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Fake surveys harvest personal information

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Gifts are often used as an incentive to make people share their personal information. Way back in the day, people could be convinced to share their password in return for a chocolate bar. Today, $200 gift certificates and expensive devices are offered.

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Symantec warns about a spam run that seeks to lure the recipients into completing a bogus survey on features provided by their social networking site.

To make the survey seem legitimate and to assure themselves that the information they rec…

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