$50.00 Kubota Survey

Pks · Oct 4, 2005

The Excel spreadsheet part clinches it for me.

Whether it's bogus or not, this is NOT a proper method for gathering information. Oh and...only three questions? Sheesh, I would have expected a couple of dozen.

Any chance you opened the file and can tell us what three questions are listed?

JoeR · Oct 4, 2005

I thought Kubota Credit was located in Georgia. At least, that is where my payments went, and I know I called them before too. Strange!

Joe

MotorSeven · Oct 4, 2005

Sounds like a scam, there are alot out there. Last year after a 3 week vacation i returned home and had an em from "ebay" that said, "Due to a recent lack of activity on your account, please log in to update or your account may suspended". Without thinking i clicked on the link in the email which logged me onto ebay. About a week later my account was frozen due to fradulent activity. After a half an hour on the phone ebay told me that someone used my password to set up a fradulent sale of a Suzuki motorcycle(they caught it in time). I know...my fault....lesson learned /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif.
Yours sounds like the same thing, there is alot of info on your computer that can be accessed if they can get inside.

RD

VA_Joe · Oct 4, 2005

If it sounds too good to be true ...

jeffmc134 · Oct 5, 2005

I went to the Kubota web site and filled in the Contact Us page to make sure the right Kubota people answered my question. Here are the responses I got from Kubota.

Dear Mr. McDonald,

At this point in time we are not sure of the origin of the message. We are
checking with the Directors of the Corporation, but it may take a day or
two because all are at the National Dealer Meeting. As soon as we get some
information we will be passing it along.

Thank you,

Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A.

Dear Mr. McDonald,

We have confirmed with the President that this email was sent by our
Corporation. If you have further questions or are unable to open the
attachment please advise us.

Thank you,

Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A.

jeffmc134 · Oct 5, 2005

I guess it is legitimate. Easiest $50.00 ever. Seems to easy.

N80 · Oct 5, 2005

Thanks for doing the leg work on this one and congrats on the $50.

I'm still shocked that Kubota would send out something like this that really has red flags all over it in terms of security and fraud.

In any case, what were the questions?

jeffmc134 · Oct 5, 2005

See attachment

cart99 · Oct 5, 2005

( BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS. There is NO WAY any company with half a clue would collect survey information by sending out an Excel spreadsheet. )

It appears I was 100% wrong!! Wow, that's just stunning though. I could write a couple paragraphs about what a bad way this is to do surveys, but it's not really relevant.

Congrats. on the easy money!!!

KirkMcD · Oct 5, 2005

( ( BOGUS BOGUS BOGUS. There is NO WAY any company with half a clue would collect survey information by sending out an Excel spreadsheet. )
)

"Half a clue" that's the key. Way too many clueless people use computer's.
I fixed a friend's pc once. It had over 500 spyware programs on it. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I erased the hard drive and reinstalled windows. A few weeks later she came back to me and said it wasn't working again. Hmmm, I wonder why. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif She wants to buy a laptop, so that it doesn't happen anymore. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I don't understand why she thinks that would help.