Bank surveys??

I used to get an occasional email from PayPal and I emailed them and they said to send it to a certain email they gave me if I got anymore. I learned then that any company like that will not send such emails. My bank usually has a notification on sign in telling me there is a survey if I want to take it. I am pretty sceptical of things anymore. Scammers are organized crime for the new melinium.

To me, something like this would scream scam, but the main reason for that is because of the fact that I actually don't have a bank account and yet I've seen emails like the one that you are talking about. Now, I also know that there are a lot of companies that are looking for consumer panels right now. However, when I apply to be a part of one, I will stop the application immediately when I see that they are asking for too much information.

I don't know if is it is the same thing that happens in the banks in my country, but I recently received an email from the bank and they asked us to be extra careful at moment. Maybe some people have gotten in trouble because of a survey scam like the one that you mentioned. They just told us to be extra careful, so I don't know exactly what kind of scam that they were referring to. We should be careful when we answer surveys. My husband once got received a survey where they asked for his full address. They asked him questions like: "What kind of alarms to do have in your home?" and "When are you away from home?" Fortunately my husband just read a few of questions and closed down the survey. It looked more than an invitation for burglars than a genuine survey!

Hi bunnybon The better way I have found is to keep removing cookies from your computer quite often. Earlier, when I was a newbie, many a times I did not know where from these "scammers" picked up the details and preferences. Now, I know many ways from where they start and most often it is the sites where they ask you to put in your email, and passwords to invite your friends. I stay away from that. and the next one is the existing cookies - sometimes, these get hacked. Lastly, I do not open emails from people or websites I do not know - This is the most dangerous place to let off your email and other info leaked out. In 1999, one of my friends bank account was hacked and it was because of a similar email to which he responded.

Yes it definately sounds like a scam to me. Kind of scary actually, people would be more willing to give out their personal bank information to a survey than other surveys. Eeks, thanks for the heads up!

There are so many people who fall for even the most obvious scams. I guess they created a survey, because that's new and maybe not that obvious for everyone that it's a scam, but in the survey, "anonymously", they are asked to give out their banck card number and stuff... But I know about people who still believe the cheapest you won the $100000000000 Canadian Lotto kind of scams and stuff...