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So yesterday I get a telephone call for the B&B (while I'm actually at that Dutch corporation that sells Chinese Goods with Swedish names and draped in the Swedish flag) from a group that says that they mandated to do a survey for the ministries or tourism and employment and she starts to ask me questions. So I halt her and I say "It's nice that you want to do this, but I have no proof of who you are and I get lots of these calls and most of them are fake. So, prove to me who you are and then I will consider answering the questions."
So, she sends me the questionnaire in email and some of it is downright personal, asking me for sales figures and the like. But no where is there any proof that this is the government, that my privacy rights are protected and well that this is legitimate. I check their website, they have the government logos on there, but anyone can put up a government logo, even someone doing phishing. So I call the government today and they are going to look into it for me.
Is it just me? Or do you get this phone calls as well? Want to know how many employees I have, how much revenue, etc. Information that I wouldn't give a competitor and they think that I should give to them?
So, she sends me the questionnaire in email and some of it is downright personal, asking me for sales figures and the like. But no where is there any proof that this is the government, that my privacy rights are protected and well that this is legitimate. I check their website, they have the government logos on there, but anyone can put up a government logo, even someone doing phishing. So I call the government today and they are going to look into it for me.
Is it just me? Or do you get this phone calls as well? Want to know how many employees I have, how much revenue, etc. Information that I wouldn't give a competitor and they think that I should give to them?