I can relate to much of this. Learning is hard as they say. Sometimes rather painful.

I incurred an injury while the US was in a depression so losing a job meant not having one for a long long long time. I think I've seen everything. Some sites were life savers and yes those matrix sites or other versions of ponzi are bad news. Although I made profit, cashed out just to verify I could and then my dumb butt reinvested it immediately. Yea, flushhh

I am not sure you can do this from your country but they are not exclusive to US. You can get paid cash, no "payment threshold" beside maybe a dollar US if that. The available tasks are sure to be different so I can't know if this is helpful or not but it takes tome to learn the ins and outs of this stuff.
It's MTURK ("Amazon Mechanical Turk"), one of the first and maybe only stable ongoing crowdsource job market. It can be chump change or you might find somethign you like doing that can be repeated. That's how to make worthwhile extra income although I usually do research studies posted by universities when I have free time bc they are interesting an I don't have to go through detailed instructions that consume time.

When options are few, ppl have an uncanny way of finding a way to make it work. When I had a dire need and no other options I've pulled an extra 88 USD from there in a month. Some do much more but they may be advanced qual's which only open after doing 1000's of tasks. If you can make something of it, use browser plugins like Turkopticon and M Turk Suite. Don't mind the premium offer. It's still useful to check and contribute free reviews on both of these while selecting HIT's (tasks).
After all that you probably already know this but I didnt want you to miss it if not.

I think it's mturk.com That is NOT a referral link btw. There have been others similar but were never worthwhile to me.