As a survey researcher and on-line purchaser, I want to warn people about what seems to me a highly believable new phishing scheme. The email claims (as all do) to be from a reputable company and they want an on-line survey filled out and offer an incentive for participation. I received one just now that claimed to be from eBay. Not being an eBay customer, I always send such notes to their spoof address. They are very good at responding back and confirmed that it was *not* from them. Beyond not being a customer, I was also tipped off by an offer of $20 to complete the survey - which in cash is a far greater incentive than is common but implies to me that the spoofer was going to be drawing from PayPal accounts. An earlier one that almost took me in was from a company I do order from every few months. I have not confirmed that one was also spoof but now assume so. It offered $ off of purchase for participating in a review of a new site which seemed reasonable since that would be the equivalent of a normal sale price. What saved me was the order page to get the discount wasn't verifiable as the company's by my web browser. I actually wrote them a complaint about that. Makes me feel foolish now - and wonder how such verification is done and how easily it can be faked. So, while there are many legitimate web surveys, do take care and check the veracity of the offer before placing an order or otherwise signing up for an incentive which involves giving out information. I've only seen the two to date, but this looks like something that could be very expensive for people. [I've reported this to the Boston NBC affiliate and hope other news agencies will be contacted as well. In my opinion this story needs telling.] Kathy KJ Reinig Associates quantitative research analysts Kathy.Reinig at KJReinig.com 978 544 2194