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JZX
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What is the purpose of an online survey asking for your postal/zip code? Should I be alarmed by these? I mean it did mention it was a demographic survey but should I avoid these?

For those wondering why I'm asking, I was asked to fill it out for free coins on a game. I am not dumb, I do not fall for scams or phishing don't worry.

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I don't know the purpose of it but I used to just put a random one in.
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Yeah, you can just a generate a random one if your concerned. Theres several websites.
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GT86 wrote What is the purpose of an online survey asking for your postal/zip code? Should I be alarmed by these? I mean it did mention it was a demographic survey but should I avoid these?

For those wondering why I'm asking, I was asked to fill it out for free coins on a game. I am not dumb, I do not fall for scams or phishing don't worry.



Most of them are useless at best and a scam at worst. In today's world I don't give out any personal info unless it's for some financial or governmental reason. If you do participate in those things I would just use 12345. Every time I am at a store (Best Buy....etc) and they want my Zip Code I just say 12345, which is the Zip Code for Schenectady, New York.


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