College Confidential Survey?

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<p>I just received an email with links to a college confidential survey. Is this legit? I've fallen victim to going to bogus links in emails before. It was sent from <a href="mailto:collegeconfidential@collegeconfidential.com">collegeconfidential@collegeconfidential.com</a>.</p>

<p>Part of the wording...</p>

<p>"Thank you for being a member of College Confidential. </p>

<p>We are very interested in your reactions to our online community. </p>

<p>To show our appreciation, College Confidential is offering you the opportunity to win a $250 cash prize - just for offering your opinion. </p>

<p>To participate, all you need to do is click below for a super-short 2-minute survey and tell us how to make the site better!"</p>

<p>Then there are 2 imbedded links to a "survey".</p>

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<p>I received it too. I didn’t open the links either, deciding to wait to hear if others here got it too.</p>

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<p>I got it, I answered it. I didn’t think about it not being legit. My computer still lives :)</p>

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<p>I received it and filled it out. It asks some pretty benign questions so I wasn’t concerned about it. I’m still awaiting the $250 though!</p>

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<p>They don’t want my opinion.:(</p>

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<p>Mine either! And I’m so efficient at delivering it.</p>

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<p>We are not as suspicious as OP either. She should be disqualified for a nonbeliever.</p>

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<p>hahaha. I can be a nonbeliever, but will I still get $250 bucks?</p>

<p>We regularly buy (and sometimes sell) things on ebay. Once, after an auction of something we were selling was complete, I got an email from the “buyer”. I answered it via the link in the email (instead of going back through ebay), and had to change all my ebay and paypal accounts because it was a phishing scam. My husband will never let me forget it. Some of the phishing emails look pretty slick, especially the ones, supposedly from your “bank”. </p>

<p>call me “been burned before and learned my lesson”… kitty and ucsd dad…let us know if bad guys take over your PC anytime soon, hahaha.</p>

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<p>I didn’t get it. have been burned by phishing too. I could use the money.</p>

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<p>Survey monkey is a legit survey/market research company…just to let you know…and my computer has not fried either…</p>

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<p>I got the same email and have not opened the link yet. Astrophysicsmom, I was a little suspicious as well.</p>

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<p>[SurveyMonkey.com</a> - Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy!](<a href=“http://www.surveymonkey.com%5DSurveyMonkey.com”>http://www.surveymonkey.com) is the organization that created the survey in the email…I have received surveys from them in the past from my children’s high school and district…you can do what you want, but it is legit…</p>

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<p>So far so good. I received it about 3 weeks ago, I think. Didn’t it say winners of the $250 will be notified at the end of the month?</p>

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<p>thanks, all. Rodney…the strange name of surveymonkey also looked odd. OK, I’ll fill it out…sorry, all, it will me ME who gets the $250.</p>

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Haha - It can’t take over my PC. Phishing scams rely on you to provide personal information (like eBay or bank account numbers, passwords, etc.) and this survey didn’t do that. It really was benign. Also, I’m familiar with ‘surveymonkey’ and have done surveys through them before. I’m ‘very’ careful about things like this but I know a fair amount about computers and scams so I was fine with it.</p>

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<p>I got a few weeks ago also. I didn’t think it was a scam (unlike the Bank of America phishing email I got today - I don’t have an account with them!)</p>

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<p>surveymonkey is a website that anyone can use to make their own online survey. Something from there could be completely serious or completely bogus.</p>

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<p>^^ The site could have a bogus survey but the host site itself is legit which is the important point.</p>

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<p>Yes, that’s what I was trying to say… you said it better.</p>

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<p>I figured it was something the new cc owners were doing, so I filled it out. Hopefully I didnt compromize my office computer. that would be bad!</p>