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Phishing scams seem to keep on rolling. Recently I have been seeing a lot of them that claim to be survey companies. They aren’t too hard to spot. The e-mail address that they supposedly come from, may be a legit survey company.  In the body they will ask you to register by filling in all your information like name, address, phone number etc. and send it to and email address that is in the body of the e-mail. This is what makes it so easy to spot. The e-mail address they want you to send your “registration” info to is different than the one listed in the header and usually a variation of it. For example, I got one that said it was from register@surveys.com in the e-mail’s header, yet they wanted you to send your registration information to surveys@gmail.com or @yahoo.com or some other address. If these were legit, they wouldn’t have you register by e-mailing your information and to an address that’s different from where it supposedly came from. I don’t think any of them would have you e-mail them your information at all, you would register on a website. So far I have seen 6 variations of this in about a week. I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually set up websites with registration forms next. Just to be safe, I would never send identity related information to anyone no matter what they claim they need it for,  unless you expected the e-mail in the first place. Remember, just because an e-mail says it’s from someone, this can be spoofed to say anything.