Mozilla Rally $10 amazon gift card
I recently got this short email: “Dear participant,
Thanks for participating in our Mozilla Rally study! The data you contributed will help us understand the information environment online. To thank you for contributing to scientific knowledge, we're sending you a $10 Amazon gift card! Here is your Amazon gift code reward, which can be redeemed at https://amazon.com/redeem:
[gift card code they gave me was here]
Thanks again for your participation in the study.
Sincerely,
The Beyond the Paywall study team”
Now, I would call this a scam email and wave it off… if it weren’t for the facts that: 1. I did in fact participate in the mozilla rally study. 2. I confirmed that the link provided is to the official amazon website’s redeem page, not a phishing site. 3. This email came from the address [email protected], meaning it is from Stanford or an entity affiliated by them since it is using their domain. I checked this email for special characters but it contains none, just basic text. 4. I got this on an email that I created fairly recently and doesn’t receive spam (at least not yet lmao).
However, this email isn’t the one on my mozilla account and it doesn’t have a mozilla account either. The reason I am worried about trying to claim it is that it might be a stolen card and I might be held responsible. To anyone’s knowledge, is mozilla handing out these rewards? Did the card work fine for you?
Thank you for your precious time and reading this.
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Did you contact standford. edu and ask them about this?
No. I did however search up and down across the stanford website to do so. To contact them, I need a login, and as I do not go to stanford, I don’t have one. I could drop by next time I drive to san fran, but then again it’s just a $10 gift card. So, I decided to post here.
They should need a login to contact their support. They should have a contact us forum on their site if they are a education institution.
mrdude435 said
I recently got this short email: “Dear participant, Thanks for participating in our Mozilla Rally study! The data you contributed will help us understand the information environment online. To thank you for contributing to scientific knowledge, we're sending you a $10 Amazon gift card! Here is your Amazon gift code reward, which can be redeemed at https://amazon.com/redeem: [gift card code they gave me was here] Thanks again for your participation in the study. Sincerely, The Beyond the Paywall study team” Now, I would call this a scam email and wave it off… if it weren’t for the facts that: 1. I did in fact participate in the mozilla rally study. 2. I confirmed that the link provided is to the official amazon website’s redeem page, not a phishing site. 3. This email came from the address [email protected], meaning it is from Stanford or an entity affiliated by them since it is using their domain. I checked this email for special characters but it contains none, just basic text. 4. I got this on an email that I created fairly recently and doesn’t receive spam (at least not yet lmao). However, this email isn’t the one on my mozilla account and it doesn’t have a mozilla account either. The reason I am worried about trying to claim it is that it might be a stolen card and I might be held responsible. To anyone’s knowledge, is mozilla handing out these rewards? Did the card work fine for you?
Mozilla is doing it with stanford, only it is $5 and not $10 for this study. https://rally.mozilla.org/support-local-news/index.html
Found the above link from https://twitter.com/paywallbeyond/status/1557730032797118475
Note, there is no such thing as a Mozilla account as perhaps you mean Firefox Account https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/access-mozilla-services-firefox-account
Gewysig op
Yes, I meant firefox account. The reason it might be $10 is that I joined rally a few months ago and stopped contributing about a month ago. I just wanted to check if this was a trusted source. I was unaware of this gift card reward and if it’s real, i’m glad I got picked. So to confirm, can I safely claim this card?