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Just got that same mail Simmo:Cry:
If it’s fake, they sure went to a huge amount of trouble to set up a 10 page market research questionnaire that asks for no personal details at all
howardmoon wrote:If it’s fake, they sure went to a huge amount of trouble to set up a 10 page market research questionnaire that asks for no personal details at all
Good Point
I didn’t click the link as it would have been good enough for spammers to have verified my email address. Plus the “.zgi” extension I am unfamiliar with…wasn’t going to take the riisk
It’s got so that I don’t click on any links from payment processors – who knows if the actual site is real when you get there…
When I receive money notices needing confirmation, I use my bookmark.
ntaus
As soon as you get “entered” into a competition you will never win, you will get bombarded by more SPAM than you can believe.
This is clearly a scam designed either to get your email address, or for whoever sent it to get paid for referring people. Thus, this isn’t phishing – it’s straightforward spam.
I just received it as well. The link goes to xwww.smallarmy.com rather than Neteller.
I checked with Neteller and it’s a legit survey from them. Although in this day and age I don’t know why they wouldn’t use an @Neteller.com address.
Spearmaster wrote:As soon as you get “entered” into a competition you will never win, you will get bombarded by more SPAM than you can believe.This is clearly a scam designed either to get your email address, or for whoever sent it to get paid for referring people. Thus, this isn’t phishing – it’s straightforward spam.
Wow you’re pretty paranoid
Why would they want your email address when they already have it (they sent you the survey)? And since when have you seen a spammer go to such lengths to do anything? It’s a 10 page questionnaire, 100% pertinent to Neteller’s business!I receive a hell of a lot of spam, scam and phishing attacks on numerous different email addresses, and this ain’t no scam.
I agree though that they were very naiave not to send it from a proper Neteller address.
I got it, deleted it right away… I guess I get to many from phishing emails from Paypal
howardmoon wrote:Wow you’re pretty paranoid Why would they want your email address when they already have it (they sent you the survey)? And since when have you seen a spammer go to such lengths to do anything? It’s a 10 page questionnaire, 100% pertinent to Neteller’s business!
I receive a hell of a lot of spam, scam and phishing attacks on numerous different email addresses, and this ain’t no scam.
I agree though that they were very naiave not to send it from a proper Neteller address.
I think you missed the point. The mailing could have been done from a third-party list which they have no access to – once you respond, your name is tagged as “live” and recorded in someone else’s database – which then gets replicated and/or resold many times over. I didn’t even bother to go into the survey to look, probably like many others.
Also – Zoomerang is the source of a lot of spam from third-party merchants, and their surveys are sometimes set up by email harvesters. The last time I did a Zoomerang survey, I got a lot of unsolicited bulk email. They do, however, have many legitimate surveys sent out by respected companies as well. But after the last episode, combined with the published email address of the sender, I was definitely not about to take any chances.
Now – if Neteller did indeed send out this email (as it now appears) they are clearly still not experienced enough to know that using a non-Neteller email is a no-no for many reasons.
