussing as much on machine learning as human speech. The projects we engage in cover a broad range of human and machine speech and word processing. These include localization, text to speech and speech recognition, transcription, translation, proofreading, field data gathering, and rating services. We work with over 180 language locales and have operations across the globe. The specialities offered by our Language Services division also extend to in-depth studies of linguistics and language, with regionalized content creation and analysis refining text word by word. Productive Playhouse operates with the most up to date Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) software to bring the human elements of language and linguistics to AI speech and learning. Our Production Division has produced several high quality children’s educational content series, and has won many awards for its exceptional work in making language education accessible and fun. As a Los Angeles based company, Productive Playhouse’s main operating language is English, but our diverse, multilingual team members enable us to speak and conduct business in English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, and German to expand our reach. Each project, we work with a range of individual target language speakers and qualified linguists with experience in text to speech and machine learning, phonology, and sociolinguistics. We deliver outstanding work thanks to the unique skills in linguistics that our workers offer. Our language services are about more than just a job, they’re about bringing human speech into the future.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryTranslation & Localization
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

SMS Data Collection Participant - English (South Africa)

Rate: $1.75 USD per qualified message

Location: Remote: Participants must be based in South Africa

Schedule: Flexible

Project type: Short-term/project-based

Device requirement(s): You must use your own mobile phone and South Africa phone number

The Project

Productive Playhouse is seeking English-speaking participants for a mobile messaging data collection project. Participants will submit authentic scam and spam SMS messages received on their personal mobile phones to help improve technology designed to identify fraudulent and unwanted communications.

This is a flexible, remote opportunity. Participants may submit eligible messages whenever they receive them, provided all submissions meet project requirements..

Your contributions will support the development of tools designed to make mobile messaging safer for users around the world.

Why Participate?

  • Earn $1.75 USD for each qualified message you submit
  • Participate remotely on a flexible schedule
  • Help improve scam-detection technology by showing how real messages appear in English.

Duties 

  • Submit authentic SMS messages that meet project guidelines
  • Identify each message as either Scam or Spam
  • Categorize submissions according to the appropriate message type
  • Ensure all submissions are complete, accurate, and meet quality standards
  • Follow all project instructions and submission requirements

Please note: Messages collected from email or other platforms are not eligible. Submissions must be SMS messages received directly on your mobile phone.

Only submissions that meet requirements will be eligible for payment

Project Requirements

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Are a native or expert-level fluency in English, as spoken in South Africa
  • Currently located in South Africa
  • Have access to your own mobile device
  • You must have access to your own South Africa phone number
  • Can follow project guidelines and quality standards
 

Why PPH?

  • Your language skills are the whole point — and this project pays for them
  • Apply once, get contacted directly when a spot opens — no chasing
  • Work from anywhere, on your own schedule, alongside any other work you do
  • Clear task specs, no ongoing oversight, no micromanagement
    Real project experience with a global data and language services company
  • Work that actually improves how AI understands your language

About Productive Playhouse

We started by teaching kids through award-winning programming. We grew into a global data and language services company trusted by clients worldwide. But the mission never changed: keep language alive.

Transcription, translation, localization, linguistic analysis, AI evaluation — it all comes back to preserving languages and the cultures they carry.

All engagements are contingent upon successful completion of identity verification. Productive Playhouse is an equal opportunity organization headquartered in California and committed to diversity and inclusion across our global workforce. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and abilities, regardless of location or engagement type. For accommodations or inquiries, please contact [email protected].

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