Indeed! I received one of these notes myself. I looked at the profile then deleted the note since it felt like a scam to me as well.

Great public service announcement.

I have received two so far. Highly annoying.

I haven't received one yet but I'm sure I will, I've been noticing a lot of spam accounts this past year. Probably three or four incidents I can recall

Hope you opened a ticket on them; had a similar thing pop-up in my notes out of the blue and checked the user to confirm what I had already thought. It's really irritating...

I got one of these notes a few days ago

Already got 3 x-x

Yep I’ve gotten one! I instantly blocked without clicking any weird ass link. Looking up the account just now and I see it’s been deactivated :/ sounds like trouble ;;

I also received a note but looked at the users page and decided it was best I didn't click the link. Sounds like I chose correctly, thanks for writing this~

I've been given that note myself, and I have since deleted it.

Got one of those too. Immediately ignored it, felt way too scammy to me

I got one; the link led to a genuine google forms page...

But the questions were all pretty good phishing/security questions. Highly suspicious, especially since the one I saw asked for your username. If they legit needed it you'd have been provided with a link that fingerprinted you, and if it was a real study they would want the anonymity.

Ha, now I wonder what would have happened if you used the usernames of those scam accounts for those questions instead of your own username. See if those accounts get hacked and deactivated through a bot's action or something. x)

This is fucking genius mindset.

Yep, I got one of them too and I didn't bother with it. It was a survey and it just didn't feel right to me. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one.

got the same note from two different accounts.

Although the link leads to a standard Google form and not directly to anything malicious, no serious researcher would use tactics like this person has been doing.

oOps, I filled it out. They got me just after I woke up. Thankfully, I have multiple emails and use different passwords for every site. I assume they're crosschecking that old database where everyone's emails and PWs got leaked from FA.

I reported the one I got to Menu>Support>Report a problem, after I saw what details the form was asking for, and it was closed down quickly.

Maybe they'll arrange to auto-suspend accounts like this when the profile only really contains a forms link, but this sort of thing is always an arms race.

I got one of those too. It was swiftly reported. The site that was linked came up on google searches as commonly used for phishing on top of the account being new. To have sent that note en masse like that im p sure it was a bot

Awe, but now that you tell me not to. It makes me want to click it even more. Even though I never got this message. 😏

I'm joking though. I wouldn't click random links

Good advice. This "Study" to me reeks like some sort of Scam as well. I had a recent experience of watching a YouTube video on Furry Fandom that I thought was "Safe" but it might have been a "Carrier" for several "Bugs" that took me three days to track down and eliminate. Just be careful, and if things look just "Too Good to be true", they most likely are.

oh crap i thoughtit was just a normal furry survey D:! they just sent me a google form and i answered : (

lucky my notes are disabled for a while now

I have not gotten any of those yet, but I feel like I will eventually. Thank you for the heads up!

I have not gotten any notes but oh boy do people suck.

Maybe it reflects poorly on me as a person, but I find it hard to feel sorry for people who fall for scams like this -- the warning flags are pretty obvious, enough that even someone without a borderline-paranoid distrust of the motives of strangers ought to be able to figure out something's not right.

Plus, let's face it, is this really a thing anyone would conduct a clinical study about? Ours is a facet of the population that people would rather ignore, nobody's going to devote the resources to studying what makes furries tick.

Oh, you'd be surprised - there is actually quite a number of scientific Research on the Furry Fandom - and different aspects regarding it! : ]
For example - Only last year I was interviewed by a Psychology MA student who was writing her Master's Thesis. Unfortunately, the paper is written in German only, which I assume wouldn't be interesting to you, otherwise i'd love to link it your way!

(Plus I too conducted a mini Field-Research of my local Furry Community for Science Class.)

It might be worth an attempted read -- I'm not completely fluent in German, but I can probably translate it in chunks.

Oh I got one of these a couple days ago but was too tired when I opened it to even take a glance at it and promptly forgot about it, hahaha.

I got one and yeah after checking the profile deleted it. way too fishy

I received one and it seemed a bit off out of no where with the blank account so I didn't fill out the form.

I got a note a few days ago that contained only a link, and when I went to look at the account, it had been voluntarily disabled. Needless to say I didn't click that piece of crap.

I too received it and actually did open the link. As others have pointed out, it leads to a Google Doc.
However... the initial message stated this was for scientific (university) research - but these questions didn't follow any Guidelines for Scientific Research & appeared very unprofessional and, well, scammy.
Also, there was a lack of Red thread, so to say - all questions were regarding the Furry Fandom, but there was a definite lack of focus, or direction - so long story short, a ton of scam / phishing quesetions and definitely a bullet dodged.

I got one like this but it was to a porn site for a live cam were they installed something onto your computer to access personal and private information without you knowing about it

Been getting them on the daily for whatever reason. Just ended up disabling my notes.

Shit. LOL I filled it in.

Oh! thanks for the heads up!
;v; haven't seen them yet, but I'll keep my eyes peeled