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I received an email for a survey. Is it real or a scam?
I have just received an email asking for participation in a survey for dropbox. I note there was one 2 years ago, is there one happening again, or is it a scam?
surely if there is a survey out, dropbox would make that plain on the dropbox site. Email looks to come from dropbox although maybe not. There is also an offer of a $15 virtual gift card of choice (Amazon, Bank Deposit, Charity donation etc) for the first 500 people. Feels dodgy to me.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIThat doesn't appear to be a link to the survey, but to a placeholder image file that was likely part of the message.
surely if there is a survey out, dropbox would make that plain on the dropbox site.
Why would they do that? What if the survey was only meant for existing users, or sent to a subset of customers? People on a specific plan, or people using a particular platform or version of the app? Unless the survey applied to everyone, user or not, there would be no point in mentioning it on the site.
While I have seen some company sites post surveys, most of the ones I've received via email are rarely ever mentioned on the main sites for those companies. It's targeted marketing.
There is also an offer of a $15 virtual gift card of choice (Amazon, Bank Deposit, Charity donation etc) for the first 500 people. Feels dodgy to me.
Dropbox has done that many times in the past, as have many, many other companies when hoping to encourage participation. It's nothing out of the ordinary, for any company.
