ARGGGG I typed in googletranslate to the url bar and hit enter. It took me too a site that said
Thank You! Dear Google Visitor, You've been selected to take part in our anonymous survey. Complete this 30 second questionnaire, and to say "thank you", we'll offer you a few exclusive prizes. This offer is available today only: Tuesday, December 14, 2010. The questions asked my gender, age range, what search engine I used, and where I typically access the internet from. I like Google so I decided to do the survey and help out. I didn't realize I wasn't at translate.google.com. I was surprised when it said I got a prize for participating in the survey. Thinking it would be nice to get some new sleeping clothes from Victoria's Secret I selected the $500 giftcard there (instead of the $1000 Walmart card, and Apple Iphone 4). I guess I should have been tipped off that it was sketchy because the Iphone should have been iPhone. I'm frustrated with myself and annoyed that someone is getting away with convincing people to give their information away. Thinking I was going to get a nice prize I entered my address and phone number. Then it took me to a secondary thing, sent my phone a text message and asked me to enter a pin from the text message onto the webpage. I'm glad I didn't because this would have signed me up for $9.99/month with http://www.sendmemobile.com/ The whole thing started to seem sketchy but by the time I paused they already had my phone number and address. They are posing as google and now I'll probably get bombarded with annoying useless texts for trying to help. I have screen captures that I will try to post here if I can figure out how. I was trying to find a way to contact google about this, seems like a trademark violation or something but couldn't figure out how. I just wanted an email address or something. This will have to do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
