<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi there,<br><br>There is the name of Prof. Claudiu Dimofte, and
the given mail address matches with his own page on the university
website [1]. The subdomain [2] of the given URL seems be owned by the
same university, and the main domain [3] is a Online Survey service
website. I don't think it's a kind of phishing attempt, and you can
easily contact the professor to enquire about the authenticity of this
survey. <br>
</div>Nevertheless, I'm really surprised about the gift card, I am not familiar with this kind of operation on a university context.<br><br></div>(Sorry for my uncertain english...)<br><div><br>[1] <a href="http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/%7Ecba/facdev/dimofte.html" target="_blank">http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cba/facdev/dimofte.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://sdsubusiness.qualtrics.com/ControlPanel/" target="_blank">https://sdsubusiness.qualtrics.com/ControlPanel/</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.qualtrics.com/" target="_blank">http://www.qualtrics.com/</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-20 13:29 GMT+02:00 john whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">>It is a genuine survey, just those middle questions did not prompt any<br>
sensible answers which is why I gave up :)<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It sounds silly but how does one tell if it is a genuine academic survey or not? I'd like to see an https link to a known trusted web site and not just the OSM wiki. Has the survey been commissioned by a market research company even though its been run by a University, are they collecting IP addresses?<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We need some type of process to validate survey requests, it isn't just red tape if people feel they can trust the survey they will be more inclined to fill it in. The $100 gift card is fine but do you want people who map or who fill in surveys for a chance of a $100 gift card, and in these days of social media it can take minutes for someone to spread on an offer like this.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 August 2014 05:38, Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk" target="_blank">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 20/08/14 09:27, Nick Whitelegg wrote:<br>
> I have to admit I filled the thing in - I assumed the middle questions<br>
> were perhaps psychology related (psychology of OSM users, etc).<br>
> It never asks for name, email address, phone, place of work etc, town<br>
> etc. - just age.<br>
><br>
> Didn't really strike me as phishing.<br>
><br>
> What do people think about this - I'll delete my cookies etc "just in<br>
> case" it is phishing and run an antivirus scan but does anyone recommend<br>
> doing anything else?<br>
<br>
</div>It is a genuine survey, just those middle questions did not prompt any<br>
sensible answers which is why I gave up :)<br>
<div><div><br>
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