[NLRS] [Mw] Possible phishing scam

[Chris Elmquist]

FWIW, "surveymonkey.com" is a legit cloud service for creating and
distributing surveys.  I don't know anything about who actually made
the survey you received but the service itself is quite popular for
legitimate business purposes, sending surveys to customers, business
partners, employees, etc.

The HR department where I previously worked used it to poll employees
on how they thought the company was doing.  I don't think they liked
the results they got back but they trusted it enough to use for internal
corporate business.  You have to pay for that kind of use so people also
trust it enough to pay for.

Chris N0JCF

On Wednesday (02/11/2015 at 12:08PM -0600), Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> First precaution is to set the e-mail program to never automatically open
> links. Then if you don't recognize the source don't ever click on a link. I
> mark such stuff as junk training thunderbird to automatically move to the
> junk folder without my attention.
> 
> There was a VHF and Above newsletter nigh on 50 or 55 years ago.
> 
> The redirected links hint at phishing and aren't trustworthy. Many a spam
> filter would automatically mark them as spam. Many a spam filter triggers on
> any url.
> 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
> 
> On 2/11/2015 11:34 AM, Donn, WA2VOI wrote:
> >I received a highly questionable e-mail requesting my participation in a
> >"VHF and Above newsletter survey" (the Subject of the e-mail).
> >
> >The FROM: address is vhf at ionet.net via surveymonkey.com, which resolves
> >to member at surveymonkey.com
> >
> >The text is below, with all the URLs and links edited to be unusable:
> >The deleted segments in all three cases are identical, and the typical
> >(humanly) unreadable jumble of characters.
> >
> >I think smart money (even stupid money !) would not touch this... for
> >several reasons. Even IF (a big IF) its valid, why is the survey
> >'uniquely tied to this survey and your email address' ? Surveys tend to
> >be such that responders are NOT identifible, and I certainly don't
> >respond to any that are not.
> >
> >If I'm wrong here, I'll apologize. Convince me. Otherwise, if you get
> >one of these, take the survey at your own risk. The ONLY ACTION I've
> >taken is to write this e-mail, and deleted the received one WITHOUT
> >clicking on any of the URLs / links.
> >
> >73 Donn
> >WA2VOI/0
> >
> >
> >The text of the e-mail:
> >***
> >Greetings, Colleagues,
> >
> >I am conducting a survey, and your response would be most
> >https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx? [deleted] appreciated.
> >
> >Here is a link to the survey:
> >https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx? [deleted]
> >
> >This link is uniquely tied to this survey and your email address. Please
> >do not forward this message.
> >
> >
> >Thanks for your participation!
> >
> >
> >Please note: If you do not wish to receive further emails from us,
> >please click the link below, and you will be automatically removed from
> >our mailing list.
> >https://www.surveymonkey.com/optout.aspx? [deleted]
> >
> >***
> >_______________________________________________
> >Microwave mailing list
> >microwave at lists.valinet.com
> >http://lists.valinet.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/microwave
> >
> >
> 
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Chris Elmquist