Costco Survey Scam - $500 in Savings Email Message Scamming - Fraud 0 0 74 1 Dec 2, 2021 2021-12-02T00:22:04-05:00 Oct 8, 2022 2022-10-08T09:39:28-05:00 Online Threat Alerts (OTA) If you receive an email for a survey that appears to be from Costco about how to get $500 in savings, please do not follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a scam. The scam email is used by scammers to trick their potential victims into visiting spam and phishing websites that will trick them into buying unwanted services/products or steal their personal and financial information.