Warning: Fake survey

[Sunny]

This morning, my session on Senior Forums was interrupted by a "survey," saying it was a Senior Forums survey. They asked a few inocuous questions, such as my gender and how many times I week I use this forum. I fell for it, and answered. The survey promised a prize for just answering those few questions. But at the end, when it came down to selecting my prize, the selections were terrible. They listed only one good prize, a Visa card for $100, but it said "Sold out!"

At that point, I got a little suspicious and just closed the link. About an hour later, I got a notification from Norton that they had prevented this scam from accessing information in my computer. So if you get this or anything similar, just ignore it.

 

[Sassycakes]

Thank you for the warning Sunny.

 

[Buckeye]

^^^ what she said ^^^

Hoot the Poodle

 

[Wren]

Thanks Sunny, forewarned is forearmed....

 

[chic]

Thanks Sunny. You can't be too careful. Someone's always spying.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Sunny]

I don't know what their game was, either to hack into my computer somehow, or to get my address (which I would have had to send them in order to collect my "prize") and then use it for identify theft.

On top of everything else, their so-called prizes were insulting. Because they saw this is a senior board, the few prizes they listed were things like retaining your male sexual virility, or some sort of youth-restoring skin care system. I imagine they're sending this fake survey out to all sorts of groups, tailoring the prizes to the type of group it is.

Thank you, Norton!

 

[Ken N Tx]

This morning, my session on Senior Forums was interrupted by a "survey," saying it was a Senior Forums survey. They asked a few inocuous questions, such as my gender and how many times I week I use this forum. I fell for it, and answered. The survey promised a prize for just answering those few questions. But at the end, when it came down to selecting my prize, the selections were terrible. They listed only one good prize, a Visa card for $100, but it said "Sold out!"

At that point, I got a little suspicious and just closed the link. About an hour later, I got a notification from Norton that they had prevented this scam from accessing information in my computer. So if you get this or anything similar, just ignore it.

Are you telling us that this forum generated the scam???

 

[tnthomas]

Are you telling us that this forum generated the scam???

Not this forum.

Fake survey, some kind of virus attack in a web browser. See this from Symantec: https://www.symantec.com/security_response/attacksignatures/detail.jsp?asid=27328 .

Another possibility: https://www.enigmasoftware.com/fake-survey/